“We didn’t know what we were doing! We went there with a million ideas and laid them down with a tiny budget. “It was completely raw,” offers Zacky on the band’s promising but flawed debut. “There was a bunch of mistakes but he was like, ‘It’s one take, it’s gonna be cool!’ Ha ha ha! But it was a learning process.” “Jimmy recorded all of those drums in one take,” explains Shadows of their 2001 debut album, Sounding The Seventh Trumpet. In fact, in those early days, as the millennium settled in and the rowdy young gang (now a band with a few shows under their belts) had actually managed to haul themselves into a studio to record an album, both The Rev’s unbelievable talent and his somewhat… unusual approach to things became even more apparent. As we know and still feel all too well, his journey would come to a tragic and frustratingly early end on that fateful day in December 2009, but his contribution to the band’s history remains immeasurable. There seems to be no doubt at all that Jimmy Sullivan, known and dearly loved by millions around the world as one-man drumming machine The Rev, was a chief instigator in much of the madness that crowded both Avenged’s early years as cheeky, high jinx-baiting Cali scamps and the headline-grabbing escapades that would come later. We started talking about music and were friends by the end of our time out!”
He tapped me in the chest, so I hit him and we got sent outside. I remember that we were in line sending in our woodshop projects, and he turned his head and looked at me like I was shit. “The first day I met Jimmy, I punched him,” counters Brian Haner, AKA lead axeman Synyster Gates, quite spectacularly. I thought, ‘I love this guy!’, and I found out he lived five houses away from me, so I got my bike and that was it. We hooked up, and he was like, ‘Hey, I’m riding my bike out, you wanna jump on the handlebars?’ So I jumped on, and the whole way home I knocked over every trash can. “I knew Jimmy was trouble because he had a reputation that he was a bit of an out-of-control kid. “The first time I met Jimmy, I was at basketball camp during the summer,” remembers Shadows. And, if there is one common line that seems to run through a lot of these early tales, it’s that one member in particular seemed to often be at the heart of it all… As Hammer is joined by the band to take a mightily entertaining trip down memory lane, taking stock of their amazing journey and the road that has led them to this point in their career, it becomes abundantly clear that once you tap through that media-trained coolness that greets many of their interviews, there is a warmth and shared history running through the quintet that consolidates the ‘band of brothers’ tag that they have worn proudly right from the start. From those early days of Goonies-esque mischief to the excess, decadence and controversy of the City Of Evil era (more of that later), this is a band that has hardly shied away from creating a spot of bother every now and again. Indeed, growing up has played a monumental role in the journey of Avenged Sevenfold. Paul Gray: the life and death of Slipknot’s quiet genius.Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best.20 essential metal albums still to come in 2020.The 20 best Avenged Sevenfold songs ever.“Well, you know, I think that’s part of growing up.” “Ha!” comes the response from his singer.
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