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Bat Country
"Bat Country" is a song by Avenged Sevenfold. The song was released in August 2005 as the second single from their third album, ''City of Evil''. According to Metalsucks, this song takes influences from glam metal bands, Guns N' Roses in particular. Avenged Sevenfold won 'Best New Artist Video' at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for "Bat Country" and on October 1, 2009, the single was certified gold by the RIAA. For these reasons, "Bat Country" is often believed to be the band's most commercially successful song. The song was peaked at number 20 on Loudwire's Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=No. 20: Avenged Sevenfold, ‘Bat Country’ – Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs )〕
==Background and content==
The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky. With this, he gasps to his companion and attorney, Dr. Gonzo, "We can't stop here. This is bat country."
The following quote, also included at the beginning of ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', is referred to twice throughout the song (at the beginning and the bridge before the last chorus) and is shown at the beginning of the music video.
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Dr. Johnson
Also referenced in the song is a lyric derived from the final words spoken about Dr. Gonzo at the end of the film adaptation. The lyric is used at the end of the second breakdown of the song, as the final lyric of the song.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." - Raoul Duke
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