Gunslinger or Sintir slinger !
As a fan, I think we all heard Gunslinger hundreds of times over the course of years. An acoustic western intro starts slowly alongside Matt's voice. Before you know it , it is hell dropping over your head whit the hammering guitars and the fast beating drums.
The song was released in 2007 on the White album. It shares the story of a soldier in the war zone, and his desire to come back home safe.
Now you maybe got used to Johnny's baseline shooting fire on this track, but how about you listen to Rabi's cover. A Moroccan musician who got the idea to implement the "Gunbri" (also know as the "Sintir")into rock'n'roll .
This instrument is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people in Morocco.
Here is the video, hope you enjoy it, and show some support to our friend Rabi.
Why Do We Love Avenged Sevenfold ?
Most of the time people are asking us this question "Why Do You Love Avenged Sevenfold ?" some are asking from curiosity others from hate. Now if anyone asked you that question again just show him the video below and he will understand that A7X are THE BEST BAND EVER !
Avenged Sevenfold and The New Experience
It's been a few days that Aveneged Sevenfold promised their fans a new experience and it's been a few months that M.shadows claimed in an interview that they are working on a new website after Deathbatnews.com was shut down and now it makes sense that the new experience is the new website.
With some of coolest sections containing official news, tour dates, and submited news from the fans, the website is giving a hell of excitement to navigate more.
The band has opened the door for fans to contribute on this experience offering them the ability to submit their news and articles, also the oppertunite to discuss more about the band using the "Community' board without forgetting that the fans now can submit their pictures to the website using "#Deathbat" on Instagram.
With this we hope that the news about the DVD and the next album will be revealed soon. Stay tuned to know more here or you can follow us on Facebook.
With some of coolest sections containing official news, tour dates, and submited news from the fans, the website is giving a hell of excitement to navigate more.
The band has opened the door for fans to contribute on this experience offering them the ability to submit their news and articles, also the oppertunite to discuss more about the band using the "Community' board without forgetting that the fans now can submit their pictures to the website using "#Deathbat" on Instagram.
With this we hope that the news about the DVD and the next album will be revealed soon. Stay tuned to know more here or you can follow us on Facebook.
Avenged Sevenfold and Sports
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We will start with who we think is the most athlete of the band, M.shadows.
At his young age Matt's life was all about basketball , he was gifted with a great basketball talent, knowing also that his mom and dad were basketball coaches and he was coached by his mom on his elementary basketball team and his dad coaching his club team.
Although Matthew had a great talent and he was playing very good but he couldn't handle the pressure of his parent to be successful on this game and one day while his father was pushing him to do jump shots he said "Dad, there has to be more to life than basketball. ". Years later Matt left the basketball.
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M.shadows watching a basketball game |
Another sport that M.shadows loves to play is Golf . In october 2014 issue of Golf Digest magazine it was mentioned that Matt started playing Golf to prove to Larry Jacobson (the manager) that it is just an easy game .
"When their manager talked rocker members of California-based Avenged Sevenfold into hitting balls at a golf-resort concert venue in 2007, lead singer M. Shadows jumped at the chance, thinking it would be easy. What has kept him coming back to the game is how hard it turned out to be."
Matt has a handicap of a around 12, which is a numerical measure of a golfer's potential playing ability based on the tees played for a given course.
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M.Shadows and Matt Heafy (Lead vocalist of Trivium) playing Golf |
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M.shadows in the Duffing for Dollars Charity Golf Tournament |
Matt has also been a member of the MMA academy and he loves lifting weights.
Now that's all we know about M.shadows's sport life so let us move on to see Synyster's favorites sports.
I believe that most of you have seen this pictures before :
Yes ! Ladies and Gentlemen's that is Synyster Gates playing some aggressive sport and it's called Jiu Jitsu.
While we were searching on the internet we found this article of a fighter named Jay Jack talking about his training session with Brian and he said :
"...Synyster Gates asked us to come by and train before the show tonight...He was very cool to the group of us that showed up to train. Offering everyone passes to the show. He was solid practitioner. Very into BJJ, and open to new techniques. I was really impressed with his dedication to the style. I know most people would just give up on training while on the road, but this guy always makes time. Admirable. More people should have that kind of dedication."
Source : Here
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Synyster with Jay Jack and other fighters |
Brian also surfs regularly and loves to do target practice with his extensive collection of firearms.
Now let us move on to Zacky .
Zacky Vengeance is a huge baseball fan and he was the pitcher of his jr high school baseball team. His favorite baseball team is the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
In 2012 Zacky has tweeted this picture of his baseball bat tattoo saying :
"In honor of the baseball season check out my baseball “bat” tattoo. It’s a tramp stamp. Hard thuggish…"
And speaking about tattoos Zacky V has another tattoo behind his left ear and it was done because Brian made a bet with M.shadows that the Angels wouldn't make a comeback and win the world series that year. Well Brian was wrong and the Angels did come back and win. So since Brian lost he was supposed to get the "A" 's tattoo but he had no money at the time so Zack got the tattoo for him.
