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Rev or Rév may refer to:

People

• Rev I of Iberia, a king of (Caucasian) Iberia (i.e., eastern Georgia)
• Rev II of Iberia, a prince who functioned as a co-king to his father Mirian III, the first Christian Georgian ruler
• Rev Cannady (1904-unknown), a baseball player in the Negro Leagues

Music

• Rev.elation (album)
• Rev It Up, an album by American hard rock band Vixen
• Rev-Ola Records, a UK record label formed in 1988
• Rev (Perry Farrell album), a 1999 album by Perry Farrell
• Rev (Ten Foot Pole album)
• Rev Theory, an American hard rock band based out of New York
• Rev (Ultra Vivid Scene album)
• Alpha rev, a rock band from Austin, Texas
• Lívia Rév (born 1916), a classical concert pianist
• Martin Rev, an instrumentalist from New York punk-era electronic band Suicide
• Mercury Rev, an American rock music group
• The Rev, former drummer and back-up vocalist for the band Avenged Sevenfold
• Martin Rev, member of the electronic band Suicide

Other

• Rev (HIV), an HIV gene
• Rev. (TV series)
• Rev (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Rev Bem, a fictional character in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
• Rev limiter, a device attached to an internal combustion engine
• Rev (drink), an alcopop
• G.rev, a Japanese arcade videogame developer
• Horns Rev, a shallow area in the eastern North Sea
• Over Rev!, a manga
• Rev, a type of semantic link
• Şəlvə, Khojali, a village in Armenian-occupied Azerbaijan
• Rév, the Hungarian name for Vadu Crişului Commune, Bihor County, Romania

Rev. may refer to:

• Rev., an abbreviation for revolutions, as in revolutions per minute
• Rev., an abbreviation for the religious style The Reverend
• Rev., the abbreviation for Runtime Revolution, a development environment
• Rev., an abbreviation for the Book of Revelation
• Rev., an abbreviation for reverse
• Rev., an abbreviation for Review as in :
  • Chem. Rev. (Chemical Reviews), a peer-reviewed scientific journal
  • Phys. Rev. (Physical Review), an American scientific journal

Revs may refer to:

• Revs (video game), a 1984 Formula Three simulation computer game
• Revs (graffiti artist), the tag name of a New York graffiti artist
• The Revs, an Irish rock band
• Revs, the nickname for the New England Revolution American soccer club

REV or R.E.V. may refer to :

• REV Bremerhaven, a professional hockey team in Germany's 2nd Bundesliga league
• REV (Conference), the International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation
• R.E.V. (Transformers), a character in the Transformers anime series
• Iomega REV, a removable disk storage system
• Range-extended vehicle
• Redlands East Valley High School
• Regulator of Virion, a protein of HIV
• Representative elementary volume

See also[link]

• Rav, an honorific title

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James "The Rev" Sullivan
James "The Rev" Sullivan in 2007
Background information
Birth name	James Owen Sullivan
Also known as	The Rev, Rat Head,The Reverend Tholomew Plague
Born	(1981-02-09)February 9, 1981 Huntington Beach, California, United States
Died	December 28, 2009(2009-12-28) (aged 28) Huntington Beach, California, United States
Genres	Hard rock, heavy metal, progressive metal, metalcore, avant-garde metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums, guitar, bass, piano, vocals
Years active	1999-2009
Labels	Warner Bros., Good Life, Hopeless,Bucktan
Associated acts	Avenged Sevenfold, Pinkly Smooth, Suburban Legends

James Owen Sullivan (February 9, 1981 – December 28, 2009),^[1] more commonly known by his stage name The Reverend Tholomew Plague, generally shortened to The Rev, was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. He was also the lead vocalist/pianist in Pinkly Smooth, a side project where he was known by the name Rat Head, with fellow Avenged Sevenfold member, guitarist Synyster Gates, and the drummer for Suburban Legends from 1998 to 1999.

