Sunny Disposition

Album: The Stage (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • The Stage is loosely based around the concept of technology and artificial intelligence with a number of the tracks warning about its downside. Vocalist M. Shadows explained to the Orange County Register that this song is "about nuclear war and the class system."
  • Avenged Sevenfold bought in Fishbone's Angelo Moore and "Dirty" Walter Kibby to perform the horns on this song.

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  • Austin Mcmullin from Noneya BidnessThe very last line of the song is eerily close to the last line in Tool's song "Parabol"
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