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Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold Audio CD

A fair review of the Avenged Sevenfold "Avenged Sevenfold" 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: Avenged Sevenfold
Rating:

Release Date: 2007-10-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Critical Acclaim 2: Almost Easy 3: Scream 4: Afterlife 5: Gunslinger 6: Unbound (The Wild Ride) 7: Brompton Cocktail 8: Lost 9: A Little Piece Of Heaven 10: Dear God

Former fan, still disappointed
Then came "City of Evil," which featured cheesy hair-metal riffs, annoyingly whiny lead guitar lines, and even cheesier 80's hair-metal vocals. So they had a boring debut ("Sounding The 7th Trumpet") but came back with a KILLER sophomore effort (2003's "Waking The Fallen") that made me think they were the next big thing. BOO! But the boys have returned. . . . . . EVEN WORSE! (Just listen to "A Little Piece of Heaven" and if you laugh harder than I do, you just might die from a heart attack). On a serious note, don't buy this. You will be mad at yourself. Get "Waking The Fallen" and just put it on repeat.

can i give it 10 stars?
i love every single song on it (and thats saying something!) this has been my favorite CD to listen to for over a year now. this is their greatest album to date. i listen to other stuff too, but i always come back to this one. avenged outdid themselves with this album. i could go on and on about it, but you get the gist. this album is absolutely awesome and a must buy.

Overrated to be honest

its single tracks "Critical Acclaim" "Afterlife" and "Almost Easy" are alright at best, but there older songs from City of Evil such as "Beast and the Harlot" makes there singles from this album look as if they were played by amateurs, they have some pretty good tracks on here but they are less popular (which is a shame) Gunslinger, Unbound (the wild ride) and Lost are by far my favorite tracks from this CD, those songs show of there instrumentals and song writing skills. To be honest, Avenged Sevenfold's self title album is pretty overrated.

If you are just getting into Avenged Sevenfold, i suggest you buy City of Evil (one of my favorite albums ever) or Waking the Fallen before you listen to this, because quite frankly i'd give City of Evil a 5/5 and Waking the Fallen a 4/5 . . . while self titled gets a nice 2. 5/5 City of Evil.

A little piece of Avenged Sevenfold heaven
Well, most of them at least, because I happen to like both A7X's older and newer stuff. 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.
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.

One of the worst band out
The fret board hijinks can be entertaing but are often ruined by lame meldoic "swedish-esque" riffs that make me want to jam a pencil into my ear drum. I found the album, much like their others,to be very dissappointing and lacking substance. I think they are fun to see live but to sit down and listen to it's like nails on a chalk board. If you like the more meldoic approaches check out Machine HEad's "The Blackening" or the past couple disc from The Haunted. But don't waste your time with this commercialized, over produced garbage, you might as well be listening to britney spears. .

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