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Avenged Sevenfold – Strength of the World
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A musical journey through the story of a person whose family was killed and they seek vengeance for their deaths. “Strength of the World” features an array of different instruments
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Avenged Sevenfold – Sidewinder
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This song is told in the point of view of a snake. More specifically; the sidewinder, a highly venomous pit viper. Metaphorically it represents the type of person known as a “snake
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Avenged Sevenfold – Angels
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[Verse 1] / Took me years to make my motives clear / And the days have not been kind / Once a steady gaze and charming smile / Has been buried in the lines, I find / [Pre-Chorus
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Avenged Sevenfold – I Won't See You Tonight Part 1
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This song is from the album “Waking the Fallen” recorded in 2003. This album was the first release with the lead guitarist, Synyster Gates, who wrote this song.
This song is in
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Avenged Sevenfold – Dancing Dead
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[Verse 1] / Dead men, they celebrate / As the final chapter fades away / Cause they can't hide / We can see, their flesh is rotten / The band plays a hopeful tune / The champagne
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Avenged Sevenfold – I Won't See You Tonight
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[Part 1] / Cry alone, I've gone away / No more nights, no more pain / I've gone alone, took all my strength / I've made the change / I won't see you tonight / Sorrow, sank deep
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Avenged Sevenfold – Tension
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[Verse 1] / I wake up every morning, bright and early / Roll out of bed but I'm never quite alone / Tension is pulling me in all directions / And all of these problems use me as
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Avenged Sevenfold – Beast and the Harlot
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This song is about the Fall of Babylon from the Book of Revelation in the bible and how it compares to Hollywood. It was the 3rd single released off the album City of Evil. The
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Avenged Sevenfold – Blinded in Chains
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“Blinded in Chains,” is a societal critique of how many are blinded by their (sometimes wrong) beliefs.
The song appears in the very popular racing game: Need for Speed: Most
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Avenged Sevenfold – I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 (Demo)
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Cry alone, I've gone away / No more nights, no more pain / I've gone alone, took all my strength / But I've made the change / I won't see you tonight / It all builds up inside of
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Avenged Sevenfold – Seize the Day
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The fourth single from Avenged Sevenfold’s 2005 breakthrough album, City of Evil. Lyrically, the song is centered on the Latin aphorism Carpe Diem, which is usually translated as “
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Avenged Sevenfold – Exist
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The Stage’s eleventh and last song.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, front man M. Shadows said Exist is a heavy metal interpretation of the Big Bang, having the vocal come when
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Avenged Sevenfold – Trashed and Scattered
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[Verse 1] / Keep on writing you're just raping yourself / (Nothing here can take my mind away from them) / Don't you ask about me, ask about somebody else / (Once I've fallen there
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Avenged Sevenfold – Bat Country
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This is the song that brought Avenged Sevenfold into the mainstream. It is the second single off the album.
The song’s theme functions as a reference to Hunter S. Thompson’s novel
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Avenged Sevenfold – The Wicked End
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This song is about how mankind is corrupt, being controlled by money, waging endless wars and, as time goes on, its going to be the downfall of civilization.
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Avenged Sevenfold – Betrayed
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This song is a tribute to “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, who was the guitarist for the heavy metal band Pantera, one of Avenged Sevenfold’s biggest influences. The man in the song (a
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Avenged Sevenfold – Burn It Down
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Burn it Down was the first single released off the album. It’s about someone who has been betrayed by the same person on many occasions. The person who is being betrayed can’t take
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Avenged Sevenfold – M.I.A.
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This song is about the war in Iraq and how it affects the soldiers fighting it
In the video below, M.Shadows comments on the song by saying
This next song does not mean that
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Sleeping With Sirens – Madness
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In an interview with ArtistDirect, lead singer Kellin Quinn revealed the song’s inspiration.
It’s about a man named Craig Aaronson who did a lot for the music industry. He signed
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Silence of the Mortuary – Eradication Proclamation
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No fear worse than this / No one can put down their hands of war / No power worse than this / Flicking the switch of life on this rotted world / Inevitability / To smite this nest
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Holy Bible (KJV) – Genesis 4
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Cain kills Abel.
The strong are here to look after the weak, son, and the weak are here to teach the strong.
What are they here to teach, Mum?
Too Early to say
Tim Winton
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Griever.1 – Love & Decay
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I need your hand to pull me through / I readjust my grip / The only option I have left is abandon ship / To hold on any longer / Is to lose control / Ground shifting below me
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Killswitch Engage – The End of Heartache
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[Intro] / Seek me, call me / I'll be waiting / Seek me, call me / I'll be waiting / [Verse 1] / This distance, this dissolution / I cling to memories while falling / Sleep brings
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The Genius Community’s 50 Best Songs of 2023
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Lana Del Rey, Baby Keem and boygenius all made the cut, but who came out on top?
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Green Day – 21 Guns
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“21 Guns”, the second single off 21st Century Breakdown, is a power ballad that questions war and shows a narrator looking for peace. When taken on its own out of the 21st Century
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OhNickel – A Few More Years
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Wash your hands clean of me and then rinse them down / Just to see me circle the drain, my slipping grip / I am not your obligation anymore / A regret, a mistake, but not yours
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