Another game that Zacky loves to play is Golf and he actually attended the 2014 Duffing For Dollars Charity Golf Tournament with M.shadows.
"In honor of the baseball season check out my baseball “bat” tattoo. It’s a tramp stamp. Hard thuggish…"
And speaking about tattoos Zacky V has another tattoo behind his left ear and it was done because Brian made a bet with M.shadows that the Angels wouldn't make a comeback and win the world series that year. Well Brian was wrong and the Angels did come back and win. So since Brian lost he was supposed to get the "A" 's tattoo but he had no money at the time so Zack got the tattoo for him.
Another game that Zacky loves to play is Golf and he actually attended the 2014 Duffing For Dollars Charity Golf Tournament with M.shadows.
For Johnny Christ and The Rev we didn't found much of informations except that Johnny loves the NBA Lakers team and The Rev used to love boxing.
We also found this picture but we're not sure if the guys were really into baseball like Zacky :
Now I know you will start wondering what about Arin Ilejay ? ...Don't worry guys we're saving the best for the last.
Now it turns out that the new guy that you're seeing behind the drum kit every night was a big football (soccer) player and he was playing with some of the biggest football clubs like Real Madrid and Arsenal and this is the prove :
We also found this picture but we're not sure if the guys were really into baseball like Zacky :
And you might wanna watch this video where Zacky V was nailing it and The Rev was failing it :p
Now it turns out that the new guy that you're seeing behind the drum kit every night was a big football (soccer) player and he was playing with some of the biggest football clubs like Real Madrid and Arsenal and this is the prove :
Wait a minute ! ....THIS IS MESUT OZIL ! Hahaha we got you :p
Most of you we'll wonder if the guys were into the football but they're not except when it's World Cup and espacialy if the US team is participating.
That's it for this time ! We hope that you like this article if so share it with your friends.
Will A7X Come to Morocco ?
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So basically the story behind this video is that Renman did announced days before that he's gonna do an interview with M.shadows and that anyone can ask him questions on the comments section and two of the A7XM team did ask the same question which is "Will Avenged Sevenfold come to Morocco ?" and of course Larry Jacobson (The manager of A7X) said : "It's sounds like fun" and M.shadows said that the band will visit a lot of places in 2016 . Now this can be true or it might not be so let us see why :
1- The band is off the road right now and it's almost impossible that they can know where they're hitting in the next tour. So first they need to have some free time before starting writting the next album and after the album release they'll start with a tour as usually in USA, Canada, and then Europe and the rest of the world.
2- It's not M.shadows or Larry Jacobson who decide whether to come to our country or not but it's the whole band including the tour managers ...etc.
There's only two cases where the band can do a show in any place of the world :
3- First one is when they choose that place to be included in their tour and for that they'll need to guarantee that tickets we'll be sold so they can pay for the venue and all the other charges .
4- Second case is when they're invited by a Festivale or a TV show...ect , now in that case the charges of the band are taken by the festivale for example.
Now as we saw the possibilites of having Avenged Sevenfold in Morocco you'll realize that it's almost impossible that the band will include our country in any of their tours cause they have no idea how bigger their fan base here, but in my personal opinion the only case where A7X can give us a show here is if any Moroccan Festival invited them and we all know that there's one big festivale that can afford the price and can give a great stage to the band and that festivale is Mawazine.
Fortunately that Mawazine had inveted a lot of big rock bands and artist like Scorpions, Deep Purple, Robert Plants...ect so I'm pretty sure that a band like Avenged Sevenfold can fit in the festivale.
Now Mawazine also has to make sure that the tickets will be sold out and for that we need to make our community bigger then what it is right now and show to the A7X and Mawazine that we deserve a show here in our lovely country.
Written By : Zakarovi
Synyster Gates as a Fashionable Rockstar
Hello Everyone ! Today we're gonna talk about the lead guitarist Synyster Gates , we'll not be interested this time in his guitar scales but his Fashion scales as we all know ; Brian is always trying to dress like a Rockstar and make the ladies have some sweet dreams every night , so let's discover his style :
First let's see how he was dressing in his earlier days :
The pictures shows clearly that Synyster was dressing more like a punk. With a Fedora hat over his long hair , a sleeveless t-shirt and ripped jeans and gloves and sunglasses he was looking so crazy and wild.
