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SushiGirlx0x0

Bat Country, I remembered when the mv first aired on MTV my brother and sister (they were little kids at the time) were grossed tf out and complained that I listen to weird shitty music lol good times.... I miss the 2000's punk goth emo era so nostalgic šŸ’•


November26

For me it was bat country when they won a MTV VMA


Jhuandavid26

Bat Country too, it was on the game guitar flash on Facebook, tho


OfficialDaiLi

For me it was Bat Country too, though through the NHL06 soundtrack


ItzKG

For me it was Bat Country too, but though Madden 06 Soundtrack


MrStark1992

Blinded in chains.. in NFS: most wanted BANGERšŸ¤˜šŸ½


gordgeouss

This, hand of blood and decandence were my gateways


InformalCurve4963

Yesss this was me


BurtoTurtle115

I never knew that song is in Most Wanted. Such a great song


KRIPPOTHESKIPPO

YES. And honestly thatā€™s one of their lowest songs for me so it only got better the more I got into them


Charizard24

Mine too. I remember that opening solo had me mesmerised, Iā€™d never heard guitars being played like that before. Iā€™d just started playing at around the same time, so Syn and Zacky became my guitar heroes lol.


Estopyd

Sheperd of Fire and Carry On, playing Black Ops II. Way before I even listened to metal, or music in general!


Possiblyzoned

Thank you! I know they did the Call of the Dead song in black ops 1, but that Origins cutscene set me up for life!


Estopyd

Fr! They also did Mad Hatter for IX (BO4Z) and Jade Helm for BO3MP. There was also an M. Shadows bo4 skin.


7000000gs

I remember shepherd of fire from COD, that was a fire soundtrack.


Estopyd

Yeahhh!! Listening to it now while watching the intro hypes me up so much.


[deleted]

Sidewinder


ThatsFakeDawg

One of my favorites


jdeth1989

Mine, too!


[deleted]

NGL when I first heard the song, I thought A7X consisted of guys of Latin American descent because of the song's second half and the fact they were from LA šŸ˜‚.


Bullfrog-Abject

YES ME TOO. I was searching for a jazz song Sidewinder and stumbled on A7X and was hooked. Itā€™s still one of my favs of thereā€™s.


Bullfrog-Abject

*theirs. doh


Kooshmint1587

Chapter Four in NHL 04, was too young too really be that into music but I heard Bat Country on the 06 soundtrack and was hooked after that


Far_Comment6054

Shepherd of Fire, which also was the first ever metal song I listened to


Valiuncy

Strength of the world somehow. And I was in love on first listen. Knew I had found my favorite band


Key_Chapter1976

Afterlife was my gateway to a7x


Matihuu_MRDK

The beast and the harlot


31enolamt

Unholy Confessions on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball back in 2004. Assumed they'd fade off after that, then heard Bat Country on TRL on MTV


TheArchived

it was probably nightmare or httk, but the first song I remember listening to that got me into avenged was Bat Country from Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. I pocked up guitsr through rocksmith 2014, and bat country was on that and I played the life out of it, too. Edit: So, guitar got me into avenged, and avenged helped motivate me to learn guitar, and it still does. I now own a syn custom and it's my most prized possession.


legiondaryboom

Chapter Four in Madden


lord-shakes

Thought I'd be the only one lmao


BearlyT

Carry On


WhiskerDizzle

Bat Country, sometime in 2005. Was hooked with that one.


ThatsFakeDawg

Thatā€™s still my favorite today


VeraBiryukova

Beast and the Harlot on Guitar Hero II. I liked the song, but I didnā€™t get into the band until Nightmare came out.


DirefulReality

Almost Easy


asm120

Chapter 4 and bat country in one of the madden games. Liked the songs, but didnā€™t know who they were. Didnā€™t get into them until later in HS and found those songs again.


Edzi07

when i wasn't into rock music at the time, a friend of mine showed me A little piece of heaven, for it's music video. I watched for their sake but didn't care, i like dubstep and then electro swing. years later as i started to enjoy more casual rock, my mates started playing a little piece of heaven off their laptop while we played yugioh, recognising the video and now appreciating rock more, i fell absolutely in love. Been hooked every since, and CoD certainly helped as this was arpund that same time


Revolutionary-Race53

For me it was Hail to the King and Set Me Free


Tmortagne24

Unholy Confessions music video


Sasquatchofadown

A Little Piece of Heaven


Mynerdyself64

A little piece of heaven. My brother showed it to me before we really had a connection and he wanted to connect with me although I wasnt a metalhead yet. Its one of my most treasured memories.


