#like my mom passed me nirvana & queen & bowie my dad passed me metallica & pink floyd & dire straits

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just spent a good 20 minutes crying my eyes out over so far away by avenged sevenfold i have regressed to when i was 13 and extremely attached to this band

#i'm still extremely attached to them and forever will be #i grew up w rock & metal & shit bc my parents were cool but a7x was the first band i found by myself yk. like. it wasn't passed down to me #like my mom passed me nirvana & queen & bowie my dad passed me metallica & pink floyd & dire straits #my beloved uncle passed me iron maiden &. also nirvana & rancid #guns n roses was handed my collectively by all three #in short. avenged sevenfold was home grown. yk. they were my own thing #my first thing that Really got me into metal & the likes #the first time i had my Own tastes & preferences #and i was hyperfixated REAL bad for like maybe close to two years it was sooo intense i loved them sooo much #i still do!! i will still call them my faves!!! idc!! they're so special to me #i remember i found welcome to the family in a like. creepypasta mva or smth. funny that all the first few bands i liked i found thru #some creepypasta bullshit on youtube or smth. mcr fob AND p!atd i all got from creepypasta for Sure #anyway. embarassing. but i was obsessed w welcome to the family for a while #and eventually decided i wanted to know who made it and maybe listen to more stuff by them #and it was my mom's bday so august 16th when i went on their wikipedia page read the Whole thing and before i even knew much abt them or #their music or whatever i was crying so hard over the section talking abt the rev's death like i knew him personally #and i feel like that was the sign. the bad omen. that i would be down bad from then on #and i was down bad #and i listened to all their songs. i watched all the shows. i knew every piece of footage that existed of them by heart #and you have to understand by that point the only other thing i had been as obsessed with were hp & lotr #so it was still Fucky to me. to be into something that intensely #in short a7x truly fucking shaped me as a person fr and i will be thankful & fond of them forever and i avoid so far away like the plague #bc i know it gets to me. it really does #bc they were friends since they were like 10yo idiot kids yk before there was ever a band involved #and as someone who's had p much the same friend group since kindergarten #just THINKING abt losing a friend i've had for so long fucking kills me. and i can't imagine how bad it had to be for them #it's a very. empath moment of me ik ik but i can't stand it it gets to me really bad #oh nay