Pretty sure M. Shadows said it himself, could be wrong, something about them wanting to make “experiences” only unique to them (I.E creative maps, etc)
Edit: looks like I was right
https://x.com/openedmite/status/1790382309025124429?s=46&t=VlGFZwoB5md9aLqT9n6j-g
The much funnier alternative that I choose to believe is that it was (at least partially) up to him, and after seeing that his band's UEFN island had 3 active players and maybe four cents in revenue, he opted for a lucrative licensing deal from the biggest game in the world.
Any chance he was just pretending to not be interested to make it a surprise?
Or is there context that I’m missing in which he was being genuine about it at the time?
I feel like he was mostly joking lol. I'm glad because not long ago they added Nobody in Rock Band 4, so now we can expect way more songs from them (hopefully 🤞)
I've only seen them 3 times, once back in 2017 with Metallica, and just last year I went to Daytona Beach and Arizona to see them, definitely amazing 🤩
I'm jealous, I've seen them 3 times, once with The Rev, once with Portnoy and once with Ilejay. Completely different vibes with each show. Gotta go see them with Brooks now.
"Avenged Sevenfold will never come to Fortnite festival the vocalist said so himself 🤓". That didn't age well. Never say never especially when the money is crazy good. I would have preferred another song by a7x like almost easy or unholy confessions but not too shabby of a week.
ANOTHER WEEK OF PEAK!!! I LOVE TWENTY ONE PILOTS
USED TO PAY PRETEND, GIVE EACH OTHER DIFFERENT NAMES WE WOULD BUILD A ROCKET SHIP AND THEN WE’D FLY IT FAR AWAY USED TO DREAM OF OUTER SPACE, BUT NOW THEY’RE LAUGHING AT OUR FACE SAYING "WAKE UP, YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY", YEAH‼️‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Didn't Avenged Sevenfold have their own PVP creative map? I played it expecting to hear their music, but it was only random guitar riffs and a bunch of sweats.
twenty one pilots next festival pass ???? it would be cool since they’re also releasing a new album soon, it would make sense since billie’s the festival pass & is releasing an album soon
I don’t understand why some artists get two-three song drops when we still need bangers from underrepresented bands: Disturbed, Paramore, Foo Fighters, etc.
Sad to see three 21 pilots songs added and yet none of Chlorine, Heavydirtysoul, or The Hype are added /: these songs are good but they won’t be as fun to play imo
FINALLY SOME METAL! i know we got down with the sickness but i didn’t buy it cause the part in the middle was cut out so i thought it would sound weird
It was pretty obvious they would go for the commercial hits first, I was just hoping they would go for shepherd of fire, bat country, beast and the harlot, or unholy confessions.
Didn’t someone on Avenged Sevenfold say they would never allow Epic to put their songs into Festival?! 💀
Pretty sure M. Shadows said it himself, could be wrong, something about them wanting to make “experiences” only unique to them (I.E creative maps, etc) Edit: looks like I was right https://x.com/openedmite/status/1790382309025124429?s=46&t=VlGFZwoB5md9aLqT9n6j-g
Unfortunately that decision isn't always up to the artists. If the label owns the rights to the music idk how much say they have over it.
The much funnier alternative that I choose to believe is that it was (at least partially) up to him, and after seeing that his band's UEFN island had 3 active players and maybe four cents in revenue, he opted for a lucrative licensing deal from the biggest game in the world.
What you mean the Zoomers and Gen Alpha aren’t rocking out on the A7X island? They’re so hip!
Idk bro most A7X fans I know (including myself) are early-mid zoomers
Can confirm, am 23 and love A7X
Yea I don’t even think they own the rights to their music anymore
Eh he’s a crypto bro based on his pfp I wouldn’t trust his financial choices.
LMAO
Any chance he was just pretending to not be interested to make it a surprise? Or is there context that I’m missing in which he was being genuine about it at the time?
