Pinkly Smooth is the Goblin Metal/ Avant-garde metal side project of Avenged Sevenfold drummer The Rev, in which he sings and plays drums. The band was formed in the summer of 2001 in Huntington Beach, California, with The Rev (under the name Rat Head) as singer, fellow Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates as guitarist and Ballistico members: Buck Silverspur (under the name El Diablo) on bass and D-Rock (under the name Super Loop) on drums.