Interestingly, The Rev is featured in the poster in place of Arin Ilejay, despite the fact that Ilejay played in "Not Ready to Die" and The Rev had passed away 18 months before the map was released. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, Synyster Gates, Johnny Christ, The Rev. In Call of the Dead, a picture in the style of a Soviet propaganda poster can be seen on a wall near the vault under PhD Flopper, with five of the Avenged Sevenfold members standing in a row (from left to right: M.Frank Woods (drums, non-canon Black Ops II ending).Raul Menendez (backup guitar, non-canon Black Ops II ending).Brooks Wackerman (drums in "Jade Helm" and "Mad Hatter" not seen in-game).
Mike Portnoy (drums in "Nightmare" not seen in-game).Arin Ilejay (drums in "Not Ready to Die", "Carry On" and Shepherd of Fire not seen in-game)." Mad Hatter" (featured in IX Zombies map, original song)." Jade Helm" (featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer, original song)." Shepherd of Fire" (featured in Origins Zombies map)." Carry On" (featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops II campaign and Zombies map TranZit, original song)." Nightmare" (featured in Moon Zombies map)." Not Ready to Die" (featured in Call of the Dead Zombies map, original song).Shadows is also a playable character within the Blackout mode. The band worked again with Treyarch in 2018 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and composed the song " Mad Hatter" for the Zombies map IX. Their previous songs were also added to the Music Tracks menu of Black Ops III. The song was also featured in the Data Vault found in the Safe House in the campaign of the game. In 2015, the band composed " Jade Helm" for the multiplayer mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The full version can be activated as an Easter Egg song by finding three red radios scattered around the map. The song was also used as the easter-egg song for the map TranZit before being replaced by the song Carrion.Ī short version of their " Shepherd of Fire" can be heard during the intro cutscene of the map Origins. The band is seen performing the song at a concert with several characters from the campaign dancing. Their song " Nightmare", while not composed for the game, is also featured in the map Moon in part with the One Giant Leap Achievement/Trophy.įor Call of Duty: Black Ops II in 2012, Avenged Sevenfold composed the song " Carry On" for the post-credits cutscene of the campaign. In 2010, the band composed " Not Ready to Die" for the Zombies map Call of the Dead in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Several songs from the band are featured in the Black Ops franchise as well as original songs composed for the games. Avenged Sevenfold (also abbreviated as A7X) is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Huntington Beach, California, USA.