The Stage (album)

The Stage is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on October 28, 2016, through Capitol Records. It was the first Avenged Sevenfold album in 11 years to not be released through Warner Bros. Records, due to a legal dispute between them and the band. It was also the band's first to feature drummer Brooks Wackerman, who joined the band in November 2015 but was not revealed as Arin Ilejay's official replacement until Ilejay's departure in 2015, because the band wanted to "make sure that it was a correct fit".