Avenged Sevenfold -Afterlife *REACTION!!*

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[@RedGandalf]

The Rev wrote this song. The way I always saw this was that The Rev had got to the point where he was ready to die, or at least had accepted the concept that if he died, all his pain would be gone. But this song is about his decision to stay here, despite the promise of the relief of heaven.

[@Colt6661]

Where'd u learn this from?

[@RedGandalf]

@@Colt6661 It's common knowledge that the Rev wrote the song. The rest is my own opinion based on what I've learned by being a fan of theirs and paying attention to the lyrics that the Rev wrote. Usually when someone starts off with "the way I always saw this..." that means what follows is their opinion, and not documented fact.

[@Hairull666]

@@Colt6661 its well documented that The Rev had some health conditions that shorten his lifespan. And towards the end of his life, on this album and Nightmare, some of the lyrics that he wrote in songs on both album are mostly in the same vein. You can check out the making of this album, various interviews and thats how OP got it.

[@Hairull666]

Well I agree. He has been suffering with health conditions and dying is where peace is at. I can relate.

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

@@Hairull666 Brompton Cocktail is the most telling of the Rev’s situation. Since he went on to use a Brompton Cocktail to lessen the pain of the condition that was killing him

[@wmxx2000]

Afterlife solo is STILL one of the best guitar solos

[@indrafebriansyah13]

Nightmare is still unbeatable

[@rain_maker28]

Polyphia : hold my tea 😂

[@andrelucas3804]

​@@rain_maker28that sounds weird, this solo is goated

[@rain_maker28]

@@andrelucas3804 nah.. math rock still the best

[@andrelucas3804]

@@rain_maker28 don't get me wrong it's very good very technical, but in my opinion doesn't hit as much as some other solos (i might be 200% biased cuz he's my favourite guitar player) xd

[@pine207]

damn hearing the rev scream "unchain me, i need another chance to live" is heartbreaking

[@victalfaithful2003]

fr

[@vindicator4340]

@@victalfaithful2003 Yup fr

[@clipsedrag13]

would he be the "rev" if he didn't do cocaine?

[@puppetmaster8551]

@@clipsedrag13 yes wtf is this comment, the Rev was the Rev regardless of what drugs he was doing.

[@joshuamartin9255]

I have not been able to listen to this song with dry eyes since he passed... his death HURT me. and he wrote this song, lyrics too. Almost sounds like a cry for help.... 🥺

[@mellow9042]

Love Avenged Sevenfold, kind of weird to see a comment saying "Synyster is an underrated guitarist" when he ranks No. 9 on Guitar World's best metal guitarists of all time. Also Gates was voted as Best Metal Guitarist in the World by Total Guitar in 2016 and once again in 2017. Dudes most definitely not underrated. Rock One Magazine's 2010 Readers Poll voted Gates the No. 3 best musician in the industry. On April 20, 2011, Gates won the Revolver Golden God award for Best Guitarist along with bandmate Zacky Vengeance. List of awards goes on and on really.

[@nickhaas9185]

From my experience in the metal community he wasn't taken seriousley as a guitarist until after this album thats when the gatekeepers started to accept that a7x is a solid band

[@clipsedrag13]

@@nickhaas9185 and literally from THIS song.. he said he'd never be able to do this solo live cuz it's too hard and his fingers bled

[@mikemorgan2288]

I've known about Avenged Sevenfold for a long time but just recently started exploring there music. & these dudes are excellent at playing their instruments. I listen to them sometimes with words but most of the time I just listen to the instrumentals but given thz lyrics I'm gonna have to check out the whole package

[@24fretsoffury]

They really popped off in ‘07 & ‘08. Their later stuff was questionable, as they seemed to try to replicate the radio sound, and not what made them popular like this song, or “Bat Country”. They didn’t last too long on the radio, sadly. Talented musicians, that their label likely pushed them into making hits.

[@lyantombing1157]

Damnn been a while and it's epic that it's Afterlife..love the reaction and missed you both😂✌️🔥🔥🔥...hope you guys do more Avenged cause the reactions and commentaries are awesome from the both of you guys

[@beckyconner3632]

I love it! You can literally see Vin processing and making sense of the lyrics. I’ve seen these guys in concert and this song was played and explained as a visit to the afterlife that they dedicated to their best friend and drummer who passed away, Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan.

[@lilkanooter4045]

The rev died like 2 years after this album though?

