Ken Anderson – better known as Mr. Kennedy throughout his tenure in WWE from 2005 to 2009 – was apparently a big Avenged Sevenfold fan. So Anderson and Avenged Sevenfold teamed up for an entrance theme that ultimately never got released and nobody has ever heard.
In an interview with Jesea Lee, Avenged Sevenfold bassist Johnny Christ said he and guitarist M. Shadows only recently heard the song for the first time in nearly 20 years, and that there’s likely no chance it’ll ever get released.
“Back in, I want to say 2007-ish, 2006-ish, Ken Kennedy.. evidently he was a fan and reached out, or someone there was a fan – don’t quote me on this, this is 20 years ago almost now and I don’t know exactly how it came to us – but we recorded and wrote an original piece for him to come out to,” said Christ as transcribed by Metal Injection. “It definitely had the ‘KEN! KENNEDY!’ in it and everything.
“It’s funny because last year I went to WrestleMania when it was here at Sofi, I ran into John Hammer who works with the music department of WWE, he’s a fan. Me and [Avenged Sevenfold guitarist M. Shadows] were there together with our kids, and he came over to our suite. We were talking and he remembered that and he was like ‘You know what? I think I still have it,’ and me and Matt were like ‘oh my God I haven’t heard it in years!’ None of us could find it anymore, like where where it was, and we listened back to it on his phone ear to ear.
“But yeah, that rumor is absolutely true. I wish we could find the originals of it. Unfortunately, it was a thing between Warner Music and WWE [where they] couldn’t come to an agreement on the contract or the rights to the song at the time, for whatever reason. The people who were there at the time aren’t even working for Warner anymore and probably not many of them in WWE are working there anymore that had those negotiations, but unfortunately it never came through.
“I don’t know what the legality is of us being able to ever show that song or anything like that at this point. But yeah, it’s true. We went in and recorded it, I think we were in the middle of a tour, and we went into a studio and recorded that. I was really bummed when it didn’t come out too because it was a good tune, it was a good intro tune. I don’t know if it was an album song, but definitely for a one-off and to be a part of Ken Kennedy‘s entrance, that would have been really cool.”
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