Darkness Surrounding
Avenged Sevenfold
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Darkness coats us. The smell of fall. Changing season. The graveyard is alive, black cat across my path, the chill of cold wind, the breath of the dead. Imprisoned souls. Trapped for eternity. Black crows break the silence. The garden of the dead s alive tonight and you can't stop it. Just enjoy it. Open up your mind and you will feel it too. The sound, the touch, the thoughts, that you've been so blind to. You can feel the thoughts of the dead. Feeling the thoughts of the dead. True or false, it's still there, teaching me. True or false, still there, teaching me. You can feel it tonight. The wood has rotted away. Take the time absorb it. Their time is slipping away. Stone all carved by hand. Statues that resemble their faces. They still breathe. Come join us. Smell the burning embers, time flickering away Timeless but soon gone Timeless but soon gone, and I can find myself, alone with just my thoughts As time crumbles away Time crumbles away
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Written by: BRIAN ELWIN, BRIAN HANER, JR., JAMES SULLIVAN, JAMES OWEN SULLIVAN, JR. HANER, MATTHEW SANDERS, MATTHEW CHARLES SANDERS, ZACHARY BAKER, ZACHARY JAMES BAKER
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10 facts about this song
Release Information"Darkness Surrounding" is a track off Avenged Sevenfold's debut studio album "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" which was released in 2001.
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Genre IndicationThis song, aligning with much of the album it belongs to, is characterized by a heavy metal and hardcore punk style. This is before the band transitioned towards a more classic metal and hard rock sound in their later releases.
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Band LineupThe song features the band's original lineup, including M. Shadows as lead vocals, Zacky Vengeance as rhythm guitar, Synyster Gates as lead guitar, The Rev as drums, and Justin Sane as bass guitar.
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Songwriting Credits"Darkness Surrounding" is attributed to the band members, with M. Shadows and The Rev often cited as the principal songwriters, reflecting on themes of life, death, and the soul's unrest.
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Performance StyleUnlike many of the band's later hits, this song reflects an early emphasis on aggressive screaming and fast-paced, intricate guitar work.
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Re-ReleaseThe song was later re-released as part of the "Waking the Fallen: Resurrected" album in 2014 which commemorated the band's early work.
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Subject MatterThe song's lyrics are quite dark, exploring eternal unrest and the tormented state of a soul in the afterlife, in line with the band's early thematic explorations of life, death, and spirituality.
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Musical Identity"Darkness Surrounding" significantly contributes to the band's emerging musical identity at the time, which would later evolve but always retain an element of the dark, spiritual themes present in this song.
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ReceptionWhile the song and the album it was part of were not initially commercially successful, they have since gained recognition among fans and critics as an important part of Avenged Sevenfold's formative years.
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Live PerformancesIt's not a commonly played track in their live concerts; it was performed more often in their earlier years.
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