Rappers React To Avenged Sevenfold "Save Me'!!!

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[@rossmusic25]

It seriously pains my soul when anyone lobs them with five finger Death Punch, Imagine Dragons, and theory of a deadman. They’ve got more talent than any of those bands combined

[@robertonome2448]

Easily. All of those kinda never grew past being gimmicky bands (even tho they must be great on live), while a7x is clearly not. Even without the rev, the sum of their pure musical talent far still outranks like 90% of modern metal bands by itself

[@katelynasher5]

100%%%%%

[@a4arick106]

Yes

[@camillaGorilla]

Agreed

[@xxraddrummerxx]

Mike Portnoy on the drums for this album. Rev had passed away before the recordings of the album and they got one of his favorite drummers to record the parts that had been written before the recordings began. So most of the drum parts were written by Rev and Mike just adds a little of his style here and there.

[@eddiec1753]

Rev did do some recording there are rough demos for a few songs from nightmare and Mike just fleshed out the little details in the drums and was the one on the final recordings.

[@mastod0n1]

​@eddiec1753 well yeah The Rev recorded rough drums for the demos. That's how demos work. And they demoed every song that ended up on the final album. There's also a video somewhere of Matt or Brian saying that they let Mike Portnoy go a little crazy with this song because it wasn't fully fleshed out before Jimmy died.

[@river4088]

There is nothing so eerie as having been to one of their shows in 2010 after the album dropped and hearing the band drop out so the entire venue is singing "Tonight we all die young" together with Matt." Beautiful, heartbreaking. I'll never forget it. This album was originally a concept album about the life of a man from birth to death, his mistakes, his life, his regrets... Then when the Rev died, much of the lyrics got rewritten in their grief (and understandably so). Many of them are a direct reflection of the band's grieving process as they finished the album. They genuinely believed it would be their last at the time.

[@bgarmstrong1446]

I bet. I couldn’t play the ending of this song for a long time. The shit I was dealing with at the time was enough but then add The Revs passing on top and it was just too much. hearing those words sang with the emotions M Shadows put into them along with the piano was heartbreaking.

[@metalheadotaku7237]

Unfortunately, the Rev passed just before the "Nightmare" record, they had asked Ex dream theater drummer Mike Portnoy (one of Rev's inspiratios) to fill in for the record and the tour.

[@diegovargas4782]

I was going to comment this, RIP the Rev.

[@ExcaliberHD]

It’s important to note the Rev wrote the drums for the nightmare record. They’re just performed and expanded upon by Portnoy

[@deminybs]

only saw jimmy live once....less than a month before he died. RIP

[@SlimJimJoey]

@@deminybs lucky, man. I missed out. I saw them with Portnoy on one of the first few stops of the Nightmare tour.

[@boendahbandofficial8628]

Yeahhh love revv but portnoy complete this song

[@sarasantos1007]

This song is One of my favourites from them. Avenged Sevenfold - Requiem is amazing too.

[@bridgerdemoe3752]

The end of the song, the chorus tonight we all die young was something that the rev helped work on and was going to be the chorus, however they couldn’t make it work, he then died and they added it to the end of the song as a tribute to him

[@robbymadani27]

Avenged Sevenfold - MIA 🔥

[@p-slipknotfreak]

My kid walked in while the song was playing and said Woah that sounds pretty good! A banger is a banger.

[@Koromoro777]

Avenged Sevenfold is a great band, and they have another album coming soon as well, every members of the band has been: M. Shadows (Lead Vocals since the start, also provided Guitar and Piano on the first album) Zacky Vengeance (Rhythm Guitar and Lead Guitar before Synyster joined) Synyster Gates (Lead Guitar after first joining in 2001, also provided Piano when needed) Johnny Christ (Bass after first joining in 2002) The Rev (Drummer since the start, until Nightmare, also provided Piano at times) That's probably the bands most popular lineup, but they've had a lot more members Matt Wendt, Justin Sane, and Dameon Ash were all Bass Guitarist that were apart of the band in between 1999 and 2002 Mike Portnoy replaced The Rev to help finish Nightmare and he did the tour, but he was only with them for that one year in 2010 Arin Ilejay replaced Portnoy in 2011 and was with the band until 2015, he recorded the Hail to the King album and also did Not Ready to Die and Carry On Finally, Brooks Wackerman replaced Ilejay in 2015 and helped record The Stage album, and has been with them since

[@rossmusic25]

What did Justin Sane play I forget

[@figu6ka379]

​@@rossmusic25Sounding The Seventh Trumpet

[@brallin94]

I wouldn’t say they’re “religious”… they do use a lot of religious references though including their name “Avenged Sevenfold” coming from the Book of Genesis in the Bible. This songs drummer was Mike Portney, the original replacement of The Rev. Their current drummer now is Brooks Wackerman, most well known as the drummer for Bad Religion. Love this song and y’all’s reaction! Rock on! RIP Rev foREVer 🤘🏻🖤

[@kevingrasmick9369]

One of my favorite bands!! Hell yeah!!

