I think it's been already posted here ...
Looking forward to the album

Really interested to hear this. Interesting album art and song titles. Kind of strange how they've gone about releasing the news about this, but we'll see how it stacks up against the rest of their discography.

I already posted the album art and tracklist, but yeah album is the best they've done in years and possibly one of the best in their discog. Shits all over Hail to the King.

That's... TOMMOROW

probably sucks despite the praise, that's why i won't listen yeah

Honestly surprised at how excited I am to hear this.

actually sounds pretty good so far

it really doesn't

Why would people hear a A7X album on the same day that we have a new Helmet album coming?

It's a Waking the Fallen / City of Evil throwback, y'all fuckers need to get hyped to hear the official A7X stream if you haven't heard the album already.

Is their screaming?

The single they put out didnt sound like Wtf or city to me

Paradigm has the best screams on any track on the album imo.

I guess I'll check it out

lol that's the stupidest artwork I've ever seen

Don't really hear Waking the Fallen throwbacks in here, I guess cause there's screaming? It's more City if Evil and that album sucked so hard, this album is no different

"that album sucked so hard"
If you call 5/5 sucking then sure

"Don't really hear Waking the Fallen throwbacks in here"

i dont either

thanks for getting my hopes up kids

"If you call 5/5 sucking then sure"

Sorry that I have my own musical opinion.

most similar to city than any other a7x


This is easily syns best album since COE

New song was much better than I had anticipated. I am stoked.

new songs good yeah but doesnt sound like waking the fallen nor as good

Sounds like some of their best stuff yet. It's probably to avoid piracy or to get the album out before WB releases the greatest hits album.

The greatest hits album looks freakin awful

Inb4 Bat Country is the first song on the greatest hits alb.

http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/10/21/warner-bros-records-cashing-in-releasing-avenged-sevenfold-greatest-hits-collection/

Yeah, it probably is.

Will suck, undoubtedly. Waking the Fallen and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet were cool back in high school, but that's it. Everything they released afterwards is obnoxiously cheesy. City of Evil has some cool riffs but songs like Seize the Day make me cringe.

sorry to hear that.

Do you guys not hear the Waking the Fallen influence? The chaos in some of the riff arrangements?

Lmao, who the fuck would actually buy any greatest hits album in 2016? If you are a fan you can just make a playlist of all your favorite tracks yourself, or you can just go to the artist's "top played" to hear their most popular songs if you're looking to hear the artists "hits".

And if that is the tracklist for it then lol cause that is fucking horrible

Couldn't get past the first 20 seconds of the t/t. The drums sound soo bad

Anyone who buys the greatest hits compilation who knows about what Warner Bros tried to do to Avenged is a bit of a scumbag tbh.

Gonna go out of my way to tell people to buy A7X's new album, and not the compilation released by that shithole label.

If ya want to get into the band, nightmare or city of evil are better starting points anyways

City of Evil > Self Titled = The Stage > Nightmare = Waking the Fallen > Hail to the King > Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

literally the worst opinion i have ever seen

Couldn't get past the first 20 seconds of the t/t. The drums sound soo bad

The fact that the drums don't come in until 44 seconds notwithstanding, to completely discredit an album based on some introductory drums is a little bit short-sighted IMO.

damn i thought it was just me thinking the drums sounded fucking terrible heh

Prob nightmare>COE=WTF>the stage>>>>>>>>S/t>httk

Havent heard the debut

The drums sound fantastic here, I don't know what y'all are talking about.

omfg youre actually dumb, i wanted to rip my fucking ears out

Don't get me wrong, the intro to the T/T is a bit of an unnecessarily slow-burner, and Wackerman sounds a lot better elsewhere on the record, but I don't think it's quite as bad as people are saying here.

Dude, chuck that viewpoint out the window because there's some seriously lit fills on this, and the production sounds awesome.

the production sounds so bad its almost as if you recorded it

that album art is terrible

The production sounds lifeless

Chuck I find that a little ironic considering you said you liked a few of the songs on my new album.

