We haven’t teased any music... again, if we have cool parts that we don’t think work as songs we can release through NFT’s. That way people hear it and can own.

I think that would be awesome. I love unreleased and unfinished songs. It kind of leaves it up to the imagination of where the song could've went, and makes for awesome jam along tracks. I would easily go for this.

I think it's a great idea. I'd definitely want to be among the first in line.

We would love to make it there. Fingers crossed

Really weird question.

No. Sometimes I throw them out into the crowd... sometimes I’m running low and can’t. Ha!

Alright guys... fun chat. Have a great day👊💪✌️🤘

Damn I just got here! Have a good one Matt

You promised us 30 minutes and you gave us over a hour of your time. Thank you good sir! Until next time 🤘

Cya fam!

That's definitely a cool idea that I'm sure many fans would love to buy them... he said after spending two minutes learning what NFTs are.

Well the point would actually be to make very few and let fans make money and trades on the secondary market. You would have something that no one else can own because it’s tied to a blockchain.

Same I was like what 🤣

Hey Matt, for what it's worth when I was younger A7x were the band that got me into music itself (let alone the genre), so this is a privilege for me.

I’m honestly working daily to improve my singing. Used wayyyy to much muscle to create that squeezed sound and it was really bad for me. It’s even harder to unlearn. I work on it daily.

Do you think the next album will be even more ambitious/monumental than The Stage or have you composed something more concise?

The Stage will stand alone. This is just different

Have the band or you ever thought about doing a score/soundtrack for a movie, game, or show or anything like that? I know you guys did work for black ops a little bit, but I mean more in depth than that.

We have but gonna focus on Avenged.

I ALWAYS MISS THESE

hey M! greets from Austria.

Yeah, chest voice will tear you up if you are singing high.. just not sustainable... working on a balanced mix. It’s hard on stage w adrenaline etc.

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Do you think A7x will ever do a full on covers album like Garage Inc or The Spaghetti Incident?

We sorta did w the Stage Deluxe

Loved your cover of street spirit btw, hope you're staying safe out there.

Wait what, Street Sprit like from The Bends? I only heard that song for the first time like 2 days ago - realised I never gave The Bends a full listen to I set aside some time for it.

That'd be really neat.

Maybe, sure. Is 20 coming up? Maybe a STST NFT of unreleased art or demos (if we have any)

I want this

Hey man, hope you find a lot of enjoyment from us fans going crazy over any new interview 😂 I very much agree though, it'd make for a cool valuable item.

You’re welcome. Thanks for doing what you do. We appreciate it.

must be nightmare

I think that would be a pretty cool idea for the hardcore fans haha, considering a bunch of things are like that now and are headed that way in the future

Played a little... still on pubg and some 2k pga golf

Hey Matt, hope all is well.

Congrats! Thats amazing

I just spent a couple minutes trying to figure out what the heck an NFT is and I still don’t get it. But quick question, Metallica or Megadeth?

We live in a time where we get both... so thats my answer. Be grateful 🤓

Hodl?

Since 2012

Dammit i can't believe i missed this by an hour and a half lol

I still don't know much about nfts so excuse my ignorance, but if you guys were to do this how would you implement it.

I think we would do drops on nifty gateway.... check out that site... collectors would have to transfer fiat to ethereum and have a crypto wallet like meta mask... you would buy the item w crypto and it would be sent to your wallet where you could do with it as you please. HODL while it gains value or trade. Sounds confusing but I’m convinced it’s the future. More and more of our daily life will take place on the blockchain from defi to music to art to land.

Hey Matt you need to get back on the Dan Lebatard Show as their golf analyst! I always appreciated that you got the show

I’m trying to have LESS responsibilities when it comes to commitments. I’d rather jump on here and talk directly to the community and do less “press”. But to be fair, that was fun.

I definitely see the value of having something like that, but as a long time fan I don't think it's something I personally would be interested in. But that might be because I'm mostly ignorant of how exactly NFTs work. Thanks for stopping in! It's great to see you interacting with the fans in this way.

It def wont be for everyone. Some people collect art... some have no interest. You can look at it that way.

I'm a sucker for old demos, discarded songs etc., would love to hear anything from ye olden days. Maybe even live stuff? I made a playlist of your old performances on YouTube a while ago:

Hopefully I ain't too late for a few questions...

Marc Man wanted to try his own arrangement of strings so we agreed to record them. What made it on the record was our original idea. We felt the extra strings took away from the “sharpened elbows” of Afterlife... too symphonic.

Did you like BMTH survival horror?

