Fan of Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare? Check out Under Angels, a story about a dude whose suicide turns out worse than life itself. Now available for Kindle and in paperback. Check out the trailer:
Great piece. It’s got Greamer all over it. And I can’t help from noticing a certain resemblance to these two.
Also leaked is the track list. I can’t wait to hear Track 2’s ‘Welcome to the Family’; you can hear the end of Track 1’s ‘Nightmare’ building up to it:
1. Nightmare
2. Welcome To The Family
3. Danger Line
4. Buried Alive
5. Natural Born Killer
6. So Far Away
7. God Hates Us
8. Victim
9. Tonight The World Dies
10. Fiction
11. Save Me
Another one to look forward to is ‘Fiction’ (working title: ‘Death’), written by Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan. After his death, the piece was was retitled ‘Fiction’ after his self-given nickname; he also had the tattoo FICTION down his torso from chest to belly.
Guitarist Zacky Vengeance says:
“Jimmy wrote ‘Death’ on Christmas Eve. He hummed the entire melody and only left three lines of lyrics. It’s a musical masterpiece. It will make millions of people in the whole world cry … The song was the last song The Rev wrote for the album, and when he handed it in, he said, ‘That’s it; that’s the last song for this record.’ And then, three days later, he died.”
Just found an old audio clip that I sampled from a box of cassettes a few years ago. Pulled from a tape dated 1971, it was recorded at our apartment in Torrance. My brother Jed is a newborn; I’m two years old.
I’m the first grandchild of my maternal grandparents, Gil and Margaret. In this 1971 clip, they’re visiting us on their way from Hawaii to pick up their $7000 Jaguar in Reno. Gil has just gotten on the floor to serve as a horse; I’ve climbed up. He has me by the wrists while my old man sits by, amused. Gran’s in the other room. This is before we were calling her Granny by request.
Grandpa Gil and Granny are still going strong today. Grandpa just turned 97 in May; Gran — a Facebook user! — will be following suit in August.
Back in July 2005, when I found these tapes and digitized this particular clip, I sent Gran the link and an email. Here’s her response, received just 42 minutes later:
07/05/05
Hi there, Jace, you precious Grandson – Numer ONE
I am going to run this by Grandpa after he’s finished playing Bridge. How uncanny you should find this! When it mentions Jed’s birth, it was the time we picked up our Jag in Reno (tax-free and $7000.00) and we continued on to Minneapolis to a meeting, then to Kansas City, and home to Hawaii. In fact, we had trouble with the car and were stuck on the road outside of Reno (our return trip). It was Memorial Day with everything shut own, and we were lucky to contact someone to come and tow us into town.
That car was very complicated and we never found anyone in Hawaii to take care of it properly.
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