But I've watched their All Excess DVD. Their Live in the LBC DVD. Their Live concert at the Max Pavillion. And I've been listening to nothing but their music and all their songs take turns getting stuck in my head.
So yeah, I guess I'm a fan boy.
Getting the tickets was a big deal to me because I missed them the last time they came to Singapore for Singfest. That was around the time the Avenged Sevenfold album came out and they played all the new songs from that album. So it should have been pretty cool.
The wait was pretty excruciating. The house music wasn't anything Avenged and the crowd was really docile. They only got a wee bit rowdy in between songs where the pauses were long enough to fool you into believing the band was coming out. This boring crowd you see here was giving the security outside hell before they were allowed in. So it was pretty mind-boggling to not see a circle pit.
Just before the lights went on. You have a very nicely illustrated dead dude with bat wings. Not unlike the Death Bat art that the band is so famous for.
They jumped straight into Critical Acclaim. Which everyone knew the lyrics too. Crowded got pretty hyper at this point, but as you can see from all the lights in the crowd, everyone was more concerned about recording it all down instead of getting into the moment. Including me.
M Shadows. He was awesome on the vocals that night. Whoever said he couldn't scream after his throat surgery is an asshole because this man can definitely scream. He didn't really do much to get the crowd going, but kept playing hit after hit after hit.
That's part of the reason why I'm so into this band, because they bring a level of discipline and dedication to their music that you don't see much of nowadays.
He's been a huge influence on me, as a singer *coughwannabecough* because of his vocal acrobatics, his lyrics, and his very lame hand actions that have never changed since the band was formed. There's definitely a great deal of control that goes into his singing and you can tell that it's not just mindless throat-scraping noise.
I guess his operation made him realise that you aren't going to get very far if you scream all the time like in the first two albums. Which is why I totally support the direction the band is headed in today.
Synyster Gates. Young Guitarist of the Year award winner. Guitar maestro extraordinaire. But he's been real lazy as of late. Haven't heard his solos in a long while. He had a mini-solo in Singapore, and he didn't play one on the LBC DVD (he, or the band, decided to play Pantera's Walk instead).
Still he brings an awesome prescence to the stage when he's performing, because he doesn't go all out on his guitar unlike Zacky Vengeance. So it's all that discipline crap again.
The stage was empty at this point because the band wanted a repeat of what they did at Long Beach. Told us they were done, then came back after a while to play A Little Piece of Heaven, before ending the whole concert. The Rev sung the girl part of the end part, which I thought was kinda funny.
Johnny Christ and Zacky Vengeance were great during the show. Johnny for being sporting enough to repeat his rendition of Seize The Day again for us, and Zacky for the last minute song that he wrote and performed for the VERY FIRST TIME EVER in Singapore. It was a chill, laidback song that sounded as good as the rest of the set because you didn't have a 1000-strong crowded screaming out the lyrics.
Overall, I really, really enjoyed myself. Went home with ringing in my ears and partial deafness at the wedding the next day, and a completely ruined throat which I think still hasn't healed fully today.
So yeah, I'm an Avenged Sevenfold fan boy.
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