Hey what’s up, I would honestly be down to collect art and unreleased music plus I’m already doing so with collecting vinyls just missing a few but I’ll be done hopefully soon. Also I just wanted to say I love your guy’s music if it weren’t for the stage and finding your song nightmare on black ops 3 I wouldn’t have been able to discover such beauty hopefully someday I can meet the band when this things finally over unfortunately I just missed this but I hope that you see this P.S. I hope that everyone in the band is doing well and as well to you

Thank you ✌️

Is there any specific direction that you would like to see rock / metal bands go in in the near future (stylistically, aesthetically, etc)?

I have ventured very far outside rock at this point so I’d love for something that interests me to pull me back in. Whether its compressed recordings, the same samples on drums, the blocky mixes, the sing scream sing formula... it just doesn’t click with me right now. I honestly have no problem with the scene and I hate to sound like I’m bad mouthing it but it’s just the truth for me personally. I’m sure this will be followed up w people posting a bunch of bands that they are sure I’ve never heard. I assure you I check out everything recommended here. Just most doesn’t click for me.

Honestly if it means we can hear some music from yiu guys I think all would agree we would love to do this.

Honestly we would like to get into a flow of less tour and more music. We got a new warehouse/ headquarters that we are building out a studio. We have done a lot of consolidating in the off time. I think it will all be good once we get going.

Yaaaaasssss Shads Yaaaaasssss!!!!!! Also much love from Delaware

I know you’re obviously not an expert on this, but what do you think is a realistic timeline for when things are “back to normal” and you guys can tour again?

I think you will see some tours possibly in September...followed by a mad rush and total clusterfuck... normalcy hopefully by summer 2022... but who really knows.

I don't like the thought of unreleased music only being available to a select few.

It won’t be... the music will leak to youtube etc... everyone will hear it... there will just be a few authenticated owners.

Reddit gave me a VERY delayed notification about this. :( Oh well, maybe next time. I want to meet you guys so bad. 😭

Team Kong or Godzilla?

I think it was an important question 😞🤟

Everytime i go to spotify i find a new a7x song i fall in love with

Interesting indeed. I'd be down for that.

My thoughts are that YOU'RE AWESOME

Hey, Matt! Not related to the topic, but I hope you are safe. As an aspiring writer, who takes a lot of inspiration from A7X songs, I have to ask this question: cyborgs or dragons?

Would love to see you guys work with Ramin Djawadi.

Cheers from Canada! You are the best!

If the world was ending tomorrow, What would one thing you would like yourself and a7x to be remembered for, what would it be?

Damn how am I always late lol.

Yeah man, the pain is real lol

Fuuuck I missed it again);

I have a question, do you think you guy might release music that isn't necessarily a part of the new album like maybe a song that you would do for a charity event? Or maybe a tease of some new music. Or have we heard some through DWJ?😬

That's actually a pretty neat idea

Voltaic oceans? 😎

A friend of mine wants to know: how are you guys doing and are you planning on coming to Salt Lake City when you go back to touring?

Honestly I think it would sound amazing, just like all of your guys' music!

Just want to say how much I appreciate the music. You guys have been my favorite band since 2004. This last year has been really rough for many reasons. I put on A7X every day. It is nice to lose myself in the music. Looking forward to whenever you are able to put out the album you guys want to put out!

Hi, dudes, big fan here <3. Why have you guys never played some musics in live like betrayed, sidewinder and the diamonds in the rough album? Hugs from Brazil.

Darn! Im too late! But that would be really great yeah!

I need to check this sub more often...

Matt! I have a million things I want to ask but theres one thing I wanna ask you for.. my friend is going through a rough time (break up) any words of advice/statements I can show him to help cheer him up?

I think it's a very cool idea but it could be a slippery slope to a micro transaction like music service. Yeah you can own the "Canon" music (game) but you don't get these funky extras (dlc). It's really depend on how predatory they were marketed.

I'm literally listening to your music rn

I know I'm SUPER late to this party but as someone who mines NFT's (ETH) I'd love to see this happen. You could do it over something like the Ethereum network, which would allow you create your own NFT's that run on top their blockchain. Then you can do things like what Matt has described above without having to develop a new blockchain.

Damn I always miss the QnA's for some reason....

I wish these things didnt happen while Im at work lol.

Just recently found all of the songs you did with other artists besides A7X, have to say that "Turn out the lights" is fucking hilarious, got me into a few other Steel Panther songs too.

This past year I bought a small bag of Axie Infinity Shard and AAVE and still holding. Wouldve bought more, but instead decided to go balls deep in Cardano(ADA) last April.

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I’ll have to look that up... I don’t have twitter. I like reddit.

Will my favorite lead singer say hi to me?🤭

Hey Matt, im curious to ask you if you guys listen to your own Music in the free time.

Love you bro

I love you both

I just learnt you have a reddit account! Thank you A7X, changed my life for the better since I discovered you all 15 years ago. I miss the Rev as well 💛