Obviously it is never good for a band to have that "Suicide band" label. General CommentClues are all over the place that the rev killed himself, despite the press release that it was "accidental". And, chances are, it always will.We can't seem to shelter the pain inside (oh) Whether it’s by nature or by design, Unholy Confessions has remained one of its era’s most beloved tracks. There’s no science behind it, it’s just what we do! Ha ha ha!” We’ve tried ending with other things but it goes over well and I think it’s one of those things where, at the very end of the night, to throw things back to 2003 or whenever that came out, is pretty cool. “It’s one of the first things people heard, it’s a throwback at the end. “It’s kind of like our Hit The Lights,” suggests Shadows of how the song has managed to close out almost every Avenged Sevenfold setlist over the years. The band may be somewhat lovingly dismissive of the song now, but the stats don’t lie: Unholy Confessions is by far and away Avenged Sevenfold’s most-played song ever, serving as the band’s standard set-closer right up until their most recent world tour in 2018. When you’re a kid, you are just pulling from your own angsty little heart, and that’s kind of what that was.” “I don’t think it was a real-life inspiration,” says Shadows of those aforementioned lyrics, “other than things I was dealing with. Not bad for a track with “dumb-dumb” breakdowns and heavy metal lyrics pulled from angsty teen woes. Soon they had become the hottest young band in the metalcore scene. The video, stapling live footage to shots taken backstage at gigs and segments featuring some of their biggest fans, raised Avenged’s profile considerably in the ranks of the MySpace generation. It was well after that album had come out!” So, when we signed with Warner Brothers, they said, ‘Let’s make a music video that we’ll put out, and that’ll kind of boost Waking The Fallen before you guys drop City Of Evil.’ That’s how it happened. But we were in a bidding war for the next record, which would be City Of Evil, and whoever we signed with wanted to do a music video for a song on Waking The Fallen. “I think Chapter Four and Eternal Rest were the first two songs we put out, it wasn’t Unholy Confessions. “Honestly! It wasn’t really a single!” he states. Even at that early stage, Avenged felt just a little different from those around them, and the hype train began to roll.įascinatingly, while Unholy Confessions remains the most (in?)famous of the Waking The Fallen cuts, Shadows insists it was never really meant to be a single at all… and technically, kinda still isn’t. We put the dumb-dumb breakdown with the riff, and then we had this chorus… it’s funny how those things happen it’s like a moment in time.”Ī simple song it may have become, but the fact is that Unholy Confessions struck a chord with a young metal crowd that had so far been weaned on nu metal and shiny, Gothenburg-influenced metalcore.
“When we got back home to Orange County, we had that riff and we had the chorus we just needed some stupid, meaty breakdown! Ha ha ha! And that part of the song came together. “I came up with the chorus for Unholy Confessions and we kind of put it on the backburner,” he says of the eventual fruits of that unusually fractured jamming session. It was a method that had been untested by the band to that point and, looking back, was not a formula they ever ultimately looked to replicate – “We’ve never done that since!” laughs Shadows now.
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