When was fiction by avenged sevenfold written

It wasn't just like losing a band member; it was like losing a brother, losing a best friend, and like losing your fucking spouse, and it's like losing your dream, all in the same moment. It's something that most people will never be able to comprehend, just really the most absolute definition of devastation. And you don't care about anything. All you care about at that moment is the friends that you do have and watching out for them like a fucking hawk and watching out for yourself and making sure that you don't leave the world and hurt your friends.

And it's just a lot of crazy stuff that happens at that moment. One of the thousands upon thousands. We all kind of laughed a little bit. As the night went on, we just were telling all of our favorite stories of Jimmy. That was extremely therapeutic.

Without the rest of my best friends, I don't know what would have happened. It was really hard. I had known Jimmy for longer than I had known anybody else. He was best friends with Brian before Brian joined the band. He was just very much, in a weird way, the guy who brought us all together.

GATES After his death, nobody told the same story twice and nobody stopped telling funny stories of this guy, for days. The fucking stories just never ended. The healing process was just so expedited because everybody just fucking laughed the whole time. We would never want to ever show anybody that time because when we were together we were just guiltily laughing the whole time, celebrating his life. It wasn't until we were alone, which was very rare, that we were like, Oh fuck, our friend is gone.

It was just the band's done and that sucks; we just can't continue Avenged Sevenfold without Jimmy. I hope. It was for all of us. We literally sat here for weeks and didn't leave the house, like we couldn't see anybody 'cause no one knows what to say, and it's always the wrong thing.

And it's like, you don't want to hear anything, you're just so angry and sad, and you're trying to make it better and it's never better, it's just weird. Like, we were sitting at Johnny's house on New Year's Eve — no one could drink 'cause we were all getting so much anxiety and stuff from it. And we were sitting there watching Times Square and New Year's Eve, everyone's partying, and we're just, like, three days after, and we're just like, Fuck.

And we go outside and it's the first blue moon we had in 10 years and it looked like an eye looking down on us, and I was like, "Fuck, man. We need to finish this record for Jimmy. Come on, we have to. CHRIST As we started to talk about it, we started to realize that we have a full record and a lot of these songs — I mean, Jimmy's had a part in every song and a lot of the songs are percent his. He probably wrote about 60 percent of this record, himself.

And the answer was, "Fuck yeah. And Jimmy's not playing on the album, but he wouldn't care — he wanted people to hear what he had written, the music that he'd written. The actual performing, he couldn't give a shit about that his entire life. He just wanted people to hear him as an artist. He left us with a gift, he left the whole fucking world with a gift, and it was basically up to us to show the world what we're made of. VENGEANCE It was our defining moment, not only as a band, but as human beings to go through the hardest thing we've ever faced and have to stare it right in the fucking face and listen to these songs with Jimmy humming the melodies on them and finishing the fucking songs and bringing them to the studio and, you know, just constantly be reminded of the fucking heartache.

But we knew that what we had was so dark and so fucking magical, musically, that we had to go in there during the hardest times and fucking let out everything that we were feeling.

Only problem with that is that [ laughs ] most of his idols can't play what Jimmy does. I won't name names, but to get that fucking progressive and advanced and grooving at times is pretty much impossible. Mike Portnoy had sent his condolences and had been talking to Matt a little bit.

We thought about it and we were like, Well, who else can play these parts? Who else can we ask that can pull off Jimmy's creativity on these parts? Mike Portnoy was a huge influence on Jimmy as a kid and as a drummer growing up.

So, it was a good fit. So we went to [ Anaheim music product trade show ] NAMM very secretively, had a secret dinner with him, so no one saw us together, 'cause we didn't know how it was going to work out, and Mike came down there and we just talked and we gave him demos. And he called me the next day, flipping on the demos. He's like, "Dude, this is going to be unbelievable. Maybe he didn't prefer to go out when he did, but he had said some wild shit really alluding to it.

He knew that he lived a crazy life. I think all of this shit is part of the guy's master plan and nobody took control from that guy. Nobody controlled Jimmy.

Jimmy controlled himself — or lost control of himself. Either way, it was all ridiculous. Having said that, I think having his idol play in his stead … I mean, hopefully, he's up there seeing Mike Portnoy's approach to his music. I think that would just be an incredible, incredible gift for him.

He was very awesome. He basically came up and said, "This is your guys' record. This is Jimmy's record. If there's anything you want me to play, I'll play it. I'm your puppet. What we were thinking was, That's very cool of him. This is a drummer that we've all grown up listening to and loving. He's a huge hero in our books.