Career[link]

Sullivan grew up and lived in Huntington Beach California.^[2] He got his first pair of drum sticks at the age of four and received his own drum set at the age of ten.^[3] In high school, he started playing in bands. Before leaving to join Avenged Sevenfold as one of the band's founding members, Sullivan was the drummer for the third wave ska band Suburban Legends. At the age of eighteen he recorded his first album with Avenged Sevenfold titled Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. His early influences included Frank Zappa and King Crimson. The Rev said in a Modern Drummer Magazine interview that "I was raised on that stuff as much as rock and metal."^[3]

Later in life he was influenced by drummers Vinnie Paul, Mike Portnoy, Dave Lombardo, Lars Ulrich, and Terry Bozzio.^[4] He even had a "visual influence", Tommy Lee, on which he commented that "I never thought I'd have one of those."^[3] Sullivan's signature ability which he called " double-ride , just for lack of a better definition, because no one does it,"^[5]is a technique that can be heard on tracks such as "Almost Easy", "Critical Acclaim", and "Crossroads" in which Sullivan doubles up at a fast tempo between the double bass and ride cymbals.

Sullivan spoke to DRUM! Magazine about recording "Crossroads": “The second fill that goes into the verse, and the fill that goes into the chorus, just happened in the studio. We knew there’s a break right before the first verse starts and the guitar’s doing an open chord, so there obviously needed to be a fill there to keep the energy there, and I just came up with a little tom-over-double-bass fill. That was just spur of the moment. And right before the solo, there’s another fill that’s kind of similar to the intro fill, and that was written out. But everything else is pretty much spontaneous"

The Rev was also a vocalist, songwriter, and pianist for Avenged Sevenfold. His piano-playing can be heard on the tracks "Seize the Day", "Fiction" and "Save Me". His vocals are featured in Avenged Sevenfold's "A Little Piece of Heaven", "Brompton Cocktail", "Critical Acclaim", "Crossroads", "Gunslinger", "Lost", "Scream", "Afterlife", "Save Me", "Eternal Rest", "Flash Of The Blade", "Bat Country", "Almost Easy", and "Fiction". He also wrote the songs "Almost Easy", "A Little Piece of Heaven", "Afterlife", "Brompton Cocktail", "Welcome to the Family, "Save Me", "Demons", "Fiction", and more.

Avenged Sevenfold also announced that they will be releasing a demo version of "Nightmare" including The Rev on an electric drumset and his vocals.

At the second annual Revolver Golden God Awards, The Rev won the award for Best Drummer. His family members and Avenged Sevenfold received the honor on his behalf.^[6]

Death[link]

The Rev was found dead in his home on December 28, 2009. Police ruled out foul play and noted his death appeared to be from natural causes. An autopsy performed on December 30, 2009 was inconclusive, However toxicology results revealed to the public in June revealed he died from acute polydrug intoxication due to the combined effects of Oxycodone ^[1](Percocet), oxymorphone (a metabolite of oxycodone), diazepam (Valium), nordiazepam (a metabolite of diazepam) and alcohol. The coroner noted Cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) as a "significant condition" that may have played a role in Sullivan's death.^[7]

On January 6, 2010, a private funeral was held for Sullivan,^[8] and a day later he was buried in Huntington Beach, California.^[9] Shortly after his death, Good Charlotte dedicated their single, "The River", to him^{[citation needed]}, and Avenged Sevenfold dedicated their song "So Far Away" to him.

Discography[link]

With Suburban Legends[link]

• Origin Edition (1999)

With Pinkly Smooth[link]

• Unfortunate Snort (2001)

With Avenged Sevenfold[link]

• 1999 Demo (1999)
• 2000 Demo (2000)
• Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001)
• Warmness on the Soul (2001)
• Waking the Fallen (2003)
• City of Evil (2005)
• All Excess (2007)
• Avenged Sevenfold (2007)
• Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough (2008)
• Nightmare (2010) (Posthumous)
• Welcome to the Family (2010) (Posthumous)

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