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“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.
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“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.