Then he's just like, "Yeah, I'll do whatever you want me to do. It feels like he played on it. Drumming-wise, Jimmy had written all the drum parts. And Portnoy does a really good job of channeling what Jimmy was doing.

Maybe it's 'cause I know the demos and I know that we sat there, 12 hours a song with Portnoy, making sure he played every beat like Jimmy played it. We drove Mike crazy sometimes 'cause we had him doing punk beats, and he'd never played that stuff before.

He always wanted to do it, like, backwards or different and he's just like, "Fucking turning me into an O. So this feels like our last record with Jimmy, even though he didn't have to do any of the hard work in the studio. We exhausted ourselves to just let the world know about how great Jimmy really was and to do it for his honor and his legacy and for our friendship, because he's still a part of everything that we do. We wouldn't want his name on anything if it wasn't a fucking a masterpiece.

It was a part of the story [ of the original concept album ]. The reason I didn't change it is because Jimmy loved them so much and I thought it would be a dishonor to him to scrap all the lyrics. So I left those lyrics, I left the lyrics to "Danger Line. Lyrically, I was working every night, and I wasn't rushing anything 'cause I needed to sink into my depression to write.

It sucked, but, like, I couldn't really drink. I'd just drink a glass of wine, just kind of sit in a room and look at pictures of Jimmy. And I'd write and it's the only thing I could do. So yeah, it was just a bizarre process, a lot of anxiety, a lot of crazy feelings, and then, like, it's hard for me to even show people the record. Not that I don't think they should hear it, it's just that, I listen to it and I'm not excited about it, you know what I mean?

It's like … I was excited about [ the song ] "Nightmare" 'cause it had nothing to do with the guy and he loved it. And there's a couple of other songs that I can listen to, but a lot of it, like, the end of the record is very on him and, like, stuff he wrote. Like that song "Death," [ which appears on the album as "Fiction" ] that's a hard song to listen to. If Jimmy did kill himself, A7x wouldn't want it to go public, and I would understand them, because people are such dicks about it.

From the Youtube comments you can quickly tell that many people wouldn't respect his decision to end his pain. So I'm just stating things that back up my hypothesis but I'm not establishing it as fact.

It's just the feeling I get from all these insinuations What I don't completely agree with is Garte's interpretation of this verse, although his does also make sense. Not that I could Or that I would Let it burn Under my skin Let it burn In my opinion, Jimmy's making a reference to the heart problem cardiomegaly that's been causing his pain.

He's saying here that he wouldn't, and couldn't, let "it" the disease continue to burn under his skin. He just didn't want it to keep making him suffer, so he decided to end it once and for all by taking his life and going to the peace just on the other side It's tragic that he had to go so early. In a world where talent in music is rare and undervalued, it hits even harder that such a multifaceted, versatile, skillful, unique and talented musician is gone foREVer.

I regret never having seen A7x in concert while the Rev was still alive. A7x is practically a perfect band, with phenomenally and equally gifted members, and it may sound corny, but you can't deny that without the Rev, some of that perfection is lost The Rev's voice and composition skills were unique to him. That being said, however, I have been greatly empowered by the ability of the remaining A7x members to carry on This is why I love both the band and its music.

The music can express such a wide range of emotions, and the band members are emotionally strong with great character and a great devotion to their fans.

Although I think it's terrible that Jimmy killed himself, it doesn't change my respect for him as a very extraordinarily talented musician. And I respect his decision. XelaSteele on November 13, Link. That's right. The music was all written, and the only lyrics written were Nightmare, and the small parts of Fiction that the Rev recorded. Nightmare had placeholder lyrics, but the Rev liked them so much that the band decided to stick with the lyrics to honor the Rev's desire. He was singing whatever came to mind so that he could get the melody down.

People, this was not a suicide, but idiotic mistakes leading to the premature death of a great musician. What a waste too, he could have become much more than what he left as. It may have been "unexpectedly" to us, but maybe not those who knew Jimmy, and Jimmy himself?

They might have known he didn't have long left. I do agree with what you say about those lyrics though. The way Jimmy sings it makes me thing he's almost doing an over the top impression of Matt. You know what he was like! General Comment Nevermind, second. General Comment Chills run through my me when I listen to this, it is The Rev's last song he wrote and its so weird that it ends up being his goodbye.

His whole story is unreal hence the title. Its crazy how the band says that he recorded his vocals as a demo and they turned out perfect for the song. Pope Regis on July 30, Link. Pope Regis. Artists - A. Rate These Lyrics. We do not have any tags for Fiction lyrics. Why not add your own? Log in to add a tag. He'll come back as a part of each a7x fan, and live inside each member of a7x. As the drum master. Dude, you rock!

