“Their brother must be immensely proud…”: Our original 2010 review of Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare
This is the original Kerrang! review of Nightmare from 2010. Last summer, M. Shadows wrote the lyrics to Nightmare, the opening track on Avenged Sevenfold’s fifth album. He envisaged the song as the beginning of a dark, emotional concept album, though he hadn’t yet worked out exactly what the plotline of said album should be. However, when the vocalist sat down in January to work upon lyrics for the other 10 songs on the album, there was only one them wanted to address. For the singer and his bandmates, a band so close they say they’re practically family, the death of drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan on December 28 was heart-breaking and utterly devastating, a tragedy which tore their world apart and left them with a thousand unanswered questions. For a time...