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 record continues the metalcore sound the band had used on their previous album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet , but features noticeably more clean vocals. Being the first release by the band to feature lead guitarist Synyster Gates , the record also features some guitar solos.
Shadows ' slightly higher pitch in his voice and high notes he sings on songs like "I Won't See You Tonight" both parts. The album also leans more towards heavy metal rather than punk rock. Waking the Fallen was highly acclaimed. Overall reviews on Ultimate Guitar were very positive and it holds the highest overall rating of any Avenged Sevenfold studio album on Ultimate Guitar.
A live performance video was shot at Warped Tour for the first single from Waking the Fallen , "Second Heartbeat". A video was made for the second single "Unholy Confessions" on March 6, , using live footage set to the studio track. It featured the fans before and during an Avenged Sevenfold concert. According to vocalist M. Shadows, it was requested by their new label, Warner Bros. Records , in order to publicize the band before their album City of Evil. This video was the second attempt at a video for the track.
The previous attempt was a concept video created the previous fall The band was not happy with the final product, however, and opted to re-shoot the video, this time as a live performance. We didn't care if they were heavy-metal bands; we didn't care if they were fucking pop-punk bands; we didn't care, we were opening for everyone.
And people started taking notice. You know if your band is going crazy and breaking your instruments and playing the fastest, craziest music at a pop-punk show, people take notice, whether it's good or it's bad.
We took that mentality, got on Warped Tour, and we'd drive probably 14 hours throughout the night, get to the venue, load all our gear, fucking play with all our heart, go sell our merch until, like, 9 at night, pack up our shit, and drive to the next city.
And we did that every fucking night, no sleep, literally starving to death, no money. We didn't care. Like, that's what we loved to do.
They call me the lazy German. I'm sort of a man of leisure. So, passing out demos and doing my own merch in degree heat just didn't sit right with me. And we were just taking all of our merch money, whatever we would sell, and spending it on gas. We ended up owing our merch company money at the time. You know, they'd come and be like, "Well, we gave you so many dollars worth of shirts, and you never gave us any money. We literally lived off a dollar-a-day food budget for years.
The best thing to do was save up all your dollars and go buy one of those big boxes of ramen and then go into the gas station and beg them to not make you pay for the cup of hot water.
It really sucked. I got a fucking bean burrito and split it into thirds, and that's what I got for the day. I would eat bullshit just to be able to eat — like, pickled pigs' feet and just weird shit.
If somebody would buy something weird, I'd fucking eat it just to eat. We didn't have a driver, and there's, like, eight of us in there, and it smelled so bad. It was so hot, like, just the sun beating on everybody in sleeping bags.
It was just so terrible and, like, just waking up and just being fucked up and then just on the road again. So, I always saw progress. That kept us all going. We all had our up days and bad days. But looking back on it, I have such fond, fond memories of hanging out with everybody, so some of the bad stuff goes away. We quickly grew into a family that felt comfortable living with each other after a year or two.
Hard work and doing the crazy shit became the run-of-the-mill operation there. It got pretty normal. Like I said before, every month got better and the respect grew, the spoils grew — a better van with the ability to play video games.
We hooked up this fucking TV, this makeshift whole crazy thing, and that lasted a couple of weeks. Then Jimmy destroyed it. All of a sudden we had all these record labels, fucking, taking us out to dinner. We've been trying to think of something we could put together and we found some old demos that we did with Teppei from THRICE before we even did that record.
We'll put together a cool DVD and some demo tracks and re-release 'Waking The Fallen' for newer fans of the band that haven't gotten that or don't know about the history of the band.
Waking The Fallen Unholy Confessions Chapter Four Remenissions Desecrate Through Reverence Eternal Rest Second Heartbeat Radiant Eclipse Clairvoyant Disease And All Things Will End.
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