Loknath Shankar they literally ripped off one Metallica song. And they toured with Metallica, so obviously Lars doesn't care otherwise he woulda sued them for everything they had xD
They get hate because most people tend to be jealous and don't own it. And also because most people listening to music never played an instrument enough to create anything at all. Usually, real musicians are capable of acknowledging musical talent even in a genre that is completely different than theirs.
See I think best is purely opinion based. In my opinion, Syn is the best, because his playing speaks to me the most. So for me, his is the best. Now are there other artists who are more technical, and probably better players? Of course. But they aren't better to me, because his style is my favorite, and the way he writes and plays has such soul and passion to it. So for me, I'd say it's purely opinion based, because you'll never get everyone to agree on who is the best.
It's pretty cool observing what Zacky and Syn both decide to play for individual guitar clips. This guitar duo is literally one of the best I know of. Brian is clearly the better lead player and Zack is clearly the better rhythm player. I don't think either one could create music on guitar like the other could. Brian might be considered more skillful, but that's why he is the lead. I'm sure these guys would agree that if they switched rolls neither one could do a better job than the other. They are literally the perfect match for writing heavy metal.
That's the dumbest shit I've ever read... Synyster couldn't play rhythm!? He records 90% of the guitars on every album. Zacky helps write and record miniscule amounts and has to learn everything from syn to play live... Any mediocre guitar player could replace Zack... It must be burdensome to be that stupid.
If Syn n Zack ever get to reading these comments; first of I wanna say the 2 of you, aside from the band as a whole, are more like brothers than anything else. Second, me myself as a growing musician, you guys as well as the band itself are one of the biggest influences out there. You guys are just AWESOME!!!
A7X is one of the few bands that is more than just the sum of it's members. I feel sorry for the people who think they're bad. They're missing out on some of the best songwriting there is
Magmoormaster i like how you take Avenged Sevenfold one of the best bands of this century with best songwriting of all time and you compare them to Opeth
Aadarsh Thomas Raj so syn to dime is what you are to you to syn to dime to syn to you to syn to dime is to you to syn is to dime is to syn is to you to you to you to you to syn?
#1 player in the world IMO, Syn Gates - dude can do it all and is very humble. Syn and Zack make for a great team - Hoping for a killer next A7X album!
I remember discovering this band as a 13 year old while practicing my guitar. The raw vocals, the energy, the melodies, the beauty, it was extraordinary for me at the time. I had found MY kind of music. I even bought a Syn Custom guitar at 15, and I quickly started writing my own stuff. Now I'm 21, and even though the music I'm writing right now isn't like A7X, I can still hear the band in almost everything I write.
i tried to go to this show bc i live 20 min away from ATL but work wouldn’t allow me to get off so i missed it. i was so fucking blowed and now they’re not coming back to ATL on their world tour :(
Watched the video again, because of Syn's hands. No one could deny their grace and how casually elegant he plays. Even on stage in the fastest, heaviest solos he just.... stands there as though nothing fazes him and as if all that is just as easy as solving a toddler's ten piece puzzle.
Back in 04 I used what little money I had from chores to buy Waking the Fallen purely because the album art looked rad. I was hooked ever since. It still is the best impulse purchase of my life! Eternal Rest blew my mind back then. Eternal Rest blew my 10 year old mind.
I use to hate on AV7x (and grindcore/nu metal et..) , I was a bit of a traditionalist when it came to "metal". But after giving them a chance I was impressed by the musicianship especially the guitar playing. Their mash of riff/melody was in many ways unique. Its rhythm and lead yet lead lead in many ways, duel voices with different style that somehow compliment each other to form something different. Many times, with dual guitars like that, one overwhelms the other, or theres a competition of sorts. These two guys are like peanut butter and jelly, both great on their own, but when combined....oh boy. For an example of what I mean, just listen to the (underrated and not as well known) "Save me".
