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Matthew Charles Sanders was born in California on July 31, 1981
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In his teens, M.Shadows played basketball, but ended up quitting when his interest in music was sparked.
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He studied at Huntington Beach High School, where he briefly participated in a punk band called "Successful Failure".
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Along with The Rev and Zacky Vengeance they were arrested several times, mostly for street fights or in night bars. He has bad memories due to the extremely religious education as the students and teachers.
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Matthew Sanders along with his friend Jimmy Sullivan, Zacky Vengeance and Matt Wendt created the band "Avenged Sevenfold" in 1999.
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In 2001, the band released their first studio album, "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet". The self-produced album, which was in the metalcore style, garnered a mix of positive reviews from critics.
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In 2003, Matthew and Avenged Sevenfold first played on the 2003 Vans Warped Tour.
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In 2005 with "City Of Evil" they entered the world of fame and more and more people began to look more into this band, with the album "Avenged Sevenfold" in 2007 and "Nightmare" in 2009 their fame was already worldwide and They played at renowned festivals like Rock Am Ring, Rock In Rio, Mayhem and won numerous awards and recognitions
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In 2006, Avenged Sevenfold won MTV Music Award for Best New Artist, and Golden God Award for Best International Band.
The band was ranked No. 47 on Loudwire's list of Top 50 Metal Bands of All Time. -
In 2009, M. Shadows participated with other stars in the recording of "Slash", the first solo album by his friend Slash that was released in March 2010. Shadows performs the song "Nothing To Say" from that album . He also participated in the song Turn Out The Lights by the glam rock band Steel Panther, singing in a few verses of the song.
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He married Valary DiBenedetto on October 17, 2009, they knew each other from school.
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Matthew has two children, River Sanders, who was born on July 4, 2012, and Cash Sanders, born on August 15, 2014. They both have the same middle name "James" in honor of their deceased former drummer The Rev.
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The band’s sixth studio album ‘Hail to the King’ was released on August 23, 2013. The album charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and also on UK, Brazilian, Finnish, Canadian, and Irish charts.
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In 2017, Matt was voted third on the "Ultimate 25 Best Modern Guitar Leaders" list.
