Song · Avenged Sevenfold
“Seize the Day” by Avenged Sevenfold
From the album City of Evil (2005)
“Seize the Day” by Avenged Sevenfold appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2006. It was first released in 2005 on the album City of Evil. Its best result is #19 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #43 hard rock song of 2006 and #276 of the '00s.
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Avenged Sevenfold eased off the throttle for "Seize the Day", a power ballad from City of Evil, their third studio album; it went out as a promotional single on July 11, 2006. M. Shadows sings it and the Rev plays both drums and piano, but the credit sheet runs well past the band: a string section of violins, violas and cellos, with solos from violinist Samuel Fischer and cellist Victor Lawrence, a choir, and Brian Haner on extra guitar and pedal steel. The band produced it with Mudrock, and Andy Wallace mixed it.
The video goes for full melodrama: Shadows lands in jail after a liquor store robbery, his wife is hit by a van, and Synyster Gates plays the guitar solo standing on her casket.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 19 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006 | 106 |
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