I shied away from this band for the longest time, but then I shied away from most metal because it became the same monotonous growling. The thing that brought me back was how A7X incorporated old style Euro metal and new style metal along with a singer that was actually talented. I want music that makes me say "Wow, that's different" and draws me in further, not music that puts me on auto pilot.
when i was a young 15 year old these two were my guitar gods. zacky because he is left handed like me and syn because i was so drawn to the lead stuff. can't express how much they mean to me as a guitarist years later
God, it's been 5 years, but I keep coming back to this video to remind me that these two guys, that made an impression on young me a few years back, are still the biggest inspirations for me when it comes to not only guitar, but music, nothing will ever take that first moment I heard of them when Buried Alive's music video was in my recommended.
When I first started playing guitar I wanted to be just like Syn, I loved Avenged Sevenfold since I started playing, they got me into heavier metal and inspired my play style. I watched hours of Syn playing live, signed up for his online guitar school, and watched tons of interviews with him, I even started playing Schecter because of him and fell in love with the brand, I've been using earnie ball since the beginning because of him, it's just awesome to have such an amazing influence in your music!
Charudatta Munde it's easy?? Let's not kid ourselves! You should still have respect for an artist's skill. It takes so many hours to achieve that level.
Marquise West I think he meant simple. Or lazy. It’s easy to look up tabs, and copy someone. It’s a golden ticket if you can make your own riffs that are as good as Dime’s
Charudatta Munde that level?? Have u heard the afterlife solo?? Even classical musicians applauded to that and were shocked. A7x music differs from what pantera used to be. There's no reason to compare em. So to hell with your opinion
The riff and solo they do at 10:30 onward…awesome! Wish they would have ended the talking part of the interview so we could hear that. Sounds like Syn was going off!! Rock on
First time I've heard of a guitar duo was their duo, and oh boy it never gets old. I still remember jamming to their music in middle school while my friends and I did our group homework, and now, we still blast A7X music on our car rides during weekends.
I love these string theory videos. Avenged Sevenfold inspired so many people my age to pick up a guitar. I don't care if you're if you're white/black/purple/male/female/inbetween/or alien I just want more people to play guitar. Anyone who inspires anyone to try....my hat is off to them.
Got my license at 16 in 2006 and I was driving on a back road listening to a rock station and beast and the harlot came on. Was hooked immediately and been a fan ever since. I use to play guitar and now I'm getting back into it and these guys are my main inspiration.
They respect each other so much thats how they managed to mix their abilities. Syn's solo is very recognizable.. Their riffs as well. Im not a big fan but whenever i hear a song from them it so catchy that the next time you hear that song it easily becomes nostalgia.
One of the best guitar duo in modern metal. They weren't overrated. I wasnt into their early stuffs but they had became really matured in writing and composing music nowadays
best guitar duo in the entire world, I don't care what anybody else says. the stuff that they come up with and the guitar duels that they play are just so fucking mind-blowing and amazing. there might be guitarists who can "shred" better than them or have a better playing style or whatever but nobody else is synyster gates and nobody else is zacky v. nobody else can come up with something like that in the style of their guitar duels. nobody. and I don't care what anybody says.
A lot of bands that have two guitarists, either guitarist can’t get along with eachother, when you have two guitarists that are actually friends and get along well is the greatest thing ever
I can definitely relate to these dudes, for me it was surfing, black flag, pennywise, Jeff beck and jethro Tull . Love that fast aggressive sound, I did Mobile detailing saved up bought my first guitar and amp. I wish I knew how to read music though. Cool stories on this channel.
Love it, Zacky is like you know when the tech puts new strings on for a show there not gonna break.. True Story, Zacky Smashed his Guitar at Wembley in 2013 and the Strings were still intact haha, which means Slinky's are more resilient that Schecter's Guitars haha
sevenfold get so much stick for whatever these days , but these two are underated. guitar work on sounding the seventh up to what they do now is awesome. big inspiration for me growing up
When Zacky Says “first time I ever picked up a guitar it was empowering. It’s like pulling a sword out the stone” I cracked up. But That was A awesome metaphor
Been my favorite duo from the beginning of my music career over a decade ago when I began to play guitar at 9 years old, still number one today. This is the reason I really believe they'll always be number one
That's Syn's signature that he made in conjunction with Schecter. Zack is sponsored by Jet City Amps and according to them, he uses the 100H and the 100HDM.
