Even those among us Saintly enough to actually buy their music have been deemed "not worthy" of entire chunks of core content, ie, Lost It All only being legally available in the Super Limited Edition Deluxe Overpriced iTunes edition of Nightmare.
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They’ve never looked back, but they’ve also never topped this landmark album.For too long have the good people of the Internet been oppressed by the tyranny of record and distributions companies too many times have we been subjected to releases compiled with no particular consistency, full of ass-backwards DRM and "clean" versions. It’s the record where we learned that M Shadows could really sing, that Synyster Gates truly was a modern guitar god, that The Rev was a uniquely, visionary artist and that Avenged Sevenfold were more than a bunch of cocky kids, that they were actual superstars. In terms of an opening run of songs The Beast And The Harlot, Burn It Down, Blinded In Chains, Bat Country, Thrashed And Scattered and Seize The Day is as strong as any metal album you wanna put it up against.
Thirdly, and most importantly of all, City Of Evil just slams harder than any other album in their back catalogue.
It’s something that always deserves to be applauded, and that Avenged took City Of Evil to the masses and won the award for Best New Band at the MTV Awards for Bat Country (Ahead of Chris Brown, Rihanna, Panic! At The Disco and James Blunt at the height of his You’re Beautiful fame) was a massive statement for rock and metal at the time. Secondly, by achieving incredible success by furrowing their own path and refusing to be swayed by the trends of the time. Firstly, the bravery and ambition the record shows by ditching the zeitgeist sound of the time, metalcore, and instead embracing hard rock and the sleaze of the 80’s Sunset Strip glam scene (very much not a cool thing to do at the time) to create a Day-Glo, larger than life, sonic explosion of riffs and solos in a scene full of blokes in jeans and black t-shirts thieving At The Gates ideas. There are many reasons why City Of Evil is the definitive Avenged Sevenfold album.
This is a great album all the same, the epic thump at the start of Desecrate Through Reverence and the driving, Maiden gallop of Second Heartbeat are just two of the highlights, but smashing it here and then bailing was probably the reason we’re still talking about Avenged Sevenfold today. Waking The Fallen takes that sound as far as it could really be pushed, and, with a band as ambitious as A7X, topping the pile of goth-metalcore bands was never going to sate their commercial ambitions. Seen by many early fans as the ultimate Avenged Sevenfold album, Waking The Fallen is the last album from “the metalcore years”, before frontman M Shadows decided to stop screaming for a while and the band decided to go in a completely different direction.
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