How Good Charlotte Introduced Avenged Sevenfold to the Masses

[@betraid]

Song they made together "The River" is still one of my favorites from Good Charlotte, really nice collab.

[@VampireA1056]

Still waiting for them to play it live together.

[@KUAMA]

@@VampireA1056only occurred to me recently to find them playing it together live, couldn’t find anything. I’ll wait :((

[@GeneDarrTV]

That was very cool of Good Charlotte. First thing that came to mind when I saw the title was their collab on "The River" 😃

[@randerins]

That song is very nostalgic! Always loved it

[@simply11believelane47]

Shot out to Good Charlotte and Thrice! OC has produced 4 of my favorite bands🍻

[@dadoffour]

City of evil is a guitar masterpiece still one of my fav albums

[@lightningwithin9186]

This is why it’s important to be good to people.

[@amberdyet8059]

Exactly! At least I really try to be. Unless I'm hungry, thirsty, but especially if I'm way over exhausted. I get the reactive hypoglycemia medical term for my condition because of my heart high blood pressure condition. Born with it. I'm so sorry for my trouble I caused anyone else in Huntington Beach CA by the way too. I didn't know my fullest extent of my medical conditions until I got here to Des Moines Iowa by the way. I nearly died from not having it treated by the way too but I'm glad that I did get it done now for sure.

[@_whereisnazmie1781]

"The River" GOAT song

[@smw1193]

Dude, the first time I heard Beast and the Harlot on Guitar hero it absolutely blew my mind. I thought, "I have to buy this album" and I searched so hard till I found it. Best album discovery of my teens! Know every song by heart.

[@Bonniesmommy666]

Same, low key have a deathbat tattooed across my back because of guitar hero 3 on PS2 🤣😂

[@killerkite333]

Opposite for me. The cover was bad and I immediately dismissed them. Years later after Rev died, I rediscovered them through Afterlife and became a fan.

[@TheHardcoreHollywood]

@@killerkite333Beast and the harlot is one of their best songs🤦‍♂️

[@killerkite333]

@@TheHardcoreHollywood It is but GH2 cover was bad.

[@deadbod9306]

Good charlottes album Good morning revival is really a great album and M shadows is on the song “the River “ which is an amazing song .

[@danhan121]

Don’t forget the Syn did the solo for it too. Very distinctive solo

[@wardkdouglas]

​@@danhan121 a very simple solo for Gates but somehow still amazing and tasty

[@Ziv2023]

Joel Madden name dropped A7X & City of Evil in their own interviews. Cool of them.

[@Joseph24LOVEAmanda28]

I remember when i heard Beast and the Harlot intro for the first time, i just literally fell in love with it even before hearing the song. I heard the intro and 'boom!' that is it, im in love with it

[@itsover666]

same literally

[@gregtheflyingwhale]

Thats why they are GOOD charlotte

[@jackalan9785]

It's my favorite album

[@jackalan9785]

Beast and the harlot one of the best songs

[@jackalan9785]

Ive been a fan since the trumpet sounded. These guys are always evolving.

[@laserlotus5]

Just goes to show you that maybe you haven't heard some of your favorite albums yet, because they didn't get enough press. Lmfao weird to think about.

[@williamfranco7526]

This is amazing to hear as an artist.

[@sapphirelatina]

I respect him for giving GC props cos a lot of ppl woulda had an ego and not given credit in this day & age.

[@danhan121]

Interviewer obviously hasn’t heard ‘The River’ by Good Charlotte. Thought it would have at least been mentioned

[@davidpascual9571]

Yeah this rockfeed guy doesn’t do his homework very well … it’s irritating sometimes .

[@mikechartofilis]

@@davidpascual9571 I mean, why should he ? There is no reason for him to know every song a band member has been featured in. His "homework" is on A7X, nothing more.

[@davidpascual9571]

@@mikechartofilis ITS LITERALLY HIS JOB TO KNOW lmao are you serious ?

[@mikechartofilis]

@@davidpascual9571 No it's not, he is interviewing Avenged Sevenfold, meaning he should know about their discography. Not only does that mean that features are not something he should focus on, but even if they were, its not A7X featured on The River, it's M. Shadows and Gates, which is totally different. Have a good day.

[@diamenace96]

Awesome story, that album was an instant classic when I first bought and listened

[@jackpinnington6224]

What a crazy bit of history. Really interesting story!

[@Eggospartan]

This is exactly how a ~13 year old version of me was introduced to them at the Galaxy Theatre in like 2006 (Now called the Observatory) Good Charlotte shouted them out at the gig. I was firmly in my pop punk phase and it didn't connect. Then there was a lot of buzz around Bat County on this really new platform called KZbin and heard that guitar solo. I was locked in from then on 🤣

[@AlphaWolfHowl]

Damn, I might never have heard bat country without the Maddens. It was one of those rare songs where I immediately loved it on first listen and I instantly knew this was my new favorite band.

[@killerkite333]

GC was so huge during the 00s and became my life. I really thought it was them doing the screams and solo on The River and then was surprised it was A7x.

