Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows did a deep dive on the band’s discography with Bradley Hall and revealed their very intentional writing of the song “Hail to the King” “‘Hail to the King’ was a response to the fact that we were a big band, but everywhere we went none of our songs could be played anywhere like in a bar, like we have nothing that lives up to AC/DC or Metallica’s “Black Album” or all these records that we love, all of our stuff's a little too complex, a little too complicated, a little too neoclassical,” says Shadows. “So we started really cutting close obviously to you know wearing our influences very much on our sleeves in this sort of dumbed-down version of rock music, and that's not a shot on those bands because they do it brilliantly, they do it better than us, but we wanted to try our hand at doing some things like that, it's very unnatural for us. It's not what we do, it's simplified, but we were able to kind of piece together, oh it's simple drums, it's a more scooped sound on the toms, yeah it's a lower volume of guitar that actually feels bigger when you put it with the bass, it's you know a vocal that is very simple, there's not a lot of harmonies. It's one vocal that's kind of yelling at you and it's almost like can you take this vocal melody and sing it to your kid as a lullaby and so we took all those things and we made “Hail to the King.” Shadows continued saying that their idea obviously worked out. “Unfortunately, ‘Hail to the King’ worked. it's our biggest song and I wouldn't have it any other way, but it's a funny thing that that's the song that is almost at a billion views and it's the song that people hear first. I don't know if that's more of a commentary on us or more of a commentary on the typical rock listener, but yeah “Hail to the King” is one of those things where it's just a funny little experiment.”
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