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Hear Avenged Sevenfold’s New Song ‘Magic’ For ‘Call of Duty’ Soundtrack

Avenged Sevenfold have shared their new song “Magic” as part of the new “Season 01” patch to the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

The song marks the band’s first new music since 2023’s Life Is But a Dream…The accompanying video, by Ryan McKinnon using Unreal Engine, features a VR 360° performance of the song. Watch it below.

This isn’t the first time Avenged Sevenfold has joined forces with the Call of Duty series. In 2018, they released Black Reign, a four-song EP featuring the songs the band had contributed to the series over the years. In 2019, frontman M. Shadows became a part of the Call of Duty universe as a playable character.

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Ashley Perez is a freelance music journalist based in Chicago. Her work has appeared on AXS, Chicago Innerview, New City, The Millions, and Illinois Entertainer. She also runs her own music blog at Musical Fiction. Some of her favorite bands include Nirvana, The Cure, Muse, Creeper, and Green Day.