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Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet Audio CD

A fair review of the Avenged Sevenfold "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Avenged Sevenfold reviews here, or go back to the Avenged Sevenfold tabs.

Band: Avenged Sevenfold
Title: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Rating:

Release Date: 2002-03-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: To End The Rapture 2: Turn The Other Way 3: Darkness Surrounding 4: The Art Of Subconscious Illusion 5: We Come Out At Night 6: Lips Of Deceit 7: Warmness On The Soul 8: An Epic Of Time Wasted 9: Breaking Their Hold 10: Forgotten Faces 11: Thick And Thin 12: Streets 13: Shattered By Broken Dreams

Their first album is a lucky seven...a five-star metal album!
The heavy guitar riffs can be both complex and catchy at the same time, and don't even get me started on how crazy The Rev is on his drum kit! Some of his playing on this album rivals even the mighty Brann Dailor of Mastodon! *gasp* I personally consider Brann Dailor the best new metal drummer of this decade, so I'm giving The Rev a big compliment. This album has everything a great album in this vein of metal should have; it's a nice long dose of loud, hard, fast energy. Anyway, back to the album. . .

Now before getting this album, there is something all readers should know. As great an album as it is, it does lack the blazing, incredible guitar solos of something such as "City of Evil". There are two solos on the album, though, a powerful, majestic solo on the intro "To End The Rapture" and a beautiful and passionate solo during "Warmness on the Soul". However, don't let the lack of Synyster's wild shredding turn you off to this album, it's an underrated gem.

Most of the songs are mid- to fast-paced and are consistent throughout. However, the band does have the class to write the song "Warmness on the Soul" which is by far one of the best and most beautiful ballads I've heard in a long, long time. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it be a few people's wedding songs! But the rest of the album is indeed heavily influenced by European metal, with both the riffs and M. Shadow's amazing, hardcore voice.

While you won't find as much of M. Shadows's clean singing or Synyster Gates ripping out his blazing solos, this high-energy album is one for the books. At first I didn't think much of it, but after a while I relistened to it and realized what a metal gem this is. Don't miss your opportunity to get into this beast, go to the store and get this now! Thanks for the time, and peace.

Vinyl Copy Review
They reissued both in 2008 on colored vinyl limited to 3,000 copies each. Hopeless Records has taken the liberty in enabling A7X fans to enjoy the groups first two hard heavy albums on vinyl. Each set has two records, are both housed in gatefold packaging, and are nice to look at. . . how about the sound?

Well lenience is right for "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" the groups debut, the production was always a bit rough. "Waking the Fallen" is a bit nosier then I recall, especially on quieter segments. "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" sounds a tad bit more open then the CD copy (this probably is just me).

This is the better of the two available, the artwork is much more thought out inside the gatefold packaging, the cover still looks nice (slightly bleached colors), and the two colored records inside are nice for the price! A dirty grey record and a see through purple with swirled bits. Waking has two greyish records, so for those looking just for a quick snag on A7X memorabilia this is definitely more pleasing (disregarding nostalgic regards).

If you can only pick up one of the two reissues pick this one up, and if you can set some money aside for the self entitled album from 2007, sounds great on 180 gram vinyl.

SOUNDING THE SEVENTH GOTTA HAVE IT !
I LOVE TO LISTEN TO THEIR GUITAR RIFFS, AND WISH THEY COULD GO ON FOREVER. i AM A HARD CORE AVENGED SEVENFOLD FAN AND I LOVE THEIR MUSIC. M SHADOW'S VOICE CAN NEVER BE IMITATED, AND THEY ALL HAVE SPECIAL SKILLS THAT ARE UNIQUELY THEIRS THAT MAKE UP AVENGED SEVENFOLD AND MAKE IT SO ALL THEIR OWN. I LOVED THIS HEAVY METAL CD AND HAVE PLAYED SO MUCH THE HOUSE IS STILL SHAKING. ROCK ON a7X !.

Their best Album in my opinion
I'm not really a7x fan. . i thought City of Evil sucked. . . . but this Album is heavy and hard hitting. . . some other reviews on here are from people who are obviously soft and can't take a true hard-hitter like this album. SO what if it's screaming?.

Back to where we started...
Critics are only giving crap like Disturbed and Korn 5 stars, nu-metal crap is being released and ADD kids are only listening to what MTV and VH1 spoonfeeds them. Metal is not really doing well these days. However, we still have our beloved Underground and Non-Mainstream metal bands. And Avenged Sevenfold are exactly one of those bands.

It's funny how bands like Linkin Park and Korn get the "Metal" label nowadays. We have critics going "OH, New Heavy metal! Oh, POLITICALLY CORRECT heavy metal! Oh yeah, that's funky dude. " Well in the words of Bruce Dickinson, "There's heavy metal, and then there's BULLS--T!!!!!". I couldn't agree more.

Avenged Sevenfold are a band hailing from Huntington Beach. They have a bit of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Pantera, and many other great metal bands in their blood. We have M. Shadows with the gnarly vocals, Synester Gates and Zacky Vengeance with the shredding guitar riffs and solos, Johnny Christ on the bass, and The Rev pounding the living hell out of those drums. What confuses me is how people apply the "Emo" stereotype to A7X. How are these guys emo?

These guys are modern day classic metal, and their solid debut "Sounding The Seventh Trumpet" is solid proof of that. This is the band when they were penniless punks with a record deal. It's them making it big before they made it big.

The album begins with the intro "To End The Rapture", which fades into a metal assault. Then we get into "Turn the Other Way", an amazing way to begin an album. We have several other great songs like The Art of Subconscious Illusion, and We Come Out At Night. The best song is the fast and punkish "Streets", which got me hooked. Warmness on the Soul is a great track, and every other song on here, except for Lips of Deceit, is great.

So overall, this is a great album, and an essential for every metal fan.

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