This week, I am going to review not one, but two albums! The first out of the bunch is Avenged Sevenfold’s self-titled fourth album, Avenged Sevenfold. Avenged Sevenfold is from Southern California. Now, onto the album.
The album starts with some hardcore screaming and rocking out in such songs as “Afterlife” and their first single, “Almost Easy”. Also, Synyster Gates proves he is a guitar beast in these songs. Then, it gets a little softer with “Gunslinger”. After that track, the hardness of the tracks comes back with “Unbounded (The Wild Ride)” and “Brompton Cocktail”. Finally, the hardness comes and goes on the last three tracks. I could guess you can sort of call this album a roller coaster, going from hardcore rock down to not as hardcore then back up and finally back down with the ending track, “Dear God”. And then there’s the completely outrageous “A Little Piece of Heaven”, which lasts roughly 8 minutes and is very different from all the other tracks, but also similar. It uses trumpets and violin, unlike the rest of the tracks.
Overall, there were no bad tracks on this album (except maybe the last one) and a few good ones. The one that I like the most is “Critical Acclaim”, the starting track of the album. “Critical Acclaim” extremely bashes the government of today and how people complain about the government, yet never participate in it. I love the guitar riffs in the song, as they are very reminiscent of “Bat Country”, which has awesome guitar playing, thanks to Synyster Gates. The one track that seemed very good, yet unique at the same time to me was “Lost”. What I really like about it is the vocal edits that you can hear in the song. It goes very well with the melody.
I think that Avenged Sevenfold deserve a clean A for this for sure. It's awesome guitar, drums, bass, and vocal in one album. Basically, Avenged Sevenfold is a great band in my opinion.
Grade: A
Tracks to Get: “Critical Acclaim”, “Lost”
My next album review will probably be posted later today or tomorrow. Thanks for looking!!!
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