THERE’S A NEW AVENGED SEVENFOLD DVD TRAILER! (AKA: THINGS HAVE BEEN A LITTLE TOO UNCONTROVERSIAL AROUND HERE LATELY)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 12:28pm by Vince NeilsteinGet your arguing pants on, ’cause this band always inspires the best in our readers’ ability to result to childish name-calling and derogatory insults have intelligent, thoughtful conversation. A press release sent over the weekend has alerted us that there’s a new official trailer for the forthcoming Avenged Sevenfold DVD Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough, which will feature a full live performance shot in HD and a CD full of unreleased music, covers and more.
We say “awesome.” But we’re sure a lot of you will think otherwise.
-VN
That actually looks pretty sweet.
if i had the attention span to sit down and watch a dvd, i would watch this one. awesome live band.
Fuck, the whole world is mad.
This band is a steaming pile of feces.
hey, if they still play a few songs from the first 2 albums, it will be worth it.
TOOLSHEDS!!!!
Say what you want about them, in my opinion, their only bad album was “City Of Evil”.
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sooo pumped. they’re awesome live, and my favorite band of all time. i’m definitely gunna buy it. A7X FOR LIFE!
i got into metal to keep the jocks at bay and since they’ve infiltrated, it’s been tainted in my eyes…
I was there, it was sick!
Not to knock you linh or anything, but I never thought I’d hear someone say that A7X is their all time favorite band.
I mean, I guess some of their songs are pretty catchy and all. The band just doesn’t do much for me as a whole.
Look, A7X is not a bad band by any means. Anybody who writes a song based off the work of Hunter S. Thompson is ok in my book.
But for fuck’s sake, they did a collaboration with Good Charlotte. They will never get the amount of credibility they lost from that back.
incredibly overrated band to be honest and i just think theyre a band that lacks all credability.
Avenged Sevenfold:
If you stripped out the vocals and presented only the guitars and drums to people who bash Avenged, I think it’d be pretty damn difficult and ignorant to call them “a steaming pile of feces” or anything related to such. They are clearly musically talented, and if “teh ghey clean vocals” annoy you, why not bash Judas, Maiden, or any other great metal band pre say 1990? M. Shadows vocals are no different, he is just as talented as the best of them. Is it because M. Shadows is a singer in active, relativaly new group, and not a band that was made 20 years earlier? Makes no sense…
A7X is a PRIME example of a band that is constantly judged by there image.
If you can play as good as they do (recorded and live), you can wear and do whatever the fuck you want, bottom line.
Yes, they have been snatched up by Warner Bros. and their image will probably get more and more “pop – friendly”, but when you sit down and listen to any one of their records, a good percentage of metalheads would be surprised by how awesome they are.
Most metalheads are too insecure to listen to a band who’s image isn’t in accordance with their other “favorite brootal band”. I can guarentee that about 80% of people who bash A7X have never given any of their albums a decent listen through more then once.
I too thought that they were the “gayest pieces of shit ever” until I was practically forced to listen to their first album at a friends house, shattering my preconcieved notion that they are to be filed in with other “gay shit” like My Chemical Romance, The Used, or anything else along those lines.
People need to stop worrying about who else listens to the band (high school bitches/jebroni’s), or what the band looks like (sorta metrosexualish…I admit), and judge a band by the music.
- However, this will never happen!
Okay, let’s say that it is possible to completely forget that the band looks like the douchiest thing that ever douched. Just music.
It’s still garbage. M Shadow’s (HAHAHA I can’t help but seriously laugh any time I say or write their dumbass names) vocals are that forced, faux-tortured Linkin Park-esque whine. And lyrically, give me a fucking break. If anything, they sullied Hunter S. Thompson. But that song’s just one example. It’s all very childish. And not in a good way.
