Read Cover Story • Subscribe • Buy a Copy • Billboard on iPad Avenged Sevenfold’s opening is also the largest week for a hard rock album in more than a year. The last hard rock set to sell ...

Avenged Sevenfold are one of the most successful American heavy metal bands of the third millennium, with an estimated 8 million copies sold of their six studio albums. First formed in 1999 ...

But in case you somehow haven’t heard, the headline says it all: Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy will play drums on the new Avenged Sevenfold album, filling in for recently deceased drummer James Owen ...