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| Avenged Sevenfold Albums Ranked
Every Avenged Sevenfold album ranked, not including live recordings, EP’s, or B Sides. Sorry about any typos or grammatical errors, typing this from my phone while high as shit. | | 8 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Hail to the King
Alright, let’s get this out of the way. There’s three decent tracks here (Shepherd of Fire, Heretic, and Coming Home) and all three of them are saved by having good/decent hooks and killer Syn solos.
The rest of the album is plagued by extremely uninspired songwriting, including the songs I’ve already mentioned, basic ass lyrics about medieval bullshit or something, and really half assed drumming, although I don’t blame Arin. He clearly showed some chops when they played live.
It’s been said before but this is A7X emulating their heroes in the worst ways possible. Doing Time is a GnR b side, which is already a terrible thing to begin with.
Play it Again: Heretic, Coming Home, Shepherd of Fire, The Black Album.
Skip it: Literally everything else, but the worst offenders are Doing Time and Crimson Day. The first is practically plagiarizing GNR, which, why would you ever want to do that in the first place? And the second is overly sentimental garbage that still feels insincere | | 7 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Alright now we have some pretty good tunes mixed with some pretty terrible ones.
I’m not a very creative writer so I’ll just put it out there, Afterlife is one of the best songs the band has ever made. Orchestral parts that don’t feel out of place, a catchy as fuck chorus, great main riff, and possibly Syn’s best solo ever. Brompton Cocktail is damn good too.
Other than that… ugh. Almost Easy had a chorus good enough to make up for all that “I’m not Insane” pre chorus bullshit. A Little Piece of Heaven and Critical Acclaim are almost saved solely because of The Rev’s great vocals, and Gunslinger isn’t half bad. Most everything else is terrible with brief moments of greatness. Lost is kind of good until that godawful shoe horned in auto tuned chorus.
Play it on repeat: Afterlife and Brompton Cocktail
Fire it into the sun: Dear God and Unbound (The Shitty Ride) | | 6 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Now we can finally get to the albums that don’t suck.
But there’s a catch! This is just some basic pretty basic metalcore with a few moments of of greatness that show how good the band would become.
Turn the Other Way is a kick ass metalcore tune, and We Come Out at Night is another really solid cut. Most everything else is some decent riffs with Shadows’ amateurish vocals. There’s catchy hooks here and there but most of it is definitely a young band trying to find their sound. Also, special shout out to that horrible album cover. Looks like someone with Parkinson’s tried to make Cradle of Filth album art.
Good tracks that make you reminisce about teenage heartbreak, before the malaise settled in: Turn the Other Way, We Come Out At Night, Shattered By Broken Dreams.
Bad tracks that make you reminisce about how horrible your taste in music was: Warmness on the Soul, Streets | | 5 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
City of Evil
Avenged goes Iron Maiden! Pretty much every song here is great instrumentally, but man, Matt’s vocals really get tiresome from time to time. The biggest offender is Seize the Day, which is just a cornball ass ballad that could’ve been good with better vocals. And god, I’m normally not one to care about music videos, but what a hilariously stupid one this is. Syn shredding on that casket? Hilarious.
But there’s so much to love here. Strength of the World and Sidewinder are two of my favorite tracks the band has made, the storytelling is great and the instrumentals remain entertaining throughout, and most others are pretty fucking good too. Progressive and catchy, the songwriting is creative and more importantly, fun as all hell.
Had Matt not decided to channel his worst Axl Rose impression this could’ve been a classic.
Best Iron Maiden Worship: Strength of the World, Sidewinder, The Wicked End, MIA
Obligatory Dogshit Ballad: Seize the Day | | 4 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
The Stage
Now we’re getting to the cream of the crop. Avenged goes prog without becoming pretentious assholes.
The title track opens with a great tapping riff that gives way to a “fuck both sides” lyrical display that I totally get down with, then later has one of the most beautiful bridges I’ve heard in a metal song.
Angels and Roman Sky are further proof that the band is capable of making absolutely gorgeous instrumentation.
God Damn is a short banger that kicks total ass, and Simulation is just incredible cheese.
Just a really great prog metal record that you’d never expect from a band as mainstream as A7X.
Prog Heaven: The Stage, Paradigm, God Damn, Higher, Roman Sky.
Wankfest Bullshit: Its hard for me to pick a bad track here but I’ll go for it, the six and last four minutes of Exist, but the middle section is actually very pretty and it really shines on their Grammy performance. Creating God isn’t great either. | | 3 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
Now here is where we see where the band really matured. It’s still got some corny lines (“ITS YOUR FUCKIN NIGHTMARE”, “TOTAL NIGHTMARE… GOD HATES US!!!”, they really like nightmares on this record), but for the first time in the bands career we actually get multiple great ballads, most that even outshine the more metallic cuts.
It also should be said that even though I fucking despise Dream Theater, Mike Portnoy put in one hell of a performance that really does our boy Jimmy justice. Some songs are absolutely heartbreaking. A generational talent lost way too young.
