12 Things You Didn't Know About Avenged Sevenfold
10. The Band Member's Stage Names All Mean Something
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Synyster was covered earlier, but according to Loudwire, M.Shadows (Matthew Charles Sanders) is so-named as he thought of himself as “the darker character in the group”, whilst Zacky Vengeance (Zachary James Baker) felt he needed to prove himself to any doubters through life. Johnny Christ's (Jonathan Lewis Seward) was taken from Danzig's John Christ, and The Rev (James Owen Sullivan) simply named himself The Reverend Tholomew Plague. As you do.