i remember when i was around 11 and i heard the solo from shepherd of fire and i was hooked 150% and said to myself i want to play guitar and my goal is to learn that solo i am 16 now and havent learned the solo but i have gotten better at playing and i can play the rhytmn of the most a7x songs and songs from many bands and i have learned to hear a riff from a song and slowly try to learn it just by listening to it and also just try to freestyle a solo and when i was 14 i saw the music video of shepherd of fire and i saw synyster gates haircut and i told my parents that i wanted that haircut and at the time i had long hair that i had saved for about 4 years and i got that. these guys i have been the reason for multiple chooses i have made in my life and they are the reason i have started to love metal and have the seriously big interest in music and have that as a hobby and when i have had my downs in life like when i got bullied in elementery school i just listened to their music and just putted a smile on my face and had given me motivation to keep going as a musician and as a person so i want to say thank you guys
Both of them are amazing players not very often does a band have one really good player but they have 2! Gates is just absolutely insane. I learned the afterlife solo and man the string skipping part was a complete mind fuck trying to play it at his speed. He truly deserves all the credit that’s given to him he really put his time in. The craziest thing to me is he was only like 26 or something like that when he recorded that song. I practiced guitar for 6 hours a day for like 3 years and I wasn’t 10% of what gates is! I just couldn’t imagine how much time he put in to become such a great player.
I've been waiting for so fucking long a String Theory from you guys. I love how you are now side by side with huge artists like Paul Gilbert and Justin Chancellor, just to name a few. You're a big inspiration to a lot of people out there. Please never stop doing music. 🤘🤘
The more I watch all of this series and hearing all of their stories of how they started playing guitar or using Ernie Balls. I wonder what its like to be the guy in the guitar store is thinking now. All of those people just doing their job, with no idea they helping to the creation of legends. Looking back on that has got to be amazing for them.
Bald & Bearded I’ve used the paradigm strings. Love them. The other couple I tried broke within a month of constant tuning up and down. The paradigm have been good for the last 5 months and only now need to be replaced. Great strings
José Carlos yes. I had the elixir strings before the paradigm. The paradigm strings are miles better from a durability standpoint. They hold up much better and for longer
They came and played in Iraq for the troops! I am forever grateful. Thanks for putting your hearts and ass on the line! You’ve been REAL through the entire journey. Now my kids listen and love your band. Great times A7X - Artistic excellence
These guys are my heroes, they inspire me to keep playing guitar, they influenced me a lot, their style when writing a heavy fuuking riff or a relaxing riff, harmonic riffs and solos
Amazing guitarists.
Soup upload Rust pls
Wolfster 21 Nah, I think just because of this comment I’ll wait a month for another Rust vid
pls no I like them too me like buried alive
Mustache Man lol
Soup or salad
Zacky: Syn will always write guitar parts that are way too hard for me to play..
Haha best quote right there lol
What an assh*le, lol. 😂
Ikr
Rhythm&Lead player relationship in a nutshell
Like=666 now
No kidding! Lol! Same here.
Zack is like that rhythm player that actually knows what's going on.
Esatto
Johnny still has to pay for his strings
Jake Douglas Made my whole fucking 2017
Yeah I think only syn got sponsored by Ernie ball
Lmao
If he even changes them
Who's Johnny?
These guys are the reason I started playing guitar.
EMEX Gaming same
Same
Same
EMEX Gaming Yeah me too
kitramsey5150 Why is that?
Ernie Ball knows what the fans want, they're on a kill streak
Sloth Miguel Care package, incoming!
