Avenged Sevenfold have done away with the rollout entirely. The band put out a new four-song EP, Statica, with no warning and no press announcement — fans only found out it existed when it appeared on streaming services.
The record runs 18 minutes and 7 seconds across four tracks: “Lights“, “Statica“, “Rejoice” and “Ashes“. It is the band’s first proper multi-song release since 2023’s Life Is But A Dream…, and it pushes their recent experimental habit even further than that album did.
Anyone expecting the Hail To The King-era band will not find them here. Statica leans hard into robotic, heavily processed vocals from M. Shadows, sci-fi synths and electronic dance beats, closer in spirit to an EDM record than to anything in the group’s metal catalogue. It is a continuation of the increasingly unpredictable path the Orange County five-piece have taken since 2016’s The Stage and through Life Is But A Dream….
True to form, the band has said nothing about it publicly. As with their recent output, the release was handled entirely independently — another sign of how deliberately they have been operating outside the usual album cycle.
Statica follows a scattered run of one-off releases rather than a conventional album build. The most recent was “Magic“, which arrived in December tied to the Season 1 patch for the video game “Black Ops 7” — a placement the band’s camp billed as one of the biggest seasonal content drops in “Call Of Duty” history.
That anti-album approach traces back to Life Is But A Dream…, a record the band spent roughly four years writing and recording. It was produced by Joe Barresi and Avenged Sevenfold in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy Wallace in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. The album worked through an existential crisis — a personal look at meaning, purpose and mortality — and its restless spirit clearly still drives what the band is doing.
The timing is not accidental. Statica lands the day before Avenged Sevenfold open a co-headline North American run with Good Charlotte, promoted by Live Nation.
The 16-date trek begins July 25 at Thunder Ridge Nature Arena in Ridgedale, Missouri, and winds through Shakopee, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Boston, Charlotte and Dallas, among other stops, before wrapping August 27 at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix.
That is only the start of the band’s year. They are also booked for Rock in Rio in Brazil, a Los Angeles stadium show at BMO Stadium alongside Good Charlotte and A Day To Remember, and a fall tour of Australia and New Zealand with Coheed And Cambria and Thornhill — their first shows in that part of the world in more than a decade.
The tour also marks a full return to the road for Shadows. Last September, Avenged Sevenfold postponed a fall 2025 Latin American tour, which had been due to open September 25 in Buenos Aires, after the singer was diagnosed with a vocal fold hematoma — a ruptured blood vessel in the vocal cord. He has since recovered enough to front the summer run.
