Author Topic: The Avenged Sevenfold Thread (merged) (Read 164595 times)

Scar · « **Reply #840 on:** June 03, 2016, 08:37:49 PM »

Did you guys hear the preview of their new album? Brooks Wackerman is a beast!

Nightmare is one of the godliest albums they have produced. Rocks

NotePad · « **Reply #841 on:** August 26, 2016, 10:25:01 AM »

Just started really getting into Avenged Sevenfold, mainly through Hail To The King. I really like Waking The Fallen, City of Evil has some great songs that are very euro metal inspired by stuff like Helloween, Gamma Ray etc. It's a power metal album. But their other stuff didn't do it for me.... Until Hail To The King.

Hail To The King is brilliant. The influences are quite obvious, but it works for them. Coming Home may be my favorite of the bunch. It's clearly a Maiden inspired song, more like reunion era Maiden actually. Planets is great, so is Heretic. I can't wait to see what they do next. I'm curious if they will continue in this direction. Hope they do.

Anguyen92 · « **Reply #842 on:** August 26, 2016, 10:55:12 AM »

Quote from: NotePad on August 26, 2016, 10:25:01 AM

Just started really getting into Avenged Sevenfold, mainly through Hail To The King. I really like Waking The Fallen, City of Evil has some great songs that are very euro metal inspired by stuff like Helloween, Gamma Ray etc. It's a power metal album. But their other stuff didn't do it for me.... Until Hail To The King.

Hail To The King is brilliant. The influences are quite obvious, but it works for them. Coming Home may be my favorite of the bunch. It's clearly a Maiden inspired song, more like reunion era Maiden actually. Planets is great, so is Heretic. I can't wait to see what they do next. I'm curious if they will continue in this direction. Hope they do.

I got nothing against with Hail to the King, with the exception of This Means War (where, I don't care how they twist it, it does sound almost exactly like Metallica's Sad But True), but your opinion may be a minority one. For me, personally, I would like it if they do keep going of what they did with City of Evil or Nightmare and twist in a way that does not sound like a rehash. Odd that I think this way since out of all of their albums, their self-titled is the only album from theirs in my Top-50.

Mosh · « **Reply #843 on:** August 26, 2016, 11:47:47 AM »

Hail To the King single handedly killed my interest in this band.

cramx3 · « **Reply #844 on:** August 26, 2016, 01:05:03 PM »

I loved Hail to the King, the bland drums don't really bother me at all since I find the songs to be pretty good overall... and yea Coming Home is AWESOME

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #845 on:** August 26, 2016, 01:22:50 PM »

Hail to the King has aged like a fine wine.

pogoowner · « **Reply #846 on:** August 26, 2016, 01:31:20 PM »

I understand the issues people have with Hail to the King, but I still think it's fairly strong. Nightmare is my favorite.

Destiny Of Chaos · « **Reply #847 on:** August 26, 2016, 03:01:25 PM »

Because DT

1. Avenged Sevenfold
2. City of Evil
3. Nightmare
4. Hail to The King
5. Waken The Fallen

I don't mess with the trumpets.

TheCountOfNYC · « **Reply #848 on:** August 26, 2016, 05:17:01 PM »

Might as well post my ranking.

1: City of Evil
2: Nightmare
3: Waking the Fallen
4: Avenged Sevenfold
5: Hail to the King
6: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

cramx3 · « **Reply #849 on:** August 26, 2016, 05:37:23 PM »

City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold
Hail to the King
Nightmare
Waking the Fallen

I guess I don't mess with trumpets either, also there isnt much gap between albums, all are fantastic.

jakepriest · « **Reply #850 on:** August 26, 2016, 06:36:12 PM »

I find City of Evil massively overrated.

Nightmare
A7X
Hail To The King
City of Evil
Waking The Fallen
lol

Scar · « **Reply #851 on:** August 26, 2016, 07:42:46 PM »

I don't why, but Fallen has rose up.

1. Waking the Fallen
2. Nightmare
3. Self Titled
4. City of Evil
5. Seventh Trumpet
6. Hail to the King

Train of Naught · « **Reply #852 on:** August 27, 2016, 07:21:27 AM »

1. Nightmare

2. Waking the Fallen
3. City of Evil

4. A7X

5. Hail to the King
6. Trump

trump doesnt even deserve to be on any sort of ranking tbh what was i thinking

ZKX-2099 · « **Reply #853 on:** August 27, 2016, 08:02:00 AM »

Quote from: TheCountOfNYC on August 26, 2016, 05:17:01 PM

Might as well post my ranking.

1: City of Evil
2: Nightmare
3: Waking the Fallen
4: Avenged Sevenfold
5: Hail to the King
6: Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

This is factually accurate.

Scar · « **Reply #854 on:** August 27, 2016, 10:09:11 AM »

Quote from: Train of Naught on August 27, 2016, 07:21:27 AM

1. Nightmare

2. Waking the Fallen
3. City of Evil

4. A7X

5. Hail to the King
6. Trump

trump doesnt even deserve to be on any sort of ranking tbh what was i thinking

Why do you prefer City to their Self Titled??

Train of Naught · « **Reply #855 on:** August 27, 2016, 11:00:12 AM »

Just.. more consistent I guess, there's not much else to it. self-titled has the better songs but is not as consistent.