[@HeavyW8Ross]

Trashed and scattered is still one of my fight songs💪🏾✊🏽👌🏾

[@Hicks-g1m]

A7X and Good Charlotte great bands

[@chardeemacdennis3852]

Idk if good Charlotte had anything to do with bat country making it to radio but that's when I fell in love with the band.. I was so pumped great solos in rock were back

[@youtubeMyspaceGoogleYourYahoo]

bat country was my favorite song for so long and probably still

[@Yourdoomawaitsyou]

Are you really that stupid and ignorant ? M. Shadows literally just says ....Yeah this is the how and why that it happened and you sit there going .....Ahhhh I don't think that's the way it happened, He literally just told you exactly how it happened but you obviously know much much more than Shadows , In your defence tho Shadows probably doesn't have much of a view because he doesn't have an ivory tower.

[@bobee1284]

Just the Rev on drums in Beast and the Harlot is worth listening to, a masterclass.

[@leviathanx6236]

very Cool from Good Charlotte

[@randerins]

That's funny cause I always thought these two bands look very similar to each other

[@CleanAndDistorted]

Big love to good Charlotte I didn't know, I heard bat country on a mw2 montage first time in 2009 haha changed my life

[@thricepudding]

I was on the Thrice and A7x forums all the time and I remember this 100% hahah.

[@thelonewolf7443]

“Baptized in The River… on my own!” Wait a sec, wouldn’t CoE be a “junior slump” because that was officially their 3rd released album? Wish Avenged Sevenfold would give some love to “Sounding the Seventh Trumpet”.

[@Cyber_Cowboy]

I graduated in 2002 so that should tell you my age. Until last year I did not know good Charlotte had twins.

[@joee1213]

Grew up on both of those bands. I was aware they had always been friends, but it’s Cool when you hear about the connection. When I was a kid I didn’t know that. I just know I liked good Charlotte. Got their young and hopeless album when it came out when I was 12. And then a couple years later, maybe 3, when I was 14/15, I hear bat country on the radio, and I then liked this other band avenged sevenfold. It’s cool knowing now the connection that I didn’t know back then. Also liked AFI and had their sing the sorrow album when I was around 12 too and know A7X had a connection to them too. Pretty cool.

[@darkdudironaji]

I was like, "The River was a good song, but they were #1 before that song came out." How wrong my assumption was.

[@im3phirebird81]

Geez imagine... When Bat Country came with the EA NHL soundtrack I hated it at first, and that was first contact. Almost all A7X records took time to grow on me lol, but they've made it to be one of my all-time faves xD Didn't know the story of this album played out like that in the beginning.

[@richard21solava]

No lie “the river” is what got me into A7X.

[@TONERAVENTUNES]

A little help from your friends! I''m grateful for Avenged Sevenfold because they have put the bar up really high! Tone Raven-We Are The Black Things(Hollywood CA!)

[@TheRareVideosXL]

That's great to hear.

[@spazzklown10]

I love u guys man!!!

[@mopeyg]

The River is my favourite GC song and I discovered A7X because of them.

[@Stringz]

I love thrice :D

[@raistcry]

GC introduced A7x to me....

[@Marcustrh]

Enjoying the vlad tv format 🔥🙏🏿 we need this in the rock/metal world thank you

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I never knew this. I was a scene kid, so I already thought Avenged Sevenfold was like the biggest thing ever when City of Evil came out. Just goes to show we lived in our own bubbles, even back then. I think I first heard them on a Hopeless Records sampler that had a demo version of Eternal Rest on it before Waking the Fallen came out. I also heard Darkness Surrounding maybe at some point before that, I can't remember. I thought it was the coolest shit ever. My friends thought it sounded like Power Ranger music because people weren't used to hearing songs with shreddy guitar solos anymore.

[@shrekdaddy6912]

The River

[@rhysm.5915]

City of Evil is one of my favorite rock albums of the 2000s. However, strange as this may be, I haven't really liked anything A7X has done before or since. Maybe I was just that right age for that stuff at the time.

[@thelolguy007]

This doesn’t apply to Uk,Ireland and Europe though. The album won us all over on its own 🤘

[@Seven7Pain1]

I remember this miss trl my boys in KoRn had #1 on lock till forced to retire got the life then they did it again with freak on a lease

[@craigherron7696]

I live in California so I definitely feel like a freak on a lease... Lol

[@pkmblcknwht]

Oh man trl memories.

[@potatobraus9098]

I already knew them before the song 🤣👌

[@kentkendall1698]

Thats cool as fuck.🤘

[@Marcustrh]

Lmao I vividly remember dudes roasting city of evil saying it was trash in my gym class. Ironically years later the same dude are reposting there latest video 😂😂😂

[@webbofmusic]

Really can’t stand it when an interviewer cuts off the person being interviewed, if you would rather talk then listen to answers start a podcast

[@PittheadX]

When did Matt contracted Hiv?

[@5fingerdpunchfan]

2 words. The river

[@bigcatz74]

Random question but are his bottom teeth all gold or my imagination. If they are I'm jealous

[@genaroperez8325]

I think I am and will be the only person in history that has had "Beast and the Harlot" as their number 1# most listened song on Spotify Wrapped, and I'm not proud of that at all 🤣. It's an amazing song but It's not the best of the best

[@Benvyious]

Haircut is beyond repair

[@nicholasbrewer2023]

Idk about you. But when I saw The River. I first thought. The fuck is Matt and Syn doing on this?

[@weareeternalband586]

People were hating on Beast and the Harlot?! Skip forward to this joke of an album in 2023, and everyone loves it.... just weird.

[@markkevorkian]

Now they are laughing at your haircut

[@thebohr11]

Beast and The Harlot was a very corny lame ass song. They should have listened

[@theiflord]

Bad taste is bad. Be ashamed of yourself. Your parents already are.