AVENGED SEVENFOLD Frontman Talks 'Call Of Duty' In New Video Interview

AVENGED SEVENFOLDhas contributed a brand new track called"Not Ready To Die"to the newest content pack […]

By Steinmetal

• May 8, 2011

AVENGED SEVENFOLDhas contributed a brand new track called"Not Ready To Die"to the newest content pack forCall Of Duty: Black Ops, the wildly successful seventh installment in theCall Of Dutyvideo game series developed byTreyarch Studioand published byActivision. The pack, calledBlack Ops Escalation, is ready for download worldwide through the Xbox Live network and features four new multiplayer maps.

A six-minute video clip ofAVENGEDsingerM. Shadowstalking about the song can be viewed below.

M. ShadowstoldRevolvermagazine about"Not Ready To Die", "We had a little break between the'Nightmare After Christmas'tour and the'Welcome To The Family'tour. So it was written, like, in four days that we had off. So it was pretty rushed. It was pretty incredible, though, because we really wanted to do it. It was written, like, a month or two ago."

Regarding the lyrical theme of the track,M. Shadowssaid, "The song is about the game. There's a full backstory to what [the makers ofCall Of Duty] been doing for years with their'Zombies'series. I'm a big fan of the game, I play it all the time, so I got caught up in the story. They sent me over the full storyline, so I made sure it was going along the lines of the zombie story. So that's what it's about."

AVENGED SEVENFOLDis currently on the road in the U.S. until late May, but will head overseas for the first half of the summer.

GuitaristSynyster GatestoldThe Pulse Of Radio, however, that more Stateside touring is in the works. "Basically we've got quite a bit of touring left," he said. "You know, we definitely want to come back to the States a couple more times, but then, you know, we have South America coming up, some European festivals in the early summer, and Southeast Asia. I mean, the world has pretty much opened up for us, you know, and it's pretty awesome at this point."

AVENGED SEVENFOLD's fifth album,"Nightmare", has been certified gold for sales of more than half a million copies.

The record was the band's first following the death of drummer and songwriterJames "The Rev" Sullivanin December 2009 from a drug overdose.

Earlier this year,AVENGED SEVENFOLDnamed formerCONFIDEmemberArin Ilejayas the band's new touring drummer, replacing ex-DREAM THEATERdrummerMike Portnoy.