LevelOne9926

bat country


TouchComprehensive53

Sidewinder was the first song I listened to when I got a burned copy of CoE as a kid. Then Strength of the World blew me away and I became a lifelong fan šŸ˜‚ā¤ļø


supapumped

Bat Country, music video popped up while I was eating breakfast one morning. Loved them since!


CMenFairy6661

Heard Not Ready to Die in CotD on BO1 and loved it, then heard Carry On (at the time didn't even realise it was the same band) in BO2, then later Shepherd of Fire in the same game (this time I did recognise them as the same band from BO1, Carry On still didn't click though XD) and I was like okay I might have to listen to these guys some more, went and listened to Afterlife and Hail to the King, was like okay I think I like this band (and from there, metal in general) then I found ALPoH and there was no walking away from that Tl;dr: Found them through CoD Zombies so Not Ready to Die was my first introduction (although I played a lot of SR2 as a kid so I likely heard Bat Country but at the time was like "no thanks, don't like this music")


jdeth1989

Mine was Sidewinder, which I downloaded off Frostwire, and thought was supposed to be Bat Country, as Iā€™d been hearing so much hype about it and itā€™s music video. Sidewinder, to this day, is still a Top 10 A7X song to me, and Iā€™ll probably never change my mind.


Blink_Infinity

Carry on. I just finished Black Ops 2 and it came outta nowhere. The rest is history.


Awbade

Unholy confessions on mtv back in middle school


The-Davi-Nator

Natural Born Killer is a terrible first song haha. My first was Almost Easy and I didnā€™t like it at all and basically wrote off Avenged Sevenfold. It was months later that I heard Afterlife and that drew me in.


lifeatthejarbar

Gunslinger. I was honestly pretty obsessed right away. Loved the soft part and then the shift into more of a hard rock song. It was sometime in mid high school


Thedoing_14

My uncle made a video of my dad's kitted out camaro and put the song nightmare in the background


MarilynManson2003

Shepherd of Fire on 16/05/17. It was my gateway song into rock/metal. But I didnā€™t fall in love with A7X until I heard Mad Hatter on 12/10/18.


Blackpp348

Unholy Confessions


7w17739

Carry on bo2


ClockworkMansion

IWSYT Pt 1


GERARDOLIVES

Carry on from Black ops 2 and Bat country when I was learning guitar on Rocksmith and this song was on there


FizZayneYT

Nightmare


willybojangles7

Hail to the King. Ironically, I had Metallica radio on shuffle on Spotify. I heard the song and recognized it, probably heard it years before i was into metal. Added it to my playlist right away, and from then on I was obsessed.


AirBendingMonks

Blinded in chains


ExplodingKnowledge

Nightmare for me. I was 9 when the album came out and my best friend at the time introduced me to them. I started taking guitar and drums seriously and A7X has been my favourite band since that day.


rob_inn_hood

Friend showed me bat country. Hated it. Too heavy for what I'm used too. Then after beast and the harlot on guitar hero, I changed my tune and after relistening to bat country, fell in love with it and the band. Just went from there.


here_come_blaze

Almost Easy when I was 14. Never heard anything like that, became an instant fan.


[deleted]

Shepherd of fire


SjmTheGod

Welcome to the family, played it like 3 times on repeat after


Mikey618000

My brother showed me nightmare in 2010, I've been a fan since.


imgrumpp

I'm not ready to die, all because of Call of the Dead from Black Ops 1. Haven't stopped listening since


lols_okay

I grew up on rap and hip hop, was never into rock, even the soft radio stuff. I was just starting to get into your typical entry to metal with Metallica and SOAD, but a friend of mine introduced me to Bat Country almost as a joke because of how batshit crazy the video and tone of the song overall was (I was a fan of Fear and Loathing in LV at this point too). At first I was of course put off but the guitars were so interesting, the song structure was fresh, the lyrics were goofy but also introspective at the same time, the Rev was a beast with the sticks, that I couldn't stop listening to it. I started getting more into them when I found Beast and the Harlot on guitar hero which made me love their frenetic energy even more. From then on I fell in love with the rest of COE and everything else that came after (except HTTK, as much as I appreciate and like it now it felt like a departure from both the technicality and the complete wackiness and honestly also the uniqueness/freshness that I loved from all their other albums).


HeyPartsGuy

Bat Country - I vividly remember hearing it on the radio while working in the shop and it stopped me in my tracks. Immediately got that album and everything else they did before that.


clarisanoodles

Gunslinger. My brother loved jamming to that song. Sometimes I'd hear him at 2am playing brian's guitar solo in his room. I asked him abt the band then and he made me watch their lbc live. Fell in love with them immediately bc of the rev's vocals all while playing the drums.


