M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold Offers Advice to Upcoming Bands

If M. Shadows has one piece of advice for new bands, what would it be? “Never let your art become a commodity.”

We wrote several threads on Twitter over the weekend to give the advice. He wrote,

Attention all up and coming artists: never let your art become a commodity. Let the creation take you where it’s gonna take you and let the chips fall where they may…. always.

Learn where the boundaries are so you can go beyond them. Nothing will take you further away from what’s important than trying to create something that will appease everyone. Analytics show us were we have been… not where we are going.

I have recently seen many people pull back from web3 and it’s been for 2 reasons…. Price dip in crypto or they don’t want blowback from the mob. What this says to me is that they were never here for the right reason anyway.

Now that everything is recovering will they pop their heads back in? If you want to be a musician, painter, songwriter, novelist… whatever. Don’t become a commodity. People want to see YOUR creativity… lead the way.

He also responded to more questions being posted after the statement. Follow along HERE.