Avenged Sevenfold to make China debut this week

American heavy-metal band Avenged Sevenfold will debut in China, with shows in Beijing and Shanghai later this week.

The exciting band from California has released six studio albums so far, including Hail the King in 2013, which topped the US Billboard 200 album chart. Audiences in China could expect a long list of songs to be played by the band that was formed in 1999.

"We have been playing a lot all over the world, so playing somewhere for the first time is always special. People in America can't believe we are playing in China so it truly is an honor," says Matthew Charles Sanders, the band's lead vocalist and co-founder, who is better known by his stage name, M. Shadows.