Bradley pretending that he isn't a A7x nerd for the entirety of the stream was hilarious. "When was LIBAD released? It's not even a year, is it?" Like dude, we know that you know. Stop pretending.
Yeah and poo poo-ing only to rate everything super high. It’s all good. Avenged is amazing and that doesn’t say shit about you as a person lol. Guilty pleasure are allowed to be incredibly talented bands too ya kno
@@Bleepbloopblappp nah, just because of their image, shitty names and like uber masculine military bro stuff doesn't change the fact that every person in that band is insanely talented. They're a great band, and have produced some of the best metal albums of the 21st century in several different genres and styles. I wouldn't say we can class them as a guilty pleasure. They don't take their image and stuff seriously so neither should the fans.
I feel like The Stage was really overlooked when it dropped. At the time the band seemed super old and washed out, but they pulled off such a banger at the age that most bands would be entirely out of ideas. Will always be one of my top metal albums I don't care fight me.
The Stage hadn't been overlooked. It'd been undermarketed, which is on A7X. Meanwhile, many fans who'd heard it had the newness bias of "OMG this album is their mature flawless masterpiece, their best album!", and it's really only a major creative needle-mover compared to Hail to the King, not to what they'd done before Hail to the King or since they'd released The Stage's cover songs. Life Is but a Dream... is what The Stage had been described as, yet, sadly, not a Grammy-nominated album with lofty praise which it deserves. Hail to the King and The Stage aren't aging well.
Except for a crushing metalcore song. Nightmare has God Hates Us. It covers everything else which Avenged Sevenfold does, as well. Bluesy and country numbers? So Far Away, Danger Line, and Tonight the World Dies. A sprawling multimovement epic with quirky transitions? Save Me. A dark gothic piece with heavy emphasis of a keyboard instrument? Fiction. Brilliant singles? Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, and Buried Alive. The overproduced song which most people don't want to admit that they love? Natural Born Killer. It also has Victim. Nightmare's also a way more emotional album with more engaging artwork, a more interesting story than "They'd went into a studio and hadn't understood how to produce their own album.", and the Nightmare tour had been much better than the Avenged Sevenfold tour. Matt hadn't growled in 2007, only in 2008. His growls in 2010 and 2011 are Phil Anselmo-level. I understand popular sentiments, but Nightmare should really be THE icebreaking A7X album for people who are interested in A7X from hearing singles before, if someone isn't a City of Evil-type progressive metal-inclined person.
@@cdfox85he came up with the name when he was 17 dude like common. I'm sure you did shit when you were a teenager you would cringe at I sure as hell did we all did.
B.H. Senior did that part that's why it's so crisp. Junior (Syn) wasn't that good with the theory and Flamenco until after WTF if I remember correctly.
Dude you for sure should start on the white self titled album. It's white with a black death bat on it. That would be the easiest album to digest in my opinion and it's my favorite personally the whole album is awesome not a single filler song 🤘🤘😊
Quick little update, The self titled is probably the best metal album i've heard only after rust in peace obviously. A little piece of heaven is such a genius song. Bumping this album 24/7.@@justinbowen1183
I think each album has their own vibe to them. Like, when you're in the mood for something you put that record on and there's something for everyone. It you're looking for an album with classic hard rock, thrash metal staples, you pick Hail to the King. If you're looking for a more atmospheric experience, you might want The Stage or Life is But a Dream. If you want a raw, unfiltered record with chunky riffs and palm muting, you pick Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. You want a classic Metalcore banger, you go with Waking the Fallen.
Brooks Wackerman is Chad Wackerman who used to play with Zappa's younger brother. His father Chuck and brother John are also drummers. Wackerman by name and wackerman by nature.
There's this actual theory in sociology, that name influences and reinforces behavior related to norms associated with the name. Something along the lines of "a Dan is more likely to behave like a Dan". And it's really interesting to see this in action, lol
*is so good, and you should listen to it again, every now and then. If anyone ever tells you that you have to grow out of things to be mature, they very likely don't grow much.
@@MikeyJBlakeJR, the best A7X songs really are the deep cuts. Not everyone hears how much goes into the songs which couldn't be singles, but City of Evil in particular is nonstop creativity outside of formats.
Amazingly you ended up with a ranking that I feel like I can agree with. There's always a "noo noo noo you're missing the point" reaction to these, but for this one... nope, that's accurate. Great band.
M.I.A. is the one, three times. Not Ready to Die is up there, twice. Clairvoyant Disease, The Wicked End, Strength of the World, Buried Alive, Fermi Paradox, and Mattel are worth mentioning. We could draw straws of Syn's best solo, and many of them would be right.
You're probably the only Person who I saw mentioning *Roman Sky* That Solo is 1 of my Favorites of all freaking Time, it just has that much of Soul in it ❤
IMHO, "Nightmare" is their best work. So much variety, sick rifs, melodies, lyrics and solos. You have heavy Headbanging moshing songs, but you also have stuff to make a grown a man cry. And we can easily thank The Rev for this. Truly an work of art.
On trax, it was explianed by one of them (I can't rememebr which) that Zacky Vengeance got that name because he wanted to include the band's name in his own name in someway (like axl rose) and that was the best way he could think of. Also, Gates was going to be Gaytes until he saw it written down.
Also said the best revenge for all the people who crapped on him and made fun of him, so he said ima show Vengeance when im.. Omg he just said it as i was typing lmao. Anyways yeah, Its cool af esp the time period like myspace alot of ppl had fake names aliases.
