Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
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Artist: Avenged SevenfoldEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Music Label: Warner Brothers/Elektra/Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- Critical Acclaim
- Almost Easy
- Scream
- Afterlife
- Gunslinger
- Unbound (The Wild Ride)
- Brompton Cocktail
- Lost
- A Little Piece Of Heaven
- Dear God
Music reviews of Avenged Sevenfold
Music Review: A little piece of Avenged Sevenfold heaven
Rating: 5 Stars
Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled 2007 release is much like Metallica's 1991 classic "The Black Album" because it shows the band changing their sound, appealing to the masses and dividing the fans right down the middle. Well, most of them at least, because I happen to like both A7X's older and newer stuff.
If you haven't heard your friends' opinions on this album, "Avenged Sevenfold" is an album that will divide the fans into two preferences: the older, more underground-based sound, or their more recent, accessible sound. Most people will either love this album to death or frown upon it for not retaining the thrashy, epic sounds of "Waking The Fallen".
However, if you look beyond the change in the band's sound, you'll realize that this album actually has a lot to offer. Keep in mind I own all of their albums, from "Sounding The Seventh Trumpet" to this one, so I come from a well-rounded opinion if I do say so myself.
"Avenged Sevenfold" is an album that, while drawing commercial success, somehow manages to expand the band's sound. I find this astounding, because it's not often a band's most experimental work will be their most successful, but low and behold, "Avenged Sevenfold" is probably the band's most experimental album, and as I said before, their most commercially successful.
This album not only goes from screaming punk-metal to Broadway to country, (yes I said Broadway and country), it showcases some of the band's biggest-sounding, most epic songs yet. And I don't mean epic in the way you beat your friends in a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament, I mean epic in the sense of huge-sounding, larger-than-life melodies.
"Critical Acclaim": The band kicks the album off quite epically, with a church-like organ and a slow, passionate guitar solo, before erupting into a blast of heavy riffs, politically- and socially-driven lyrics, and some awesome shout-a-long chants. A killer way to start the album.
"Almost Easy": One of the biggest hits off the album shows the band starting right away, with Synyster Gates ripping out a beautiful, energetic solo in C# minor, before the band goes into heavy riffs over a fast drumbeat, an energetic pre-chorus, and a massive-sounding chorus that seems to echo from the metal valleys (wow, why did I say that?)
"Scream": A snakelike riff in the diminished scale and some primal, dirty vocals and lyrics bring this song to life, with an even more primal, dirtier chorus and chorus riff. More great, larger-than-life melodies in the second half of the chorus, making the songs 3 out of 3 on the epic scale.
"Afterlife": Probably the second most famous song off the album, this six-minute masterpiece starts off with a strings section before erupting into an awesome, punk-metal riff and guitar solo, some great verses and a chorus that will ring out in your head for days. Truly one of the band's greatest songs.
"A Little Piece of Heaven": An eight-minute epic that combines A7X's brand of punk-metal with Broadway music, a lot of humor and some hilariously graphic lyrics. One of the most entertaining songs they've ever written, bar none.
"Dear God": A sweet, acoustic country song that clocks in at six and a half minutes closes the album out. Both fans and newcomers would probably never see this song coming, I know I didn't, but it's still an amazing way to end the album.
So what this album lacks for in the hardcore screaming vocals or underground-styled breakdowns, it gained something massive. If my descriptions of the highlights of the album got you interested, then run down to the store right now, get this album and blast it. If you're into Avenged Sevenfold, then hopefully you'll dig this album. Even if you're a newcomer, you should too. The important thing to remember is to keep an open mind with this album. You might just love it. Thanks for the time, and peace.
Description of Avenged Sevenfold
We made this record for the 18- to 25- year-old kid who just wants to blast some heavy shit out his window something you can groove to and rock out to that means something. There s no glitz or glamor just a heavy-hitting record that encompasses all of Avenged Sevenfold. It s a record that new fansand old fans will love. M. Shadows
The debut major-label album from
Avenged Sevenfold (aka A7X), 2005's
City Of Evil, earned gold (817,640 copies sold to date), shot to Top 30 Pop and won the band Best New Artist at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. For the selftitled follow-up, the band gets even harder and heavier. Avenged Sevenfold, the group's first album to be self-produced, is head-banging heaven.
Avenged Sevenfold's fourth full-length is little more than a workaday hard rock record replete with songs tailored for the innards of hockey rinks and basketball arenas. The nu-metal bellowing and angst-filled posturing quickly wear thin, rendering tracks such as "Scream" and "Afterlife," and the opening "Critical Acclaim," nearly interminable. Sure, "Gunslinger," "A Little Piece of Heaven," and "Dear God" offer some variation and each holds a few interesting ideas but there's nothing here that hasn't already been tried by My Chemical Romance, Nightwish, Buckcherry, or Bon Jovi. A credible but ultimately failed effort. --Jedd Beaudoin
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