"Welcome to the Family" is a heavy metal song by the Americanmetal band Avenged Sevenfold, released as the second single for their fifth studio album, Nightmare.[1] It is the band's second single released without former drummer "The Rev", who died on December 28, 2009.[2] In the news Theprp.com mention the second single from the album Nightmare is "Welcome to the Family", scheduled to be played on the radio starting on October 19, 2010.[3] In Avenged Sevenfold's "making of" series on YouTube, In the Studio, singer M. Shadows and bassist Johnny Christ say that the song was inspired by The Rev. No plans for a music video have been made so far. The song is playable as DLC in the video game Rock Band 3.[4]
