Of Mice & Men frontman Austin Carlile has high hopes for the bands newly-released album “Restoring Force“. He hopes that the effort charts a similar course that Avenged Sevenfold‘s 2005 platinum selling breakthrough “City Of Evil” took, telling Metal Hammer:
“When you’re building a band, you have to think about two years down the road and how what you are making now will impact you later. This record is our City Of Evil but it’s the next one that is really going to give us the platform to get where we want. Avenged saw an opportunity and moved into it while making consistently great records. Look at where that took them. That’s what I see us doing.”
“Restoring Force” managed to sell roughly 51,000 copies during its release week late last month. Comparatively, “City Of Evil” moved 33050 copies during its initial week of release.
