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| 8 Bad A7X Songs
My first metal band, Avenged Sevenfold have remained near and dear to me even as my musical tastes have grown beyond them. As the band has boldly embraced their new, experimental era with The Stage and Life is but a Dream, I have returned occasionally to their discography to rediscover the gems and duds that defined the middle of their career and first taught me to love them. The bangers, like Afterlife, Nightmare, A Little Piece of Heaven, Thrashed and Scattered, and Critical Acclaim still bang, but if you've read this far you probably already know this. Today I focus instead on A7X's stinkers, those sonic turds laid like sprinkles over their commercial era, in celebration of how great of a band they are and my excitement at any new delightful and weird music they may create. | | 1 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Hail to the King
(Dishonorable Mention) This Means War
Undeserving of a blurb, but wtf guys | | 2 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Almost Easy
A7X go Disturbed, complete with mommy issues. Like the stinkiest of cheeses, only age reveals the most insipid of radio fodder, and this shit stinks! | | 3 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
Danger Line
The pseudo-religiosity of A7X has always been a well for creativity. City of Evil is built on an apocalyptic foundation, placing A Little Piece of Heaven before Dear God is a deranged decision that I can only understand coming from religious trauma, and their lyrics still ponder God and humans, the afterlife, and good and evil. Thus, their most boring songs are unanimously their War on Terror attempts at commercialized pro-military cock rock that ignore all the gray they normally play in for black and white and a loyal audience. Danger Line is at least interesting musically, but it is by the far the most nondescript, boot-licking song they ever wrote. A story of a pure soldier with a family dying in some nondescript war, written during a very real war that killed many fathers who weren’t soldiers, comes off only as purposefully naive and vague. The religious turn at the end and the gift of heaven only solidifies the cowardice of the band. Just listen to M.I.A. instead. | | 4 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Diamonds in the Rough
Girl I Know
Normally I don't pick on b-sides, but this is a goddamn Theory of a Deadman song and that is unconscionable. | | 5 | | Avenged Sevenfold
Hail to the King
Requiem
HttK's primary sin is that it is entirely uninteresting. Frankly, the entire album belongs here. It isn't fun to listen to, talk about, or write about. Nothing on it, outside the t/t, holds my attention long enough even to spur a bit of anger or rage from my boredom. Requiem is different in the sense that it is at least noticeably annoying, a step up in memorability from most of the other material on here, but earning the title of "Most Memorable Bad Song on a Bad Album" should result in the entire damn thing going into the garbage. The drums also sound like ass. | | 6 | | Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Scream
Far too rapey. | | 7 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
City of Evil
Beast and the Harlot
This is the take that'll get me flamed and I'll stand by it. For a band that has written some truly killer hooks throughout the years, I cannot believe they let down maybe their best riff with this boring, annoying, momentum-killer of a chorus. Ugh, at least the rest of CoE is awesome. | | 8 | | Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
Save Me
Overlong, underdeveloped, and not particularly interesting, Save Me is a suffocated attempt at a prog masterpiece that makes me wanna prog a needle into my ear drum. A7X must have learned their lesson as they have thankfully chosen to avoid writing any more 10+ minute verse/choruse/verse bore-fests. Compared to their later progressive material, like G/O/D, Save Me feels like selling out but to Dream Theater fans (read: even worse). | | 9 | | Avenged Sevenfold
City of Evil
Seize the Day
I fucking hate this song. I got caught up in writing the list and wanted to do something cute where I go "teehee well CoE is almost all awesome" but then I actually relistened to this atrocity! Holy shit it sucks fucking butt. Shadows starts with his raspiest, whiniest vocals ever and they somehow evolve into a high pitched nasal squeal which the band inexplicably decides to layer over a reserved outro of acoustic guitar and Syn doing sweeps. A soft song for the dudebros to show their girls without any qualities that might appeal to a real person. Excessive the point of being hideous. Just a really bad fucking song. | |
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12.17.23 | Agreed with 4 | BlazinBlitzer
12.17.23 | Most of these are correct but I think the cheesiness of 8 kinda works | Titan
12.17.23 | 8 could be their best | onionbubs
12.17.23 | save me and beast and the harlot are fuckin crazy inclusions here lmao
scream should be launched into the sun tho ye | Drifter
12.17.23 | the hook of beast and the harlot literally continues the momentum of the rest of the song lmao
| FowlKrietzsche
12.17.23 | For context if you agree with me I love you and if you disagree you're nitpicking and biased.