[@MagikalOverlord]

I'm absolutely chuffed that you two reacted to Save Me. I consider it to be a gothic masterpiece and one of the band's best tracks so I'm always thrilled to see new people experience it. Thank you for a great reaction you two!

[@lauragraziano5858]

It's been a minute since I've listened to Avenged Sevenfold, and dang..... I forgot about the goosebumps they cause!! I love seeing people listening to songs for the first time, it brings me back to all the feelings I felt my first time!!

[@waynewade6723]

A7X has the best intros bar none and they're amazing live!!! 💯🔥

[@RAMBUK1989]

my favourite song of all time! was a shock to see this, a nice one 😃

[@codydrummer]

Their name is a reference to the story of Cain and Abel. And an early favorite was their song Chapter 4 which was thar story.

[@codydrummer]

Also, that's Portnoy drumming

[@vegardnygard4648]

chapter 4 is soooo good

[@rolfksamuelsen8395]

They actually been headlining some big ass gigs for years now! Shout out to u guys, excellent reaction🤘

[@kevingrasmick9369]

Have to listen to God Hates us by A7F it's a banger!!

[@camillaGorilla]

My favorite music reaction channel by far. Just became a patriot ❤ I really enjoy listening to your convos and watching your reactions ✌🏼🇳🇴 I AM A MUSIC NERD. If i mispell any words im sorry. I am from Norway😅 I try

[@Ian_Ah_Nee]

Yall should react to Avenged Sevenfold - Carry On!

[@toreloaded2711]

I think Rev is one of the best drummers ever, so underrated because of the genre music they played. All excellent musicians.

[@brandonbates4434]

I forgot about this song, and it's hitting extra hard tonight. These lyrics are like a horoscope for me right now, but actually accurate. I haven't listened to it in a hot minute but I know it so well that my finger drumming on my knee is on point lol

[@kshadows2994]

Avenged sevenfold are such an amazing band that gets way to much hate. You should check out coming home by them next! Awesome underrated song by them

[@RemniStrath]

You guys should absolutely listen to The Stage next. But you have to watch the video for that, because you will not get the same feeling from the song without the video.

[@waynewade6723]

Bad omen - like a villain 💯🔥

[@sairoland5715]

Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater did the drumming for the album but he is not their permanent drummer. And if you love this song buried alive must be next

[@mburke0330]

After The Rev died, they found a post it note with only the word “skull” on it, that’s where the whole “skull” thing came from during the intro.

[@andrewvasquez7872]

This album was such an interesting experience. The Rev had just died and this was A7X attempting to make sense of it and what to do next and how to feel about choosing to continue on without him.

[@markwhite9878]

Great lntro✨️

[@chlaco8739]

Heavily have to recommend Unholy Confessions and Chapter Four. Awesome songs

[@bobafett1313]

A7X as far as I know have no band members who are religious but most of their music has religious inspiration. Mainly Christianity, which is where their name comes from.

[@ianearl1554]

Nothing has made my happier when he said “I’m starting to like this band a lot” that is some truth I loved the whole vid

[@camillaGorilla]

Avenged Sevenfold are the Masters of sounds, and the Masters of poetry. In my opinion. How they manage to switch it up so many times in so many different ways in every song , is crazy talent. I also relate to the lyrics alot.

[@95_nishanraisulkarim62]

Recently they are playing this gigantic song live!! What a treat for the fans

[@mikenguyen4855]

Avenged sevenfold - waking the fallen

[@stevefilley9765]

You guys really need to check out something from The Stage. And from their latest album Life Is But A Dream. You'll be blown away.

[@camillaGorilla]

Avenged Sevenfold is like listening to a Classic Musical Symphony. Every time.

[@ManoellaAquinoVeeck]

yep. that’s exactly it

[@roy358]

I would love if you react to their older stuff like second heartbeat or unholy confessions

[@V_OfficialYT]

I believe that’s Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater on drums for this track. He did the drums on the Nightmare album. The last album that Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan was on was the self titled album. He sadly passed away before this albums release but there is a song where you can hear Jimmy’s vocals. I think it was the track Fiction that Jimmy wrote lyrics to before he died. It’s a beautiful song.

[@SpeedWarrior93]

not just that...Fiction was the last song written for the album

[@JesusOfPaign]

I believe the Rev *wrote* the drums, but Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater played drums for this whole album, and toured with them for the album cycle.

[@dawgsnbraves]

Mike Portnoy is an amazing drummer in his own right. It seemed like a crazy fit to bring in an old dude who played in Dream Theater, but when you really think about it, a lot of A7X's songs are very prog rock-esque.

