![]() ZACKY VENGEANCE Recording City of Evil, we were literally in the middle of the fucking worst ghetto in Los Angeles. Video of Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country (Official Music Video) And so we took everything from Dream Theater to Pantera and Metallica to Children of Bodom to Blind Guardian to Queen to everything, and that's what's mixed into that record, just it's insanity, everything's too fast but it's awesome, you know? I listen to it now and I just think, What the fuck! How do you even play that fast? Like, it's just silly. ![]() Like, we want to fucking play guitar like that but be an American-style band but have those Euro elements. That was, like, the band we were looking up to at that time. ![]() With the guitars, our inspiration at that point was we wanna play better than Children of Bodom. So that's why he became like a machine at it. So I remember we'd play video games at his house, and he'd sit behind the couch with his drum stool and he'd have his kick drum set up, just his pedal, and we'd be sitting there playing with the sound off, and he'd just have the metronome going, like, kicking the thing, and he'd just do it for hours and then he'd do it faster and faster until it was, like, 210 beats per minute. He just couldn't go long and hard for a long time. I remember the only thing that was weak on Jimmy's game was his kick-drum stuff. So we went in the studio and, just, Jimmy killed it, Brian and Zack killed it. We thought we did it pretty cool, we did it different than everybody, but we just didn't want to scream anymore, you know? So we were just kind of like, "Let's make a full-on metal record." And at this time, we knew we could play up to that level. SHADOWS By City of Evil, we basically had done the whole metalcore thing. ![]()
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