Okay, now let’s say that we stripped the vocals out as well. Just instrumentation. Still nothing special in my book. They’re technically good players, but there are thousands of technically good players who I don’t want to hear play. Because the songs are run-of-the mill metal, despite all the changeups and lead guitar work. Also, way way way overproduced. Snoozers.
@Pick-Axe Bobby
Comparing A7X to Linkin Park is rediculious. There is no point in any Avenged song that Shadows “whines”. Clean singing and whining are two completely different things. The lyrical content of any A7X record is far off from anything Linkin Park puts out. I don’t follow Link Park, but any singles/radio hits that I’ve heard of them is pure nu-metal-emo garbage (not bashing them specifically, I just despise either genre), not to be ever compared to any metal band out today, regardless of how “douchey” Avenged is.
I cannot disagree with the fact that City of Evil specifically has been protooled and tuned to their liking, but if your going to make a record once, why not making it fucking perfect. A massive percentage of bands use protools to perfect their album, and just because City of Evil is so ludicriously technical, doesn’t mean that they dont have the ability to play the music. They likely don’t give a shit that someone will point out “that was protooled, dude!”, being as they know they composed, and played correctly (probably) about 98% of the album. I have seen them live numerous times (pre City of Evil, and post) and know for sure that they can play the fuck out of their instruments (they better, being as they’ve been touring worldwide almots constantly for 3-4 years).
Shadows vocals arent always spectacular live, but maybe thats what dedicated 3-4 yearse of touring will do to ones vocals chords. He has an excellent voice despite what any single youtube camera-phone video displays.
For fucks sake, City of Evil is practically a 60 minutes solo-fest with some of the catchiest/hardest/most interesting riffs I;ve heard on an album in a long time.
Now please, flood me with responses that don’t make much technical sense, and instead name-call and bash A7X because of their image:
Well making it “perfect” apparently means making it utterly bland and sterile.
And that dudes whines like a little girl. Also, no defense of the lyrics, eh? It’s cool, I can’t think of one either.
You will watch it and love it
@pick-axe
Howard Jones whines a lot. My curse was all about love and shit, yet he doesn’t get any flac?
I love KSE, just pointing that out.
Why right such a long boring story about a band that you hate?
What awesome bands are you listening to these days? Of course this is an irrelevant question because you could say anything that is awesome but we all know secretly you’re listening to Disturbed.
You know, I said the exact same thing to myself as I was writing earlier, but it just flowed out of me. And I’m bored at work.
Not sure what about me hating Avenged Sevenfold makes you think I listen to Disturbed, but let me tell you, I really think you damaged my otherwise shimmering reputation on the internet by accusing me of listening to them. I don’t know if I can ever recover from such a stunning blow. Really, you just took me down a peg big time. My opinion is now completely impeached. I can hear you, Joe, in my mind: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, I HAVE CONVINCED THE INTERNET THAT BOBBY LISTENS TO DISTURBED! HAHAHA, MY MASTER PLAN IS COMPLETE!”
But okay, I’ll bite. Priestess and Doomriders today.
A7X was a good metalcore act in 2004. since m shadows had throat surgery and cannot scream the band has lost their edge for me and the last two albums blow. they also said bad things about the hardcore scene which they came up through alienating older fans like myself.
I liked them when I drank a lot. I still drink but they are fuckin shite, It’s as if the marketing guys found that the emo kids weren’t buying Disturbed records so they polished the living shit outta avenged… to get that demographic. Fuck ‘em
I cannot possibly believe anyone thinks City of Evil was their worst album. One of my favorite albums of all time. So inspired, original, and intense the whole way through. Every song off that album is a fucking masterpiece in my book.
http://www.hcwdb.com called, the douches posted there want their eyeliner and HGH back.
Look, those who don’t like Avenged… fuck you, because you have no life. Those who DO like Avenged, I already have the DVD and I know where you can get it BEFORE the release date!!!