I'm pretty sure the people who prefer self-titled over City of Evil are in the vast minority though, so it shouldn't be too big of a surprise

Scar · « **Reply #856 on:** August 27, 2016, 01:28:29 PM »

I understand about consistency. Self Titled has my favorites: Brompton Cocktail, A Little Piece of Heaven, and Unbound (The Wild Ride), but some of my least favs: Dear God, Lost, Almost Easy, and Scream.

Whereas City of Evil has: Seize the Day, Sidewinder, Strength of the World, MIA, and Trashed and Scattered.

Mosh · « **Reply #857 on:** August 30, 2016, 03:57:26 PM »

Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
Waking the Fallen
City of Evil
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Hail To the King

Yes, I prefer the Trumpets to HTTK. Not that I particularly like either, but I at least have some fond memories associated with Trumpets. It has a nostalgia factor associated with it, though to be fair that's pretty much my only connection with A7X in general at this point.

chrisbDTM · « **Reply #858 on:** September 01, 2016, 08:12:30 PM »

Ooh I can rank

A7X
City of Evil
Waking the fallen
Nightmare
STTK

Hail to the king

Mosh · « **Reply #859 on:** September 01, 2016, 09:41:30 PM »

How about the Diamonds in the Rough disc? Some good tracks on there, might even put it at #3.

Scar · « **Reply #860 on:** September 01, 2016, 09:58:41 PM »

I only love Dancing Dead on that track. Simply spectacular.

Train of Naught · « **Reply #861 on:** September 02, 2016, 12:48:39 AM »

DitR would be right above Hail to the King for me, coming in at #5. Some really good songs on there! My favorites are Until the End (this is actually one of my favorite A7X songs), The Fight, Demons and the Iron Maiden cover of Flash of the Blade

cramx3 · « **Reply #862 on:** September 02, 2016, 06:52:44 AM »

Quote from: Mosh on September 01, 2016, 09:41:30 PM

How about the Diamonds in the Rough disc? Some good tracks on there, might even put it at #3.

Yea that's a great disc of b-sides.

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #863 on:** September 03, 2016, 07:01:57 AM »

To be fair I only gave Hail to the King one listen (and wasn't impressed) my ranking would be:

City of Evil

Waking the Fallen

Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Hail to the King

I really love City of Evil. Top 20 album ever for me

NotePad · « **Reply #864 on:** September 21, 2016, 10:57:22 AM »

HTTK is by far my favorite A7X album. I like City is Evil because of It's power metal, but HTTK just tops it. I love the traditional metal element they incorporated into their sound. Yes, the influences are very obvious but the fact remains, it's an awesome album.

SystematicThought · « **Reply #865 on:** October 12, 2016, 10:47:53 PM »

New album must be coming up. Chris Jericho may have accidentally leaked the title and release date. If he's correct, the new album is called Voltaic Oceans and will be released on December 9th

Head on over to their website and ask questions to the deathbot. Type in the album name for a response, Arin Ilejay, The Rev, Mike Portnoy, etc. Have some fun with it

https://deathbot.net

Kotowboy · « **Reply #866 on:** October 13, 2016, 06:49:32 AM »

Quote from: Anguyen92 on August 26, 2016, 10:55:12 AM

I got nothing against with Hail to the King, with the exception of This Means War (where, I don't care how they twist it, it does sound almost exactly like Metallica's Sad But True),.

And Shepherd of Fire is Enter Sandman.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #867 on:** October 13, 2016, 08:32:47 AM »

Sooooo " The Stage "... That synth intro is taken entirely from The Creature Lives by Mastodon.

Train of Naught · « **Reply #868 on:** October 13, 2016, 10:28:11 AM »

New single "The Stage" streaming on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYVlFXsEME

Just finished my first listen, guitar solo is a bit too stretched out but the song is really good! Structure reminds me heavily of City of Evil, and I'm really really glad to see the return of the acoustic Synyster Gates outro, really impressed.

Kotowboy · « **Reply #869 on:** October 13, 2016, 10:29:49 AM »

Quote from: Train of Naught on October 13, 2016, 10:28:11 AM

New single "The Stage" streaming on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYVlFXsEME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxALZkrAIIE

cramx3 · « **Reply #870 on:** October 13, 2016, 10:30:25 AM »

I think it's awesome and that video is great

jakepriest · « **Reply #871 on:** October 13, 2016, 10:39:29 AM »

Quote from: Kotowboy on October 13, 2016, 10:29:49 AM

Quote from: Train of Naught on October 13, 2016, 10:28:11 AM
New single "The Stage" streaming on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYVlFXsEME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxALZkrAIIE

You give way too many shits about a 3 second intro.

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #872 on:** October 13, 2016, 11:01:44 AM »

That sounds better than thee few songs I heard from HTTK.

That is a weird video for A7X. It's not the sort of thing I ever imagined them doing. It was an ok video but didn't really help sell the song IMO. It all sounds promising though.

Ben_Jamin · « **Reply #873 on:** October 13, 2016, 12:22:07 PM »

I like that song a lot. That intro hooked me in.

ariich · « **Reply #874 on:** October 13, 2016, 04:04:45 PM »

I like it! Some quirkiness has returned after a bit of an absence.

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