History Music / AvengedSevenfold

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Critical Acclaim" is basically a 5-minute rant about people who blame the US Army and the US's foreign policy a bit too much for their tastes. Needless to say, it rubbed some people the wrong way.

The band played the underground scene in America for several years, and their first album, the low-budget[[note]]$2000, a budget so low that the drum tracks had to be recorded in one take![[/note]] and very HardcorePunk-flavored ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'', got them a small but dedicated fanbase in 2001. While the album's commercial success and reception were modest, ''Music/WakingTheFallen'' was a much more polished {{metalcore}} album, adding melodic elements, dual harmonies, guitar solos, complex structures, and more singing. It's around that time that the band's lineup finally stabilized after lead guitarist Synyster Gates and bassist Johnny Christ joined.[[note]]Justin Sane, the bassist of the first album, had to retire after a suicide attempt that left him with brain damage.[[/note]]

The band played the underground scene in America for several years, and their first album, the low-budget[[note]]$2000, a budget so low that the drum tracks had to be recorded in one take![[/note]] and very HardcorePunk-flavored ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'', got them a small but dedicated fanbase in 2001. While the album's commercial success and reception were modest, ''Waking the Fallen'' was a much more polished {{metalcore}} album, adding melodic elements, dual harmonies, guitar solos, complex structures, and more singing. It's around that time that the band's lineup finally stabilized after lead guitarist Synyster Gates and bassist Johnny Christ joined.[[note]]Justin Sane, the bassist of the first album, had to retire after a suicide attempt that left him with brain damage.[[/note]]

* ''Waking the Fallen'' (2003)[[/index]] [[note]]Got an UpdatedRerelease with bonus content called ''Waking the Fallen: Resurrected'' in 2014.[[/note]][[index]]

** The band's name is lifted from Genesis 4:15, when God curses Cain not to be killed after he kills Abel by saying: "Shall Cain be killed, he shall be avenged sevenfold". The Cain and Abel story also serves as the basis for the lyrics of "[[MeaningfulName Chapter Four]]" off ''Waking the Fallen''.

* {{Cain}}: The band took their name from the biblical story, and their song "Chapter Four" on the 2003 album ''Waking the Fallen'' is based on it.

* LastNoteNightmare:
** "And All Things Will End" ends in a solo that's increasingly off-key and slows down into a nightmarish cacophony.
** "Nightmare" seems to end in silence for a few seconds before an ominous echo fades in at the last moment and stops abruptly.

* RatedMForManly: Surprisingly averted, given the style of music they play. Which is probably why the band has an unusually large female fanbase.

* ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'' (2001) [[note]]Re-released in 2002 with a new intro, after Synyster Gates joined the band.[[/note]]

* ''Waking the Fallen'' (2003) [[note]]Got an [[/index]]UpdatedRerelease[[index]] with bonus content called ''Waking the Fallen: Resurrected'' in 2014.[[/note]]

* ''Waking the Fallen'' (2003) [[note]]Got an UpdatedRerelease with bonus content called ''Waking the Fallen: Resurrected'' in 2014.[[/note]]

* ''Music/{{Avenged Sevenfold|Album}}}'' (2007)[[note]]sometimes called "The White Album"[[/note]]

* ''[[Music/AvengedSevenfoldAlbum Avenged Sevenfold]]'' (2007)[[note]]sometimes called "The White Album"[[/note]]

* ''Avenged Sevenfold'' (2007)[[note]]sometimes called "The White Album"[[/note]]

* AerithAndBob: M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ... Arin Ilejay and... Brooks.