NEWS 2020/02/08
Booze! Drugs! Half-naked women! Zipping along desert highways in rad convertibles! While the Las Vegas Tourist Board probably aren’t huge fans of this video, it definitely makes being in Avenged Sevenfold look like a hell of a laugh. An exhausting laugh, sure, but a laugh nonetheless. Let’s dive on in! 0.01 We’re straight in with a roaring engine and a quote from Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), compiler of the first ever dictionary and general clever-clogs. The quote comes up in a collection of miscellaneous Johnson anecdotes (he was a pretty big deal, was Johnson), in which he is chatting with a blind friend about some drunkenness she witnessed the night before. “I wonder what pleasure men take in making beasts of themselves!” she said. Johnson’s reply was: “I wonder, Madam, that...
Nightmare
2010 release, the fifth album from the Alt-Metal outfit, produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Eminem) and mixed by noted engineer Andy Wallace. The album is the first from the band without drummer James the Rev Sullivan, who passed away in December. Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy plays drums on the album. Over the years, Avenged Sevenfold has built a fanatical fan base that includes more than one million fans on Facebook. They have also attracted 93 million plays on MySpace.