[@beckyconner3632]

@@lilkanooter4045 yeah, they put up a video of Jimmy playing drums on the big screens when they played this song. I bawled my eyes out. There was another song they played and showed the videos of Jimmy again but I can’t remember which song it was.

[@lilkanooter4045]

@@beckyconner3632 Oohh okay I thought you meant the song itself was written In Memory of jimmy

[@beckyconner3632]

@@lilkanooter4045 No, but when they toured with Breaking Benjamin I had meet and greet passes to meet Breaking Benjamin so we were in the front row with our teenage kids. A7X played this song and Matt Sanders said, “It’d be nice if we could visit him.” Then they put videos of Jimmy on drums as they played this song. Amazing concert!

[@ChipmunkAsylum]

One of their signature songs. Remember this was THE Avenged song at one point. I’m a little burnt out on it over the years but it’s good to see people hear it for the first time.

[@AviationTV]

7:38 "The Rev, he just goes into the recording booth and just starts doing laughing tracks over and over. He was laughing so much, nothing was funny but it just seemed so funny to me that he was laughing his ass off at nothing"(Matt) *proceeds with Matt saying after the take* "yeah that was cool dude" *Gates* "yeah put that on the record is the fcking best thing I ever heard" Folks, you know you're obsessed with a band when you start remembering what they actually say in their behind the scenes videos lol

[@randypion5803]

This song is about passing untimely and wanting to come back to right the wrong's and unfinished business. You should definitely watch the live in the LBC version of this song. Simply incredible

[@dexretrogamerzoid630]

Vin is right. Even I like being alone. I rather spend most of my weekend in my room listening to my fav music, or watching a movie drinking beer.

[@masgalll18]

Great reaction! Oh this makes me feel nostalgic to my Junior High School times. Please react to these songs: 1. A7x - Chapter Four 2. A7x - Roman Sky 3. Trivium - Into the Mouth of Hell We March 4. Trivium - Of Prometheus and the Crucifix 5. Trivium - Kirisute Gomen 6. Trivium - Torn Between Schylla and Caribdys 7. Trivium - Ember to Inferno 8. Trivium - Beyond Oblivion 9. Arch Enemy - Stolen Life 10. Arch Enemy - Time is Black 11. Arch Enemy - Avalanche 12. Powerwolf - Sacred and Wild 13. Powerwolf - Resurrection by Errection Thank You!

[@guilhermesoares3400]

Yessssss! Avenged is the roots of this Channel, i love the Band and you twos Hugs from brazil

[@jimmychavez2231]

More reactions from avenged sevenfold Please 🙏🏼✨

[@josephritchhart998]

I've always interpreted this song as a man who's wife had passed tries to commit suicided to join her and realizes it isn't his time.

[@Aknight292]

Vin had it right the singer even said that it's about a guy who died and he realized he lived a crappy life and needs to go back and make up for all the wrong things he did

[@guilhermesoares3400]

Next by them , react the Wicked end or Sidewinder

[@givenspade]

ayy bringing it back it the og. i remember watching you guys react to the songs about the rev back in like 2018

[@xanderusang7028]

You guys should react to GUNSLINGER by them too abit emotional song

[@coroman267]

The live in LBC version is even better imo!

[@craighenry2351]

Also, great point about what Jesus had to give up and experience as a human. When I open my prayers, I try to acknowledge that, focusing on what Christ gave up, we can thank Him daily for what He gave up.

[@TheBulletTrainz]

Next Victim from Avenged Sevenfold please

[@canalretrogeek]

finally!

[@vasqaze8458]

The way I interpret this song is a couple gets in an accident and both are on the verge of death. The guy still has the will to live while his partner wants to him to stay and move on to the afterlife. In the song, the lyrics constantly go back and forth on whose narrative is being spoken almost like a debate/ an arguement/ an attempt to convince the other to join them. In the end, the guy accepts he needs to leave her behind and so he says a temporary good-bye to live his entire life before he return to the afterlife hoping he will still deserve to be here (live a good life for the rest of his time).

[@alexparker4526]

live in the LBC for afterlife is amazing

[@alonsomachine3810]

React chapter four by Avenged Sevenfold

[@craighenry9512]

Vin, that is dead on. This is a different take on a near death experience. Of the positive ones I’ve seen, no one is ever unhappy about being in Heaven. They are, actually pulled back here. That is where this is a deep song. They use that take to point out that, even if you go to Heaven, once you’re gone from mortal life, you’re gone for good. So, even if some of the things you have left to do won’t keep you from Paradise, you can’t do them once you’re there permanently. So do them while you can, because we’re not promised tomorrow. With The Rev facing death for the last part of his life, he knew this mindset very well, and I think he lived it. On the song Fiction on their next cd, he says goodbye to the band, telling them he is in a better place and that they will make it OK without him. He finished that song and his part in it, THREE DAYS before he died. Because he knew. So he left nothing undone.

