Avenged Sevenfold is most likely the only true Heavy Metal band that's actually popular amongst people of teenage age, which is absolutely bat*** stupid. Usually high school halls are full of shirts donning Pierce The Veil or some other ridiculously cheesy band usually pertaining to punk or post hardcore, good or bad. Avenged Sevenfold is somehow different, but it's for the worse. In my particular area, a7x got popular right around the release of Nightmare and soared in popularity with the release of Hail To The King. Why is it stupid? Well...
F*ck
Very little do you see someone listening to an older rock/metal band and simultaneously listening to a7x within this age group. I've heard insults towards Metallica in my school for being 'old' and 'boring' from the same people going insane over HttK, which is hilariously ironic. Why? This is a carbon copy of Metallica's old work, but oh so much worse. Avenged Sevenfold's HttK is by the books but basically the children's edition of the book that has been read, copied, and insulted too many times before.
To begin with, the album closely resembles The Black Album, combined with lyrics that feel like they're written by an angry 13 year old that got an A on his English test, and some of the most pathetic Riffing and drumming ever imagined by mankind. With lyrics like "Royal flames with carve a path in chaos, bringing daylight to the night" and "When there's no writing on the wall, I See the lifeless devils start to crawl" you'll begin to wonder if you're listening to Kellin Quinn with a deeper voice and a pen. The riffing is borrowed and watered down, the title track begins with a yawn inducing riff, followed by a few chords in a pattern so simple a 4 year old could probably play them. The drumming is just depressing. I'm either going insane, or I never heard use of a double kick anywhere in the album which was always in avenged Sevenfold's music and it's basic to the point of me being pissed off when I listen to it.
If the lyrics were meant to sound angsty, then I don't understand why this didn't follow a St. Anger formula or something similar, with better production it would pass off as a good album. The lyrics are aggressive and angry but the music lacks any energy and substance to actually ***ing sound angry. Every song has a slow or medium tempo with little to no variation and they still put in a balladry song ("Crimson Days") which also happens to be the only song on the whole album I can listen to without calling a suicide hotline, and that's only because the pathetic guitars and drumming fit the song to a certain degree, although they're just as boring as before.
Not only does the album butcher used up metal elements, it resorts to clichés so cheesy I don't even have a word for it. The chanting in the beginning of "Requiem" is enough to make me want to throw a brick at the members of the band. The numbers riff in the beginning of "Coming Home" along with the overused vocal pattern and abysmal lyrics predictably leads into a harder section where M Shadows shouts and gets more dramatic, which to no surprise is a copy and paste job from Hetfield's vocal style. The last three tracks are just completely forgettable, so they fit the album perfectly. Oh, and "Acid Rain" is lyrically the worst song Avenged Sevenfold has ever written, with "Planets" being close behind. But hey, at least they're not like Godsmack's dad rock lyrics... oh wait "Doing Time" does feature that. Man, this is the album that just keeps on giving!
Any hate Avenged Sevenfold receives is completely warranted. It's another victim to the flow of time where they've become a cheap Metallica (and priest to a lesser extent) rip-off and become mall metal that anyone working at Hot Topic would love to have grace their ears.
That's still no ***ing excuse
This album, and sadly, Avenged Sevenfold as a whole (Post City of Evil) is serving nothing but a purpose of claiming to be the next Metallica so that teen girls with annoying wrist bands, blue hair and Sleeping With Sirens merchandise can call themselves metalheads.
"" serving nothing but a purpose of claiming to be the next Metallica so that teen girls with annoying wrist bands, blue hair and Sleeping With Sirens merchandise can call themselves metalheads. "
I couldnt care less who call themselves a metalhead or not, and most people dont either, js half this review is more of a rant about ur high school which idgaf about lmao but i posd because trying is half the battle! "
updated my last comment and honestly I don't really mind the negs. I suck at writing these, still better than some reviews I've seen
not really a review man, more like a rant with musical descriptions thrown in. Too much noticeable anger, not enough 'objective' reasoning. Also, as has already been mentioned, you've included way too much irrelvant info and unecesssary swearing. Won't neg because it's well-written but it's lacking in content.
Avenged Sevenfold is most likely the only true Heavy Metal band that's actually popular amongst people of teenage age, which is absolutely bat*** stupid.
dumb and overused assumption/generalization
Usually high school halls are full of shirts donning Pierce The Veil or some other ridiculously cheesy band usually pertaining to punk or post hardcore, good or bad.
another dumb/overused generalization
Why is it stupid? Well... F*ck
get rid of this, makes you sound like an angry 13 year old
Very little do you see someone listening to an older rock/metal band and simultaneously listening to a7x within this age group.
so what?
I've heard insults towards Metallica in my school for being 'old' and 'boring' from the same people going insane over HttK, which is hilariously ironic. Why? This is a carbon copy of Metallica's old work, but oh so much worse.
stop with this dumb question and answer sequencing, overusing it leads to poor writing
Avenged Sevenfold's HttK is by the books but basically the children's edition of the book that has been read, copied, and insulted too many times before.
terribly written sentence
and some of the most pathetic Riffing and drumming ever imagined by mankind.
riffing doesn't need to be capitalized and this reads like an immature rant
I'm either going insane, or I never heard use of a double kick anywhere in the album which was always in avenged Sevenfold's music and it's basic to the point of me being pissed off when I listen to it.
this whole thing is a boat full of lols, also "avenged" should be capitalized
i could keep going with the rest of it but i think you get the picture, you really need to revamp your writing style, and quickly
oh and...
That's still no ***ing excuse
these expletive one liners just look awful in the grand scheme of the review, your adolescence is showing severely
I'm pretty sure you can complain about this here, but getting a neg 1 minute after I post a review, combined with me not being liked, doesn't really seem legitimate at all.
"trying to fix this review is like approaching a puddle of blood and guts and deciding to perform cosmetic surgery"
Perfect
"No matter, you're writing will improve overtime."
Highly doubt it, don't care either way
"But I do strongly advise you to not throw bricks at the bandmembers."
This is the only album I've ever gotten pissed off at when listening to so I think it's warranted.
"Review is bad
Really"
I know that.
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"not really a review man, more like a rant with musical descriptions thrown in. Too much noticeable anger, not enough 'objective' reasoning. Also, as has already been mentioned, you've included way too much irrelvant info and unecesssary swearing. Won't neg because it's well-written but it's lacking in content. "
Is this seriously the only good comment in the whole thread?
people don't usually bother to develop in-depth constructive criticism if they think it'll fall on deaf ears. you haven't displayed much genuine desire to improve, so idk why you're surprised people aren't going out of their way to help your writing.
here's my criticism anyway:
1) review is unnecessary. plenty of negative reviews exist for this album, and yours doesn't add much insight
2) the Metallica comparison has been done to death. read Iluvatar's review of this
3) the whole thing sounds like you've got some agenda against scenesters who don't know "real metal". it's a pointless crusade.
4) this thing desperately needs a proofread. Plenty of capitalization nitpicks and other assorted grammatical things... too many to list tbh
Why should I care about high schools and teenage girls and whether or not young people are listening to older metal bands? These are not relevant at all to the music itself and shouldn't be a basis of critiquing the band.
