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Avenged Sevenfold's new single in Black Ops II

California metal band extends partnership with Activision and Treyarch with new song "Carry On" to be featured in latest Call of Duty.

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Activision is again working with metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The band's new single "Carry On" will be featured in November's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the band has announced. The track is embedded below.

Metal music + Call of Duty = ?
Metal music + Call of Duty = ?

The Huntington Beach, California-based band also wrote a song for 2010's Call of Duty: Black Ops. The appropriately named "Not Ready to Die" was featured in the game's Call of the Dead zombies downloadable content.

Black Ops II not only features the musical work of Avenged Sevenfold, but also Academy Award-winning composer and Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor, who created the game's title track. The rest of the game's soundtrack was composed by Jack Wall, who was behind Mass Effect 2's music.

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Seriously who gives a good God damn about this.

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Black ops,welcome to the family,is awsome than this song!

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Thank goodness Gamespot is here to parrot Activision press releases. I mean, if they tell you its news, then it must be news...right?

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So this fall, it won't just be Black Ops 2 vs MOH: Warfighter. It'll be Avenged Sevenfold vs Linkin Park.

Two much-hated games and two much-hated bands.

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@Spartan_418

What do you listen to? Rap, Hip Hop, and Pop do not count at all. Sorry.

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@X-7 @Spartan_418

lol!!!!

i like that you seem to think that rap & hip hop are totally different...

& that rap, hip hop, & pop are what would come next if you did listen to Avenged Sevenfold or Linkin Park...

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Garbage in garbage? Garbageception

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Activision pandering hormone- and testosterone-filled teenage boys. That's a shocker.

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*pandering to

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Appropriate since both are s***.

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They shoulda got some FFDP in there thats the kind of music you want for a shooter.

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@holtrocks

I like A7X pretty well but Back for More by 5FDP would have been perfect for a MP trailer.

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@X-7 Back for More is such a motivational song; if I bothered to make a gym playlist it would be that on loop. Best thing that came out of that album.

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love A7X but this song sounds very similar to some others of there's sad. Gotta admit my interest in BO2 is going up not because of A7X though, but because it actually looks like Treyarch are trying to do something new and if they nerf all the perks so there not if u have this u win then i might consider getting it. CoD has become whoever has the best gun and best perks wins less and less skill required thats why i love me some Halo all about skill.

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Preorder = Cancelled

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A comment section about a COD game full of hate comments. What a surprise.

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@Lazerith91 CoD sucks, get used to it

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@HAZCHEM88 I never said I like COD. Nor do I dislike it. IT'S A GAME! Not a life changing entity that should be loved or shunned by the world. In the end who the hell really cares...

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Oh and A7X rocks

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@Metallicwolf29 @Lazerith91

Their album sales say otherwise, but okay.

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@Lazerith91 I wish I could thumbs down you right now.

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@Heshertonfist Oh no please don't thumb me down!! I'll do anything as long as you don't wish you could thumbs down my comment!!! HAVE MERCY!!!!!!

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That's their biggest focus? A7X in a COD game??

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LOL.

Metalcore =/= metal.I love all the kids that listen to Metalcore/Hardcore s*** and think that it's metal just because there's some downtuned guitars and chunky strumming on open strings.These "musicians" would crap their pants if they heard the skill involved in any kind of progressive metal. Or any real metal for that matter. You know, where people actually learn to play technical things on their instruments that take more than two weeks of beginner lessons.But A7X and like fans are all "oooomg 3-string sweeps! yaa!" XD

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@chaosnovaxz I'm sure most of the world likes music based on how complicated the instrument work is, but I actually tend to prefer music based on how appealing the sound is to me. Maybe that's just me though.

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@chaosnovaxz nother stuck up "metal" fan that hates anything that gets popular... whats new.

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@chaosnovaxz and same could be said of gamers with CoD, coincidently.

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@HAZCHEM88 @chaosnovaxz

You must have some rose-tinted glasses towards the human condition, because there are probably more people like that than not. Especially around here.

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@MechaNapoleon @chaosnovaxz yes, I'm sure people hate CoD and mainstream crap music because they're popular. Use some common sense please.

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Megadeth is the best.

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@X-7 @chaosnovaxz Until Mustaine talks.

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@chaosnovaxz I've been rocking the new Cryptopsy and Revocation EP :)

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@Psycold Actually, Cryptopsy isn't really my style (tried listening to them way back when), but as a prog-metal guitarist of 10 years, I realize and appreciate their technical ability. :PF****** brutal on the picking hand sometimes. :/

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@chaosnovaxz I'm all about the straight death stuff, so their new S/T is right up my alley, but I gotta have some more variation after a while. That is where Revocation comes in, David Davidson writes some of the best groovy/technical stuff

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To any Avenged Sevenfold fans complaining about this song, you have to remember that not only did they lose their drummer but also their best songwriter when The Rev passed away. If you look at the list of composers throughout Avenged Sevenfold's discography you will notice that The Rev either wrote or co-wrote most of their incredible stand-out tracks.

...so no, Avenged Sevenfold will not be the same going forward, but that doesn't mean they've completely lost it either.

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@diskotheque Agreed they are still an outstanding band but the Rev helped build that group without him there not the same still really good but not as good. R.I.P Rev we miss you.

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@diskotheque Brilliant point. Also congrats on making a Rev comment without sounding like a fanboy.

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terrible music, terrible game.

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Might as well just mute the game and play music in winamp or any other player.

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The music may be bad ass, but I'm not buying 2012's Treyarch made Call of Duty 9 : Black Ops 2.

I'm sick of it, 2012's COD9 : BO2 is just ACTIVISIONs yearly COD game, using the same old graphical assets, and repackaged for $60.

Maybe I'll get it for $20 down the road, but only for the music...or maybe I'll just buy the OST assuming it's any good. I'm not supporting COD anymore. Maybe Next GEN when they are actually trying again.

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@SolidTy Preaching to the choir. These exact same complaints will be infinitely repeated both above and below your comment.

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Saw ASF, came to hear a decent song, and end up listening to this crap...

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Some one say Call of Duty?.....let me get back to sleep.....zzzzzzz

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do you remember when news about video games included features and gameplay?............Pepperidge Farm remembers

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Metal \m/...but not this one

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Black Ops II almost had me with including Treznor's amazing musical sensibilities but again lost me with the trash-can rattling of one of modern music's greatest mistakes.

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Why such a great Band have been associated on a great crap, milked franchise...???

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I wonder if this game will have more Elena Siegman, loved her songs in the maps for Kino and whatever the WaW ones were.

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