Avenged Sevenfold recording new album in January

Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows has confirmed that the band will enter the studio next month to begin recording their new album.

"This album's a little more groove orientated," Shadows said in the recent interview. "There's a little bit more groove to it, a little bit more focused on bigger riffs. So that's where it's headed – every song has gotta have a huge riff and every song has to have a groove to it."

The forthcoming album will be the follow-up to Nightmare, released in 2010 through Warner Bros. Records.