Didnt pay attention to the drums a ton to notice. Was more just listening to what syn is doing

This is probably the best Syn's ever been bar City of Evil

Going through all their albums for the first time in a while right now. Have no idea how my ranking is gonna turn out. Jammed SOTST last night an I liked it more then ever.

its honestly prob the worst sounding drum production ive heard since st anger but regardless the song/album is pretty good

i think everyone is just shocked that the album isnt cheese rather than it being of wtf quality but i dunno

For me, it goes
WTF > This > CofE > Nightmare = S/T > SOST > HTTK
I think I prefer more individual songs on Nightmare and S/T than CofE but as an album that thing was fire.

its honestly prob the worst sounding drum production ive heard since st anger

That is one hell of a statement. I don't agree, clearly, but damn...

Review finished BTW, want to just get it up there but rules 'n' shit.

i think i agree with ur ratings tho mercury, maybe probably switch this and coe

I feel bad putting SOST so low because the ideas were awesome and they had straight-up super cojones to try something different, but fuck me if that record wasn't sloppy as all hell.

I think that for all of the criticism over his vocals, the straight up neeeeeeeeeeeee was at it's peak annoyance on CofE, or I'd love it way, way more.

anything after wtf i find at least semi annoying one way or another but this is one of those bands that even tho you find them semi bad you come back to them anyway i dunno

i feel the same about bullet for my valentine, mostly bad but i listen anyway sometimes

btw malachite it was just for the luls mate i did like a couple of your songs but yeh i think the drums here are bad ill shut up about now doe

this is one of those bands that even tho you find them semi bad you come back to them anyway i dunno

Couldn't have put it better myself. HTTK pissed me off, Nightmare was meh, S/T was meh, CofE had potential to be WAY better than it was, so I haven't actually fully loved an A7X record since WTF, 14 damn years ago, but I still had a hope they'd come out with something that truly impressed me again, and this one really, really has.

Unfortunately, despite my abject adoration for The Poison, I have officially given up with Bullet...

bullet has been truly atrocious for like more than half of their career by now

i remember when wtf came out i used to shit on it cause i was all about technical skill in music when i was younger but it grew on me

bullets def worse than a7x in general yeah

"btw malachite it was just for the luls mate i did like a couple of your songs but yeh i think the drums here are bad ill shut up about now doe"

Gotcha fam

im in the minority of people who think nightmare is their best but w/e. Its not technically the most impressive just the one i dig the most

Yeah a lot of props I give CofE were for the grandiosity and technical merit although I find the two following albums easier to listen to and appreciate.

'im in the minority of people who think nightmare is their best but w/e. Its not technically the most impressive just the one i dig the most'

I think Nightmare is their best too and it came out well after I had anything resembling an avenged sevenfold phase

Also I don't care about technicality in the slightest

I'm pumped to hear the COE comparisons, though -- my unpopular opinion of the week -- self-titled is my favorite.

Nightmare was probably Shawdows' best vocal performance but CofE is best for me cause nostalgia

I honestly barely remember city of evil at this point but I've always hated it, even when I was more of a fan. Couldn't tell you why anymore, I've just always found it annoying or something

Don't hate me

I'm definitely curious to hear how this sounds. Hail To the king was dreadfully tedious, but everything else in their discog (especially Nightmare and WTF) have been pretty good.

Would someone mind doing a proofread for me? I usually get my partner to do one before I post and he's not here. Boo.

this actually isn't awful, what the fuck

Album is solid tbh

syn carried the whole band on his back on this one. especially m shadows whack ass

band would be so much better if they ditched Shadows and got someone who could actually sing

for real. they should've done that about 9 years ago

Yeah pretty much my only problem with this album is shadows

This is easily their best album in years, and yeah Syn is the best part of this album/band.

It's not his strongest performance, but I do think it's better than on a number of their past albums...

^ It all happened when he fucked up his vocal chords. Which is why almost everything from City of Evil to now is atrocious.

It all happened when he fucked up his vocal chords.

See I'm still not even 100% clear on whether he did or not, as there's a lot of denial about that, and the rare screams on this and Nightmare still pack a punch...

he (for the most part) sounds alright on nightmare

"and the rare screams on this and Nightmare still pack a punch..."

They sure do. But I saw them live last week, and he couldn't carry his screams. His voice isn't that powerful compared to the Waking the Fallen days

WTF had his best vocals IMO.
'Second Heartbeat' in particular was so fucking strong, he could carry any song off any of their albums with a voice like that. *swoons*

Wait wha? I thought this was being released in December?

