Album Avenged Sevenfold

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001-2003)

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet adalah debut album Avenged Sevenfold yang dirilis tahun 2001 di Good Life Recording dan di rilis kembali oleh Hopeless Records tanggal 19 Maret 2002. Lahirnya gitaris baru yang bernama Synyster Gates.

Waking the Fallen (2003-2005)

Waking the Fallen adalah album ke dua dari Avenged Sevenfold setelah yang dirilis tanggal 26 Agustus 2003. Ini adalah album pertama yang melibatkan Johnny Christ sebagai bassist yang baru.

City of Evil (2005-2007)

Tahun 2005, Amerika Serikat tengah jenuh dengan musik hip-hop dan pop yang merajalela, lalu Avenged Sevenfold merilis album mereka City of Evil tepatnya pada tanggal 8 Juni, 2005. Hits single Bat Country merupakan lagu metal/rock pertama yang merajai MTV TRL. Mereka mempopulerkan kembali solo gitar dengan duet gitaris Synyster Gates dan Zacky Vengeance yang benar-benar memanaskan area moshpit. Album tersebut mendapat sertifikat gold dan memenangkan predikat Best New Artist in a Video di MTV VMA 2006 untuk lagu Bat Country.

Avenged Sevenfold (2007-2008)

Tahun 2007, mereka kembali masuk studio untuk merekam lagu terbaru mereka untuk studio album ke-5 mereka. Awal Agustus 2007, mereka menjalani tur Asia Pasifik mereka, dan sempat mampir di Indonesia dan memainkan lagu mereka pertama kali di depan publik. Lagu yang berjudul Almost Easy tersebut mendapat sambutan hangat dari penggemar di seluruh dunia. Ketika itu band punk Jogjakarta Endang Soekamti didaulat menjadi band pembuka. Tahun 2008 ini, mereka berpartisipasi sebagai headliners di tour Taste of Chaos bersama dengan Bullet for My Valentine, Atreyu, Blessthefall dan Idiot Pilot. Ketika tour, mereka merekam sebuah DVD yang mengandung 6 lagu baru mereka. Tanggal 22 Oktober 2008, Avenged Sevenfold kembali manggung di Indonesia masih dengan event organizer yang sama yakni Java Musikindo dan kali ini band heavy metal Jibril didaulat menjadi band pembuka.Berkas:City of evil.jpg.

Pembentukan & Karir Indie Avenged Sevenfold (1999-2003)

Band ini dibentuk pada tahun 1999 di Huntington Beach, California dengan anggota asli M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev dan Matt Wendt. M. Shadows memberi nama sebagai referensi untuk cerita Cain dan Abel dari Alkitab, meskipun bukan band agama. Setelah pembentukannya, masing-masing anggota band ini juga mengangkat nama samaran yang sudah nama panggilan dari mereka dari SMA. Sebelum merilis album debut mereka, band ini merekam dua demo pada tahun 1999 dan 2000. Album pertama mereka, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, direkam ketika anggota band berumur delapan belas tahun dan di sekolah menengah. Ini pada awalnya dirilis pada label pertama mereka, Good Life Record pada tahun 2001. Setelah gitaris Synyster Gates bergabung dengan band, pada akhir 1999 ketika ia berusia 18 tahun di pengantar lagu "To End the Rapture" adalah rekaman ulang menampilkan elemen band penuh. Album ini kemudian dirilis ulang pada Hopeless Records pada tahun 2002.

RUMOR: “Nightmare” Tracklisting. (from someone, who got pre-order)

1. Nightmare
2. Welcome To The Family
3. Danger Line
4. Buried Alive
5. Natural Born Killer
6. So Far Away
7. God Hates Us
8. Victim
9. Tonight The World Dies
10. Fiction
11. Save Me

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Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions

"I'll try," she said as he walked away.
"Try not to lose you."
Two vibrant hearts could change.
Nothing tears the being more than deception,
unmasked fear.
"I'll be here waiting" tested but secure.

Nothing hurts my world,
just affects the ones around me
When sin's deep in my blood,
you'll be the one to fall.

"I wish I could be the one,
the one who won't care at all
But being the one on the stand,
I know the way to go, no one's guiding me.
When time soaked with blood turns its back,
I know it's hard to fall.
Confined in me was your heart

I know it's hurting you, but it's killing me."

Nothing will last in this life,
our time is spent constructing,
now you're perfecting a world... meant to sin.
Constrict your hands around me,
squeeze till I cannot breathe,
this air tastes dead inside me,
contribute to our plague.
Break all your promises,
tear down this steadfast wall,
restraints are useless here,
tasting salvation's near.

Avenged Sevenfold - Critical Acclaim + Chord

Intro: Dm C Bb – C Dm (x4)

(*Dm 8va, one octave higher, 13 Fret – treble strings,1st,2nd,3th)

*Dm… D5…
Yeaahhh…
D5 D5 – D#5-F5-D5
(Shh, quiet, you might piss somebody off)

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
Like me motherf~ker you've been at it for too long

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
While you feed off others insecurities

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
You stand in front of me and bite the hand that feeds

D#5-F5-D5
(+) Self righteousness is wearing thin

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
(Lies inside your head your best friend)

D#5-F5 - D5
I'll bleed but not for f e l l o w man

D5
(Broken glass, your fake reflection)

Chorus:

Dm C/E
Telling them its all for something real

Don't respect the words you’re speaking

Bb
Gone too far

A
Acclaim

D5 D#5-D5
So, how does it feel to know that someone's kid

D#5-D5 D5
in the heart of America has blood on their hands

D#5-D5
fighting to defend your rights

D#5-D5
so you can maintain the lifestyle

D5 D#5-D5
that insults his families existence

D5 D#5-D5 D5
Well, where I come from we have a special salute

D#5-D5 D5
waved high in the air to all those

D#5-F5-D5
pompous assholes who spend their days pointing fingers

D5
(F~ You!)