Click HERE
I agree with what Majestic Unicorn said first. at least the first part. Avenged Sevenfold’s guitarists definitely have talent, but for some reason they have chosen to try to become popular and cool. If they put their efforts towards thinking of new, creative music writing, they could be great. But first, get rid of that vocalist and get new haircuts.
I like avenged sevenfold pre city of evil, and while i do think they went downhill from there, the next two cdsdo have some good moments
@ Pick-Axe Bobby: listen to anything from sounding the seventh trumpet or waking the fallen, then comment
and P.S. whats wrong with a little showmanship?
If you want to hear true beautiful musicianship and songwriting, listen to City of Evil. A7X showed so much potential to be an awesome progressive metal act on that album and then blew it with their last album, which was one of the biggest metal letdowns for me in recent memory. The songwriting is soo lazy and boring on their last album. All of the songs are just forgettable. The thing I hate most is that after COE came out, everyone called A7X just another radio rock band, and it truly pissed me off because that album did not deserve to get compared to other radio acts like Disturbed, Hinder or whatever other instantly forgettable garbage is out there. But then, they fell into their own stereotype by releasing the self-titled album last year, and now they are just a band with one or two radio hits per album and then a bunch of other bullshit lazy songs. Just listen to the boring “Brompton Cocktail” or “Lost” or really any other song on that album to get what I’m trying to say here, and then compare it to the later songs on COE, like the incredible “Wicked End” or “Sidewinder.” No comparison whatsoever. So yes, I’ll be picking up this DVD, but only to support the band that I hope will someday return to writing the passionate, awesome music they used to. What do you say, A7X? I promise to forget that last album entirely if you promise to write an album as epic, finely-crafted and perfect as City of Evil.
agree with anyone who says cities of evil was there best. tht album is sikk and no the new album is no terible is just lacking the same fires that mde coe so awesome. waken the falling is 2nd best in mi opinion. return to glory days oh and sorry for english jaja
*terrible
A7X takes it down the cockhole for selling out with that last album.
welcome to the new wave of gay metal !
i’m going to attempt to stay out of normal flamer territory by putting this in a somewhat structured form, but avenged sevenfold suck loads of dick. they stink of cheese, they feed off of every metal cliche, and m. shadows is by no means a supreme singer. at his best he is merely ok, his voice is strained and nasally obnoxious. as for the drummer and guitarist, i respect them as talents in their respective instruments. that is undeniable. however, musicianship on the part of two members does not save a band from suck. avenged sevenfold crank out some of the most annoying hook-oriented, silly, and overall bland “metal” this side of the world. metal for the most part is cheesy, i agree. but them, like trivium, suffer from cheesiness on the part that they take themselves seriously and they don’t really pull if off in a classic manner.
i mean, for god sakes, they all have fucking meant-to-be-spooky stage names. this is 2008, and there’s a point when shit like that isn’t accepted. this is far past that point.
Maybe, just maybe, when you have a better band than avenged sevenfold, can you say they suck. Your fucking probably a fatass little bitch who lives in his moms basement trying to find every avenged sevenfold forum to diss them up because when you were five they raped you for looking like a trumpet playing faggot. I wonder if anycares about what you have to say, probably not.
Hahaha… aside from dredging up something from August of last year, you have managed to confirm most peoples’ thoughts on the typical Avenged Sevenfold fan being a moron. Congratulations on that.
first of all i love A7X up to the next album. i wont trash em though. i love that they do wat they do and piss off so many people. I mean i find it hilarious that everyone takes tim outa their lives to bad mouth them. I mean listen the major labol took them in. Congrats. That is good for them but i dont care bout their looks or anything like that its bout the music. ANd god fucking dammit city of evil was beastly. from the technicality all the way to the rhythmic vocals. if you ask me band like a day to remember (pussy shit wit screaming over it”) suck. I mean its just fal out boy wit some screaming over it. i mean seriously nothing gets worse then not being able to admit that your a pop punk band thats sucks and having to cover it up wit a few growls.
p.s. i dont rlly care if u dissagree