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Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions - Guitar Tab

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About Unholy Confessions

Unholy Confessions is a track by Avenged Sevenfold that showcases the band's heavy metal style with aggressive riffing and dynamic song structure. The song is rewarding for electric guitarists looking to develop their technique in palm muting, power chords, and lead work, combining rhythm intensity with melodic passages.

  • Features heavy palm-muted riffs typical of Avenged Sevenfold's metalcore-influenced approach to electric guitar.
  • Demonstrates dynamic contrast between heavy verse sections and more melodic guitar breaks.
  • Strong candidate for learning advanced rhythm techniques and metal rhythm patterns on electric guitar.

How to Play Unholy Confessions

Tuning: Drop D · Key: C# minor · Tempo: 180 BPM

The drop D tuning lets you fret the low power chords with a single finger, which is central to the heavier riffing here. At 180 bpm it moves fast, so the real test is building picking stamina and keeping every note clean at speed.

Loop the hardest passage and creep the speed up from around 70 percent until it holds at 180 BPM.

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Marshall JCM800

Zacky Vengeance pairs the JCM800 with his Schecter for a grittier, more classic crunch on rhythm duties, cutting through the mix with natural breakup without relying solely on high-gain saturation.

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Synyster Gates uses this wah to add expressive dynamics to his lead passages, allowing him to shape the midrange of his high-output bridge pickup for singing, vocal-like solo tones.

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ISP Decimator Noise Gate

The ISP Decimator tames the high-gain hum inherent to Avenged Sevenfold's aggressive drop-tuned rhythms and sustain-heavy leads, keeping the signal clean without sacrificing the thick distortion tone.

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MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay

Synyster Gates deploys this analog delay to add ambience and spaciousness to his solos, complementing his Sustainiac-driven feedback passages with lush, tape-like modulation for dynamic lead work.

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