Synyster Gates has revealed how part of the inspiration behind Avenged Sevenfold's hugely adventurous new album Life Is But A Dream... came from the band's use of psychedelic drugs.
Interviewed for Kerrang!, Avenged's frontman M. Shadows (Matt Sanders) says that Life Is But A Dream... "goes from progressive, Zappa-esque stuff to all of a sudden funk, Daft Punk to, like, Frank Sinatra and Wizard Of Oz", as is evident with recent single We Love You. And in the same interview, guitarist Gates (aka Brian Haner, Jr.) credits the use of the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT for putting the band in the head-space to push their art into bold new directions.
“We did a lot of fucking drugs – the good kind,” the guitarist tells Kerrang! “Don’t do drugs, kids, but if you do then do the good kind! That helped us heal and fucking connect and really have the ability to communicate and articulate what we’re feeling.”
