A7X frontman M. Shadows talked about the band’s decision to cover Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and several other non-metal tracks as additions to their latest album “The Stage,” telling Revolver:
“I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so ‘done before.’
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“In the past, we had no problem covering ‘Paranoid’ or ‘Walk’ – but now to me, the same type of band doing the same thing, it doesn’t necessarily get us excited to do that
” What I loved about doing Pink Floyd and [The Beach Boys’] ‘God Only Knows’ was doing our little twist on them.
“I loved transcribing those songs and listening to those beautiful chords, seeing what they’re doing, and trying to bring the songs into 2017 with our own modern twist on it, but still keeping the beautiful nuances of what they were doing.
“I think that was really important to the writing process with ‘Stage’; felt like those type of bands really influenced us more this time around, so it made more sense [to cover them] than doing a Dio cover or something.
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