Nirvana was on MTV and they are fine rockstars. MTV is definitely not equivalent to selling out.
If Avenged Sevenfold does whatever we want, that is stick to the metalcore style and never move on, it would be difficult 1) to gain new fans, 2) to sound different from the suddenly very popular metalcore scene, to sound unique to appeal to everyone.
Though indeed Waking the Fallen and Sounding the 7th Trumpet are the better albums they did compared to City of Evil, it has been years, and it has come to the point that they want to do what they really want now.
People mature through the years, people change the way they think. They used to be young kids who think screaming is cool and all, but now they've changed. A lil' poppish, yeah, but at least still in the range of rock.
Pantera, Metallica (before St. Anger the notoriously bad album), Marilyn Manson and Iron Maiden have all proven that screaming is not necessary to produce good heavy metal. A7X still has the melodies going, still has the kickass element, still has the quality. Less like what you guys say :roll: , "brutal", but still good music.
In the words of Pantera, if you don't like it, you can either respect or walk on home boy. :twisted:
Anyway after all that ranting,
:?: : When are the tickets coming up? It's only a month and 4 more days to go! Even Black Sabbath/Dio (Heaven and Hell) concert has started sales of tickets!