Songs to Cry to: So Far Away, Victim, Save Me, Tonight the World Dies, Buried Alive, Natural Born Killer
Songs to Die to: Danger Line | | 2 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Waking the Fallen
Here it is, the classic that every hardcore A7X fan loves. They took the blueprint that was STST and came damn close to perfecting it. Matt’s vocals are improved by a large margin, and the addition of lead guitarist Synyster Gates adds a layer of technicality that just isn’t possible with one guitarist. And not only is there a good ballad, it’s possibly the best one in their entire discography!
Certified metalcore classic.
Best Songs to Jam in Hot Topic in the mid 2000’s: Chapter Four, Remenissions, Eternal Rest, I Won’t See You Tonight Parts 1 & 2, And All Things Will End.
Overly Melodramatic Bullshit That You Still Probably Jammed in Hot Topic 20 years ago: Clairvoyant Disease, Radiant Eclipse. | | 1 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Life Is But a Dream...
Might be recency bias but fuck that, this album was my favorite when it came out and I still spin it multiple times a week nearly 3 months on.
“Avenged Goes Avant-Garde”, here we have the most creative batch of songs that the band has ever recorded. The reoccurring themes of existentialism and absurdism also really resonate with me at this point in my life, and I’m sure a lot of folks can relate to that.
There’s a couple of minor missteps here and there, mainly some really abrupt transitions in We Love You, and Easier can’t decide if it wants to be an entrancing synth and vocoder track or just straight up butt rock. But that doesn’t hold it back from being the best album of 2023 and the best album of A7X’s career.
The Rev would be proud.
Best Tracks to Trip Balls to: All of them… but especially Nobody, Cosmic, G, Ordinary, Death.
Worst Track: Easier | |
Titan
08.27.23 | Bitches bro props and respect even though my ranking looks totally different than yours.....good convos in recent times my man | bellovddd
08.27.23 | hehe | tellah
08.28.23 | city of evil supremacy | Feather
08.28.23 | Friend, You didn’t have to throw so much shade at GNR in your a7x ranking.
Life is but a dream > COE > Waking the fallen > don’t care | JDubb
08.28.23 | LISBAD is a grower - wasn’t quite sure what to make of it early on. | Wildcardbitchesss
08.28.23 | respect titan you a real one
And I’m sorry I just fucking hate Guns N’ Roses. To me they’re like everything I hate about 80’s hair music combined.
And I despise Axl Rose. I don’t think I could take listening to a full album of that. I will say that I’ve enjoyed slash’s solo records tho | JDubb
08.28.23 | Relistened to 7 today - it had been a good # of years. not a bad album - especially coupled with Diamonds in the Rough. | AlexKzillion
08.28.23 | i would def switch 7 and 6 but otherwise my ranking is about the same | Pikazilla
08.28.23 | waking the fallen slaps | Wildcardbitchesss
08.28.23 | If you took the best tracks off the s/t and the best tracks on diamonds in the rough you’d have a pretty decent record that might be up a notch. Just a quick mock tracklist:
Demons
Crossroads
Almost Easy
Tension
The Fight
Gunslinger
Dancing Dead
Brompton Cocktail
Afterlife
Until the End
Still… not great, but a hell of a lot better than the self titled. I didn’t include 4:00 AM or Lost It All since they’re from the Nightmare sessions but I’ve always felt those tracks were good enough to make the cut.
And Set Me Free, well, that would’ve been a weaker track on HttK and you guys already know how I feel about that album. | AlexKzillion
08.29.23 | my mock s/t - diamonds would prob be:
critical acclaim
almost easy
girl i know!
afterlife
gunslinger
crossroads
brompton cocktail
dancing dead
a little piece of heaven
demons | Djang0
08.29.23 | Nice ranking. Life, The Stage, and WtF are a pretty interchangeable top three for me. 7's really not bad - I'd put it a little higher.
This is one of those bands that, mediocrity aside, you could really make a good argument for any album being your #1 (yeah even the s/t) | Wildcardbitchesss
08.30.23 | ugh dude I hate Girl I Know.
But that’s not a bad edit either. I actually really fuck with the live version of Critical Acclaim, it’s just Matt’s shouty right wing bullshit after the chorus is so bad. | Wildcardbitchesss
08.30.23 | And I shat on Easier but man it’s a million times better than that horrible demo that its chorus is lifted from.
Thank fucking god that track never saw the light of day aside from a shitty youtube rip. | PitchforkArms
08.30.23 | I listened to I Won't See You Tonight pt1 again recently and FUCK the vocals after the buildup are still so great. | Wildcardbitchesss
08.30.23 | yeah both parts are Matt’s finest work imo, he’s not as refined as on Nightmare or the self titled but that rawness definitely works for those tracks | DrGonzo1937
08.30.23 | 1 is 1 agreed | Spec
08.30.23 | The fact that STST isn’t dead last earns you a gold star. | Wildcardbitchesss
08.30.23 | Unless you just hate metalcore idk how anyone could have that as their last. It’s like objectively better than HttK at least. That record sucks.
Self titled I at least understand the love some people have for it. | FreakMachine
09.29.23 | COE is the best, and souns nothing like Maiden. Good list though | Wildcardbitchesss
09.30.23 | I’m not gonna act like I know or even really listen to a ton of Maiden, but isn’t CoE pretty heavily inspired by the NWOBHM?
Again I honestly don’t listen to much of that kind of stuff. I’m pretty fuckin illiterate when it comes to pre-80’s metal |
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