How Good Charlotte Introduced Avenged Sevenfold to the Masses 

That was very cool of Good Charlotte. First thing that came to mind when I saw the title was their collab on "The River" 😃

Song they made together "The River" is still one of my favorites from Good Charlotte, really nice collab.

Good charlottes album Good morning revival is really a great album and M shadows is on the song “the River “ which is an amazing song .

City of evil is a guitar masterpiece still one of my fav albums

Dude, the first time I heard Beast and the Harlot on Guitar hero it absolutely blew my mind. I thought, "I have to buy this album" and I searched so hard till I found it. Best album discovery of my teens! Know every song by heart.

"The River" GOAT song

This is why it’s important to be good to people.

Interviewer obviously hasn’t heard ‘The River’ by Good Charlotte. Thought it would have at least been mentioned

Trashed and scattered is still one of my fight songs💪🏾✊🏽👌🏾

This is exactly how a ~13 year old version of me was introduced to them at the Galaxy Theatre in like 2006 (Now called the Observatory) Good Charlotte shouted them out at the gig. I was firmly in my pop punk phase and it didn't connect. Then there was a lot of buzz around Bat County on this really new platform called RU-vid and heard that guitar solo. I was locked in from then on 🤣

Coral from The Walking Dead could play M Shadows in a documentary movie

“Baptized in The River… on my own!” Wait a sec, wouldn’t CoE be a “junior slump” because that was officially their 3rd released album? Wish Avenged Sevenfold would give some love to “Sounding the Seventh Trumpet”.

I was like, "The River was a good song, but they were #1 before that song came out." How wrong my assumption was.

It's my favorite album

What a crazy bit of history. Really interesting story!

A7X and Good Charlotte great bands

Idk if good Charlotte had anything to do with bat country making it to radio but that's when I fell in love with the band.. I was so pumped great solos in rock were back

I remember when i heard Beast and the Harlot intro for the first time, i just literally fell in love with it even before hearing the song. I heard the intro and 'boom!' that is it, im in love with it

Damn, I might never have heard bat country without the Maddens. It was one of those rare songs where I immediately loved it on first listen and I instantly knew this was my new favorite band.

Thats why they are GOOD charlotte

GC was so huge during the 00s and became my life. I really thought it was them doing the screams and solo on The River and then was surprised it was A7x.

Awesome story, that album was an instant classic when I first bought and listened

Geez imagine... When Bat Country came with the EA NHL soundtrack I hated it at first, and that was first contact. Almost all A7X records took time to grow on me lol, but they've made it to be one of my all-time faves xD Didn't know the story of this album played out like that in the beginning.

This is amazing to hear as an artist.

I respect him for giving GC props cos a lot of ppl woulda had an ego and not given credit in this day & age.

I graduated in 2002 so that should tell you my age. Until last year I did not know good Charlotte had twins.

Joel Madden name dropped A7X & City of Evil in their own interviews. Cool of them.

That's funny cause I always thought these two bands look very similar to each other

Big love to good Charlotte I didn't know, I heard bat country on a mw2 montage first time in 2009 haha changed my life

A little help from your friends! I''m grateful for Avenged Sevenfold because they have put the bar up really high! Tone Raven-We Are The Black Things(Hollywood CA!)

Really can’t stand it when an interviewer cuts off the person being interviewed, if you would rather talk then listen to answers start a podcast

Random question but are his bottom teeth all gold or my imagination. If they are I'm jealous

Haircut is beyond repair

This doesn’t apply to Uk,Ireland and Europe though. The album won us all over on its own 🤘

The River is my favourite GC song and I discovered A7X because of them.

very Cool from Good Charlotte

GC introduced A7x to me....

I remember this miss trl my boys in KoRn had #1 on lock till forced to retire got the life then they did it again with freak on a lease

The River

I love thrice :D

I never knew this. I was a scene kid, so I already thought Avenged Sevenfold was like the biggest thing ever when City of Evil came out. Just goes to show we lived in our own bubbles, even back then. I think I first heard them on a Hopeless Records sampler that had a demo version of Eternal Rest on it before Waking the Fallen came out. I also heard Darkness Surrounding maybe at some point before that, I can't remember. I thought it was the coolest shit ever. My friends thought it sounded like Power Ranger music because people weren't used to hearing songs with shreddy guitar solos anymore.

City of Evil is one of my favorite rock albums of the 2000s. However, strange as this may be, I haven't really liked anything A7X has done before or since. Maybe I was just that right age for that stuff at the time.

Grew up on both of those bands. I was aware they had always been friends, but it’s Cool when you hear about the connection. When I was a kid I didn’t know that. I just know I liked good Charlotte. Got their young and hopeless album when it came out when I was 12. And then a couple years later, maybe 3, when I was 14/15, I hear bat country on the radio, and I then liked this other band avenged sevenfold. It’s cool knowing now the connection that I didn’t know back then. Also liked AFI and had their sing the sorrow album when I was around 12 too and know A7X had a connection to them too. Pretty cool.

Thats cool as fuck.🤘

Lmao I vividly remember dudes roasting city of evil saying it was trash in my gym class. Ironically years later the same dude are reposting there latest video 😂😂😂

Enjoying the vlad tv format 🔥🙏🏿 we need this in the rock/metal world thank you

I was on the Thrice and A7x forums all the time and I remember this 100% hahah.

I already knew them before the song 🤣👌

Just the Rev on drums in Beast and the Harlot is worth listening to, a masterclass.

That's great to hear.

I love u guys man!!!

2 words. The river

When did Matt contracted Hiv?

Oh man trl memories.

Idk about you. But when I saw The River. I first thought. The fuck is Matt and Syn doing on this?

People were hating on Beast and the Harlot?! Skip forward to this joke of an album in 2023, and everyone loves it.... just weird.

It’s one of my guilty pleasures, but those albums beast & the harlot/city of evil were indeed goofy as hell. Thrice is definitely a better band overall IMO.

Now they are laughing at your haircut

Beast and The Harlot was a very corny lame ass song. They should have listened

Huh, I saw Thrice supporting Coheed and Cambria last year, had never even heard of them. Funny to hear them being brought up here.

I already heard A7X way before I learned they’re homies with GC.