Song · Avenged Sevenfold
“This Means War” by Avenged Sevenfold
From the album Hail to the King (2013)
“This Means War” by Avenged Sevenfold appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2014. It was first released in 2013 on the album Hail to the King. Its best result is #8 on the KILO 2014 Top 40 Rock Countdown. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #8 hard rock song of 2014 and #113 of the '10s.
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"This Means War" comes from Avenged Sevenfold's 2013 album Hail to the King, credited to M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance and Johnny Christ, with Mike Elizondo producing for Warner Bros. Records. It also became the record's lightning rod. Critics pounced on how closely it shadows Metallica's 1993 single "Sad but True", Machine Head's Robb Flynn branded it a ripoff outright, and Ultimate Guitar's users voted it onto the site's Worst Guitar Riffs list.
None of that buried it. The song never came out as a single, yet it still landed on several Billboard rock charts and earned a video, directed by Andrew Baird and released in July 2014, with a director's cut surfacing in 2017. It also found its way into the video game WWE 2K15.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | 94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO | KILO 2014 Top 40 Rock Countdown | 40 |
| 2014 | 18 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2014 | 30 |
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