As the band was growing Syn did a lot of photo shoots and this's how he was dressing in the most of them :
He was trying to keep it simple the most of the time, with some black or white t-shirts (most of the time with the V-Neck), some cool jeans as always and incredible jackets , he gets the thumbs up from the viewers.
His casual looks weren't very different from what he used to be dressing so let's see how he was dressing :
Whether It was warm or cold, sunny or not, the sunglasses are always important to Synyster , sometimes he loves to add some cool beanies but the rest will be simple.
Now on stage we all know that it's the place where Synyster becomes a God with his crazy and insane guitar techniques but he never forgets to dresse like a fucking true Rockstar and this is some of his cool pictures :
During most of the shows Synyster wears a jacket on top , good quality of jeans and some cool boots but as the show start to go crazy he takes off his jacket to show what he's wearing under it and most of the time it's a simple t-shirt with the V-Neck or a sleeveless t-shirt with the Deathbat logo. The accesory was always an important thing for him and often it's a braclet of bullets and many necklaces with bullets also.
To show that Brian is a big fan of Fashion, a few years ago he created his own clothing store where he offers his original designed T-shirts, Beanies, Hoodies and more. But unfortunately in 2008 the store got closed for no reason and Syn said that he hoped to reopen it one day.
Thanks for reading this and we'll see you next time with more fun articles till then fell free to visit the website and like us on Facebook or give us a subscribe on Youtube. Rock on \m/
First let's see how he was dressing in his earlier days :
The pictures shows clearly that Synyster was dressing more like a punk. With a Fedora hat over his long hair , a sleeveless t-shirt and ripped jeans and gloves and sunglasses he was looking so crazy and wild.
As the band was growing Syn did a lot of photo shoots and this's how he was dressing in the most of them :
He was trying to keep it simple the most of the time, with some black or white t-shirts (most of the time with the V-Neck), some cool jeans as always and incredible jackets , he gets the thumbs up from the viewers.
His casual looks weren't very different from what he used to be dressing so let's see how he was dressing :
Whether It was warm or cold, sunny or not, the sunglasses are always important to Synyster , sometimes he loves to add some cool beanies but the rest will be simple.
Now on stage we all know that it's the place where Synyster becomes a God with his crazy and insane guitar techniques but he never forgets to dresse like a fucking true Rockstar and this is some of his cool pictures :
During most of the shows Synyster wears a jacket on top , good quality of jeans and some cool boots but as the show start to go crazy he takes off his jacket to show what he's wearing under it and most of the time it's a simple t-shirt with the V-Neck or a sleeveless t-shirt with the Deathbat logo. The accesory was always an important thing for him and often it's a braclet of bullets and many necklaces with bullets also.
To show that Brian is a big fan of Fashion, a few years ago he created his own clothing store where he offers his original designed T-shirts, Beanies, Hoodies and more. But unfortunately in 2008 the store got closed for no reason and Syn said that he hoped to reopen it one day.
Thanks for reading this and we'll see you next time with more fun articles till then fell free to visit the website and like us on Facebook or give us a subscribe on Youtube. Rock on \m/
M.shadows said that the band will never go back to the metalcore
Couple weeks ago Avenged Sevenfold played a show in Jakarta,Indonesia where M.shadows talked to The Jakarta Post. To respond to the question if Avenged Sevenfold will ever go back to the metalcore scene which is the type of music they were doing in the start of their career Matt said :"The metalcore has been left behind. It’s not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it’s obviously not the direction we would write songs in. I wouldn’t hold my breath for a comeback. We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves."
In another question about the future of the band and its development Matt said :"I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically. We write music because we have to — it’s a part of our very being. As we develop I just see us following our heart on this musical journey."
Avenged Sevenfold are off the roads right now after over 1 year of touring all around the world and we're expecting to see the DVD soon before they'll start the writing process of the new album.
The opening word of A7XM blog
We're so glad and happy to announce the opening of the A7XM blog after months of working in secret in order to get this result that we know it might not be the best but it's the best we can do.
The reason why we created this blog is because we wanna try to give some added value to the Avenged Sevenfold band and fans all over the world and especially the Moroccan fans.
We'll try to share the news of the bands here and the tours informations also reviews of other people about the music and shows of the Avenged Sevenfold...ect
In this little website you'll find a lot of informations about the band, their Biographies and Discography's...etc
For the Avenged Sevenfold Moroccan Fans on Facebook you still can follow us there if you want to see our posts cause nothing will be changing , you'll get to see all the pictures and videos that we share everyday plus the links of the posts that we'll be sharing here.
Before letting you go we wanna thanks all the fans that were very supportive over the last year on Facebook with the likes and shares that we get from you it motivate us so much to keep going on this journey to build the biggest community of Avenged Sevenfold in Morocco and let the world know about us.
Thank you - A7XM Admins
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