Audio: Avenged Sevenfold New Song – Jade Helm, For Call of Duty Black Ops 3


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Avenged Sevenfold have released a new song, their song, ‘Jade Helm’, from the soundtrack of the new Call of Duty Black Ops III video game. You can hear the track at this link or below.

 

The band released a statement about making the track:

We are proud to announce our involvement in ‘Black Ops 3.’ Treyarch asked us if we would like to create a score to accompany a portion of the multiplayer soundtrack and we gladly accepted. On November 6th you can pick up a copy of the game and check out our instrumental score entitled ‘Jade Helm’ while you play Multiplayer or in your personal bunk inside the Safe House of the Campaign.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops III was released on November 6 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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in an interview with Chris Jericho for his podcast the band recently announced Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion/Suicidal Tendencies) as their new drummer. Singer M. Shadows commented about the addition of Wackerman replacing Arin Iljay who was dismissed this fall.

To be honest, Brooks’ name has always been in the mix. It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy (Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan) passed away in terms of who was going to step up for ‘Nightmare.’ We felt Mike [Portnoy, ex-Dream Theater drummer] was the right choice and we still feel that way. Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks’ name as well. But at the time he was also busy with Bad Religion and it was also… people were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point.”

Avenged Sevenfold is currently working on a new album for 2016, their seventh which will be the follow up to 2013s Hail To the King (Warner Brothers).


Avenged Sevenfold Announces Dismissal of Drummer Arin Illejay


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In a post to their website today, platinum selling rock band Avenged Sevenfold have announced the removal of drummer Arin Illejay from their line-up effective immediately. The band blamed creative differences on the split. There is no further word at this time on his replacement, but the message speaks of “sharing plans soon” on what is next for the band. Illejay has joined the band in 2013 following Mike Portnoy’s stint on the drum throne, recording Hail To The King (Warner Bros.) album.

 

 

Avenged Sevenfold’s statement on Arin Illejay


Hello Everyone –
We are writing this to inform you all that we will be moving forward without Arin IIejay as our drummer. Arin has been nothing but a positive energy and monster drummer for us over the past 4 years. We love the guy and always will. We are and will always be grateful to him for helping us to move forward through some very dark times. Creatively though, we felt we needed to move in a different direction. While we can’t say more at this time, we are excited for the future and looking forward to sharing our plans soon with the greatest fans in the world. As always we appreciate your understanding and unwavering support.

With Love –
Matt, Zack, Brian, Johnny

 

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