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• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Most people's reaction when Matt started doing screaming vocals again during the 2008 tour, and on the new album Nightmare. Also, when it seemed all hope was lost after the death of The Rev, people everywhere were concerned that they would not be able to continue or ever find a drummer that could match the prowess of the original. Not only did they continue, but Mike Freakin' Portnoy, The Rev's favorite drummer and influence stepped in to fill in for the spot.
• Anvilicious: "Critical Acclaim" from the Self Titled album.
• Awesome Music:
  • Take your pick, but City of Evil is a good start.
  • They YMMV with the band, even haters tend to agree that "Bat Country", "Unholy Confessions", and "The Beast and The Harlot" are awesome songs.
• Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene of Jimmy chasing a goose in All Excess.
• Bloody Hilarious: "A Little Piece of Heaven"
• Broken Base: Fans of Avenged Sevenfold's earlier material vs fans of their later material. Fans opinions of the Self-Titled Album is particularly split.
• Crack Pairing: Arin and Jimmy. There is bandslash for Arin and Jimmy.
• Crazy Awesome: The Rev.
  • Taken Up to Eleven with Pinkly Smooth.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A Little Piece of Heaven
• Epic Riff: Many.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • Some say that "Fiction" is The Rev's suicide note, and that he killed himself over his heart condition and drug habits...Yeah...
  • There's been more than one fanfiction written where The Rev's not dead but in a mental hospital and the rest of the band is claiming that he's dead to protect him.
• "Funny Aneurysm" Moment:
  • It's a little unsettling to hear The Rev say "You'll never see me again" in this interview. Also, the song "Fiction" definitely counts even though it was released after his death, as it was the last song he wrote and the song is told from the point of view of someone recently deceased saying goodbye to their loved ones. To add to the eeriness, it contains the very last vocal and piano tracks he ever recorded and is the only song on the album that features his voice and playing. Well that, and this quote:
  M. Shadows: "The new album, Nightmare, is dedicated to The Rev's memory and although it's not exactly a concept album, it does center around The Rev. The eeriest thing about it is there is a song on the album called "Fiction", which started out with the title "Death". And the song was the last song The Rev wrote for the album, and when he handed it in, he said, that’s it, that’s the last song for this record. And then 3 days later, he died."
  • Not quite - he'd actually been writing the song for several years, referring to it as his masterpiece.
  • Another one here.
• Funny Moments:
  • The Rev was made of this.
  • Go watch any of the backstage footage they've filmed for DVDs, or the vignettes they recorded for the Taste of Chaos tour.
    • An example: The Rev yelling"Look at the size of that fuckin' duck!!! LOOK AT THAT DUCK! JESUS CHRIST! Come here, ya fuckin'...stallion duck!" followed by him chasing said duck down while growling "HE'S NOT AFRAID AT ALL!"
  • This is just some of it. We could be here all day trying to find more.
• Growing the Beard:
  • It's often agreed that Waking The Fallen was the point where the band truly began to realize their potential as songwriters, which would later be expanded (in a different direction) on their works after leaving the field of metalcore.
  • Nightmare had much deeper lyrics than their previous albums, due mostly to the band's Author Existence Failure making the other band members more emotional.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • This quote from Revolver's Avenged Sevenfold collector's edition:
  Synyster Gates: "Yeah, he fucking planned it all, that crazy fuck. Knew he was gonna be gone before 30. He told my dad that he was fucking out. He said, "I know two things: I'm gonna be in a famous rock band, and I'm gonna die before I'm 30." He told my dad that at 15."
  • The song Brompton Cocktail. For those unaware, it was written by The Rev about a man who will die due to something wrong with him and is given a Brompton cocktail (a mix of morphine or heroin, cocaine, and alcohol) to relieve the pain. The Rev was found with OxyContin, Valium, and alcohol in his system when he died; his enlarged heart was either considered part of the reason why he died, or he used them to make sure he wouldn't die suddenly from the aforementioned heart defect.
  • It's often said of him that he had a "huge heart", like a kind heart. He also had an enlarged heart, which partially lead to his death.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Their 2010 album, Nightmare features numerous tributes to the Rev.
  • The video for Nightmare never shows the band performing together (Only Zacky & Syn playing together in the guitar solo), and ends with a single shot of The Rev's final drum kit, bathed in a white light - And this is the only shot of the drums in the entire video.
    • Technically there is a shot of The Rev's kit from City of Evil, smashed, broken, and crawling with spiders, (a reference to the Afterlife video, which has spiders crawling on The Revs face.) near the beginning.
    • Also, the video opens with a shot of a tattoo of The Rev's deathbat on Matt's hand
  • Mike Portnoy stepping in to fill in for The Rev on the album Nightmare and following tours. He was The Rev's favorite drummer and biggest influence.
  • In terms of heartwarming songs, "Warmness on The Soul" is a good example."I give my heart,cause nothing can compare in this world to you......."
• He's Just Hiding: More than a few fans are convinced that The Rev's in the woods training to become the knife master.
• Ho Yay:
  • Lots, but you can thank Jimmy and Brian for most of it.
  • There's a lot between Brian and Zacky, as well.
  • This picture of Brian and Matt deserves a mention.◊
• Memetic Mutation: "Look at the size of that fucking duck!"
• Memetic Sex God: Brian.
• Narm: Their stage names.
• Narm Charm:
  • The line "IT'S YOUR FUCKIN' NIGHTMAAAAAARE, HA HA HA" is very clichéd and cheesy, but nobody seems to care besides a few critics. "A Little Piece Of Heaven" is full of narm as well, but it's all tongue-in-cheek.
  • Their stage names fall under this.
  • Warmness On The Soul is a sweet song, but some think that Matt's voice ruins it.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The music videos for many of their songs, but most notably the videos for "Bat Country" and "The Beast and the Harlot".
  • "A Little Piece of Heaven".
  • The Nightmare video has this, appropriately enough - Children playing in blood, a catatonic Syn Gates banging his bloodied head against a window...
  • Fiction is very chilling. Subverted when it becomes a Tear Jerker about half way through it.
    • And then goes back to being Nightmare Fuel for the last thirty seconds or so, which is basically a passage of eery near-silence.
• Older Than They Think: Overkill's mascot Chaly has been around longer than A7X's Deathbat. The former band has even sent the members of the latter band shirts telling them to "get your own fuckin' mascot!" for "stealing" the design.
• The Scrappy: "Dear God"
• Ship Mates: The bandslash fans do this a lot, most often with Synacky and Jimohnny.
• Squick: "A Little Piece Of Heaven"
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: See Broken Base.
• Too Cool to Live: Just take a guess.
• Too Good to Last: A line in "Victim" says, "Nothing lasts forever; for all good things, it's true."