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'Bat Country' | ||||
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Single by Avenged Sevenfold | ||||
from the album City of Evil | ||||
Released | August 9, 2005 | |||
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Label | Warner | |||
Songwriter(s) | Avenged Sevenfold | |||
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'Bat Country' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold, released in August 2005 as the second single from their third album, City of Evil. Avenged Sevenfold won 'Best New Artist Video' at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for 'Bat Country' and on October 1, 2009, the single was certified gold by the RIAA. For these reasons, 'Bat Country' is often believed to be the band's most commercially successful song. The song was ranked at number 20 on Loudwire's Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs.[1] It also was rated as number 9 on Ultimate Guitar's list of Top 25 Best Songs With Guitar Duels.[2]
When Avenged Sevenfold broke through in the U.S. With 2005’s pulverizing twin-guitar assault “Bat Country,” their sudden popularity was akin to “madness,” according to frontman M. “We were pretty much one of the only new breed of rock bands being played on MTV,” he recalled to Apple Music. Download 2018 – Essentials Faixas: 01. Hail to the King 02. Shepherd of Fire 06. This Means War 08. A Little Piece of Heaven 10. Buried Alive 11. Beast and the Harlot 12. Welcome to the Family 14. Seize the Day Download 2020 – Diamonds.
Background and content[edit]
The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky. With this, he gasps to his companion and attorney, Dr. Gonzo, 'We can't stop here. This is bat country.'
Free adobe download for mac. The following quote, also included at the beginning of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, is referred to twice throughout the song (at the beginning and the bridge before the last chorus) and is shown at the beginning of the music video.
'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.' – Samuel Johnson
Also referenced in the song is a lyric derived from the final words spoken about Dr. Gonzo at the end of the film adaptation. The lyric is used at the end of the second breakdown of the song, as the final lyric of the song.
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'There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.' – Raoul Duke
In popular culture[edit]
The song has been used in several video games including EA Sports' NHL 06, Madden NFL 06,[3]SSX on Tour, Saints Row 2, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, as downloadable content for Rock Band and Rock Band 2, the iPhone application Tap Tap Revenge 3 and on the newer version Tap Tap Revenge 4. The song is featured on the soundtrack to the extreme mountain bike film New World Disorder 7: Flying High Again. The song is featured in the rhythm game Rocksmith 2014. The song appeared on an episode of the FOXTV seriesBones entitled 'The Superhero in the Alley'. It is also appeared briefly in the comedy film Big Momma's House 2.
Track listings[edit]
- CD
- 'Bat Country' – 5:13
- 'Beast and the Harlot' (Live from the Warped Tour) – 6:08
- 'Bat Country' (Music video)
Charts and sales[edit]
Peak positions[edit]
| Certifications[edit]
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Personnel[edit]
- Avenged Sevenfold
- M. Shadows – lead vocals
- Zacky Vengeance – rhythm guitar, co-lead guitar, backing vocals
- The Rev – drums, backing vocals
- Synyster Gates – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Johnny Christ – bass
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- Production
- Produced by Andrew Murdock
- Music video directed by Marc Klasfeld
- Artwork by Cam Rackam
References[edit]
Avenged Sevenfold Songs
- ^'No. 20: Avenged Sevenfold, 'Bat Country' – Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs'. Loudwire.
- ^'Friday Top: 25 Best Songs With Guitar Duels - Music News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com'. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
- ^'Madden NFL 06 Soundtrack – Music News at IGN'. Music.ign.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^U.S. certifications, database riaa.comArchived June 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved August 31, 2008)
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External links[edit]
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- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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