RIP to JIMMY "THE REV" SULLIVAN

Year 2009 is finally coming to its end. I think the common question that will usually pop up is "What have I done this entire year?". However, this year will be very different. We should instead ask ourselves "How many famous people died this year." Yes, people die everyday but this year is indeed a cursed one when so MANY EPIC LEGENDARY people died. Reflecting back, the death of Michael Jackson which shocked the whole world, followed by Les Paul, Brittany Murphy and now The Rev.

Following statement is found from the Internet:

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Police say James Owen Sullivan, a drummer and backup vocalist for the southern California band Avenged Sevenfold, has been found dead at his home in southern California.

Lt. John Domingo says the 28-year-old Sullivan, who went by the stage name The Rev, appears to have died of natural causes on Monday in Huntington Beach.

The Orange County coroner's office is investigating the death.

Avenged Sevenfold formed in Huntington Beach in 1999 and won Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2006. According to their MySpace page, the five-man metalcore band was working on their fifth album.

The band released a statement Monday expressing their sadness and calling Sullivan "one of the world's best drummers," and "our best friend and brother."

Avenged sevenfold being my favourite heavy metal band has always been making great music, unlike other certain artists (boy bands particularly) who sell well purely based on their looks and with their crappy pop sh*t to cater for the current market selling value. He wrote songs like Afterlife and Almost Easy which earned A7X's gold certified self-titled album. His drum beat is just simply ecstatic, and has now gone together with him.

Even though just barely a few hours after his death and despite his reason of death remains undisclosed, many people have begun expressing their despair all over the Internet. Just to list out a few:

mariawithoneeye RT @StevenSmithsays: Holy shit! The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold died! He was so young. So awful. What happened?!!!

Still can't accept that The Rev is gone. Cuz of this I was so depressed for the whole day... Oh man. Somebody tell me it's not real.

metalmisstress1 I wake up this morning to news that Avenged Sevenfold's drummer died..... WTF? Seriously? You got to be kidding me........ #RIPTheRev

waahyudi #nowplaying avenged sevenfold-afterlife. Buat mengenang James Owen Sullivan a.k.a The Rev / the best drummer.

The Rev, you will always be regarded as one of the best drummers of all time.

RIP in the afterlife!