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I will try to write at least one new journal every week about some new band/artist I’ve discovered or just a band I like very much at the moment. And then maybe even some songs I recommend you to hear.  So I’m just gonna start with this week. Week 39 I guess.  And this weeks band is AVENGED SEVENFOLD!

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BAND.

·         Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California. They have achieved mainstream success with the 2005 album City of Evil, which spawned singles such as "Bat Country", "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day". The band's success followed with their self-titled album, Avenged Sevenfold with singles such as "Almost Easy", "Afterlife", "Dear God" and most recently "Scream".

·         Record you must hear: Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the rough!!

It’s just simply fantastic, I love it. It’s pretty new, it got out September 16^th I think. Live in the LBC is from a live concert (taste of chaos) filmed april 20^th this year. It’s also small clips from 10/15 minutes before going on stage on about 30 concerts, which might also be very fun [including A7X in the Jacuzzi, Syn&Zacky on cam feeling a little bit weird, M Shadows In the shower and so much more] When talking about Diamonds in the rough, it contains many new songs but also Almost Easy, Afterlife [alternate version], and a cover of Pantera’s walk. Absolutely recommended, I would’ve given it 5 out of 6.

·         “The Deathbat” The band sports a logo known as the "Deathbat". It was originally designed by an artistic high school friend of Avenged Sevenfold, Micah Montague, as seen on the bands first DVD, All Excess, though Cameron Rackam has done many more pieces for the bands albums. the Deathbat has appeared on all of the band's album covers (save the cover of their first full-length, "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet", on which the logo was shown on the CD itself, not the cover of the album), as well as the covers of a number of singles such as "Bat Country" and "Critical Acclaim."

Genre

·         Avenged Sevenfold's material ranges across many genres, often leaving the concept of genres altogether (especially in their most recent album). For example, Avenged Sevenfold's debut Sounding the Seventh Trumpet consisted almost entirely of a metalcore or post-hardcore sound, however consisted of several deviations to these genres, most notably in "Streets" which adopts a punk style, and "Warmness on the Soul", which consists of mainly piano, and could be considered soft rock. Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled album, again, consists of several deviations to less consistent genres and styles from the album's main hard rock and heavy metal songs, most notably in "Dear God", which adopts a country style, and "A Little Piece of Heaven", which includes elements of Broadway show tunes, using primarily brass instruments and stringed orchestra to take over most of the role of the lead and rhythm guitar. The band has, changed considerably since its first album, which was characterized as very heavy, to being more of a hard rock type band.

·         They are highly credited for bringing the traditional hard rock/heavy metal sound (that bands like Guns N' Roses and Metallica created) back to the public eye.

MEMBERS AT THIS MOMENT.

• M. Shadows - lead vocals (1999–present) [Matthew Charles Sanders, July 31, 1981]
• Synyster Gates - lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2000–present) [Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , July 7, 1981]
• Zacky Vengeance - rhythm guitar, piano, backing vocals (1999–present) [Zachary James Baker, December 11, 1981]
• Johnny Christ - bass (2002 - present) [Jonathan Lewis Seward, November 18, 1984]
• The Reverend Tholomew Plague (the Rev)- drums, percussion, backing vocals (1999–present) [James 'Jimmy' Owen Sullivan, February 10, 1981]