So Far Away: - Lyrics of this song was written by Gates as a letter to Jimmy. - The song was actually addressed to the deceased grandfather Syn 2 or 3 years ago - Syn actually have a demo when he and The Rev got up at 4:00 one morning when they're drunk, they sang this song reff (How do I live without the ones I love?) And it was done acoustically. - "This is my first time writing lyrics, I do not know what I think about them, but this song is exactly like what I feel about Jimmy, who he is, and all he joked.-Synyster Gates- - "This song was written for Jimmy. You will feel how sad this band .." -Mike Portnoy-
God Hate Us: - This is probably the heaviest song we've ever written, an evolution of the search after the album "Waking the Fallen". - God Hate Us song made when Matt was looking at the storm outside the window. It was not long after the death of Jimmy. He's really recall Jimmy's death that night and the idea was combined with the storm, so teciptalah a song about God's wrath. - "Once again, I attended the demo, I just have to play by the pattern (demo, Red) .." -Mike Portnoy-
Victim: - Victim's just part of the plan concept album. - After the death of Jimmy they continue to edit this song, then they wrote the lyrics to reflect on where they found Jimmy had died and saw the funeral scene. - "This song is just talking about the environment, home, and mood of each person and then talk about that day." -M. Shadows- - Backing Vocals This song is a woman named Charlotte. Charlotte singing to Whitney Houston.
Tonight The World Dies: - Free guitar in this song is played by Brian Haner Sr. aka Papa Gates (Gates's father.)
Fiction: - Originally the song was titled "Death", but later changed into Fiction by the band in honor of The Rev, because the "Fiction" is a tattoo on the chest The Rev. - The Rev Fiction has created since he was still with Pinkly Smooth. However, he never mneyelesaikannya. And he'd finish it when creating the album "Nightmare". - The song was completed The Rev exactly 3 days before his death. - M. Shadows said that they never recorded vocals for a demo of this song. But for some reason, The Rev finally did for this song. - The Rev used the original vocals for this song on the album. - Drum Tracks originally played by The Rev only on the electric drum kit in the home studio M. Shadows. M. Shadows said the drum tracks are not used to record the actual album, but Mike Portnoy was ordered to copy tracks The Rev as closely as possible. - "Fiction to me is another version of" A Little Piece Of Heaven ". This song contains a piano and strings, no guitar or bass and have an open and very terrible lyrics. He did not think of other metal bands would write songs like this and we do not never comes without Jimmy. Because I believe in God, I feel blessed to have this song ..- M. Shadows - - This song is a thousand percent about Jimmy. "-Mike Portnoy- - "The piano Fiction made by the Rev. 3 days before his death. It's like something I'd never heard before .. It's very scary and haunting." -M. Shadows- - "There's a song with a note," Fiction "this song was written for the band project a few years ago, but this song was never finished. Literally, about three days before Jimmy died, this song finally finished. We recorded the last part of the song them. What sung basically say goodbye to all his friends, and we are all hard to listen,. but beyond that, you have to remember that this song was well written by Jimmy himself, and Jimmy can only sing the parts Matt and we try to finish this song with the lyrics, and I think he does a great job .. "-Johnny Christ-
Save Me: - The first word adalam lyrics of this song, namely "Skull" is pronounced by the Rev.. M. Shadows said that he found it on some demos. They do not know what Jimmy, but it sounds good on this song and they wanted to incorporate him into the album as much as possible. - "'Save Me' like a metal version of" A Little Piece Of Heaven ", a duration of 11 minutes and is very dark. This song has an amazing intro guitar duo, drum pattern plays Jimmy in a very amazing and I think this song is almost like Elton John on steroids .. "-M. Shadows- - This song is a song by my favorite drumming. -Mike Portnoy-
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The Story Behind the Song in the album "Nightmare" (Part1)
The Story Behind the Song in the album "Nightmare" (Part2)
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