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"Almost Easy"
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Single by Avenged Sevenfold
from the album Avenged Sevenfold
Released	September 18, 2007
Format	Digital download, 7" vinyl
Genre	Heavy metal, alternative metal
Length	3:54
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Avenged Sevenfold singles chronology

"Almost Easy" is a song by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. It is the second song as well as second single from their self-titled album.

This song appears as a Master Track.

BackgroundEdit

The song first premiered at a concert in Indonesia during Avenged Sevenfold's 2007 Southeast Asian Tour.^{[citation needed]} The song was officially released on September 18, 2007 through online music stores such as iTunes, URGE.^{[citation needed]}

The song was written by the band's former drummer, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan. In the second chorus (First Strength of the World) the whole band sang simultaneously - all 5 members combined their voices for more of a choir sound, which was shown in the MVI that came along with their self-titled album.

The song was included on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen soundtrack. It was originally planned to be on the 2007 Transformers soundtrack; however, it was not finished in time.

The song is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as of March 6, 2008. The song is also featured in Rock Band 2'' and Need for Speed: Pro Street.

In December 2008 it was announced that the USC Trojan Marching Band would perform the song at the Rose Bowl halftime show on January 1, 2009.^[1]^[2]

Music videoEdit

The band released a video for "Almost Easy" with director P.R. Brown (Mötley Crüe, Marilyn Manson). The video debuted on Fuse's The Sauce on September 24, 2007 and MTV2's Unleashed on October 1, 2007.

The video shows the band playing on a barren wasteland whilst they appear to be aflame. Over a ridge, a huge crowd of hundreds of people appear, walking in a zombie-like fashion towards the band, only to stop at a large gaping hole and jump downwards, into, what one can only suppose, is Hell. Special effects show some parts where the people have skulls for faces.

At the end of the video, when the last person jumps down the cavern, the camera zooms out from the band, showing that the hole the people were jumping into was actually the eye of the demonic figure pictured on the artwork of Avenged Sevenfold, the "Deathbat". The band stated in an interview with Fuse host Steven Smith on Steven's Untitled Rock Show that the inspiration for the video came from a Wendy's commercial they saw in Asia in which a large crowd is running toward the same hamburger.

M. Shadows then said "wouldn't it be cool if we (Avenged Sevenfold) were playing in a fiery blaze and a bunch of people were running towards us" an idea that eventually became the video.