I have a question that i want answered: Why does it take so long for bands to come out with new albums?
I wish there was some way to find the average length nowadays compared to 20-30 years ago, but just looking through some older bands discographies, some of them would come out with two a year and even three sometimes. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones both did it in the 60's.
I know times have changed a bunch since then, but things have gotten out of hand now.
I guess the reason why i bring up this whole issue is because one thing that has been going on lately and one i just remembered. The one i just remembered is with The Offspring. I got really big into them around the beginning of my sophomore year of high school which was in '05 so their latest CD out at that time, Splinter, had been out almost two years. That's perfectly fine with me, but the problem i had was i kept hearing about a new CD coming and you should expect it out next spring or a certain amount of time, only to be pushed back and would no longer have a set date. Next thing you know it's three years later and i've forgotten all about The Offspring entirely until pretty close to it being out. That in itself means that there was pretty crappy promotion but i don't remember seeing any advertisements around outside of news articles.
Today though, Avenged Sevenfold is the issue at hand now. In a couple weeks it'll be two years since their last album came out so you'd think a new album would be out or soon to be out? Wrong. There really hasn't been any news about a new album except for a few sentences, and there really hasn't been any updates on how the new album is coming along (if there is one actually being written, that is). This wouldn't be all that bad, but Avenged Sevenfold is a band that toured basically the last two years straight, and their set list remained basically the same for those two years, which makes me wonder if they lost any people as fans due to that. or money at least. Certainly if you went to go see them say a couple months after their last album came out, you would be all that motivated to go see them again just to see them same thing basically, right? Unless you were a fanatic, but that wouldn't be the same and you would go no matter what.
Now i know it's a lot to ask to come out with record after record, i'm not, i see no problem with it taking two years for a new one to come out, but there has to be some point where it gets to be too much, which begs the question; what is the best formula to releasing new albums?
