Avenged Sevenfold

"Waking the Fallen"

CD, Hopeless Records, August 2003

A7X is a modern day musical hybrid. They have obvious influences displayed through their AFI and Misfits t-shirts. They also give a little away with their black fingernail polish and song titles such as “Radiant Eclipse”, “Clairvoyant Disease” and “Unholy Confessions”. What surprises is their ability to combine various musical genres (punk, pop, emo, screamo, goth, and prog-metal) into songs that have an epic, grandiose feel to them. They alternate between prog metal guitar leads and full throttle punk-metal as easily as they switch between sweet sung vocals and screams from the grave. The key, is that the combination does not sound like noise, it sounds logical.

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