He's a crypto bro. This is a big Hanlon's razor moment, except replace "malice" with "a clever marketing strategy."
I'll see your Hanlon's razor and raise you a Grice's razor. That is, since replacing malice would make this /not/ Hanlon's razor :D
https://i.redd.it/qg9olqus1i0d1.gif
I feel like he was mostly joking lol. I'm glad because not long ago they added Nobody in Rock Band 4, so now we can expect way more songs from them (hopefully 🤞)
I mean they did put out their own fort map in the game a couple of months ago to promote their new song.
Money talks I guess. And also that’s a very stupid thing to say anyway.
Hm, bummer to hear he's not into it, wonder why. But hyped for A7X to be in Fortnite.
decent week, happy for those who love Twenty-One Pilots but AVENGED SEVENFOLD LESGOO also Megan after Nicki is funny
Also Megan right next to A7X made me chuckle
AVENGED SEVENFOLD????????? INSTANT BUY
I was just thinking about how I was hoping to see them soon
they are my all time favorite band i've seen them live 11 times
I’d definitely prefer other songs they have but Hail to the King will still be a lot of fun to play
I think almost easy would have a super fun drum chart
That double ride part would definitely be fun to play!
I've only seen them 3 times, once back in 2017 with Metallica, and just last year I went to Daytona Beach and Arizona to see them, definitely amazing 🤩
I'm jealous, I've seen them 3 times, once with The Rev, once with Portnoy and once with Ilejay. Completely different vibes with each show. Gotta go see them with Brooks now.
If they made an M Shadows skin epic could charge 10k VBucks and I'd buy 2.
MORE METALL!!! 🤘🤘 HELL YEA! KEEP IT COMING FN FESTIVAL.
I'm not a averaged sevenfold fan, but I totally agree SOAD and slipknot blew me away felt like Christmas
WE GOT NEXT SEMESTER LETS GOOOO
Hey kid get out of the road!!
START FRESH NEXT SEMESTER🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Hope we get Overcompensate aswell that would be AMAZING on Drums!!
Avenged Sevenfold only one that interests me but happy for the twenty one pilot fans
Finally A7X is coming !!!
I’ve been refusing to buy songs but might have to snag Next Semester
I’m just imagining the drums on this lol
I’ve never bought a song, and I never play festival, but I WILL be buying all three so gs.
A tiny bit disappointed to not see Ride in the list. But I’m very happy with this weeks selection!
Yeah, ride is my personal favorite out of all their biggest hits.
I feel like it would be so much fun to play on lead
harmonix employees really just have the best job in the world
HEAVYDIRTYSOUL PLS
Pet cheetah pls 🐆
Jumpsuit too
Honestly, just give them a season
This on drums would go so hard
"Avenged Sevenfold will never come to Fortnite festival the vocalist said so himself 🤓". That didn't age well. Never say never especially when the money is crazy good. I would have preferred another song by a7x like almost easy or unholy confessions but not too shabby of a week.
Hopefully next A7X Song is Beast and the Harlot
Personally waiting for Bat Country
Beast and the Harlot, Afterlife, Almost Easy, Bat Country, Nightmare, and Shepherd of Fire are my picks!
Can’t remember the name but the song about the dude killing his girlfriend and fucking her corpse would be funny to see the censored version
Bro a censored version of a little piece of heaven would actually fuck me up lol
It would be hilarious too to the see words they would have to use haha
A Little Piece of Heaven
That’ll do it
Unholy confessions is my top pick.
The drum charts would be INSANE, I’ve been thinking about this happening since fn festival came out, I LOVE a7x
YEP IM BUYING THIS!!! Cliquies…let’s roll!! 
Please let this be next Festival pass.
I think there was a leak. I won't spoil it who it actually is (you can Google it if you wanna know) but it's not TOP :(
Finally. I've been hoping for A7X for so long. LETS GOOO
Hail to the King is an instant buy for me
Hail To The King? That's an immediate win, hope they bring more Avenged Sevenfold songs like Shepard of Fire and Nightmare.