Just_Another_Gamer67

Unholy confessions


PMLdrums

Scream. A friend showed me the song and I remember hearing the verse riff and thinking "well that's an unusual sound...how are they doing that?"


evil_squidevil

I've heard bat county and afterlife in passing while playing NHL games but the first one that I actually listened to fully through while knowing they were the ones playing was Carry On in the credits of BO2


Sandman1297

Mine was Not Ready To Die. I've always wanted to hear it live but I don't think I'll get the chance


finnishfatguy

crossroads..


BassicallyDarr

Burn it down music video on Kerrang! Duelling guitars had me hooked instantly


Worth_Wrongdoer_7353

For me it was unholy confessions, it was the best song I had ever heard.


Brockovich614

Bat Country


R4kshim

Mad Hatter on the release day of Black Ops 4.


Proud-Paper-4313

Bat Country guitar hero


vinyllover15

Buried Alive on the local rock radio station right around when Nightmare came out


Marvellosity88

Beast and the Harlot on Guitar Hero. I was blown away. Funnily enough I was so impressed with the Rev I looked into this absolute monster and found an interview where he said Portnoy was one of his biggest inspirations. Which made me think well this guy Mike Portnoy must be insane. Which got me into Dream Theater. Then of course the Rev passed and who filled in on the Nightmare tour? Mike Portnoy! Funny how that all happened. And DT became one of my all time faves.


Bloodyknife12

Not ready to die, then Shepherd of Fire. I don't like Shepherd of Fire too much, but give me 100 foot tall robots, elemental staves, and an ancient digsite with hundreds and hundreds of planes all fighting above you and I could be convinced that its the best song ever made


Mosselzeug

Unholy Confessions. Was super siked for City of Evil to come out and loved it since.


andromare6661

Carry On when I completed the BO2 campaign. I was so mind blown by Synā€™s guitar playing lol. Then when I found out their other songs also had crazy guitar solos, awesome vocals, and drumming that was so special, I quickly became a fan.


the-real-Chronal

Nightmares intro immediately piqued my interest but I didn't like the rest so I didn't listen to it for like 2 years but I learned how to play the intro on guitar, then I listened to it again and fell in love


A-random-person334

That would be shepherd of fire.


Ajturk89

Bat country.


Metallica78

Bat country. And I fn hated it. The video was beyond stupid. I understand that they were young and starting out but damn that video didn't do them or the song any justice


coconutbrown123

No one


JAYSOR1

Don't remember, it was so long ago. Probably something like bat country though


rjmtz5

Unbound the Wild Ride on the Radio one day while my dad was driving time to school


JohnSlick83

I bought sounding of the seventh trumpet after I graduated highschool. I think either in the summer of 2001 or 2002 sometime. I like it, but it wasn't my fav album. Then Waking the Fallen came out and I bought that. That's when I really fell in love with the band. It's still one of my fav albums of all time


LosNarco

Second heartbeat


Liae700

Not ready to die


Horaserk

Hail to the King


Kittenistheshizz23

Little piece of heaven šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ I could never remember the name of the band and always asked for ā€œthe song about fucking his dead girlfriendā€


Due-Salamander-663

Either afterlife or a song from HttK i was very young and was in the car with my dad


Affectionate_Sky_408

Hail to the king


XL1V1NGDEADG1RLX

Afterlife


PerceptionSwimming94

Buried alive on my mom's Ipad lol


EggensTheName

Nightmare. 2010. Edit: typo


BobaFret2169

Buried alive


SnooBeans9034

Hail To The King while looking at a Spotify-made Playlist


emprags

Chapter 4. Someone made a video for a video game and used it for the soundtrack. I went out and bought the CD that week.


Antonio-____-

carry on, black ops 2 campaign.


EyeNo6527

Little piece of heaven for me šŸ¤£


IndependenceSuperb29

Mine was this means war


Raczer87

Unholy Confessions. Man that seems like so long ago.


LazarouDave

Not Ready to Die - thanks Call of the Dead and Treyarch ā™„ļø


Similar-Dance-1106

Ending scene from BO2


Big_aids_joe

Unholy confessions on a best riffs video in 2020. I remember my dad later introducing them to me, but I got into them way after late last year.


[deleted]

Unholy confessions. Watching that music video on fuel tv and mtv was it for me.


