Avenged Sevenfold – Avenged Sevenfold (Warner Brothers)
In case you missed it, Avenged Sevenfold’s eponymously titled fourth album entered the Billboard charts at number four last Halloween. If you’re feeling like you’ve totally missed the boat on this Southern California metal quintet’s rise to stardom, don’t be. Even MTV, always the bastion of new and noteworthy music, declared the band as the Best New Artist in 2006, even though the band had been making records for seven years prior to receiving the award.
But the real reason why you’re probably not familiar with the catalog of Avenged Sevenfold is because they suck and you’ve got better things to do than keep up to speed on a band that still, even after four albums into it, can’t seem to figure out who they really want to be.
What I’ve been able to gather is that AS set out to make a really important record with this record. And, if you don’t already know, to make a really important record you need to throw every fucking thing you can get your hands on into the mix.