Waking The Fallen (Album)

Waking the Fallen is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on August 26, 2003, by Hopeless Records. The album was released as 2x12", LP, Repress, 33 ⅓ RPM, Grey Marble on 2008 in US. The album was certified gold on July 15, 2009, even though it only sold 3,000 copies on its first week of release. As of August 2014, it has sold over 693,000 copies in the United States. The song "Eternal Rest" appears on Kerrang's "666 Songs You Must Own". More clean vocals are featured on the album than on their debut album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. The only song on the record that does not contain screaming is "I Won't See You Tonight (Part 1)"; Sounding the Seventh Trumpet has three songs without any screaming. As with Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, most of the songs from this album are not usually performed live, although, "Unholy Confessions," "Chapter Four," "Eternal Rest," and "Second Heartbeat" have always been a staple to their set since the release of Waking the Fallen. The song "Eternal Rest" was featured on the Soundtrack to the movie Saw IV. It is the band's first full-length album with new lead guitarist Synyster Gates and bass guitarist Johnny Christ.