Avenged sevenfold's newest album, Nightmare.. TEN STARS

To be a Heavy Metal Band, you need to have a lot of dedication. Metal core band Avenged Sevenfold had no difficulty delivering head pounding guitar riffs from Zacky Vengeance and Synister Gates, and heart felt vocals and yells from lead singer M. Shadows on the new album entitled NIGHTMARE. Avenged Sevenfold's drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan (Who passed early december of last year) Had the Drum tracks all written just before his death. Mike Portnoy (Of Dream Theater) was asked to record Jimmy's drums on the album and join them on the road for the Nightmare tour. He did an excellent job on executing jimmy's drum tracks.

The opening song off of the new album is entitled Nightmare; it was released digitally on May 18th of this year as a single to promote and raise awareness for the new album. overall, the song was a masterpiece in my eyes. The beginning of the song starts with a piano playing what seemed to be "Horror" like. It's followed by a guitar melody mimicking the piano piece. The Piano fades out and the rest of the song is a brutal beating (I mean that in the best way possible)

The rest of the album's songs are all the same.. opening with melodies and get faster and heavier. If someone tried to "Air Guitar" Synister Gates' Solos on this album, your fingers would cramp up after 30 seconds.

The 10th song on the album called "Fiction" changed the albums pace. The whole song is mostly a piano track followed by occasional guitar chords. It is my personal favorite of the album because Jimmy's vocals can be heard during the chorus of the album. Jimmy also wrote the piano piece on that track.

Overall, this album is a 10/10 stars. The instruments sounded perfect, crisp, and clean.

GO OUT AND BUY THE ALBUM!

Meaning of life, shattered.

The question that will be asked until the end of time; What is the meaning of life?
Well, in my personal experience of living in this world and society, I strongly believe that the meaning of life is to find your own meaning. Now, what would happen if you have your meaning, or a dream etc, and it gets shattered by an event or time of your life, what then?

It's a difficult thing to talk about because nobody wants to talk about there dreams being shattered or crushed. It's not in our nature to talk about that. But lets say you want to be the best guitarist in the world, and you are getting there, you play a few shows around your area and people love you. Your dream is slowly coming true. Then you get a bad car accident and you get major nerve damage in your hand, you can no longer play guitar, at least as good as your used too. All hopes and dreams of becoming a great guitarist are lost. How do you deal with it?

Some people would say you should dream more than one dream, a lot of people may disagree because everybody has a dream that they know that they want to do, they don't want anybody to tell them not too. In my opinion, i think you choose a dream as a category, such as fashion, something with cars, something with music. That way, you have your dream to be a part of something, because there are so many contributions to every lifestyle. Every fashion designer needs a tailor, every car manufacturer needs people to sell their products, and every great band needs a manager/record producer/etc.

I believe that if you have a dream, for one, set a reachable goal; there will ALWAYS be a better guitarist than everybody else one way or another. Second, you should always keep your eyes open. If you keep a goal set on just one dream, something even greater would pass you by and you wouldn't know it.

Keep your eyes open, and believe.

I Think Celebrities Suck

I've decided to make a list of random things that I want to do before I die.

1. Go on a Motorcycle ride in Arizona to see all of the mountains and such.
2. Play a concert for a crowd of 10,000 or more people.
3. Go on a tour with my band all across the U.S
4. Go to Florida... Just because.
5. Go to New York City to see the Statue of Liberty
6. I want to go to California and see the Hollywood Sign
7. Prank call 436 people... Don't ask about the number of people, its a personal goal.
8.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vW3fsJ8pk9.
10. Win a pie eating contest
11. Live off of crab legs for 3 days... I will probably throw up, but whatever.
12. Meet Ozzy Osbourne.
13. Get PUNK'D by Ashton Kutcher
14. PUNK Ashton Kutcher
15. Learn to Play the organ
16. Master the art of Call of Duty
17. Throw a T.V off the top of a building... making sure nobody is directly under me :D
18. Have a room in my house that has trampolines for walls, floor, and ceiling.
19. Own a 2010 Camaro
20. Make a complete replica of the Iron Man suit.


Wish me luck!

A little Piece of Heaven

Being a musician, I can't help but think about the necessities that every musician and music performer should do when it comes down to Putting on a concert. Think about a concert that you have been to in your life, whether it was last night, last year, or ten years ago. What was the best part about the concert? The music? The lights? The people? Or was it the fact that the band put on a great show?

As a person who plays music and enjoys going to concerts, I love when the musicians putting on the concert know how to move the crowd and get them going. Getting the crowd involved on way or another. For example, I went to see the Band Avenged Sevenfold a few years ago, and during the concert, the lead singer said "Wow, I'm pretty tired, who wants to come up and sing the next song?" The crowd went wild. They got the crowd involved and they picked a random person from the crows to sing the next song. In my opinion, i think that is a great way to put on a show. If they played a concert when they just play the songs, what's the point? I can just sit in my room and listen to the Album.

That is the way to put on an awesome show; Get the crowd INVOLVED!

When I put on concerts, no matter how many people are there, I will always get the crowd involved.

Random Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZat5TbRO3A

Higher Ground By the Chili Peppers is a pretty awesome song if you ask me. I respect a lot of music for a lot of different reasons. One of the reasons I love this music video is because it's random and colorful; I think that is an important aspect to a great music video, because it should grab your attention, one way or another, because if you have a dull music video even if the music is good, it's just better when there is a lot of color.

Higher Ground is an amazing song from the beginning with the roaring bass, the group vocal at the chorus, and the awesome guitar.
I suggest this song to anybody who loves jumping around and having fun.
Pretty Awesome.

Power Of Music (The Curse)

Pearl Jam - Alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGiTPgvKktM

I was thinking about the power of sound and music, and i thought of this song.
Pearl Jam's, Alive was an anthem for every kid who wanted to rebel and stick it to the haters along with the rest of pearl Jam's Debut album called "Ten." I agree completely.

I was watching Vh1 Storytellers on Pearl jam a few years days ago and Eddie Vedder was telling the story about the song "Alive." He remembered this story as "The Curse." Because he wrote the song about the time where he realized that the man that he thought was his father, wasn't his dad, and his real dad died years ago. The reason he considered the song a "Curse" was because he had to learn to accept the fact that his father is dead, and he is still ALIVE.. I can't even imagine how confused i would be.

After the album was released, alive was an overnight hit; with the ever-so popular chorus "I'm still alive," Eddie Vedder wrote that chorus as a curse; as a way of dealing with the unfortunate truths that he discovered not so many years before. Vedder recalls as the audience grew over the years, and seeing everybody respond to the chorus as a celebration, it lifted the curse for him.. And he is now peace of mind with those demons that haunted him for so many years.

That is why i think music is as powerful as an ocean. The wave is your voice, if it hits you just right, it can make you cry. When water seeps into rock, it can make it crumble, If you write a song on guitar with passion and emotion, they can seep under your skin and make you crumble as well. As you can tell from the length of this post, i am very passionate about the music i write and listen too.

Anyways, let me know what you think about this post, if you agree, disagree, or just want to talk about this topic some more.

Yeah...

I love playing guitar. Out of all the things that I have seen in my short time her on earth, Guitar is the only thing that has not betrayed me, or anything. I love Making music, I don't do it to pass the time, i do it because i love it and i feel it is a great way to get out stress. That is the reason i love to go play concerts because we can feed off eachothers energy and the crowd.