The Rev

And what I'm trying to say is like, it's, it feels like you're really coming to terms with your, with mortality and that it's okay.

Um, and I think that they've been thinking a lot about that ever since they lost the rev.

Um, my favorite album from them though.

Hmm.

What was the drummer that inspired you?

The Rev, Avenged Sevenfold.

Wow.

Big, big, big, big Avenged Sevenfold fan.

And and the way he plays is just incredible.

Joey Jordanson was a big one, too.

for a while there, but I would say overall the Rev is kind of my, what I would cite as biggest drummer inspiration.

I didn't mind just being not the main character.

music? Dude, when I was that young, it was, like, Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold, which is crazy because now that...

know i'm almost 30 i'm 29 years old i talked to a lot of older dudes that i've met and they like can't believe that those bands have such a big impact on my generation because they're like dude i remember when those bands came around and everyone was like like making fun of them and no one like everyone thought it was kind of goofy and stuff and i'm like dude i i mean i was seven years old when that stuff came out so like that's i've grown up knowing that you know i never knew it as corny i never knew it as anything but awesome like Joey Jordison's drumming, the Rev's drumming, that shit made me sit down and actually go like, there's got, how do I get my body to do like, I couldn't fathom moving my legs that fast.

I was like, is that even possible? Is this real? Like, I just couldn't wrap my head around it.

And that just drove my curiosity infinitely.

Jam 10 that's probably my favorite album honestly

okay favorite drummer all time favorite drummer of all

time another hard one man because we got Bonham we got Pert we got Mike Portnoy the Rev so many good ones

Purely

And what's kind of happening here until you get more towards the end with some of the lyrics that M. Shadows has...

I think it was the last song that the Rev handed to the band before they recorded.

And he said, it's finished.

The album record Nightmare is done.

And I just think it's such an oddball kind of song, but very artistic.

And again, not mentioned in a lot of the A7X circles that I want to pick this song and shine a spotlight on it, especially in thinking about in the absence of the Rev.

So the Rev wrote that song, but didn't get ever get the chance to record it, right? Yes.

Yeah, he unfortunately passed away before the record was recorded.

That was kind of, like, when I started listening to more heavy stuff.

So, uh, I think my most influential drummer at that time was The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold.

Okay.

And then from there, I experienced the descent that, like, everybody experiences.

Mm-hmm.

James Sullivan, Avenged Sevenfold.

Yep.

Portnoy.