Bat Country
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| "Bat Country" | ||
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| Single by Avenged Sevenfold | ||
| from the album City of Evil | ||
| Released | September 26, 2005 | |
| Format | CD 7/12" Vinyl |
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| Genre | Heavy Metal | |
| Length | 5:13 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | Mudrock and Avenged Sevenfold | |
| Avenged Sevenfold singles chronology | ||
| Bat Country (2005) |
Beast and the Harlot (2006) |
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"Bat Country" is a single by an American hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold from their 2005 album, City of Evil. The song is based upon Hunter S. Thompson's book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The title comes from a line in the film adaptation of the book in which the main character in the middle of a drug trip and seeing hallucinatory bats, swats at the bats with a fly-swatter and says, "We can't stop here. This is bat country.".
The video for this song shows various symbolic images and references to the above-mentioned Thompson book. The song centers around the band performing in a hotel room, surrounded by exotic dancers. There are also cuts to a scene in which the band is driving down a barren highway in a bat-winged convertible, surrounded by a cloud of bats (who are being swatted by The Reverend). During the "soft" section, the band appears at a strip club, surrounded by snake-tongued strippers. Another major theme in the video is the distorted faces of many of the characters, an apparent nudge to Avenged Sevenfold's contempt for the modern American.
The song has been used in several video games including EA Sports' NHL 06, Madden NFL 06 and SSX On Tour. It also had a short cameo in Big Momma's House 2.
The song is on the soundtrack of the extreme mountainbikefilm New World Disorder 7: Flying High Again.
Avenged Sevenfold won 'Best New Artist' at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for Bat Country.
| Avenged Sevenfold |
| M. Shadows | Synyster Gates | Zacky Vengeance | Johnny Christ | The Rev |
| Daemon Ash | Justin Sane |
| Discography |
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| Early Avenged Sevenfold releases | Sounding the Seventh Trumpet | Warmness on the Soul | Sounding the Seventh Trumpet Re-Release | Waking the Fallen | City of Evil | Untitled Fourth Album |
| Singles |
| Warmness on the Soul | Unholy Confessions | Burn it Down | Bat Country | Beast and the Harlot | Seize the Day |
| Label(s) |
| Warner Bros. Records | Hopeless Records | Goodlife Recordings |
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