They just recently gave us a Daron Malakain string theory interview. Nuke inbound.
i really don't get why these guys get so much hate, thy are both great players.
same as always, so many rock and metal fans are so critical.
guitar battles live because they sort off rip off songs from other bands, but nightmare is cool album
Loknath Shankar they literally ripped off one Metallica song. And they toured with Metallica, so obviously Lars doesn't care otherwise he woulda sued them for everything they had xD
They get hate because most people tend to be jealous and don't own it. And also because most people listening to music never played an instrument enough to create anything at all. Usually, real musicians are capable of acknowledging musical talent even in a genre that is completely different than theirs.
See I think best is purely opinion based. In my opinion, Syn is the best, because his playing speaks to me the most. So for me, his is the best. Now are there other artists who are more technical, and probably better players? Of course. But they aren't better to me, because his style is my favorite, and the way he writes and plays has such soul and passion to it. So for me, I'd say it's purely opinion based, because you'll never get everyone to agree on who is the best.
It's pretty cool observing what Zacky and Syn both decide to play for individual guitar clips. This guitar duo is literally one of the best I know of. Brian is clearly the better lead player and Zack is clearly the better rhythm player. I don't think either one could create music on guitar like the other could. Brian might be considered more skillful, but that's why he is the lead. I'm sure these guys would agree that if they switched rolls neither one could do a better job than the other. They are literally the perfect match for writing heavy metal.
bruno donizete Not really. He just plays the duos which every rhythm guitarist is supposed too
Nick Weber agree 100%. Metal is such a broad genre. They seem to span the whole thing album to album. Really glad they’re still crushing it.
Kaleb Sweeten is that a camel in your dp...huahoho xd
fucking well said
That's the dumbest shit I've ever read... Synyster couldn't play rhythm!? He records 90% of the guitars on every album. Zacky helps write and record miniscule amounts and has to learn everything from syn to play live... Any mediocre guitar player could replace Zack... It must be burdensome to be that stupid.
These guys saved metal in the 2000s imho. They brought back guitar solos. They play from the heart.
If Syn n Zack ever get to reading these comments; first of I wanna say the 2 of you, aside from the band as a whole, are more like brothers than anything else. Second, me myself as a growing musician, you guys as well as the band itself are one of the biggest influences out there. You guys are just AWESOME!!!
I wish there's a reaction like fb here in youtube....
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A7X is one of the few bands that is more than just the sum of it's members. I feel sorry for the people who think they're bad. They're missing out on some of the best songwriting there is
Lol
I don't hate A7X by any means but they are miles away from the best songwriting. They're not Opeth.
@@Magmoormaster Okay Opeth is good but their songwriting isn't THE best.
@@Magmoormaster Opeth is garbage lmfao
Magmoormaster i like how you take Avenged Sevenfold one of the best bands of this century with best songwriting of all time and you compare them to Opeth
That's a beautiful way to put that. I can't image having grown up without this band there every step of the way.
Avenged sevenfold is a legendary band. I love their style!
SYN is to me what Dime is to Syn ,hope that makes sense
Aadarsh Thomas Raj so syn to dime is what you are to you to syn to dime to syn to you to syn to dime is to you to syn is to dime is to syn is to you to you to you to you to syn?
Aadarsh Thomas Raj I'm confused
Vex Mythoclast Pretty much
P Jn lmao
Dead?
This is the best A7x interview I have ever seen🤘🏻
Adam Delaney I agree with you 100%
I saw Syn and Zacky in Amsterdam, and i gotta say, this dude's speed is just so amazing, Syns dynamic and his spot on notes are just amazing
I hope they used the paradigm strings on paradigm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH
i don't think you guys know how long I've been waiting for this...
Listening to these two is what made me pick up a guitar. I went to my mom and said "I want to learn guitar". Now I have been playing for 7-8 months.
Can’t count how many times I’ve seen this video over the last two years since it’s been out
#1 player in the world IMO, Syn Gates - dude can do it all and is very humble. Syn and Zack make for a great team - Hoping for a killer next A7X album!