But seriously, hurry up with giving god those drum lessons! I love this song and the revs death affected all of us now he did die of natural causes and this song did make a big connfliction with the thought of him commiting suicide but this song was just a song to him and great one at that and he left us with a very vivid and candid memory of him and avenged will never be the same without him but the important thing to know was he was happy and his memory will live on forever.

Just remember heroes are remembered and legends live forever. Rest in peace Jimmy. I think this song is a goodbye, almost like the rev knew he was going to die.

It's about facing someone's absence with grace, and not to be afraid of what may come next. There's peace on the other side, meaning he's not suffering, so there's no need to be sad for him. I think of my little brother every thime I hear this song.

He passed away a few months ago, and this is the one song that always brings me peace. Such a beautiful song with meaningful lyrics. Those are very hard to come by. The rev didn't want to have a painful death. He knew he did not have long. This was his suicide note to his family, friends, and fans. This was the only way the rev knew how to do it, and he did it the best way in my opion. The rev also wrote brompton cocktail, which means a mixture of drugs and alcohol for a suicide. His suicide was a brompton cocktail.

Three days before he died, he finished the song. He called it death. The very end lyrics he repeats over and over are, "i hope its worth it what's left behind me, I know you'll find your own way when I'm not with you tonight", and he sings that 4 times over and over like, over this eerie organ, and like the slowest, saddest key changes… and he died 3 days later. He told me that night, he'd finished it. He said "you know matt, I'm finished writing on this record.

I think I've given you guys everything that I have on this record. I don't know if we have anymore songs left from anybody else or what we're going to do but this, this is my final song.

It's so sad. But so sweet. Only the rev could make something this beautiful. It's not a suicide note. Remember, "everybody's gotta die sometime". Just, in general though, everybody does die eventually, and jimmy knew that, especially someone with his heart condition knew to make the best of everyday. Basically, this song, victim, so far away, and save me are just.

I don't know what to say. They're just beautiful. Heartfelt, anguished, and amazing. Jimmy died on this day, but he is very much alive in our hearts and in every crazy part in our minds. Rest in peace, you drumming legend, you. Seeing as how jimmy also had fiction tattoo'ed down his chest. This songs meaning; what I think? Is having a safe journy to the afterlife. Knowing everyone back down here on earth will forever miss him. Hes in a better place, happy. He knows each and everyone of his fans and family love him and treasure the memories of him for a life time.

We all will see you again some day dear friend. Goodbye for now jimmy. Live on forever. Fiction isn't a suicide note by Jimmy. According to Johnny, it's a song Jimmy had written a long time ago, but never really completed it.

Guess he decided to complete it before he passed on. Another thing is, Jimmy did know he wasn't gonna live past the age of I saw it in an interview somewhere where Syn said he kept telling Papa Gates he wouldn't be able to live past 30 when he was a teenager or something like that. Lastly, I think it's true when a person knows that their time is almost up. Jimmy knew, that's why he didn't drink when he attended Zacky's 28th birthday party 'cause he knew Zacky gets upset when he drank too much alcohol.

He even insisted on Zacky keeping his favorite Jacket I think it's the one with Death Bat on the back and the words Avenged Sevenfold go over and under the Death Bat when Zacky asked him to take it back.

With all respect guys, The Rev death was suicide. Just read this god damn song and any other song he has made! He didn't like this world, he meant it was cold and he couldn't understand it. But he love his friends, he love his family and quote him: "Not that i could, or that i would. Let it burn under my skin, let it burn" that could be drugs, pills and alcohol kicking in, and it burns because the body reaction. Read any other song he has made, like Brompton Cocktail, it's the same thing, he didn't like the world, but he loved his fans, friends and family, and i'll respect his choice.

This world is cruel, and he left behind a lot of things, but we will remember him as a damn good drummer and one of the best songwriters Imo. P Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan. It seems to me like Jimmy is telling Brian take care of the people we love and know that I'm in a better place. I'm not saying he comitted suicide, but maybe he felt like it was his time to go. Sometimes people feel down and I think Jimmy's death was purely by coincidence.

It was his life to write songs and perform. It only makes sense that his feelings and emotions would come out in his music. I don't think A7x would have released this song if they thought it was a 'suicide' note. It was written by Brian to say if you were still able to hear me I would tell you the people we love are alright. Of course Brian misses Jimmy. It only makes sense. They were in two bands together and they were friends in high school.