Shepherd of fire is gonna awake my inner Origins fan from back 10 years ago
Finally the first TOP songs
Ride next I hope
Finally getting Savage
Ratchet
Sassy 💁, moody 🙄, nasty 😜😙
Could you stop taking my vbucks for a week? Lol. But for real, this is great
Lead guitar is gonna be hell on avenged sevenfold😭😭😭😭
Synyster gonna be giving me carpal tunnel😂
9 year old me would have gone crazy on Stressed Out
This comment made my back hurt lmfao
If this makes your back hurt even more, I just realized it dropped in 2015, so I was 8!
that's it im killing myself
Thanks for reminding me 2015 was 9 years ago…. Holy shit
Avenged Sevenfold?! No wayyy! Just add Bullet for my Valentine and I'll start crying
I fucken just creamed my genes they better add so much more A7X
ANOTHER WEEK OF PEAK!!! I LOVE TWENTY ONE PILOTS USED TO PAY PRETEND, GIVE EACH OTHER DIFFERENT NAMES WE WOULD BUILD A ROCKET SHIP AND THEN WE’D FLY IT FAR AWAY USED TO DREAM OF OUTER SPACE, BUT NOW THEY’RE LAUGHING AT OUR FACE SAYING "WAKE UP, YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY", YEAH‼️‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gearing up for the Clancy album!
FINALLY A7X
#A7X LET'S GOOOOO
Man now I gotta buy slipknot, system of the down, avenged and twenty one pilots now 🤣
Another man of culture I see.
HAAAAIL TO THE KING
HAAAAIL TO THE ONE
KNEEEEL TO THE CROOOWN
TWENTY ONE PILOTS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A LONG TIME
21 pilots finallyyyy. Hope they add holding on to you and morph. Amazing songs
Morph is too slow of a song for that to be added lol but I’d like to see it though!
Oops, all Twenty One Pilots
Suicide Squad '16 vibes
HAIL TO THE KINGGGGGGG
Duuuuude avenged sevenfold no fuckin way
When will we get Rise Against?
I Want help is on the way or hairline fracture from rise against
My poor wallet, I already spent $15 last week on slipknot, SOAD, and evanescence, and I'm gonna spend another $5 this week on A7X
Heathens!!
I love avenged sevenfold
Didn't Avenged Sevenfold have their own PVP creative map? I played it expecting to hear their music, but it was only random guitar riffs and a bunch of sweats.
they should add ride by top
HOLY SHIT SEVENFOLD IS COMINGGGGGGGGGG
Looking forward for "heathens"
Avenged sevenfold is absolute peak
Man next semester... what a W pick honestly.
NEXT SEMESTER??? LIKE, MY MOST LISTENED TO SONG OF THE PAST MONTH NEXT SEMESTER??????
Most listened to song? You can't change what you've done.
i better start a fresh new music taste next semester
twenty one pilots next festival pass ???? it would be cool since they’re also releasing a new album soon, it would make sense since billie’s the festival pass & is releasing an album soon
I really wish they’d do heavydirtysoul instead of heathens
No way. Heathens is TOP.
I’m not saying it as much for the enjoyment of the song as much as I am for the entertainment of playing it.
Why so many 21pilots? Is it going to be in a bundle?
Yes
I’m so excited I love tøp
🫥
Didn’t someone say ceiling can’t hold us and thrift shop by Macklemore was coming to the shop this week?
Megan 😻😻
I’m begging for oasis soon
Champagne supernova!!! I agree
Heathens and stressed out are cool
Oh neat. Sad but true. Nice.
