Avenged Sevenfold fans crashed the MTV server with the huge amount of traffic generated when the band released their new video So Far Away.
The song was written by Synyster Gates as a tribute to former drummer The Rev and features a montage of shots of The Rev.
The band stated via their website:
This video is a raw and emotional tribute to Avenged Sevenfold's late drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and celebrates the long-time friendship the band members have shared since forming A7X in Huntington Beach, CA, in 1999. The video was directed by Wayne Isham, who has directed videos for such artists as Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, and Def Leppard, among many others. The heartfelt quality of the video is in keeping with the emotional resonance of the song, a very personal goodbye to Sullivan that appears on the band's album Nightmare.
So Far Away is the third single off Nightmare, the first album made without The Rev behind the kit.
