How AVENGED SEVENFOLD changed metal forever (they were HATED)

I grew up on the City of Evil album. Was 13 when it came out 🤘🏼remember playing that album over and over again. 2024 still playing that album.

City of evil has power metal influence all over it and i love it!!

i cannot understand why people hate on avenged sevenfold…

Every song on this album was amazing and lyrically insane

I always got a big Iron Maiden vibe from city of evil.

They managed to pull off something unique and while it has major influence from multiple bands it still managed to have its own soul and sound. We see a lot of bands come out and gain no traction at all most times because they have changed their sound so much their original fans . In most cases it fails but not here because they left screaming and went mainstream more or less.

Rest in Peace Rev 🥺

i still think city of evil is their best album. i never get bored listening to each tracks. kinda sad to see how they put everything on the line and it was almost a flop.

One of my fav bands, so amazing live too. They were so refreshing when they appeared for me tbh! And the fact they made an 8 minute song about necrophilia just makes a point 😂😂 city of evil was a masterpiece imo then the self titled album, I remember the outrage but I loved it 🤣🤣 dude that’ll be why they had disturbed open for them as part of the tour that hit the uk, them disturbed and in flames was fkn awesome, what a night!!!
RIP to The Rev as always, one of the greatest drummers going.

City of Evil was my gateway drug. Bat country was on my madden psp game when I was a kid. I looked up the rest of the album, and now I go to knocked loose shows and fight invisible ninjas in my late 20s. I got to see A7X at a really small venue in Houston after a festival they headlined got rained out. They played for like 400 people for completely free. It was life changing.

Thanks gonna go listen to City of Evil start to finish.

One of the main things that may make (certain quarter of) people to not like Avenged Sevenfold so much is they sounded too "poppish" at times. They are still a metal band in my book, so they would appeal more to the mainstream music listeners, while not that much to the hardcore metalheads (maybe) for that very reason.

Take Queen for example. In the beginning of their career, they were quite hard rocking, with significant elements of punk & metal in their music (Queen II album). But by the 80s they had transformed to a more mainstream & pop rock or pop-based 4-piece band. People never look at Queen the same as the early 70s Queen anymore. But the different between Queen and Avenged Sevenfold is, they have a lot of No. 1 hits and Top Charter, while AX7 is currently in the era where Rock & Metal music is in decline or not widely listened to in the West as before.

No disrespect to AX7, they are very good musicians. But I have to say that they will not be in my all time Greatest & Most Influential Metal bands list. Not even in my Top 30.

Unholy Confessions is what got me into A7x when I was 20. City of Evil has become a Metal classic IMO.

Fans are fans for a reason, and when they are pit together in the masses like , ohh, I think they call them shows or concerts , the sheer volume of people, the IDGAF attitude of each individual, having been brought together thru tremendous tragedy and many other types of events, growth and maturity on both ends. AH, MTV studios. I remember being up in there when music was popular out and not babies from 16 year old. Trl for life. I can't and NEVER WILL hate my own heart. Kanye can just go home tho, there is JUST NO EXCUSE FOR THE MUSIC VIDEO "MATTEL". I had burned a Furby a long time ago, that shit is scary good. 😂And we all know he was an influence on this newest album. Finn, it is because of your interview with Mathew before hw and the guys set out on tour that I have now got a new found love for FALLING IN REVERSE and even more respect for my boys standing by their side and keeping negative judgement far away. AVENGED SEVENFOLD FOR LIFE… foREVer…
Jimmy says hi, guys…
My ending comment for this video is, honey badger DGAF, I LOVE YOU GUYS AND I ALWAYS WILL, NOW IM GOING TO LISTEN TO SOME CHAPTER FOUR AND I WONT SEE YOU TONIGHT PT 1… SOME OF MY PERSONAL EALRY FAVES…❤❤❤
does anybody believe in palm reading here?

If Zacky Vengeance and Frank Iero aren't the same guy, then I just down know anymore…

I remember loving the bat country video and song in 2005 when I was 15. I still think it’s a good song at 33

I just love Avenged Sevenfold
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I really liked the first two A7X albums, but around the 3rd they kinda were the bro metal/douche metal band. It didn't help that M Shadows had a weird right wing rant on the 4th album to remind you they were rich kids from the OC. I guess it was mostly the fan base that started to turn me off.

Dude I loved A7X. I grew up on them.
City of Evil, Self-Titled, and Nightmare are all albums I still play regularly.
It wasn't until the Rev died that I started to dislike them.
It's not even that I really dislike them, it's just… they lost the magic. When they lost the Rev they lost more than just a drummer. Their albums released after his death, besides Nightmare, occasionally had a decent song but the days of the entire album being on repeat seemed to be over.

I like Wake in the Fallen, self-titled, City of Evil. Their new music is interesting, however, it's not my taste.

I found them when I was into the screaming stuff, just like I did with Bring Me the Horizon. And much like BMTH when A7X stopped screaming I stopped listening. I don’t like butt rock.