Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." God is stronger! Prayer will win every spiritual battle, because it allies you with the victor!įrom James 4: "So submit yourselves to God. I've come to see it as an opportunity for prayer you hear something not Godly, pray for those who said it & those who listen to it. I'm so used to listening to "impure" music that it doesn't do anything to me. If you truly think cutting out this music will lead you closer to God, do it, but I don't think it's a sin issue unless you let it become one. I don't know much about Avenged Sevenfold in particular, but censoring your music can be a slippery slope. I don't think we should judge whether music is holy based on genre there's a lot of solidly Christian lyrics from metal bands, even unexpected ones (Black Sabbath's Lord of this World & After Forever are great examples!). Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person but the things that come out from within are what defile.”
They are friends with satanists, one the lead guitarists has 6661 on his guitar, they love lots of fire in their shows and they do not believe in God.Įven if some of their lyrics are SEEMINGLY harmless, I should not listen, isn't it?įrom Mark 7: "He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. A few of their songs do not have harmful lyrics BUT "you shall know them by their fruit" I listened to Afterlife and So far away (ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS ABOUT THEIR CHILDHOOD FRIEND THAT DIED) and was reminded how much I love a LOT of their songs. Today I got the random craving to listen to them again. "Dragged you down below, down to the devil's show" And Shepherd of fire is about Satan, "God hates us" I stopped listening to them because some of their lyrics are obviously not of God like the lyrics from nightmare to name a few. I haven't listened to them in a long while. They got their name from the bible presumably "If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold" This is the band's first number-one single.Can we or can we not listen to them? They are Metal band. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 15 on the Alternative Songs chart. Johnny Christ also wore a guitar strap with the word "foREVer" written on it.Īs of December 2021, it has over 275 million views on YouTube. However instead of the inlays on the fretboard reading "SYN", it displays "REV". For this music video, Synyster Gates uses a custom Schecter guitar, similar to his usual black/silver pinstriped guitar. This was the second video not to feature the current drummer for Avenged Sevenfold the first being Nightmare. It ends with a clip of the remaining band members and James embracing. During the bridge, a collection of photos and videos of the Rev play. ("we've known this guy since we were this big, rolling round the neighborhood, knocking over trash cans just being dickheads").
Shadows referenced this when talking about Sullivan before playing So Far Away at Rock am Ring 2014. Shadows, kicking over a metal trash can on the street. There is a scene in the video in which a young Sullivan is depicted riding the handlebars of a bike being ridden by a young M.
They are shown as children playing in a garage, then teens playing and hanging out, and stealing beer from a liquor store. Throughout the video, flashbacks of the four play. The music video (directed by Wayne Isham) features the four remaining members of the band playing in a studio and also riding in a Cadillac deville through a neighborhood (possibly Huntington Beach, where the band originated). After a second failed attempt to release the video, they solved the problem by hosting the music video on YouTube. SFA7X When the video was released, the site crashed due to so many people attempting to watch the video at once. Īvenged Sevenfold posted a countdown on their official website that showed the time until release for a new video for "So Far Away". This song was dedicated by Gates for the Belated James Owen "Jimmy" Sullivan (The Rev) on December 28, 2009. During most concerts, the band performs the song as a tribute to the Rev by having the audience hold up their lighters or cell phones during the song as the stage background features a banner commemorating the Rev's legacy. This was the first Avenged Sevenfold song Synyster Gates wrote completely by himself since "I Won't See You Tonight Pt 1" on Waking the Fallen. In late March All Access Music Group mentioned that the third single from the album Nightmare would be "So Far Away", scheduled to be played on the radio starting on April 5, 2011. It is the band's third single released without former drummer The Rev, who died of an accidental opioid overdose on December 28, 2009.
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