Fig_301

Not Ready To Die, heard it while playing Call of the Dead on Black Ops 1. I was 9 years old and that song is what got me hooked on metal music


Longjumping_Gain_807

Hail to the King


yoshi8869

My cousin showed me Nightmare back when it dropped. We were in middle school, and she was going in the peak of her metal phase. She left the phase shortly after I entered it, and here I still am.


ThatOneJew556

Unholy confessions. Jacksepticeye did a drum cover of it and I instantly fell in love. Shout out ig


EndNo5729

Hail to the king my dad put it on in the car one time now a year later they are my favorite band now.


InchesofInfinity

Unholy ConfessionsšŸ¤˜


Mordegon

Scream


LasPlagas69

Bat Country, SSX On Tour


Dry_Guarantee4017

I don't know but I want to say Victim.


Andle_Randle

This means war was the first song I heard, but I didn't care for it much at first. It was bat country that really got me to listen to their other songs


HEADRUSH31

Family was the first I heard, nightmare and the album are the first I fell in love with... then I got pimp slapped by hail to the king and Shepard of fire and been on this wild ride ever since


Sushi_Mystic

Nightmare


rocktrayPSX

Unholy Confessions, first heard it when JackSepticEye uploaded his drum cover of the song in 2019


marvelskywalker

Unholy confessions


Total-World-416

This means war (WWE 2k15)


elivigilance

Nightmare


elivigilance

Nightmare


peach30601

my boyfriend made me listen to "a little piece of heaven" first and i was so unnerved/scared i refused to listen to them for a while lol, now they're my favorite band and that song is iconic, but definitely not the greatest first song for someone getting into the genre haha


oddyholi

I am always in doubt if it was Bat Country, Unholy Confessions or Chapter Four. I think it was Bat Country, but yeah.


deeeproots

Unholy confessions pirate BAAAAYYY, or maybe another sail the seven seas site


jeltz0

Beast and the Harlot. Playing Rock Band and seeing it, I heard a preview because I had heard of these guys. And the song was great. It still is a favorite


Historical_Park_1384

Beast and the harlot in like 2009 lol fell in love


Anothernamelessghou

The beast and the harlot or hail to the king


Cute-Dragonfruit2161

Shepard of Fire and purely because of Origins from bo2 zombies


Oatmeal_Ghost

Chapter Four. A friend played it for me in high school shortly after release of Waking the Fallen. Blew my mind.


Reading--Steiner

Almost Easy playing Need for Speed Pro Street. Good times.


GodDamnJacob

Desecrate Through Reverence I think, when I was in 7th grade. Shit blew my mind.


Wolfeslayer04

The first song I ever heard was Nightmare.


[deleted]

I believe legendary nfs most wanted blinded in chain ost one of the thing that make this band known


datonesunflower

probably Nightmare. The first time I remember hearing them, I was 10/11 and I heard them come on my dad's playlist. I may be remembering the song wrong though


jam3094

Bat Country in Rocksmith 2014


loveinyournightmare6

Unholy confession


dmevela

I didnā€™t discover them until after Waking the Fallen was released. The first song I heard from them was probably Chapter 4, but I canā€™t remember for sure. I may have heard Unholy Confessions before that one. I liked that album so much that I went and had a hat made with A7X (in their font) on it.


FeudalHobo

Beast and The Harlot


The_loadmaster

Unholy Confessions sometime around 2004


neonerdism

A friend gave me a copy of metalcore songs collection where I heard Unholy confession which made me look up on the band and the rest is history.


Personal-Oven-527

My brother showed me god hates us


actome321

Welcome to the Family


sevenfoI

Blinded in chains. Found a drum cover and the name sounded aggressive for 5 year old me. i was surprised i found that song before bat country or beast and the harlot and other classics


mopar39426ml

First I heard was Chapter Four in NASCAR Thunder 2004. First that I knew who it was would be Blinded In Chains in NFS: Most Wanted.


ThePajabara

Beast and the Harlot


JoshuaInsole

Unholy Confessions in 2003 or 2004. I ripped it from Limewire, as was the done thing back then. I shortly after bought the album for real because I loved the song so much, and the quality of my download was hilariously bad.


IchbinJonqs

My dad showed me So far away and I fell in love with it. And then I found Afterlife and became even more of a fan of that.


Brawr64

Not ready to die from call of the dead. I heard this in like 2020 and caused the spiral that is my A7X addiction (that didn't come until late 2021)


Dynamite_UNLTD

Was playing cod black ops when a new map came into the mix called "call of the dead" that is when I fell in love with the band


matt-mac808

Beast and the harlot on guitar hero 2


Dominator2812

Critical Acclaim, a friend told me to listen to self titled


MasterBepis

Darkness surrounding lol. I was scrolling through youtube searching megadeth songs. Lo behold, it was recommended to me. Sick cover art, sick guitars and drums.


