NEW AVENGED SEVENFOLD SINGLE HITS THE INTERWEBZ!

The long-awaited new single “Nightmare” from Avenged Sevenfold has hit the webernets, and, no surprise: it’s sweet!

“Wait, what’s that?” I hear you e-ruminating. “Vince and Axl like Avenged Sevenfold?”

‘Tis true; astoundingly, it’s permissible to like Avenged Sevenfold, Dew Scented and Keep of Kalessin all at the same time. Shocking! Longtime readers of this site surely remember the run-up we gave Avenged Sevenfold prior to the release of their last album, a Use Your Illusion 2-esque masterpiece. Simply put, they’re pop metal geniuses of our time! Sure, they may look and dress like a bunch of clowns, but anyone who has wicked musical an songwriting chops like these guys do is allowed to dress however the fuck they want. Shit, they could don actual clown makeup and go all ICP and they’d still be the shit as long as they kept cranking out killer tunes.

I’d wager that 99.9% of you who grew up listening to hard rock / metal would like this band too if you’d never seen photos of them. I’d also wager that 99.9% of you didn’t come out of the womb br00tal and did in fact listen to (and still do) hard rock / pop metal when your kvlt friends aren’t looking. Except for “Grim” Kim Kelly; she definitely came out of the womb with a Burzum album in hand. Congrats to Kim Kelly for being the one person expressly qualified not to like Avenged Sevenfold.

But for the rest of you, hey, check out the sweet new Avenged Sevenfold song “Nightmare”! It’s got everything; grand orchestrations, twin-leads a plenty, a scorching guitar solo, a catchy chorus, M Shadows’ Axl Rose snarl, and yup, Mike Portnoy’s drums (which sound just like The Rev’s presumably would’ve, since The Rev basically worshipped the guy). And thankfully, I’m pretty sure this song doesn’t have the one thing I don’t like about Avenged Sevenfold; their politics.

Countdown ’til readers who started frequenting this site in the past year or so jump ship… now! See ya later.

-VN