I absolutely agree 💯
6:30 the only time unholy confessions will be played at normal speed again
I don't think they ever sped up their songs
@@youreadopted3960 it’s slowed down for life performances
@@SpikeBenway because they don want to be fast like young again
I remember discovering this band as a 13 year old while practicing my guitar. The raw vocals, the energy, the melodies, the beauty, it was extraordinary for me at the time. I had found MY kind of music. I even bought a Syn Custom guitar at 15, and I quickly started writing my own stuff. Now I'm 21, and even though the music I'm writing right now isn't like A7X, I can still hear the band in almost everything I write.
I know that Syn is one of the best players of his time, but I gotta congratulate Zacky. Dude's an amazing and severely underrated guitarist.
These two guys and Dimebag are the reason I play guitar today. Thx guys, you made me a more interesting and talented person.
"That sounds cool, now WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH IT?"
That is actually my inner self when I am writing guitar parts.
Am I the only one who thinks what syn said in the last minute is some of the most legendary advice ever? Hes the reason I play
Two amazing musicians.
Ads are getting smarter...
Syn really knows how to speak
Well hes white sooo...
Shut up with the racial stuff with the aww hes white sooo....
@@thIDthIRreenactor yeah white people speak really well and hes white you little dumbass kid
@@AntonioLopez-kw3ev wow, cool insults
@@Kpydases Keep crying about me saying hes white you weak little girl
12 Minutes of Syn and Zacky in 1440p? Fuck yea I'll take it
I review A7X albums on my channel if you are interested
I first saw these guys live in Atlanta this year. They were amazing!!!
Zack Wright I was there too July 9th !!
i tried to go to this show bc i live 20 min away from ATL but work wouldn’t allow me to get off so i missed it. i was so fucking blowed and now they’re not coming back to ATL on their world tour :(
Me too man!!!
June 16 dallas
Zack Wright You saw Volbeat and Metallica also?
Watched the video again, because of Syn's hands. No one could deny their grace and how casually elegant he plays. Even on stage in the fastest, heaviest solos he just.... stands there as though nothing fazes him and as if all that is just as easy as solving a toddler's ten piece puzzle.
Exactly why this will always be my favourite band. We miss you Jimmy!!!
Back in 04 I used what little money I had from chores to buy Waking the Fallen purely because the album art looked rad. I was hooked ever since. It still is the best impulse purchase of my life! Eternal Rest blew my mind back then. Eternal Rest blew my 10 year old mind.
Damn, I didn't really get into music till I was in middle school, lucky you. That song does indeed rock.
Two of the few popular modern Rock guitarists that emphasize their playing. Always respected them.
I'll wait the days that a new big rockstar is idolized synyster gates
i don't care what anyone says, these guys are modern metal gods!!
I use to hate on AV7x (and grindcore/nu metal et..) , I was a bit of a traditionalist when it came to "metal". But after giving them a chance I was impressed by the musicianship especially the guitar playing. Their mash of riff/melody was in many ways unique. Its rhythm and lead yet lead lead in many ways, duel voices with different style that somehow compliment each other to form something different. Many times, with dual guitars like that, one overwhelms the other, or theres a competition of sorts. These two guys are like peanut butter and jelly, both great on their own, but when combined....oh boy. For an example of what I mean, just listen to the (underrated and not as well known) "Save me".
I shied away from this band for the longest time, but then I shied away from most metal because it became the same monotonous growling. The thing that brought me back was how A7X incorporated old style Euro metal and new style metal along with a singer that was actually talented. I want music that makes me say "Wow, that's different" and draws me in further, not music that puts me on auto pilot.
A7x is grindcore/nu metal? What? First of all what the fuck is a grindcore/nu metal band? Those genres arent even closely similar. Like bruh stfu.
Save me is by far one of their most amazing things theyve done
Victim is my favorite underrated song by them
The stage is a masterpiece from metal point of view
when i was a young 15 year old these two were my guitar gods. zacky because he is left handed like me and syn because i was so drawn to the lead stuff. can't express how much they mean to me as a guitarist years later
I keep rewatching this video because 1. avenged sevenfold, 2. the tone is SO good, 3. the quality
God, it's been 5 years, but I keep coming back to this video to remind me that these two guys, that made an impression on young me a few years back, are still the biggest inspirations for me when it comes to not only guitar, but music, nothing will ever take that first moment I heard of them when Buried Alive's music video was in my recommended.