F5-Chords

Like the heartbeat

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
of this country when antagonized too long

I'll be damned if you count me

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
in as part of your generous hypocrisy

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
collected and amazed

D#5 - F5 - D5
Tabloid gossip we want less real

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
(There's no need for us to bury you)

D5 – D#5-F5-D5
Selfish agenda, once again

D5
(Right this way, you dug your own grave)

Back to: Chorus

D#5-D5 D5
All the way from the east to the west

D#5-D5
We’ve got this high society

D#5-D5 D5
looking down on their very foundation

D#5-D5 D#5-D5
Constantly reminding us that our actions

D5 D#5-D5
are the cause of all their problems

D5 D#5-D5
pointing their fingers in every direction

D5 D#5-D5
Blaming their own nation for who wins elections

D5 F5 D5
They never contributed a f~king thing

to the country they love to critize

Gm
Excuse the obscene

Cm
Ignore the untrue

F
Depictions we see

Bb Bb/G#
Try and get through

Gm – Cm
And many mistakes can hurt

D7-9 G
I'm not the last but I sure ain't the first

Interlude: Cm F Bb – Bb/G# Gm – Cm A7-9 – A

D#5-D5 D5 D#5-D5 D#5-D5
Yeaaahhh…

D5 D#5-D5
(Shh, quiet, you might piss somebody off)

Interlude: D#5-D5 | D5 D#5-D5 (x4) | G#5-G5 |

G5 G#5-G5 (x3) | G5 G#5-C#5-C5 |

C5 C#5-C5 (x3) | C5 Bb5-A5 | Bb5 Bb5-A5 (x4) | D5

Back to: (+), Chorus
Coda: Dm C/E Bb A *Dm…

Avenged Sevenfold - bat country

He makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of bein' a man.....

Caught here in a fiery blaze, won't lose my will to stay.
I tried to drive all through the night,
the heat stroke ridden weather, the barren empty sights.
No oasis here to see, the sand is singing deathless words to me.

chorus
Can't you help me as I'm startin' to burn (all alone).
Too many doses and I'm starting to get an attraction.
My confidence is leaving me on my own (all alone).
No one can save me and you know I don't want the attention.

As I adjust to my new sights the rarely tired lights will take me to new heights.
My hand is on the trigger I'm ready to ignite.
Tomorrow might not make it but everything's all right.
Mental PICTURES follow me; show me what it's like to be set free.

chorus
Can't you help me as I'm startin' to burn (all alone).
Too many doses and I'm starting to get an attraction.
My confidence is leaving me on my own (all alone).
No one can save me and you know I don´t want the attention.


So sorry you're not here I've been sane too long my vision's so unclear.
Now take a trip with me but don't be surprised when things aren't what they seem.

Caught here in a fiery blaze, won't lose my will to stay.
These eyes won't see the same, after I flip today.

Sometimes I don't know why we rather live than die,
we look up towards the sky for answers to our life.
We may get some solutions but most just pass us by,
don't want your absolution cause I can't make it right.
I'll make a beast out of myself, gets rid of all the pain of being a man.

chorus
Can't you help me as I'm startin' to burn (all alone).
Too many doses and I'm starting to get an attraction.
My confidence is leaving me on my own (all alone).
No one can save me and you know I don't want the attention.

So sorry you're not here I've been sane too long my vision's so unclear.(clear)

Now take a trip with me but don't be surprised when things aren't what they seem.
I've known it from the start all these good ideas will tear your brain apart.
Scared but you can follow me I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die.

Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and The harlot

This shining city built of gold, a far cry from innocence
There's more than meets the eye round here look to the waters of the deep.
A city of evil
There sat a seven-headed beast, ten horns raised from his head
Symbolic woman sits on his throne but hatred strips her and leaves her naked.
The Beast and the Harlot

She's a dwelling place for demons, she's a cage for every unclean spirit every filthy bird
and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.

The city dressed in jewels and gold, fine linen, Myrrh and pearls
Her plagues will come all at once as her mourners watch her burn.
Destroyed in an hour
Merchants and captains of the world, sailors navigators too
Will weep and mourn this loss with their sins piled to the sky
The Beast and the Harlot.


She's a dwelling place for demons, she's a cage for every unclean spirit every filthy bird
and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.

The day has come for all us sinners,
If you're not a servant you'll be struck to the ground.
Flee the burning, greedy city,
Looking back on her to see there's nothin' around.

I don't believe in fairytales and no one wants to go to Hell,
you've made the wrong decision and it's easy to see.
Now if you wanna serve above or be a king below with us,
Your welcome to the city where your future is set forever.

She's a dwelling place for demons, she's a cage for every unclean spirit every filthy bird
and makes us drink the poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings.
Fallen now is Babylon the Great.