AVENGED SEVENFOLD’s M. SHADOWS Says SPOTIFY ‘Has A Great System For The User’ But Not Necessarily So For The Artist [Video]

During an appearance on the latest episode of the “Locales Only” podcast, AVENGED SEVENFOLD frontman M. Shadows said that he tries to stay on top of technology where the band is concerned, embracing innovative forms of marketing, fan involvement, stage production and ways of selling music that few rock bands employ. He said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I get up in the morning and I get annoyed at putting all this time into our art, which is uncompromised; we don’t have anyone in there. We’re just doing this sort of artistic expression or this kind of artistic explosion, which would be our albums and the way we wanna present ourselves live. But the confines of commerce and the way that the music industry has sort of evolved has taken all the power away from the musicians and sort of given it to the people that are building technology or own the companies or own the venues or own all …