Almost Easy
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| Single by Avenged Sevenfold from the album Avenged Sevenfold |
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| Released | September 18, 2007 | ||||
| Format | Digital Download, 7" vinyl | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock Heavy Metal |
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| Length | 3:54 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
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"Almost Easy" is a song by the American hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. The song appears on their new self-titled album where it will be the first single from the album released to mainstream rock radio. The song was premiered at a concert in Indonesia. The song was originally planned to be on the Transformers soundtrack but it was not finished in time.
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[edit] Background
The song was officially released on September 18, 2007 through online music stores like iTunes, URGE.
This song was written by the band's drummer, James "The Rev" Sullivan. Also, in the chorus of this song, for the first time the whole band sang simultaneously - All 5 members combined their voices for more of a choir sound, which was shown in the MVI that came with the new album.
The song was premiered in Jakarta and Singapore during Avenged Sevenfold's 2007 Southeast Asian Tour. Videos of the performance in Singapore can be found on YouTube.
The song is on the Need for Speed: Pro Street soundtrack, and was released as a part of a downloadable "modern metal" song pack for the music video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock on March 6, 2008.
[edit] Formats and track listings
- Almost Easy [Main Version]
- Almost Easy [Live Version]
[edit] Music video
The band released a video for "Almost Easy" with director P.R. Brown (Mötley Crüe, Marilyn Manson). The video debuted on Fuse's The Sauce on September 24, 2007 and MTV2's Unleashed on October 1, 2007.
The video shows the band playing on a barren wasteland whilst they appear to be aflame. Over a ridge, a huge crowd of hundreds of people appear, walking in a zombie-like fashion towards the band, only to stop at a large gaping hole and jump downwards, into, what one can only suppose, is Hell. Special effects show some parts where the people have skulls for faces and demonic faces. At the end of the video, when the last person jumps down the cavern, the camera zooms out from the band, showing that the hole the people were jumping into was actually the eye of the demonic figure pictured on the artwork of Avenged Sevenfold, the "death bat". The band stated in an interview with FUSE host Steven Smith on Steven's Untitled Rock Show that the inspiration for the video came from a Wendy's commercial they saw in Asia in which a large crowd is running toward the same hamburger. M. Shadows then said "wouldn't it be cool if we (Avenged Sevenfold) were playing in a fiery blaze and a bunch of people were running towards us" an idea that eventually became the video for "Almost Easy." The band has posted a video of "Almost Easy" live at Warped Tour on their Myspace blog.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[1] | 67 |
| UK Rock Chart[2] | 1 |
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 |
| Modern Rock Tracks | 6 |
| U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 | 6 |
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