Avenged Sevenfold have completed mixing their long-awaited new album, the follow-up to 2016's The Stage. A7X drummer Brooks Wackerman broke the news today (September 29) on Instagram, posting a photo of himself and his bandmates with producer-engineer Andy Wallace, who mixed the record. The caption? "Done!"
Wallace has mixed all of Avenged's studio albums since 2005's City of Evil and has been described by A7X frontman M. Shadows as his "favorite mixer ever."
In 2021, speaking to radio station 93X, Shadows talked about the band's longstanding relationship with Wallace. "We usually hand him so many tracks, and then when we get it back… None of our records sound the same. He's not putting it through the Andy Wallace lens," Shadows said, as transcribed by Blabbermouth. "He's giving us what we want but he's allowing you to hear everything we've given him. So you can kind of sit there and go, 'If I wanna listen to the bass, I can hear it. If I wanna listen to that third guitar, I can hear it.' He does such a great job of making things sound big and full but also with all the layers; you can hear every layer. So, to me, he's just so important every time. He's my favorite."
Previously on track to be released by this summer, Avenged's new album is now expected next year.
