Metallica. 8 years between death magnetic and Hardwired. Both extremely solid albums that returned to their thrash roots. And im a huge metallica fan, and its been 5 years since hardwired. Metallicas been around for almost 40 years, youre telling me they need to be super tight and put out an album every couple years because they have it “figured out”?
the sound alike was just a common issue that musicians in general run into. Imagine youre a big band at the start of your career, you have so many ideas, so many influences, you can come up with original material like its nothing. avenged has been around for 22 years now. You cant sit there and tell me they dont go in and write riffs and scrap it because “sounds too much like A song off nightmare, or “basically the same riff from A different album” their image rides on their music, thats how they shape what Avenged sevenfold is, and if theyre not happy with it they have every right to scrap what theyve made and start over. And all the fans can do is bitch about it lol but it wont change anything!