ZACKY VENGEANCE For the writing, what we wanted to do was make this album much longer and adventurous. And I went on my honeymoon and when I got back we just continued writing. It was just kind of a fucking story at the wedding. We all got drunk, and he's all, "Let's go show everyone the new song." And so I'm playing this demo, we're all hammered, and everyone's like, "Dude, that's awesome, bro." Like, everyone's fucked up. But that song was written, like, the day before my wedding, and I showed it to Jimmy and I remember him just flipping out. I remember showing Jimmy the song on my wedding day and he's just like, "Fuck yeah!" Gives me a high five, "This is going to be sick." And everyone else is like, "What?" 'Cause it sounded so stupid, me playing everything, like, whispering in the mic 'cause I didn't want to know I was in there fucking around. And I remember going to my wedding, and we were late as fuck. I laid down that whole song in its entirety, with the vocal melodies and everything, without the guitar solo and I played every instrument. I sang it while I was riding a bike on my BlackBerry, and I came home and I started laying everything down. And I came up with the line, "It's your fucking nightmare." And I just came up with, like, every single part for that song.
So then, the day before my wedding - I remember this very vividly which is kind of a funny story - I had to be in Palm Springs with that night and I was riding home from basketball - I play basketball on the street, like every night - and I get this idea for a song and I pull out my BlackBerry and I started singing in it. And then at certain times we'd write and get crazy and just on and on. It was just, like, you come over here, we might start drinking, or playing beer pong, or do something stupid, and then we wouldn't write at all. SHADOWS We started writing, like, in August, after that Sonisphere show, but we were very lackadaisical. Video of Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare DAKRNESS SURROUNDING It was only after an intense period of grieving and introspection that they finally decided that they needed to complete what they call "Jimmy's masterpiece" and release the album, Nightmare, as a tribute to their fallen brother. Needless to say, his bandmates - and friends for nearly two decades - were crushed. The report also noted that Sullivan had an enlarged heart, a "significant condition," which the coroner said, may have contributed to his death. An autopsy at the time was inconclusive, but in June, a coroner's report concluded that he died from an accidental overdose of prescription painkillers and alcohol.
Then disaster struck: On December 28th, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan was found dead at his home. By mid December all the music for the planned concept record had been written and demoed, and the band was raring to hit the studio. This story was originally published in June 2010.Ĭoming home from two years of touring in support of their self-titled album, Avenged Sevenfold started work on their follow-up.
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