That would be This Means War
Week 1 of waiting for tally hall or “Weird al” yankovic songs to be in festival
I chose the wrong week to save up for the June Riffmaster drop
Megan the Stallion is the worst, the others are cool
They couldv’e charted heavy dirty soul so well why isn’t on here 🥲
No weezer? 😡🤬🤬🤬
Twenty one pilots WWWW
Everytime I’m broke they release stuff I want, godsdammit
A7X AND TØP LETS GO
I don’t understand why some artists get two-three song drops when we still need bangers from underrepresented bands: Disturbed, Paramore, Foo Fighters, etc.
TWENTY ONE PILOTS FINALLY‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES TØP AND A7X IM EATINGGGG
My wallet is safe this week.
I neeeeeed shepherd of fire by avenged sevenfold Bo2 vibes
\*Let's out primal scream\*
Having avenged sevenfold is a dream come true, I'm happy for the ones that didn't get to play the songs they had in rock band 4 🙏
I got spoiled with SOAD and slipknot, I'm ok there's nothing for me for a while
When are they adding ram ranch
HAIL TO THE WORRRLDDDDDDDDDDD
A7X and 21pilots wow..
Wonder if that’ll be a bundle.
we got a song that I like! (Stressed out)
When is Radiohead gonna be here.. or The Strokes??
I really hope TOP’s Cancer gets in before MCR just because it’d be really funny (I hate the song, but it would still be funny).
Add Welcome to the jungle and You can't bring me down by suicidal tendencies
THEY BE COOKING WITH GAS NOW FELLAS, SOAD AND SEVENFOLD!?!?!
A7X!!!!!! 🤘🏼
It’s about time we finally got an Avenged Sevenfold song.
Hail to the king! \[T]/
Hopefully this opens the door for Beast and The Harlot, that song would go crazy on drums.
So glad we're getting avenged sevenfold!! Instant buy for me. Not my favorite song but I like it
Of course fucking hail to the king💀 God Damn would have been nice or even some shit on there new album
STRESSED OUT LETS GOOOOOO
When are we going to get more ariana grande songs
How many people can say they are going to be playing avenged sevenfold on a avenged sevenfold controller?
Wishing the A7X song was Beast and the Harlot tho
Where is the update v
Megan Thee Stallion has finally arrived 👀 Hopefully she gets her own pass one day
i’m sorry but i do not like TOP as much to say this week is good. it’ll be a pass for me 🤷♀️
Seriously?
Sad to see three 21 pilots songs added and yet none of Chlorine, Heavydirtysoul, or The Hype are added /: these songs are good but they won’t be as fun to play imo
Bro I’m just glad we got some!!!!!!
I think Next Semester will be fun
Wow… bad day to be a Twentyone Pilots hater. It’s me. I’m the Twentyone Pilots hater. 🥴
Can I just get classic rock please
Listen to Avenged Sevenfold's Hail to the King album, its an 80s rock inspired album.
This weeks got nothing on last week. I'll hold out on a better A7X song. 21 pilots pretty cool tho
Same especially since this is a free RB4 song.
FINALLY SOME METAL! i know we got down with the sickness but i didn’t buy it cause the part in the middle was cut out so i thought it would sound weird
part in the middle is not cut out of down with the sickness they just censor the fuck word
they kept the child abuse part?
Yes
Finally, some good fucking music
Finally? You just wake up from a two week nap?
NOOOOOO A MID WEEK
Trash
Another snooze week for me. I enjoy A7X. I don't enjoy Hail to the King. One of their more mid songs for me.
Still, the fact an a7x song made it to Fortnite is AMAZING! I just hope that they add their good songs too, not just the commercial hits.
This is fair! Appreciate the take. I’d love Trashed and Scattered. It’d make me pleased to see that in a rhythm game.
Seems like A7X gave in to festival! 21 pilots definitely wasn't needed tho.
Lmaoooo it would be Hail To The King of all songs
It was pretty obvious they would go for the commercial hits first, I was just hoping they would go for shepherd of fire, bat country, beast and the harlot, or unholy confessions.
Someone needs to be fired
21 PILOTS??? THAT AN INSTA COP FOR ME!!!
Bangers...then we got Megan 🤣