[@TheNutshaq]

I love seeing videos of people who don’t typically listen to a style of music fall in love with certain bands or even the whole genre

[@sushantdevkota1461]

You guys really need to listen to I won't see you tonight part 1.

[@AmberPearcy]

Good morning! A few things I’d like to recommend: Song-“Buried Alive” Video-The Rev playing drums in studio to “Almost Easy” Interviews- with Synyster Gates on Rick Beato’s channel. Thanks! Love A7X!

[@jangles1839]

I love that video of Jimmy tracking "Almost Easy"! He just walks in...bangs it out...then has that "Ok, now what?" kinda look! 🤘🏼🥁🤘🏼

[@Drivestort]

A7X isn't a Christian band, but they do use a lot of imagery from Biblical stuff, especially on their first album Sounding The Seventh Horn. Far as religious hard rock and metal bands, there's not a lot that are good and popular, but that's same reason why Christian movies are bad, but Demon Hunter is one that comes to mind.

[@jangles1839]

Stryper was/is a huge Christian rock band. As is Petra and even Skillet. Who's a ginormously popular Christian rock band

[@bricehatcher8391]

Thousand foot krutch a pretty popular rock band. Some of their harder songs usually end up on the radio when they release new stuff.

[@MoisoGonzález]

Well done guys !!👊🏾

[@paulm8908]

The REV had already passed away when this album was made, but R.I.P. REV

[@zackzaharko89]

This song has one of my favorite intro’s of all time, the build up is so epic between the guitar & drumming. This is definitely in my top 10 favorite A7X tracks, great reaction y’all! They aren’t a straight forward Christian band, although a good portion of their songs do have religious undertones. We lost The Rev way too early, I believe he was only 28 years old.

[@marbella135]

The REV did all the demo work for the nightmare album hence this song aswell. So when Mike Portnoy replaced him (he was one of the REVs favourite drummers) he knew how to play the songs. The Rev had an enlarged heart condition and knew he wasnt gonna be around for long. There are several songs about the Rev. What you probably dont know about So Far Away when you listened to it is that it was the bands reply to The Rev's last song "Fiction". He created the whole song and handed it in 3 days before he passed and they ve kept his voice in that song. Its basically a good bye letter, you should definitely check it out.

[@johncarpenter3751]

I’ve been a fan of A7X since 2005

[@dustinierardi4028]

I would check out THE STAGE SIDEWINDER THE WICKED END next!!!

[@TwistedAngleGarage]

"MARCY D"ARCY" was her name

[@GunnGam3r]

Mike Portnoy is in the drumming hall of fame the dude absolutely did right by the rev by finishing this album after he passed. This song was originally made with parts of the revs drumming and Mike took that and finished the song basically with no script and he nailed it

[@hliborobful]

Super composition, great reaction, men! Thank you)

[@burntcookie270]

Avenged got left out of a lot of conversations because they were too rock for the metalheads and too metal for rock purists. They were also vilified for blowing up in the mainstream world with City Of Evil, supposedly having sold out.

[@bs-tx6mu]

best metal song of all time

[@johncarpenter3751]

Hopefully after listening to this Epic adventure, y’all put some respect on that name and start to do more A7X reactions. One a week is necessary

[@synyster1818]

Oh finally another Avenged Sevendold reaction, I always love this channel when react to Avenged Sevenfold

[@KenBober]

I know I'm late but you guys may be rappers but you are also fellow metalheads!

[@tamiramos5873]

I hate to say it and even though Gates is an excellent guitarist as well as the rest of the band being talented in their own way but when Jimmy died the lyrical genius of all of their songs died with him. They have had a few good one since then but overall, the quality has gone down. Regardless, I still love them. Another two you should do is in the same category as this song. They are called "I won't See You Tonight" and "Tonight the World Dies." Incidentally, when it comes to the Rev in reference to this album, he did the drum arrangement, co-lead vocals on "Fiction", growl on "Save Me", drums and backing vocals on "Nightmare" the song on its demo. The Rev DID have a hand in the writing of these songs - he just wasn't able to do the recordings that were eventually put on the album.

[@puppetmaster8551]

This comment is a little ridiculous, the Rev didn’t even write any lyrics until the self titled album and the majority of the lyrics on that album and nightmare are still shadows. Rev was a stellar songwriter as a whole but he wasn’t some lyrical genius and the majority of A7X lyrics over their history have been shadows not the Rev. Also the stage is a stellar lyrical album and features some of their best lyrical work. Rev was a fantastic overall musician and his composition skills became great over the years but if anyone in the band was a lyrical genius it was shadows.

[@JohnSmith-me4ik]

Tami have you listened to The Stage?

