Nightmare [PA] - CD

Release Notes

Nightmare [PA]: Release Notes: Muze 
Personnel: Mike Portnoy (drums).Audio Mixer: Andy Wallace.Recording information: Phantom Studios, Westlake Village, CA; The Pass, Los Angeles, CA.Illustrator: D.A. Frizell.Photographer: Rafa Alcantara.Avenged Sevenfold's fifth full-length outing is dedicated to the band's drummer James Sullivan (the Reverend Tholomew Plague), who passed away at the age of 28 on December 28, 2009. Sullivan's favorite drummer, Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy, was asked to take his place behind the kit, and the resulting Nightmare, which features 11 new songs, dutifully pays tribute to the past while setting the pace for the future.

Credits

Performer Avenged Sevenfold
Engineers include:  Adam Hawkins
Producer(s) Mike Elizondo

Nightmare [PA]: MUZE Review
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Billboard (p.28) - "NIGHTMARE is the group's best work yet. It's a sweeping, quasi-thematic epic whose nearly 67 minutes mixes punky abandon with prog-rock ambition and muscle with musicality."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.50) - "It's raw, powerful and frequently harrowing, but never less than compelling."