A town of vice A syndicate haven So deep does corruption run A blind eye casts over the Roarks Filthy gold & cash rampant Dark & stark are people who sin Everything done is nothing illegal Nobody tries changing anything They accept it as it is.
For this is a City of Evil. For this is a Paradise of Fornication. This is Sin City. WELCOME BACK, GOOD O' BLOG WITH A NEW FRONT, A NEW THEME & A NEW RAGE!
Long time since, hasn't it been? I don't really know why, but I probably just decided to revive my blog again. Don't really know how long it'd last, but then again its just a space for my emotions & thoughts to ventilate. Uh huh, me & the world!
As for the theme of my blog this time round... it was actually inspired from Avenged Sevenfold's "City of Evil" album. Mainly the songs "Beast & the Harlot" and "Bat Country" which are songs I will explain later on. Yeah, the rough idea is about...a city, a town, crime-rates skyrocketing, sinners roaming the streets, corruption rampant,cash & alcohol turning into bread & butter, citizens in a state of desperation. The city's darker side people are blinded too. Something like your Godfather film or movie. How's it? =D
I don't really know where to start my blog from, but I guess I'll go from...MUSIC! Yeah huh, how many of us live on music everyday, that drugs don't matter. Since my blog was pretty much inspired by a band known as Avenged Sevenfold, lemme start with a lil' insight of them!
Alright, I know many would have actually known this globally famous band. However, I'm here to clarify some stuff about them cause like out of 10 people I ask, 7 of them would die rather than listen to A7x.
Name: Avenged Sevenfold a.k.a A7x Genre: Hard Rock / Light Metal [ YES, they are LIGHT for metal. Seriously. You gotta hear it to know it.] Albums: Avenged Sevenfold, feat. hits "Almost Easy" & "Critical Acclaim" (didn't think CA was nice) [ 2007 ] City of Evil, feat. hits "Bat Country" & "Beast & The Harlot"[ 2005 ] Waking the Fallen, feat. hit "Unholy Confessions"[ 2003 ] Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, feat. hits "Warmness on the Soul" & "Streets" [ 2001 ] Members: M.Shadows [Vocals] 1st from left http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Shadows Zacky Vengeance [Rhythm Guitarist, backing vocals] middle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacky_Vengeance Synyster Gates [Lead Guitarist, backing vocals, piano] 2nd from right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synyster_Gates The Rev [Drums, piano <---- HE'S THE FUCKING MANNNN!] 1st from right http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rev Johnny Christ [Bassist] 2nd from left http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Christ
Avenged Sevenfold got their name from a reference of the Bible, where a man called Cain was sentenced to live in exile for murdering his brother. God then made sure that no one would kill Cain even though he sinned, as the person who did would suffer "VENGEANCE SEVEN TIMES OVER." A7x is made of a group of friends who more or less knew each other from a young age. M.Shadows & The Rev attended elementary school together, though The Rev was expelled on 2nd grade [Guess what, blessing in disguise.] The Rev also knew Johnny Christ in kindergarten. They range from ages 23-28. They first recorded their songs in 1999, when they were roughly 18 years of age.
YES, they are all normal people like us, normal people who love music, normal people who excel in their instruments, normal people who keep pets and love people around them. They joke around alot, crack up alot & they may have tattoos all over their bodies but hey, who cares? Tattoos are nothing more than a form of art isn't it?
I know, A7x didn't really start off on a very nice note...their first album, "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" was really...not appealing at all. I couldn't stand any of the songs inside except for "Warmness on the Soul" & "Streets". The rest were pure screamo and nothing but screamo.
However, on their 2005 album, "City of Evil" I believe they started gathering an even more massive fanbase. M.Shadows personally stated that he wanted to "achieve an album with little or no screamo". This was the album. Many of their songs in City of Evil & Avenged Sevenfold adopted "aggresive & deep" vocals. Listen carefully, M.Shadows rarely screams. It's just a deeper sound he makes. Their main hits "Bat Country" & " Beast & the Harlot" really got me attracted to them. The common myth is that metal, hard rock music, alternative / emo have no meaning to their songs. If some fine day, you happen to mis-input "www.cityofsins-n-rock.blogspot.com" into your URL box, you're gonna stop believing that fucked up myth.
Seriously if you ask me, pop music & r&b have the simplest & shallowest lyrics with things like "I can't go on without you" & "I love the way you move" blah blah. Okay but I do love pop, r&b, jazz, soul, punk etc etc. No pun intended!
Just cuz people can't understand what the song is trying to send across, they then assume it is all just a pile of random words and phrases. Let us take for example, Paramore's single hit "Emergency". It is a song talking about a certain member of the band, whose parents took each other's love for granted and ended up in a state of emergency. Who would have known, eh? As for "Beast & the Harlot", it talks about the punishment of Babylon the Great, which is derived from the Book of Revelation. This song is unique to the core, I assure you.
Their songs range across a very wide genre. Their first album mainly only had screamo & fast metal. Most of us would prefer City of Evil & their latest album Avenged Sevenfold. These albums have hits like "A Little Piece of Heaven" which used melodies of a broadway musical. It also consisted of many instruments & choir sorta mixture. Another song titled "Dear God" is one of their softest songs to date, with acoustic guitars, piano & light lyrics. They still have their signature fast songs but without screamo and alot more meaning to it. "Brompton Cocktail", "Afterlife", "Trash & Scattered" are some of the many.
Alright, that was a pretty cool insight into A7X, wasn't it! Maybe you'd have an impression change of them after you start listening to their better songs. [ Yes, I said better.]
P.S: iMeem is screwing up and can't seemingly get the tracks on YET.
[No, I can't play a bass..] Drown in the beats. Slam on the sticks. Double your speed. Feet moving rapid, hands criss-crossing quick. Enter a trance of euphoria - We love drumming, don't we?
David; 16; Aspires to rock the stage with drums & steroids (just joking on that); Couldn't care a penny more to non-factor personals & mathematical sums.
Some think I'm funny, whacked, with a pinch of sacarsm & crudeness, while others would kill to differ. It's your opinion, I enjoy being treated as both :)
Add just a lil' more to my hate & dislikes, and I'm actually...simple Simon. Take a shot, be a friend. We could end up lovers. (We could end up buddies <--- For the guys) Favourite METAL band: Avenged Sevenfold Favourite POP band: Maroon 5 Favourite ROCK band: [This is really tough..] AC/DC, Guns N'Roses, Queen!
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n a form of art isn't it?
of Revelation. This song is unique to the core, I assure you.
Drown in the beats.