The songs “Critical Acclaim” and “Gunslinger” from Avenged Sevenfold’s self-titled album further expressed. The song “M.I.A.” (“Missing in Action”) was written in tribute to these friends. Shadows feels a strong support for the troops serving the United States, having very close friends who are currently in service in Iraq. While in this band he penned the song “Streets,” which would later be recorded after Avenged Sevenfold was formed, and released on their first album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. He was previously a member of a punk group called ‘Successful Failure’. In following years, Shadows formed a number of bands with Avenged Sevenfold’s rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance. Matt was reduced to M and since has been known as M. Shadows said that he got his name because when he attended El Modena High School and the band was just starting out, he was a darker kid (hence the name “Shadows”) but he also wanted to incorporate his name, Matt, into his stage name. On the A7X DVD, while all of the members were talking about how they got their stage names, M. This latter event earned him the nickname, ‘the kid that killed the principal.
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He was kicked out of two different Huntington Beach schools, one for smashing a woman’s car windows after a sixth-grade pizza party and another for defacing campus property, which ended with the death of the school principal over a heart attack. In his youth, Shadows was notorious for his disorderly conduct and misbehavior. M.Shadows is a vocalist of the band of Avenged Sevenfold.