Avenged Sevenfold - Seize The Day ｜ Warner Vault

What this video is

Released in 2006 as the fourth single from Avenged Sevenfold's breakthrough major-label album 'City of Evil' (Warner Bros., 2005), 'Seize the Day' marked the band's most overt push into mainstream rock radio with a power ballad format. The video's cinematic, tragedy-driven narrative — depicting love, loss, incarceration, and grief — reflects the mid-2000s trend of hard rock acts adopting emotionally accessible…

Why it matters

Represents a defining artifact of the mid-2000s melodic hard rock power ballad resurgence, wherein post-metalcore bands leveraged orchestral song structures and narrative video formats to achieve mainstream crossover. The video exemplifies how Warner Bros. deployed high-budget cinematic production…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American music video and film director with over 150 directing credits since the 1980s. A UC Santa Barbara alumnus, he built his reputation directing arena-rock acts including Metallica, Bon Jovi,…