I'll admit Beast and the Harlot was a bit of a reach, but I've always hated the chorus. | Trebor.
12.17.23 | 2 and 9 indeed suck | JohnnyoftheWell
12.17.23 | scream does have a good guitar hook, but not good enough to make ever need to hear it again
"I'll admit Beast and the Harlot was a bit of a reach, but I've always hated the chorus."
word - rest of the song is aight, but the chorus is not the one
dunno how I feel about 8, but I think 9's awfulness has aged wonderfully. v endearing trash ballad, decent solo too | neekafat
12.17.23 | Um the last four are all dope
Also listing beast and the harlot as one of their worst songs is maybe the dumbest thing ive ever seen on this site and uh that is a lot | ShapeOfJizzToCum
12.17.23 | None of these are on WtF so the whole list is correct. | GreyShadow
12.17.23 | bro get save me the fuck off of here
6 and 1 are the only right ones
| FowlKrietzsche
12.17.23 | @neek I'm honored | Sinternet
12.17.23 | have we considered that all their songs are the worst | neekafat
12.17.23 | you should be ive been here way too long | Wildcardbitchesss
12.17.23 | Dear God is the worst A7X song. | Zac124
12.17.23 | 2, 3, 7 and 8 really should not be here. List is missing Dear God, Lost and most other HTTK tracks. | FowlKrietzsche
12.17.23 | Dear God is a worse song than Beast and the Harlot but I listen to Beast and the Harlot more so the annoying parts of it annoy me way more than Dear God ever has. | JohnnyoftheWell
12.18.23 | 2 is probably the most based take here | ShapeOfJizzToCum
12.18.23 | I didn't like his whiney ass vocals on City of Evil and then hearing Almost Easy off the next one absolutely sealed my "I'm not listening to this band anymore" deal which lasted until this most recent album which was actually kind of rad but still with mostly godawful vocals.
COME BACK AGYEEEEEIN | AlexKzillion
12.18.23 | all these songs are good / great except for 1
L | Spec
12.18.23 | I understand the hate on Danger Line, I really do, but I love it and feel bad about it. | bellovddd
12.18.23 | only 8????? | Wildcardbitchesss
12.18.23 | I love the band and I agree that they have way more than 8 bad songs lol | Spec
12.18.23 | Hail to the King has ten tracks on it. So there’s at least ten. | Wildcardbitchesss
12.18.23 | alright but Coming Home and Shepherd of Fire are fine tho | bellovddd
12.18.23 | I reckon I will have a hard time finding 8 good tracks lol. | Spec
12.18.23 | For good tracks, listen to all of Waking the Fallen. | AlexKzillion
12.18.23 | the legit 8 worst a7x songs are prob (not including stst cause that's cheap): strength of the world, betrayed, lost, dear god, doing time, this means war, crimson day, mad hatter | bellovddd
12.18.23 | waking the fallen is the only album I fuck with from these guys | Wildcardbitchesss
12.18.23 | Strength of the World is one of their best songs Alex what dude lol
The rest are spot on but man I really disagree with that | FowlKrietzsche
12.18.23 | Strength of the World rules x2
And what the hell, Betrayed is pretty bumpin too | Spec
12.18.23 | IIIII DOOOONT DESERRRVE TO FALL THIS WAAAAAY BY A MAN WHO FEEEELT BETRAAAAAAYED | RogueNine
12.18.23 | There is zero Disturbed in 2. | Wildcardbitchesss
12.18.23 | The pre chorus sounds like some disturbed shit, rest of the song is great tho. |
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