M. Shadows says “it’s incredibly hard” for Avenged Sevenfold to make any money from touring

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Avenged Sevenfold‘s M. Shadows has opened up about touring and said that “it’s incredibly hard” for the band to make money from it.In a new interview with Bradley Hall on his YouTube channel, the band’s frontman, M.

Shadows – real name Matthew Sanders – discussed what the realities of post-pandemic touring are like.“It’s really crazy because when you get to our kind of level, everybody on the crew is ‘A list’ and they’re all being pulled in different directions, so they all make high-end amounts of money.

More trucks, more drivers, more gasoline, more travel. And we’ve already seen a lot of bands canceling tours,” he explained.He continued: “You’re gonna see a lot more. ‘Cause I know where we’re at.

I know what we make. And I know that it’s incredibly hard for us even. Unless you can really put something together that keeps you in one city and not a lot of movement and keeps you in places where you can play multiple nights somewhere, you really are doing some of these things… Like, for instance, a big reason we’re going to all these different countries is because we can go to the same countries and make very little to no money, or we can go to new countries and make very little to no money.