Intro
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Around 2005, you might have thought there couldn’t be another band like Guns N’ Roses. There couldn’t be another metal band with operatic vocals to achieve mainstream success.
Then came Avenged Sevenfold with their international hit, “Bat Country.” Suddenly, a metal band was the most popular band in the world!
Avenged Sevenfold dresses in a combination of ‘80s fashion and current clothes. Their concerts are loud, fun events full of guitar solos, video and lights. Their most recent album, Nightmare, was the best-selling album in the US for a period this summer. But for the band, it’s not all celebration—their drummer died while the album was being written. Listen to Jason and Beren talk about this mix of success and tragedy.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jason: It seems Avenged Sevenfold has rallied.
Beren: Yeah, I’m actually surprised they just had a new album come out. It doesn’t seem like that long ago that the Rev passed away.
Jason: Yeah, I mean, I guess he died while they were writing it and a lot of it was written and he’d helped write a lot of it, and they wanted to finish it in his honor, I guess.
Beren: What? That’s amazing. And it’s one of those…the band’s funny because it does seem like the drummer, like he was one of the main creative forces, so I’m impressed that they were able to carry on.
Jason: He was so good, I mean as a drummer, just like so good. But I guess that now they have the guy who used to be in Dream Theater.
Beren: Oh yeah, Mike Portnoy, that’s excellent. That’s a good way to honor the Rev, have another excellent drummer step in and take his place. Also just a good tribute to him to have something he’d been working on at the time of his death come out and see the light of day.
Jason: Have you ever had to move on from something like that before?
Beren: No, I never had like a creative partner pass away. I’ve had some friends die, and it’s hard to like move on, but, you know, you just want to keep their memory alive. Think of the good times.
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Discussion
Beren and Jason are surprised that Avenged Sevenfold just put out a new album, because the band’s drummer, The Rev, died recently. But Jason explains that he died while the band was working on the album, and the rest of the members felt that it would be a tribute to him to finish it. The Rev was known as an incredible drummer, but the band’s new drummer is also very good.
Jason thinks it would be hard to have to move on after losing someone important to you. He asks Beren if she has ever had to move on like that. Beren says that she has lost friends who were close to her, and it is very painful. But she tries to keep their memory alive and think of the fun times they spent together.
Have you ever lost someone close to you? How did you move on?
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omg i realy love these guys!! and yes, the rev died while they record the new album… avenged sevenfold, you rocks <3
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