[@demanderhujon2317]

Finally after so long...I have been waiting for your reaction for A7X

[@craighenry2351]

I think this is an artful way to get people to act when they need to while they're still alive. As Vin said, what we always see with people coming back, that is God sending them back, the person in Heaven doesn't have that realization of wanting to leave. So the lyric uses this approach to make a point. It is obvious that this person has made it to Heaven. Like I said, I think this lyrical approach is an amazing attempt to get listeners to look at their lives knowing they aren't promised tomorrow, and even if they will go to Heaven, if they know of things they need to take care of, they need to do that while they still can. Because, again, we aren't promised tomorrow.

[@caboelxnoer5021]

the wicked end by A7X is a good too. please react..

[@justinwilder3514]

God I miss rev.. so smith and God and really ahead of his time

[@SuperDoomspoon]

Great react!! If u have a chance,watch this video live in the LBC!!! On point with the studio recording,,,,my opinion….even Better!!!👍🤘🏻

[@alaaak1551]

Avenged Sevenfold - Gunslinger

[@muhammadirpansyah832]

I Want See You Guys to React Avenged Sevenfold

[@c_martinjuniorpandapotan2554]

🤘🤩

[@devildriver9615]

Gotta love the documentary for making this album 👌

[@kevinsyahbana7534]

URAAAAAA

[@stonecold5373]

A7X. Enough said. City of Evil and Self Titles are the best they've made, by FAR.

[@craighenry9512]

He can’t experience both at the same time as a human, or He wouldn’t be human. I can’t explain how it occurred, but there had to be a separation. Otherwise, He would never have experienced half the things we do AS WE DO. That is the key phrase. There had to be a separation or He wouldn’t feel things exactly as we do. And He did. Yes, He had access to all of that, but He chose not to use it, just like He chose to die. Some translations say He gave up the ghost when they talk about His death. That is pretty accurate. Nothing could kill Him in the Universe. He had to choose to die. So he did. Just like He chose to live without the super deep connection, temporarily, so He experienced life like a human really lives it and not as a Godly being who reconnected when He needed to. That is why prayer was invented. Man doesn’t have that instantaneous connection, yet, with God, but we can talk to Him. I think the thing we need to realize is that Christ put aside His immediate connection, but He was, still, Omniscient. So He knew the end game. But knowing that didn’t make things much easier. He still had to face what He faced, to go through it all, especially, taking all the sin of Mankind forever, onto Himself and then having to experience separation from God. That is the only time in eternity that ever occurred for Him. That will he the worst part of Hell, for people. Even when we are at our worst, God is still with us. We just have to seek Him. But in Hell, He won’t be there, and Christ went through a little of that so we don’t have to. But all of these things were His choices. He chose them just like He kept all aspects of His divinity as a human but chose not to use them so he could live just like we do. Yes, He experienced ultimate loneliness on the Cross and that is the worst kind, but not experiencing those things during His ministry would not allow Him to understand things like why Peter denied Him or why all the rest of the Disciples ran away, except John. I think, Vin, it is like Superman still having all of his powers and knowing he did, but choosing not to use them, so he could live as humans do. Christ didn’t give up any of His Godhood, but He chose not to use some of it, so He could understand us as perfectly as He does.

[@sevastianpopov8230]

When it comes to A7X anything from the City of Evil album is great. Wicked End, Sidewinder, Strength of the World, Seize the Day, all great songs.

[@sanchayansarkar2953]

Afterlife have some influence of Master of Puppets.

[@95_nishanraisulkarim62]

Deathbat family party mood on💪

[@garysmith5586]

They did walk cover by PanterA.

[@mr.unlucky04]

Buried alive should be next oooorrr an underrated song THIS MEANS WAR!!!

