The Avenged Sevenfold Tour was a concert tour by American heavy metal band

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between 2007 and 2009, promoting their album ''

''. It was the band's last tour with the drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan who died on December 28, 2009. The tour began on October 29, 2007, with a North American leg, shortly after the band finished its previous tour in support of ''

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''. The tour ended on August 2, 2009, at the Sonisphere Festival in Knebworth, England. During the band's North American leg in autumn 2008, after a show on September 6, 2008, the vocalist

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had difficulties singing, and flew to see his doctor, cancelling the

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show the next day. The whole co-headlining tour with

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was then cancelled because of Shadows' case of vocal fatigue. The band resumed the tour after Shadows took some rest, with a short Japanese leg starting on October 15, 2008, and then on November 4, 2008, the band rescheduled its cancelled North American leg and played through November and December a co-headlining tour with Buckcherry and the support acts Shinedown and

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, in place of the cancelled tour. The summer leg 2008 was as an opening act for

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. The band also played three dates in June 2009, in support of

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. During the band's headlining of the North American

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2008 tour, it recorded the April 10, 2008, performance, for its first live DVD, entitled ''

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'', which was a bundle of a live DVD, and a CD of B-sides and unreleased tracks from the ''Avenged Sevenfold'' album. On 16 April 2009,

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guitarist

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joined the band on stage to play a cover version of the Guns N' Roses song " It's So Easy".

Set list

Tour dates

Personnel

– lead vocals, organ on "Critical Acclaim" *Zacky Vengeance – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals *

The Rev James Owen Sullivan (February 9, 1981 – December 28, 2009), also known by his stage name the Rev (shortened version of ''the Reverend Tholomew Plague''), was an American musician, best known as a member of the heavy metal music, heavy metal ...

– drums, percussion, backing vocals, co-lead vocals *

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– lead guitar, backing vocals *

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– bass guitar, backing vocals

References

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