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Synyster Gates

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 7, 1981

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

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We're trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too.

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I hope we're not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show.

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When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives.

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My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don't know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is.

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Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.

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Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

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We're happier when we're with friends on tour.

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We spent a lot of time in the studio. I mean, we've spent a lot of time on tour, too.

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He happens to be my father and an incredible musician. When he gets lucky, we let him into the studio for 20 minutes to hear a song which has been previously written for him.

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During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

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It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.

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We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make.

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For the first two weeks after he passed, we were done as a band. We were just done. And because of the fans and Jimmy's parents and relatives and stuff like that, they just demanded that we continue on and spread the legacy that is, you know, the crazy James 'The Rev' Sullivan.

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I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

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I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds above the melody, then I'll drop it down an octave so that the melody is on top and the harmony line is major and minor sixths below it.

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I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.

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If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.

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We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it.

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There are those people who try to change what you're doing. We don't like that. When we went into the studio for 'City of Evil,' we had 99 percent of the songs finished and ready to record.

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