Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
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Free Music Review: Fantastic! Overview:
Hit: 5 Stars
OK, this CD is amazing, but isn't quite as good as the Fold's second one. BUY THEM BOTH! This album has more of a punk feel to it. The singing is not as good or refined, but, to tell you the truth, I don't think Shadows has a very good voice in the first place. Also, the guitar tone has less bass, which I kinda prefer. Overview:To End the Rapture: 9/10 This 1-and-a-half-minute long song is really cool in that it has a good guitar solo, then some catchy vocals. It's a great start, but I do feel that it doesn't show who they really are in this album.
Turn the Other Way: 10/10 Now this shows who they are. Awesome! This is one fast, metal-crazy song with lots of screaming and some good singing. The guitar is especially noteworthy. There are some great harmonics and the whole thing just falls into place. Definately one of the greatest on the CD. It ends by fading the drum, bass, and guitar tracks, leaving the strings to stay alive.
Darkness Surrounding: 10/10 Super fast. Really cool. Great drumming. He does some pretty amazing stuff on the toms followed by some really awesome double-bass-drumming. Good vocals, too, especially at the end, "smell the burning amber"
The Art of Subconcious Illusion: 10/10 Cool lyrics. This song just kinda begins out of nowhere with no intro, but is so strong through the whole thing. At one point, Shadows just like screams his vocal chords of his neck, wraps them around his eyeballs and screams if you know what I mean. It's like this awesome, high-pitched scream like he's undergoing what he's singing about or that the lyrics are really happening. Also, at one point, he hits this note that sounds a lot like Godsmack. Awesome.
We Come Out at Night: 9/10 Very great, just not as good as the rest. Catchy vocals and memorable guitar riffs.
Lips of Deceit: 10/10 The beginning minute alone gives it a ten. Something about it is so cool. The verses are choppy in a wierd, unusual, and memorable way. There's also a part where it's kind of a bass solo. Ash is really good. Really great song that ends suddenly.
Warmness on the Soul: 10/10 Most definately the most beautiful Sevenfold song. For half of the song, it's just the piano and vocals. All brilliant musicians make great love songs. This is the Fold's shot at it. They have succeeded. It has a great piano solo and a great guitar solo. This is the most memorable song on the album.
An Epic of Time Wasted: 10/10 This is one of the first Sevenfold songs I ever heard and I fell in love with it. I can remember every little drum fill and guitar lick they do. The song has several long segments to it that are all together. The first half is a series of angry segments with really great music. Then the whole thing turns around as Shadows says he's sorry. This really is a musical masterpiece that even rivals with some Opeth songs.
Breaking Their Hold: 9/10 A very short song, which usually peeves me, but those are some great riffs. All screaming, no singing.
Forgotten Faces: 9/10 Really good. Cool drumming at one point.
Thick and Thin: 10/10 This is one of my favorites, but it doesn't stand out like some of the others, besides that one little break with some really fast picking.
Streets: 9/10 Much less progressive. I've heard it a billion times, but I don't get tired of it. I think it's about drugs. Catchy music that I've memorized. It really is great.
Shattered by Broken Dreams: 8/10 Starts off melodic, which is really great, and the screaming kicks in after two minutes. I dunno, this song really isn't very good, but it really kicks off for a while. It stops, and you expect it to be over, but then it just starts up again. This is not the best work of the Fold. It ends in a major chord. What are they thinking? (I hate to say it, but this is the longest song at about 7 minutes. In Waking the Fallen, the songs get a bit longer.)
This CD is very close to being a perfect work of the Fold. See my reviews found elsewhere in Opeth, Metallica, and many more.
Free Music Review: Simply amazing..
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow. I'd never so much as heard of Avenged Sevenfold until a week ago or so. Being the curious guy I am.. and always wanting something new to listen to, I picked up Sounding The 7th Trumpet. I have a huge collection of CDs, and only a select few of them stay in my CD player for more than a few plays. Simply because, a lot of punk sounds the same, a lot of metal sounds the same, a lot of hardcore sounds the same. I dont like listening to the same riffs, beats and vocals over and over, masquerading as different bands.So, as you might expect, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that A7X (As they are so affectionately known) have one of the most unique sounds I've heard in a long time. I haven't taken Sounding The 7th Trumpet out of my CD player since I put it in there. Right from the intro, you know it's going to be a good CD. It's just different, it doesnt sound like all the other hardcore out there. It has definate metal influences, and definate punk influences. In a song or two, the vocals combined with the beats remind me somewhat of Bad Religion, but other parts of the album are remniscent of older metal, or just straight up hardcore.
I have NO complaints about the album. Even the piano led power ballad, Warmess Of The Soul, is a great song. I never though I'd hear myself saying that, but I just like this band so much that I refuse to complain. Much of the time when I listen to CDs, I find myself skipping songs to listen to the ones I really like. I never skip a song on Sounding The 7th Trumpet. Every song is awesome. The guitarists are inventive, the vocalist is very dynamic, the bass player writes perfect, interesting but not overpowering basslines, and the drummer.. well, listen to his little mini solo in Darkness Surrounding. Being a drummer myself, I really enjoy his playing style.
Long winded.. sure, but I could say so much more about this band. I wont go into a track by track review.. all you have to know is, this is a ROCKING album, and there's no reason you shouldn't buy it, no matter what you're into. You've come this far, you read the review.. now buy it. You won't be dissapointed.
Free Music Review: Back to where we started...
Hit: 5 Stars
Metal is not really doing well these days. 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. 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.
Free Music Review: absolutely amazing.
Hit: 5 Stars
This cd, in an essence, is amazing. I would be the first person to tell you that hardcore isn't my choice of music, and this cd STILL is nothing short of astounding. The five piece from California is capable of literally any kind of music they put their mind to. Throughout the "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" you will hear styles ranging from 80's metal to hardcore, and from punk rock to even a rock ballad featuring the vocalist M. Shadows on piano.each member of the band is amazingly talented at their instruments, and it definitely shows on this album. On guitar, we have Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance. These two are better than 75% of guitarists making 100% more money these days. From the first song till the last song, you'll hear riff after solo after riff, each jaw-dropping in its own unique way. Next is Dameon Ash (replaced by Justin Sane) on bass. He's got the metal riffing down, but usually is drowned out by the guitars and (hella)awesome drums of The Reverend Tholomew Plague. If there's a drummer in this world that should be worshipped, it is this man. He is one of the fastest and most elaborate drummers in the punk/hardcore scene, and it definitely can not go unnoticed in "Trumpet". Lastly, but not least(ly), there is M. Shadows on vocals. He makes the band what they are. What are they? Nobody knows, actually. There's no real label you can put on them, and part of the reason is Shadows. He can go from straight glass gargling hardcore growling, to melodic emo singing, and polishing it off with Greg Graffin of Bad Religion styled punk rock harmonizing.
if you're in the mood for something new, and you're completely sick and tired of nickelback and good charlotte, you should definitely pick up Avenged Sevenfold's "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet".
best songs: darkness surrounding, lips of deceit, warmness on the soul, and shattered by broken dreams
Free Music Review: Their first album is a lucky seven...a five-star metal album!
Hit: 5 Stars
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. 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. 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.