| Not Ready to Die | |
| Cover: | Not_Ready_to_Die.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Avenged Sevenfold |
| Ep: | Black Reign |
| Released: | May 2, 2011 |
| Recorded: | April 2011 |
| Length: |
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| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | Mike Elizondo |
| Prev Title: | So Far Away |
| Prev Year: | 2011 |
| Next Title: | Buried Alive |
| Next Year: | 2011 |
"Not Ready to Die" is a song by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. It was created specifically for the video game (2010), appearing as an easter egg in the game's "Call of the Dead" Zombies map. The song, along with the 3 other originals the band wrote for the Black Ops series, was later released on the Black Reign EP in 2018.[1]
"Not Ready to Die" was written for map "Call of the Dead" from the zombies gamemode in . The lyrics of the song are based of the story and lore of the game, which singer M. Shadows is a big fan of.[2] This song would mark the first collaboration between Avenged Sevenfold and the Black Ops franchise, with the band contributing 5 more songs to the series. The bridge of the song features an interpolation of "Damned", the Black Ops Zombies theme song.
The song was written in four days between the band's Nightmare After Christmas and Welcome to the Family tours, and was recorded in April 2011.
Credits adapted from Tidal.[3]
Avenged Sevenfold
Additional musicians
Production