When I first started playing guitar I wanted to be just like Syn, I loved Avenged Sevenfold since I started playing, they got me into heavier metal and inspired my play style. I watched hours of Syn playing live, signed up for his online guitar school, and watched tons of interviews with him, I even started playing Schecter because of him and fell in love with the brand, I've been using earnie ball since the beginning because of him, it's just awesome to have such an amazing influence in your music!
Syn gets handsomer every year.
Christ Is My King he practically looks the same because its like he never ages.
@@soham4741 its because he is the vampire
He ages backwards
He's starting to look like John Mayer
I just imagine mini-Gates. "Those are guitar strings." "What do you mean?" "Well, you have to change the strings are your guitar." Too cute.
Knine3000x Sounds like a John Mulaney Ice-T bit
Syn and Zack are such killer guitarists, Hail to the Kings
Syn wanted to do what dime was doing? Well he nails dimes solos. Dime would be fucking proud!
tacokiss3 Being able to play what someone has made : That's easy. But being able to write riffs of Dimebag Level, Syn isn't even a tad close to it.
Charudatta Munde it's easy?? Let's not kid ourselves! You should still have respect for an artist's skill. It takes so many hours to achieve that level.
Marquise West I think he meant simple. Or lazy. It’s easy to look up tabs, and copy someone. It’s a golden ticket if you can make your own riffs that are as good as Dime’s
Charudatta Munde that level?? Have u heard the afterlife solo?? Even classical musicians applauded to that and were shocked. A7x music differs from what pantera used to be. There's no reason to compare em. So to hell with your opinion
I personally think synyster gates is one of the best, if not the best guitar player. But hey, to each their own
The riff and solo they do at 10:30 onward…awesome! Wish they would have ended the talking part of the interview so we could hear that. Sounds like Syn was going off!! Rock on
First time I've heard of a guitar duo was their duo, and oh boy it never gets old. I still remember jamming to their music in middle school while my friends and I did our group homework, and now, we still blast A7X music on our car rides during weekends.
I love these string theory videos. Avenged Sevenfold inspired so many people my age to pick up a guitar. I don't care if you're if you're white/black/purple/male/female/inbetween/or alien I just want more people to play guitar. Anyone who inspires anyone to try....my hat is off to them.
Zacky:”since im a child i always new that im a lefty,but i cant come out to my family,then when im 16 i finally come out as a lefty”.
Knew*
Rumor was that Paradigm off of the stage was actually about the strings.
Lmao
😂👌
Got my license at 16 in 2006 and I was driving on a back road listening to a rock station and beast and the harlot came on. Was hooked immediately and been a fan ever since. I use to play guitar and now I'm getting back into it and these guys are my main inspiration.
Synyster is a modern goat of lead guitar he play clean 🤘🏻
I think i just had a stroke reading this
They respect each other so much thats how they managed to mix their abilities. Syn's solo is very recognizable.. Their riffs as well. Im not a big fan but whenever i hear a song from them it so catchy that the next time you hear that song it easily becomes nostalgia.
Sweet doesn't even sound like a word now that I've read it so many times.
ZV has come a long way since the early days. Anyone would have a hard time keeping up with Gates, honestly.
Your acting like their riffs are the hardest ever. Spoiler alert 🚨 They’re not.
@@H.E.M. he never said they were?
@@H.E.M. Lol. It's not like Metallica riffs are particularly hard either...
Michael Graham blackened is
@@H.E.M. post a cover of exist from their recent album.
Gates is so well spoken
One of the best guitar duo in modern metal. They weren't overrated. I wasnt into their early stuffs but they had became really matured in writing and composing music nowadays
best guitar duo in the entire world, I don't care what anybody else says. the stuff that they come up with and the guitar duels that they play are just so fucking mind-blowing and amazing. there might be guitarists who can "shred" better than them or have a better playing style or whatever but nobody else is synyster gates and nobody else is zacky v. nobody else can come up with something like that in the style of their guitar duels. nobody. and I don't care what anybody says.
