Metal Hammer caught up with Eddie Trunk to discuss who he thinks May be 2025's Living legends in Heavy Metal in which he specifically points out Avenged Sevenfold's possibilities.

 

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Looking around at who’s playing now, who are going to be metal’s living legends in 2025?

In the newer school of bands, you have to hope that a band like Avenged Sevenfold or a band like Slipknot – bands who have laid down some pretty deep roots by now and already are huge – can continue to grow, continue to evolve and continue to come up with original stuff and carry metal forward into the next era. 

I was very encouraged when I saw Avenged a year ago. You can say what you want about how original the last record was, but to me it was encouraging to see all these really young kids in the audience, wearing concert t-shirts and fully-engaged in a guitar-based, heavy rock band.

 

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