[@tamiramos5873]

@@JohnSmith-me4ik yes

[@tamiramos5873]

@@puppetmaster8551 He wrote and composed several songs including "A Little Piece of Heaven", "Afterlife", "Almost Easy", "Unbound (The Wild Ride)", "Buried Alive", "Fiction", "Brompton Cocktail", "Welcome to the Family", "Save Me", among others. All of the guys are listed at have written all the songs but he had a bigger role in writing the lyrics. And I say this largely because the feel of what I heard from the band after he died went slightly south. That’s doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me.

[@tamiramos5873]

@@JohnSmith-me4ik Yes - I didn't say everything - just most. The sound just isn't the same.

[@rafaelgonzalez7230]

RIP 🪦 GOAT 🐐🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 and thanks to mike this album was a perfect send of to A Legend

[@sushantdevkota1461]

You need to listen to Mia next. One of the best solos ever.

[@floresgt3]

Rev wrote it and played the drum parts I believe they “ left his parts in”

[@abdullahhamid7037]

Strenght of the world

[@HeavyMetalForLife]

I recommend Coming Home A7X or Nothing to Say by Slash feat M Shadows vocalist of A7X!

[@jddjango20]

I think they’re most epic song

[@Andres-wt9gz]

The drums in this song is amazing, please react to drum cover

[@angelgr76]

Great reaction! I've been waiting for you guys to react to the live version(in the LBC) of Little Piece of Heaven! It's amazing!

[@deanwatson5883]

Mike Portney,1 of da Revz influences 🤘

[@alexbernhardt56]

You guys should listen to their song God Hates Us if you wanna find out if they’re religious or not

[@stevenfilley7631]

Also Crossroads is a great one too.

[@dillonsronce2583]

That is the rev on drums

[@expertnoobmtb7975]

you two should react to Exist by Avenged Sevenfold

[@steve-yl5vf]

Check out welcome to the family next

[@jamesjohnson9424]

Mike portnoy is one of the best drummers of all time he left dream theater to help avenged sevenfold on nightmare

[@imperious8905]

Most of their music is really good

[@laurabuer4714]

Late to the party, but if you like this level of cinematic music, Devin Townsend is your guy.

[@soundsannin1870]

Should check out "exist" by avenged sevenfold. It's 7 minutes of instrumentals but the last 5 minutes are enlightening.

[@bigfrankie98]

Cmon guys, her name was Marcy D'Arcy!😂

[@JohnSmith-me4ik]

yesss thank God more A7X!!

[@1000Gamernerd]

Ok. At this point. And help out here trash talkers so they can get this, react to avenged sevenfold "dancing dead". It's pretty much an unreleased song. A b-side. The band released it for the " live in the lbc" dvd as an extra. Please react to it.

[@davidharrell2623]

Marcy Darcy

[@jordanvisina9930]

You guys gotta do no more tears by Ozzy!

[@nomadluiz]

Coming Home next please

[@davidmassey6332]

On the religious topic, I have to again suggest: ‘Children of a Worthless God’ by: Exodus

[@sinisterking6009]

If you don't know avenged sevenfold are heavily inspired by helloween, you also reacted to them 🤘 Possessed - the exorcist

[@puppetmaster8551]

Finally, this song is a masterpiece, maybe their best ever

[@alexparker1911]

More avenged sevenfold love the reactions

[@greenlit802]

A7X are so good.

[@camillaGorilla]

Come on, react to "Exist" next 😊

[@purrpleunicorn]

All I have too say is that m.shadows of the Bible is truly awesome, plus the name originates from the mark of cain.

[@HeavyMetalForLife]

The Rev wrote the drumming for this, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater did the studio drumming for this, trying to play just like the Rev. Portnoy was the Rev’s idol and stepped in after the Rev’s death, quitting Dream Theater. Compare the first minute of Nightmare’s demo with the Rev drumming to the studio version with Mike Portnoy (the Rev drums harder and better IMO)

[@bada4258]

Avenged sevenfold is easily my favorite band

[@billwell9266]

Marcy D'Arcy! Mike Portnoy let loose on this awesome song. Best of the album.

[@renedesruisseaux819]

This one for me is just ... Start after START AFTER START !! Never advance . Just new stuff no chorus !

[@carsoncummings2735]

Twisted insane underground psycho plz

[@kshadows2994]

Also their not exactly religious but they do have a good bit of songs around that topic. Also their name is based off of the story of cain and able. Where I believe god said that anyone that hurt cain would have vengeance put on them sevenfold

[@dillonsronce2583]

A7x has a song that comes from a story in the Bible, beast and the harlot. Even the name of the band comes from the Bible.

[@danielodecam1280]

react to the song dancing dead by Avenged Sevenfold

[@bigfrankie98]

This was all Rev written. Portnoy recorded his drum lines but it was Rev all the way.

[@betsdakreator]

Marcie Darcie