M. Shadows .

So this is day two of my amazing blog, and i've decided that if you've gotten through reading my small novel-like intro, then you might be able to bear through this one. I've come to the conclusion that today shall be about the lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold, also known as M. Shadows. Writing his name makes me wonder why singers change their names, and where they come up with the ones they do change to. What would you change yours to? If you have any really creative choices, i definitely encourage commenting on this post, to let me know. Buuut anyways. Back to M.Shadows. His real name is Matthew Charles Sanders and he was born july 1, 1981. Crazy enough, he started playing the piano first when he was a youngin, then eventually began learning the guitar. I guess he found that he had a pretty awesome voice and sang with a highschool punk band during his school years. In 1999, he and some band members who are still with him in Avenged Sevenfold today, created A7X and Shadows was going to choose the name "avenged sevenfold" or "lips of deceit". Im personally glad they chose what they chose. This is a poster of them in their earliest years, which i find kind of intimidating and a bit creepy, and the next picture down is that of M.Shadows.

Outside Article:
The band was formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, California with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev and Matt Wendt. M Shadows came up with the name as a reference to the story of Cain and Abel from The Bible, which can be found in Genesis 4:24, although they are not a religious band. Upon its formation, each member of the band also took on a pseudonym which were already nicknames of theirs from high school.