The American rock band Avenged Sevenfold penned this song specifically for Call of Duty: Black Ops. The tune can be found in Escalation, a downloadable map pack for the first-person shooter, which was released on May 3, 2011. It was the first time the video game developers Treyarch had commissioned an outside band to contribute a song since the franchise began in 2003.
The song was written in four days by the band during their break between the Nightmare After Christmas tour and the Welcome to the Family tour.
Frontman M. Shadows explained the background to the song in an interview with Revolver magazine: "The song is about the game. There's a full backstory to what [the makers of Call of Duty] been doing for years with their 'Zombies' series. I'm a big fan of the game, I play it all the time, so I got caught up in the story. They sent me over the full storyline, so I made sure it was going along the lines of the zombie story. So that's what it's about."
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