It's your fuckin' Nightmare

i suppose you can call this a follow up on one of my previous posts from way back in December about the metal band who made it, Avenged Sevenfold. i realize they are becoming a bit more "mainstream metal" so to speak, but when you're in a genre like metal, which is obscure enough as it is, its hard to be an "obscure metal band." at least that's my opinion. even mainstream metal is ignored by the general population. either way, Avenged Sevenfold, who recently lost their drummer the Rev (may he rest in peace), has just released a single off their new album, which is coming out later in July. The album and the single are both titled "Nightmare" which can only foreshadow an eerie, darker sound to the album. The single does remind me of some of their other stuff and I can't say is one of their most original songs, but in the end, I still think its a fucking awesome song to rock out too (or maybe i'm just too hardcore of a fanboy). M. Shadows did say in an interview that this album would be a darker emotional album and that they were dedicating it to the Rev. The Rev actually wrote a piece that he claims to be his masterpiece, which he turned in 3 days before his unfortunate death. I believe this piece was originally titled "Death" but in honor of the Rev (aka "Fiction") they renamed the song "Fiction."

Of course you're probably wondering how they recorded drum parts for the album without good ol' Jimmy Sullivan. Well, they asked one of Jimmy's idol drummers, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater, to record the parts and to go on tour with A7X for a while. This is, unfortunately, just a temporary substitution. After the tour, Mike Portnoy will return to his post with Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold will have to get a new drummer.

Anyway, you can read up on the whole thing online somewhere. Wikipedia has some good shit. Here's the single.