Well, something to buy during lunch hour tomorrow I guess.

Guitar work on this is great stuff, but Shadows sounds pretty bad. This would be an easy 4/5 with better vocals and production.

What is it with all these commercially sucessful metal bands releasing horribly produced albums? Like is that a thing you are suppsosed to do after you go platinum a couple times or?

Haven't heard this yet so idk if it's true here, but I've noticed this a lot over the past couple years.

Industry trends

Waking The fallen> CoE> Nightmare> the rest

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"Haven't heard this yet so idk if it's true here, but I've noticed this a lot over the past couple years."

so why have you had it 5d since before this article was made?

"so why have you had it 5d since before this article was made?"

I always do that for albums I'm hyped to listen to lol

Also where in the fuck are you guys listening to this?

I heard it on YouTube.

"I always do that for albums I'm hyped to listen to lol"

lol thats kinda great

i first listened to it on a shady link called dlmetal that will prob give you malware. i listened to it again from the version i got from soulseek tho so id just look there

Download it from a site called kingdom leaks. It's a safe, no malware shit download source.

Ehhh I'll wait until tomorrow then. Gonna try to binge their discog between tonight and tommorow in preparation.

I really love the instrumentation on this album. It's not your run-of-the-mill catchy, big chorus like material, as in their self-titled, imo. These chord progressions and melodies seem quite fresh and don't not recycled at all. Yet, Shadows could've done better, I agree.

Waking the Fallen > Sounding the Seventh Trumpet >>>>> City of Evil >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else

Waking The Fallen is the only album of theirs I ever spin anymore

Listening right now to 'An Epic of Time Wasted' from Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, I wish they would have followed that road instead of the butt-rock, stadium metal, Guns n Roses-esque bullsh!t they've been playing since of City of Evil. My opinion may be unpopular, but I firmly believe talented musicians should ALWAYS stay the fu©k away from butt rock. These guys must be stinking rich, but they're downplaying their abilities IMO.

That first single sounded like shit. Willing to give this a chance, but my expectations are pretty low tbh

How's Brooks' drumming on it? I know Arin was really restrained on HTTK (just have to listen to his pre-A7X stuff, and work in Islander) so I hope Brooks, who everyone knows is a fantastic drummer due to his work with Bad Religion/Tenacious D/Mass Mental/FATNS/etc. has been given a chance to shine.

Don't worry, Wackerman definitely has NOT been reined in.

Brooks is too famous to hold back really. They probably knew that if they reined him in the public would catch on that they're holding back the drummers cos they don't want anyone to think the new guy is better than The Rev. As good a drummer as Rev was, Brooks is one of the best and most versatile drummers out there right now.

Glad that some people realize how horribly restrained Arin had to be for that album. I know Arin and was so bummed to hear from him that everything was just 4/4 standard beats. He's the best drummer I've ever seen in person but then seeing everyone bagging on him because the band decided that he was only allowed to play the most boring beats possible was a huge bummer.

"The fact that the drums don't come in until 44 seconds notwithstanding, to completely discredit an album based on some introductory drums is a little bit short-sighted IMO."

That first point is a little bit pedantic. I just skipped to the next track, I knew I wouldn't be able to take that song seriously when I was laughing at the 44 second - 64 second mark (is that better?)

its still bloody awful and this band has always been absolutely dire

I'm not a huge fan of the band, but CoE was a good album. People can't possibly conceive that because it's A7X and they had some meh albums and it's popular to hate them that they never made any good music. Just like how people forget that even though Nickelback is one of the cringiest bands out there their first album actually had a decent song or two.

Listening to this on Spotify and Jesus, against all odds this is pretty solid. Familiar yet different sounding.

Hmm I might listen to this given the positive feedback but has syn got a better lead guitar tone than on CofE at least? He sounded like an ice cream truck on that album.

That first point is a little bit pedantic.

You're right, I'm sorry, I didn't wanna come off as QUITE so much of a douche as I did there.

Got to peek the first song other than the title track and I gotta say it has me really pumped to hear the rest.

"You're right, I'm sorry, I didn't wanna come off as QUITE so much of a douche as I did there."

It's okay, it was kind of funny haha

So....Avenged is goods again?