Foo Fighters And Avenged Sevenfold On Course For Top 10 Albums

Foo Fighters and Avenged Sevenfold are both set for Top 10 albums in the UK, midweek data from The Official Charts Company shows.

The Foos’ exceptional ‘But Here We Are’ album – their first since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl’s mother, Virginia – is currently in second-place. 

Grohl and co.’s eleventh studio album, it’s currently narrowly chasing the latest album from Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, ‘Council Skies’, separated from the top spot by less than 200 chart units. Foo Fighters currently have five UK Number 1 albums to their name.

Avenged Sevenfold’s eighth studio album ‘Life Is But A Dream…’, meanwhile, which featured as Rock Sound’s most recent digital cover issue, is presently charting at eighth place.

Explaining the creative process of making his band’s latest album, and the health and vocal issues he experienced prior to its release, Avenged Sevenfold frontman M. Shadows told us:

“I went through a really major injury. An injury where most doctors told me I wasn’t going to sing again. 

“I have to say, purely based out of finding the right vocal coach, working really hard at it and technique, I was able to do something that most doctors said wasn’t going to be physically possible.

“We finished the tracking pretty early on. No vocals, no solos, no extras but we had the drums, the bass and some of the guitars. Then we let it sit for a year. 

“One thing we were waiting for was getting my voice back to where I was comfortable. Not only singing but knowing that once we put the record out we’d have to go do it live.”

The album that arrived following that period of hard work and recovery is now set to achieve a Top 10 finish. Find out for sure when the UK charts are revealed in full this Friday, June 09.

More like this