Bat Country

"Bat Country"
"Bat Country"
Single by Avenged Sevenfold
from the album City of Evil
Released	August 9, 2005
Recorded	January 1 – April 18, 2005
Studio	The Hobby Shop (Los Angeles); Ocean Way (Hollywood);
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	5:13 (album version); 4:11 (radio edit);
Label	Warner
Songwriter(s)	Matthew Sanders; Brian Haner Jr.; James Sullivan;
Producer(s)	Andrew Murdock; Avenged Sevenfold; Fred Archambault;
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"Bat Country" is a song by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released in August 2005 as the second single from their third album, City of Evil. Avenged Sevenfold won 'Best New Artist Video' at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for "Bat Country" and the single was certified platinum by the RIAA and silver by the BPI. For these reasons, "Bat Country" is often believed to be the band's most commercially successful song.