Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold (sometimes abbreviated as A7X) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Shadows, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Synyster Gates, bass guitarist Johnny Christ and drummer Brooks Wackerman.

They are known for their diverse rock sound and dramatic imagery in album covers and merchandise. Avenged Sevenfold emerged with a metalcore sound on their debut Sounding the Seventh Trumpet but their style had evolved by their third album and first major label release, City of Evil, into a heavy metal and hard rock style. The band continued to explore new sounds with their self-titled release and enjoyed continued mainstream success before their drummer, James "The Rev" Sullivan, died in 2009. Despite his death, the band continued on with help of now-former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and released and toured in support of their fifth album Nightmare in 2010 which debuted on the top spot of the Billboard 200, their first number one debut. Their latest record Hail to the King released in 2013 marked the only album featuring drummer Arin Ilejay. Hail to the King charted as #1 on the US Billboard 200, the UK albums chart, as well as the Finnish, Brazilian, Canadian, and Irish charts.

Unholy Confessions

"Unholy Confessions" is a song by Avenged Sevenfold, from their second album, Waking the Fallen. It was the first single by the band to receive mainstream exposure and was heavily rotated on MTV2's Headbangers Ball.

The song was first performed live on January 21, 2004. and has remained a permanent staple of the band's live set (Though there have been a few occasions where it was omitted) as of May 2015, it has been performed live a total of 657 times, and is Avenged Sevenfold's most played live song. Beating the runner up "Bat Country" which has been played a total of 591 times. It is also the only song from "Waking the Fallen" to have remained a staple of their live set.

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The video for the song features clips of fans and a live performance with the studio version playing over. To coincide with the re-release of the album, Waking the Fallen: Resurrected, The original first cut was released onto YouTube on August 25, 2014. The video features the band performing in an abandoned warehouse.

The Fallen

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Waking the Fallen

Waking the Fallen is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on August 26, 2003, by Hopeless Records.

The album was released as 2x12", LP, Repress, 33 ⅓ RPM, Grey Marble on 2008 in US. The album was certified gold on July 15, 2009, even though it only sold 3,000 copies on its first week of release. As of August 2014, it has sold over 693,000 copies in the United States. The song "Eternal Rest" appears on Kerrang's "666 Songs You Must Own".

More clean vocals are featured on the album than on their debut album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. The only song on the record that does not contain screaming is "I Won't See You Tonight (Part 1)"; Sounding the Seventh Trumpet has three songs without any screaming.

As with Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, most of the songs from this album are not usually performed live, although, "Unholy Confessions," "Chapter Four," "Eternal Rest," and "Second Heartbeat" have always been a staple to their set since the release of Waking the Fallen. The song "Eternal Rest" was featured on the Soundtrack to the movie Saw IV.

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