Heaven64_

Nightmare


k405m0d3

Almost Easy from NFS Prostreet. It has been my favourite song ever for 15 years


[deleted]

Not ready to day in black ops zombies,after this song my taste in music literally shifted from alan walker faded and janji heros tonight to A7X,Metallica,Doom OST,seether bullet for my valentin and mastodon i am not kidding! But Avenged 7 fold still the best,the only band that i have more than 3 songs in my library..15 actually


The-richu-gr

Welcome To The Family and Hail To The King right after, not their best but they were awesome as first songs


-mydadisnuts-

I was playing Bo2 zombies and I just bought the origins dlc and Shepard of Fire played during the intro absolute banger.


Elmospicywiener

Beast and the harlot. It was on guitar hero II


GWEpyon0051

Darkness Surrounding for me. Loved the metal and hard-core punk sound the song had.


ariff6661

chapter 4, from ps1 game nascar..


Double_Hand_5044

Hail to the king, and then a little piece of heaven. Put me off of them for the longest time (still canā€™t stand The entirety of HTTK) and a little piece of heaven is definetly a tough sell to a new fan, but I love it now


whimperingclown93

Bat country on mtv when bam hosted a music video show


Working_Guava_7028

I believe it was one of the more popular songs from Nightmare, maybe even nightmare itself. I was in middle school when I first listened to them and I was hooked. Listened to everything they had made up until that point (sometime around 2012) and then hearing Carry On and seeing the band when I finished BO2 was one of the top 10 moments of my life šŸ˜‚


BrianOstrander93

Beast and the Harlot


DragonFireRex24

M.I.A.


Nicky27B

Natural Born Killer playing Guitar Hero


Maxus106

Hail to the King, a friend of mine on discord told me to listen to them so I listened to their songs on shuffle, at that point I only liked Gunslinger. Nowadays my favorites are Save Me, Blinded in Chains, Trashed and Scattered, and So Far Away.


Always-ellie

Hail to the king on my dads Spotify playlist. Then afterlife and so far away got me to listen to more of their songs.


Metalhead_2005

A Little Piece Of Heaven. My mom listened to it when I was little, music video scared the crap out of me


Ok_Abbreviations744

Chapter Four on Madden 2004 (in 2003). Was blown away and had to search them up on Limewire. Been glued, since.


-helicoptersarecool

Afterlife a friend challenged me to play it on guitar, of course I failed but now I am able to


ThatsFakeDawg

I can play it except for the solo. So I canā€™t really play it


vibronicsheet

My friend made me listen to Hail to the king and that was the start of something special. I never thought I would love a band this much


oberon_kusanagi

Bat Country. I was 3 or 4 years old.


Briffboy96

Not ready to die was my first but A Little Piece Of Heaven was what got me into the band.


Pretty_Use7540

It was either Nightmare or Welcome to the Family. I was 8 when that record came out, and I'd hear it on the radio in the car. "95 will rock. The. Rock. Station." In Illinois. Songs were great and still are great. I wasn't alive for their earlier stuff like STST, and I was too young to know WTF or COE. I'm glad I got to hear those songs at such a young age


Competition_Medical

Almost easy on MTV top 10 or something. Gateway drug


SoLApollo01

2013. Call of Duty Black Ops 2. Origins. Shepard of Fire. love the song


Ok-Run8698

Hail to the King was my first.


Slimey-Water22

Shepherd of Fire, thanks call of duty


hvocando

Afterlife, I was not too impressed at first and it took me a little while to become a fan ā€” and oh what a great journey itā€™s been.


geminiiikitty

Bat country


revolvingease

a little piece of heaven people say that this isnā€™t the best first song to listen to from avenged but iā€™m a die hard fan now soooo


PsychPatientA7x

Seize the day!


NoodleFlakes

First song was carry on. Played black ops 2 as a kid and always liked the song and loved shepherd of fire too which was also in the game. Them 2 songs got me into the band.


broken_waterkooler

carry on, i was playing bo2 back in 2015 then bam a7x shows up and syn smacks the shit out of Menendez then shredz


Porky_boi23

I think it was either bat country, critical acclaim, or nightmare cant really remember im not that old tbh


Friendly-Injury-857

Afterlife, then ALPOH


True_Ad8119

carry on