ROCKER MANIA: Avenged sevenfold

Avenged sevenfold

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Beginnings, 1999-2004
The band was formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, California with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev. and Matt Wendt. provide a reference band name comes from the story of Cain and Abel from the Bible, however, they are not a religious band. At its formation, each band member was wearing a pseudonym which is also the name of their calls while in school at Upper Medium School. Before releasing their debut album, the band recorded two demos in 1999, da 2000. Their first album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, was recorded when the band members are still eighteen years old and still attending high school. This album was originally released by the company their first label, Good Life Records in 2001. After lead guitarist Synyster Gates joined the band, signed in late 1999 when he was 18 years old. The track "To End the Rapture" featuring re-recorded with full band members. The album was later re-released on Hopeless Records in 2002.
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The band then began to receive recognition, they played with bands such as Mushroomhead and Shadows Fall and play in the Take Action Tour. After their fourth bassist, Johnny Christ joined permanently, they released the album Waking the Fallen on Hopeless Records in August 2003. Band received recognition by Billboard and The Boston Globe, and also played in the "Vans Warped Tour". In 2004, Avenged Sevenfold tour back in the "Vans Warped Tour" and record a video for the song "Unholy Confessions" which entered the charts at MTV2's Headbanger's Ball. Shortly after the release of Waking the Fallen, Avenged Sevenfold leave Hopeless Records and signed a contract proposed by Warner Bros..
City Of Evil, 2005-2007
City of Evil, the band's third album was released on June 7, 2005 and debuted at # 30 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 30,000 copies in its first week. This album is more classic metal from previous albums that have been grouped into the metalcore genre. The album is also notable for the absence of screaming and growling. M. Shadows work with vocal coach Ron Anderson, who once had a client like Axl Rose and Chris Cornell-for months before the release of the album to achieve the sound that has "grit while still having the tone". The album received Steller reviews of several magazines and websites and is credited for pushing the band to international popularity.
After playing at Ozzfest in 2006, Avenged Sevenfold beat R & B singer Rihanna and Chris Brown, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves and James Blunt for the title of Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, thanks in part to the song "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - which inspired "Bat Country."
They returned to the Vans Warped Tour, this time they were headlining tour and then continue their own "Cities of Evil Tour." Moreover, their lead single "Bat Country" reach # 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts, # 6 on Billboard's Modern Rock Charts and the accompanying video reached # 1 on MTV's Total Request Live.
Encouraged by this success, the album sold well and became the first gold record of Avenged Sevenfold. He was later certified platinum in August 2009.
Self-Titled Album, 2007-2008
Avenged Sevenfold makes the success of their diundangan to 2006's Ozzfest tour on the main stage, aligned with the famous Heavy Metal bands like DragonForce, Lacuna Coil, Hatebreed, Disturbed, and System of a Down. In the same year they also completed a tour around the world, including the United States, Great Britain (and Europe), Japan, Australia and New Zealand. After touring for sixteen months in the promotion of City of Evil, the band announced that they cancel the tour in 2006 after recording a new album. M. Shadows stated that their fourth album, self-titled and self-production would not be a "City of Evil Part 2" or "Waking the Fallen Part 2," but will incorporate a new grittier sound. To wave the fans, between the emergence of a new album, the band released their first DVD titled "All Excess" on July 17, 2007. All Excess, which debuted as # 1 DVD in the United States, including live performances and backstage footage the band's career spanned eight years. Two tribute album, Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold: Bat Wings and Broken Strings and Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold: The String Tribute was also released in October 2007.
Avenged Sevenfold, the band's fourth album, released on October 30, 2007, debuting at # 4 on the Billboard 200 with more than 90,000 copies sold. Two singles, "Critical Acclaim" and "Almost Easy" that was released before the debut album. In December 2007, the animated video made for "A Little Piece of Heaven." Due to the controversial subject matter the song, however, Warner Brothers released only to registered MVI users over the internet. The third single, "Afterlife" and its video was released in January 2008. Their fourth single, "Dear God", was released on September 30, 2008. Despite the mixed critical reception in general self-titled debut album sold over 500,000 copies and was awarded "Album of the Year" at the Kerrang! Awards.
Headline Avenged Sevenfold at Taste of Chaos tour with Atreyu, Bullet for My Valentine, Blessthefall and Idiot Pilot. They used footage from their last show in Long Beach to Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough, a two-disc B-sides CD and live DVD which was released on September 16, 2008. They also recorded many cover songs, including Pantera's "Walk", Iron Maiden's "Flash Blade" and Black Sabbath's "Paranoid". They will also release Guitar Tutorial DVD, which includes five songs, Afterlife, Almost Easy, Bat Country, Beast and the Harlot and Trashed and Scattered. During the sold-out festival performances at Leeds and Reading, the band was forced to shorten their Leeds show and cancel their Reading gig due to vocal strain experienced by M. Shadows. A few days later, the band was forced to announce the cancellation of the remaining performances of September, with tours to resume on October 15.
Nightmare, 2010-present
In January 2009, M. Shadows confirms that the band was writing the self-titled follow-up, their fourth album in coming months. They also announced that they will be playing at Rock on the Range, from 16 to 17 May 2009. On April 16 they do versions of Guns N 'Roses' "It's So Easy" on stage with Slash, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. M. Shadows are the vocals on Slash's solo album on the song "Nothing to Say".
They announced that they plan to start writing in June 2009 and recorded in October 2009. M. Shadows also said in an interview with Loveline that the next record will be more traditional heavy metal, more rock-oriented record, because the self-titled record was very experimental. He also said it would feature a more progressive, old songs and will be "the greatest recordings of Avenged Sevenfold." In addition, he said that they might think about a concept record. On July 15, 2009, their website and MySpace profile has been updated with a statement of M. Shadows implies that work has begun on the next album and they still "throw ideas". These updates are on the same day that the Waking the Fallen gets Gold in America.
On November 5, 2009, Zacky Vengeance post a message on the official website stating that they have returned from their tour and begin to focus on forming a production team to begin recording the album. "We will continue to finish the song until we feel every note you are not good and our justice. We are also in the final stages of strengthening our production team, studio and engineers so that both the ax to fall and the album was written we would spend days and nights in the studio to finish this album will definitely take you on a journey that is very dark .... "
On December 24, 2009 it was announced that Avenged Sevenfold has come in second place in the top Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Bands on Decade, losing the top spot for Metallica. The December 31, 2009 edition of Kerrang! magazine includes an interview with M. Shadows, where the Shadows stated the following about this album, .. "This is a dark record of the music is emotionally Our goal is to make each part in mind, we want to evoke reaction, and living at home. It will have a big rock ballad, great fun things, piano, choir, orchestra and all things visual you would expect but with vibrations, different moodier. the lyrics, I have been inspired by everything from children raised that way today, to school, economics, religion, war and the behavior of our government is all. plays into how children are very emotional detached from the real world now. "