A lot of bands that have two guitarists, either guitarist can’t get along with eachother, when you have two guitarists that are actually friends and get along well is the greatest thing ever
Best present guitar duo in metal. fight me
Its great to see how much more confident Zacky is as the years have gone by, one hell of a Rhythm Guitarist.
I can definitely relate to these dudes, for me it was surfing, black flag, pennywise, Jeff beck and jethro Tull .
Love that fast aggressive sound, I did Mobile detailing saved up bought my first guitar and amp. I wish I knew how to read music though. Cool stories on this channel.
Syn: "I was like guitar strings? What are those?"
Also Syn: "my dad was a studio musician and was always practicing at home"
i mean ,it takes like a year of playing for the strings to get damaged so it would make sense if he never saw his father changing his guitar strings
@@mariouz313 I think an active player should change strings bi-monthly
I change string when I can afford to change them so basically when they break
Disciple Dude or just keep the same strings for two years until one breaks
@@f1rebreather123 nothing like the fresh sound and feel of strings straight out of the package though
Love it, Zacky is like you know when the tech puts new strings on for a show there not gonna break.. True Story, Zacky Smashed his Guitar at Wembley in 2013 and the Strings were still intact haha, which means Slinky's are more resilient that Schecter's Guitars haha
sevenfold get so much stick for whatever these days , but these two are underated. guitar work on sounding the seventh up to what they do now is awesome. big inspiration for me growing up
When Zacky Says “first time I ever picked up a guitar it was empowering. It’s like pulling a sword out the stone” I cracked up. But That was A awesome metaphor
Synyster is the best guitarrist of this generation.
hands down
i would say he's one of the best. players like Jason Richardson, Jeff Loomis, Paul Waggoner, Mark Holcomb etc are just as good or better imo.
guitar battles live Jason Richardson is best in my opinion, kids insane!
Jason richardson beats him by miles. Love syn though
guitar battles live Paul Waggoner is nuts, the Selkies solo is the most beautiful guitar work I've ever heard
Man, such talent, also great recordings, looked fantastic. Gr8 job
I also use Ernie Ball since the first time I playing guitar. Best guitar strings in the world. They NEVER disappointed me.
ZACKY WHERES THE “YOU KNOW”S!?!?
bro that solo is amazing that they are playing
Has James Hetfield done one of these? If not he definitely should it would be badass like this one and the Kirk Hammett one
Dominic Nieves They both did one similar at Guitar Center but I don’t think they use Ernie Balls. (Not sure?)
They did it with guitar center sessions... But both independently...
@@DawnQwark no, him and Kirk both use Ernie balls. Says it on the back of the packs
Hetfield uses Elixir strings.
Been my favorite duo from the beginning of my music career over a decade ago when I began to play guitar at 9 years old, still number one today. This is the reason I really believe they'll always be number one
Zacky gets rhythm guitar like no one, since James Hetfield. His riffs are soul crushing.
Syn is arguably the best metal lead guitarist that is still alive and Zacky is a hell of a good rythym guitarist who can lick too
Zacky Vengeance and Daron Malakian are my biggest influence as a guitarist. Absolute legend
As much progressive metal and new metalcore stuff I listen to, I will always come back to A7X. Two people who contributed to me picking up the guitar.
I remember hearing the intro to Buried Alive for the first time, I listened to that intro over and over again
zacky should use the hellwin on stage
Sloo0ber he’s got his own signature amp I think
Noah Seville It's the Hellwin
That's Syn's signature that he made in conjunction with Schecter. Zack is sponsored by Jet City Amps and according to them, he uses the 100H and the 100HDM.
both guys are truly self-made heros...
intelligent, skilled, absolute masters of what they do
Synyster is the best guitarist ... For me...
