AVENGED SEVENFOLD Singer On 'The Stage' Surprise Release: 'We Were Just Looking For Ways To Stimulate Ourselves'

AVENGED SEVENFOLD singer M. Shadows has once again defended the surprise release of the group's latest album, "The Stage", saying that he and his bandmates "were just looking for ways to stimulate" themselves. The release of the disc, which was announced the night it went on sale twelve months ago, earned the lowest sales of an AVENGED SEVENFOLD album in eleven years. It sold seventy-six thousand copies in its first week, seventy-three thousand of which were physical. "The Stage", AVENGED's debu...