It reminds me of the 70’s closer tracks which experiment with different styles. The guitar work is brilliant and The Rev plays those drums like they are part of him. And for the first part of the song, Shadows is in clean tome. The good thing about this song is that Shadows is singing in clean tone and by now I wish most of the albums tracks were in clean tone.Īn arpeggio acoustic guitar that reminds me of hard rock songs kicks starts the song. After 33 seconds, it becomes a fast punk song. The drum/bass groove to start the song gets me interested. And from then on, there are clean tone vocals and the song feels redeemed.Ī fast pop punk drum beat starts the song. It’s hard to listen to because of the screaming.īut the head banging riff from 2.50 to 3.09. At 1.57, a country/southern rock solo kicks in. Actually the first 70 seconds are excellent.īut the screamo vocals don’t do anything for me and they detract from the excellent riffs.Įxcellent piano playing and emotive vocal melody leads the song. The last 40 seconds is a piano playing the riff and Shadows singing in clean tone. I like the section from 1.20 to 1.40 musically, but dislike the screamo.įrom 1.41 to 2.05, Shadows sings in clean tone and this same section comes back in at 3.18. The intro is great to play on the guitar. I dislike the scream vocals but enjoy the clean tone ones.
The Rev is a fucking machine on this and somehow he worked out how to put a drum solo into the song.Ĭheck out the metal reggae section between the 3.00 and 3.25. The last 30 seconds has a synth playing the chords as the harmony guitars fade away.
The section from 4.21 to the end is Maiden-esque musically and vocally. Vocally, the screamo vocals don’t do it for me, however at 2.45, clean tone vocals kick in. The first 50 seconds has some serious guitar virtuoso work.Ī lot of technical playing and progressive song writing as a Pantera style groove kicks off the song, while The Rev is channelling Vinnie Paul. Shadows is the vocalist and bass is played by Justin Sane.Ī short 90 second track to introduce the album and musical style. All the guitars are played by Zacky Vengeance as Synyster Gates was not in the band at that point in time. The guys in the band had to have their individual parts down so they didn’t waste time. This album was recorded on a $2,000 budget. Just listen to the self titled album released in 2007 as proof. Even though he was the “drummer”, he was a lot more to the band. Sometime after the “Nightmare” album, I went back to listen to this one and “Waking The Fallen” as a tribute to The Rev.
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