[@Nomad12344]

I think it’s a break up song to. I think she’s is right basically the song is about how he’s just not ready to be in this steady relationship he still wants to live a single life and have fun before he settles down. That’s where the lyrics all my friends are missing me. The afterlife is meaning the perfect marriage and settled down relationship that’s why it says please take me back when the time is right. Definitely a break up song

[@clipsedrag13]

the break up song is "a little piece of heaven" lol

[@thomasrizzo3597]

I used a verse for a break up after my ex sent me a meme saying it would be fucked up if I broke up with her saying "I don't belong here, we gotta move on here". End result, cheated on me and used that same line. Don't I've me ideas like that lol

[@OmnivoraMan1981]

Lot of Avenged Sevenfold songs is based on bible, especially the second album "Waking The Fallen"

[@bythesea207]

The REV wrote this song entirely by himself and it is about dying too early

[@jmillsey]

A7X ftw

[@bsan658]

i think its really bout the rev knowing his time is short by his choice, feels like hes still troubled in addiction and thinking this is how he gets out of addiction

[@MrBLieve]

i think its relationship...think afterlife means youre doing the humdrum relationship and not making the most of what you wanna do in that time feeling in limbo...i think the line got nothing against ill miss u...take me back inside when time is right means im not leaving you cause its bad but i got experiences left to live out and im not ready to settle down but when that time comes i hope ur sstill around

[@tic-tack]

I hate to be the one to pour cold water on Vin's theory but The Rev didn't have a terminal illness, he died suddenly from an overdose. Nobody knows if it was deliberate, but as far as the song goes the band does say the song is simply about a man dying early who wants to escape the afterlife to make things right on Earth.

[@melasvarco4791]

Never heard Afterlife before this???

[@johnpierce2095]

spite caved in, would be a good reaction

[@brunosantos1730]

Once you react and came back to A7X you got my subscription :D

[@vovindequasahi]

Great talented band, and they always kick ass! I can't say this band is underrated, because obviously they are NOT (by the mainstream), but they sure the fuck is underrated by "TRVE" metal-heads! It's one of those bands - like System of a Down and Slipknot - that get ripped on by so-called "TRVE" metal-heads all the time, even though their musicianship, integrity, and fucking KICK ASS songs is ON-POINT!! I respect the hell out of these guys! I simply don't understand how any true metal-head cannot appreciate this band... Their plate is everything from doom, to rock, to classic metal, to thrash! Tell me, all you "TRVE" metal-heads, is it because they broke into the mainstream that you diss them so blindly?

[@joaopedrorodrigues6820]

"is it because they broke into the mainstream that you diss them so blindly?" That sums it up perfectly!

[@craighenry9512]

Actually, before I saw all the lyrics, from the ones I could decipher, I thought the same thing, Sori. I don’t belong here, It’s time to move on dear and Got nothing against you and surely I’ll miss you and Give me your hand but realize I just wanna say goodbye without seeing a few other clues could lead you to believe it could be a highly metaphorical song in that direction. I don’t think that initial take was so far fetched.

[@craighenry9512]

But, then Vin, how could He truly know that lonliness that man does experience. He may have had the opportunity for that connection with God, that he had before, but I think he rarely, if ever, used it, since the point for Him to be human was to experience everything we do, as we do. Then we would have an out if that was the case. We could say ( Or even Satan could say to God), yes He was perfect, but He didn’t go through this or that. He had to go through it all to make the sacrifice complete. So there had to be a way to separate from that if only temporarily, so He could feel what we feel in all areas.

[@Aldiansyah-er7fu]

Please reaction avenged senvenfold live in lbc

[@roachxyz]

May someone ask the to do mushroomhead our apologies

[@canalretrogeek]

before the drummer died he wrote this song i think this was goodbye

[@Falkuzrules]

I feel like A7X has a ton of "pseudo-Biblical" or "pseudo-Christian" songs where they sing about God pretty often but you can pretty much tell they're not Christians by what they actually say - they just think it's fun subjects to sing about.

[@river4088]

Lol their first three albums definitely had the vibe of Matt going "screw it, the Bible's got some metal ass stories, let's do that" (pretty sure there's some interviews to that effect, but I'd have to dig)

[@hamachibeans4471]

Man, I’m agnostic and lean atheist due to my past, but good god (pun intended) I hope there is an afterlife, because I don’t want to believe it’s nothingness after death

[@izruladek6693]

Hi .. I'm new here 🤟 .. can u react to "almost easy" from a7x ..

[@danimenjivar1]

Is interesting seeing other beings talking about their contradictory faith.

[@bhaktiaksaraputra6604]

Too long to react this song, after another great tracks....

[@rimisark]

again all is turned into religious...

[@muhamadhelmi197]

You just got mansplaining girl