Avenged Sevenfold goes an extra step towards progressive metal. This song is the 8th track off of their 7th studio album The Stage. It’s entitled “Higher” and it’s related to a fail NASA launch test. It’s mainly sung, however, about the aftermath. The first verse, to me, best explains the lyrical topic in specifics. …
Category: School Life
A Question of Survival – Day 1 of 5
Years ago, Avonworth students Anders Ove and Joe Engelmeier began heatedly debating about a vital choice that they hypothetically would have to make in a certain life-or-death situation. Word of this debacle spread to other students who took a stance on the issue, ultimately taking one of two sides. According to Ove, “this choice essentially…
Shriver Beat 5/17
Throughout your freshman year at Avonworth High School, whether you’re in honors or not, you share a common enemy that awaits you at the end of the year: your Biology Keystone Test. As the year begins to wind down, finals and keystone prep begin to flood the halls, nervous students telling their colleagues about their…
The Auditorium Beat day 3
Wednesday May 17: Today I have decided to take it safely. Using my super secret ninja skills I successfully avoided detection. I went back and forth between the back of the auditorium and inside at the entrance. I seemed to have gotten there before the rest but I was not so easy on believing the…
Shriver Beat 5/16
Scott Shriver, Biology teacher, has been a part of the Avonworth team for 32 years is retiring by the end of this 2017 year. Although he bids Avonworth High School goodbye, in order to keep his time at our small high school alive, I have decided to make him the center of my beat for…
Ryan’s Metal Beat #4: Are We Living in a Simulation?
Are we living in a simulation? No one knows for sure. However, Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh track of their most recent album takes on the subject of the simulation hypothesis, which is a theory that explains that our human lives that we live in is only a computed simulation. This song is apply named “Simulation”, and…
Ryan’s Metal Beat #3: M. Shadows Wants to Know Where the Angels Die
It seems like M. Shadows wants to know where the angels die. Welcome to Ryan’s Metal Reviews, and today’s review is another song from Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh album The Stage. This particular song takes on a different subject matter. Written in Drop D Tuning and mostly credited by vocalist M. Shadows and lead guitarist Synyster…
The Auditorium Beat – Day 2 by Jagmeet Singh
Day two (Tuesday, May 17th) Today I dared brave whatever dangers lie ahead, much againe to my dismay. I had hoped that I would find nothing and I would be free to explore the auditorium on my own. When I entered through the golden gates I saw the white background that the chorus often uses….
The Auditorium Beat – Day 1 by Jagmeet Singh
Day one On this day of Thursday, May 11, 2017, I, Captain Jagmeet Saini Dhaul, have dared to venture out to the uncharted territories of the auditorium. Today I have sailed out my crew, non existent. On arrival to the gates of the auditorium I heard the music of what I could have only assumed…
Matt’s Pens Beat #1: How Will This Defense Sustain With More Injuries?
The Pittsburgh Penguins evened up the series at one game a piece on Monday night, while the defense looked great with a convincing shutout the defense is becoming thinner by the day. As in the first period Justin Schultz got mashed into the boards and never returned to the game, which isn’t helping the Pens…