i remember when i was around 11 and i heard the solo from shepherd of fire and i was hooked 150% and said to myself i want to play guitar and my goal is to learn that solo i am 16 now and havent learned the solo but i have gotten better at playing and i can play the rhytmn of the most a7x songs and songs from many bands and i have learned to hear a riff from a song and slowly try to learn it just by listening to it and also just try to freestyle a solo and when i was 14 i saw the music video of shepherd of fire and i saw synyster gates haircut and i told my parents that i wanted that haircut and at the time i had long hair that i had saved for about 4 years and i got that. these guys i have been the reason for multiple chooses i have made in my life and they are the reason i have started to love metal and have the seriously big interest in music and have that as a hobby and when i have had my downs in life like when i got bullied in elementery school i just listened to their music and just putted a smile on my face and had given me motivation to keep going as a musician and as a person so i want to say thank you guys
4:41 God Only Knows 😍
this band is so unique ... love their songs
"dimebag from pantera..slash..what they do is magic.." well said! 👌
Both of them are amazing players not very often does a band have one really good player but they have 2! Gates is just absolutely insane. I learned the afterlife solo and man the string skipping part was a complete mind fuck trying to play it at his speed. He truly deserves all the credit that’s given to him he really put his time in. The craziest thing to me is he was only like 26 or something like that when he recorded that song. I practiced guitar for 6 hours a day for like 3 years and I wasn’t 10% of what gates is! I just couldn’t imagine how much time he put in to become such a great player.
6:30 shit he has a great sound
Lol no
Yeah but it was a little sloppy 😂
Jekek what is that song
Callum Murphy unholy confessions
I love that choppy noise... Its what makes you play to improve... Then you get into like those studios then your sound clears up... A lot
I've been waiting for so fucking long a String Theory from you guys. I love how you are now side by side with huge artists like Paul Gilbert and Justin Chancellor, just to name a few. You're a big inspiration to a lot of people out there. Please never stop doing music. 🤘🤘
Anyone know if Papa Gates has ever done a solo on an Avenged Sevenfold song?
Dao Yang several, including one on angels from the stage
Dao Yang Coming Home, Sidewinder, the acoustic bridge in So Far Away...
He also did Tonight The World Dies
No he can't play guitar he plays the stringed drums
??? Papa gates is a musician, he is recognized by the name of "Guitar guy"
The more I watch all of this series and hearing all of their stories of how they started playing guitar or using Ernie Balls. I wonder what its like to be the guy in the guitar store is thinking now. All of those people just doing their job, with no idea they helping to the creation of legends. Looking back on that has got to be amazing for them.
ive never listened to a band as empowering as avenged sevenfold is. theyre the reason i play guitar and drums and sing.
I wonder how many of those artists, who are now promoting the Paradigm strings, are actually STILL using the good old Slinky ???
Bald & Bearded I’ve used the paradigm strings. Love them. The other couple I tried broke within a month of constant tuning up and down. The paradigm have been good for the last 5 months and only now need to be replaced. Great strings
Does the Paradigm Strings lasts longer than the elixir strings? (sorry my english)
José Carlos yes. I had the elixir strings before the paradigm. The paradigm strings are miles better from a durability standpoint. They hold up much better and for longer
Mike Halpert are they better than Cleartones or NYXLs?
They don't need paradigm strings, 1 show 1 string set.
I love how you can tell it’s Syn playing after hearing about 3 notes
I traded a lawn mower for my first guitar!
The Loedown!!! Priorities. Lol
They came and played in Iraq for the troops! I am forever grateful. Thanks for putting your hearts and ass on the line! You’ve been REAL through the entire journey. Now my kids listen and love your band. Great times A7X - Artistic excellence
The legend couple guitarists 🤘🏻
these guys are the reason i didn’t stop playing forever.
No one:
Ernie Ball Artists: iVe BeEn usInG EB StRiNGs FoR EVeR! I sAW tHe PrEEty pAckAge AnD LogO AnD lOveD ThEM eVeR sINce
These guys are my heroes, they inspire me to keep playing guitar, they influenced me a lot, their style when writing a heavy fuuking riff or a relaxing riff, harmonic riffs and solos