Waking the Fallen has a special place in my heart and nostalgia. Of course the good old days of middle school and blah blah but the person who showed me A7X and took me to my first warped tour where we saw them was a dear and close friend who self checked out. Life is but a bean...i dont know what to say about that album but i fkng love it lol.
A7X was the first ever metal band that got me into metal in general. It was RUclips recommending Hail To The King. I had never heard anything like it , it felt so surreal. 6 years later I don’t listen to the band often but I still love their songs
Ironically, to the rest of us, Hail to the King sounds very much like specific other things as the rest of their albums don't. It speaks volumes of how unique they generally are.
@@chrismeadows4216 Absolutely! I had started to listen to the rest of their albums, I believe the order when I listened to the rest was-Nightmare, Self titled, COE, WTF, The Stage. Throughout the entire way I was baffled how incredibly talented this band was, doing so many different things but with their signature styles. In that merit I think it’d be a great gateway band for open minded people
@@eduardorobles7261, a pitfall for new listeners is often that they expect "a sound" of the band. There are vibes of every song which are identifiable of A7X, though not twin axe attacks, blast beats, or nasal vocals. They're really limited to four albums and a few other songs. It's specific creativity, passion, and ambition, really. Those are what make A7X A7X. They're the only band with their exact decisions.
First time heard them when I was 11. Dad brought me my first PC (exactly this day 20 years ago, on his birthday!), a few days later bought first games and NHL -2004 was among them. It's soundtrack had "Chapter Four". I really liked that guitar harmony, it reminded me of knights, battles and all that stuff)) Dad is not here anymore, but memories are still with me)
Not the kind of Metal that I use to listen... but they have two interesting albums : 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare'... but I don't feel the same about the other ones...
Nightmare is honestly my favorite album just for songs like Fiction. However I feel like there was not enough attention given to Save Me or Natural Born Killers IMO
Sounding the seventh trumph is one of my favorite album ever. The mix of Punk, metalcore and melodeath, all is so perfectly mixed for me it's like gluing all I love togheter.
I actually never heard none of their albums, maybe because i'm a DT fanatic for ~20 years. i made a playlist with the albums you put in A+S tiers, in ascending order, and now i'm in the midpoint of The Stage and I like what i hear
Nightmare is my favorite album. All, if not all, of the songs are always there for me whenever I need them the most. Not to mention I love Portnoy's drum work in this album.
The Stage and LIBAD are S tier for me personally, I absolutely adore those albums. The Stage was probably my most played Avenged album to date. But I also love prog and weird shit, so that probably has something to do with it lol
The Stage really isn't that weird, listening to many arrangements of City of Evil. It's just dry and more progressive rock-oriented than progressive metal-oriented, Fermi Paradox's black metal instrumentation and ballad vocals, Sunny Disposition, and Brooks' drumming on a few other songs, aside. It sounds much less inspired than Life Is but a Dream... .
When you read the literature behind exist, it may be the greatest song ever created... It's meant to be a telling of the story of the universe from the big bang until the end of time... There's no lyrics for the first 8 or so minutes of the song because there are no people alive to speak... I remember reading about it before the album came out, hearing the song, and actually being able to see fiery meteors crashing into each other...their ability to conjure up chaotic and sinister imagery is unmatched.
@@m.taylor7025in my opinion, I don't think LIBAD is a good album, the stage tops LIBAD. Like Mattel because the solo is made out of synthesizer which isn't enjoyable ( for me )
@@OatmealRoblox I think it's pretty incredible that Brian plays so many instruments so fuckin well... it's definitely more diverse... I feel like they're evolving from metalcore into something entirely new. But all of the best musicians surpass genres.
When I was a teenager Avenged Sevenfold was my favorite band, hands down. I took a long break from metal, only recently getting back into it, but before that I had only listened to the first four albums (the only ones out at the time anyway). My favorite albums were definitely Waking the Fallen (2003) and Avenged Sevenfold (2007). I haven't listened to anything past their 2007 album yet.
Genuinely cheered so loud when you sang the praises of waking the fallen, it's easily my favorite album of theirs, honestly one of my favorite music albums of all time :D
i was wondering what modern platform might be able to allow me to observe this beautiful (he's just gorgeous) rascal during his live endeavors. i'd be delighted
I remember being a tr00 kvlt teen on a metal forum and seeing everyone crapping all over A7X in like 2003. I downloaded Chapter 4 just to see what the fuss was all about and it just immediately hooked me. Like how could anyone be mad about this song?? Totally changed the way I looked at heavy music moving forward, like real pivotal moment in my life as a metalhead.
LIBAD is by far my most listened to from their discography. Black Sabbath for the next one? Might as well go back to the beginning. Or Nevermore as something random.
If you ask many people, Guns N' Roses had topped Appetite for Destruction with both Use Your Illusion albums. Creatively, there are grounds of it. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare, and Life Is but a Dream... are top contenders.
@@hellboundTX333, yes, very close, very practically. There are more classic songs between Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II than on Appetite for Destruction, several of which are far more played. Most GN'R fans don't care about Anything Goes, the original version of You're Crazy, and Think About You. A quarter of Appetite is filler.
@@hankmoody3285, Geffen had released a single album version, nearly all the hits, and Coma, Double Talkin' Jive, Perfect Crime, Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine, Breakdown, and Locomotive are too unique and interesting of songs to be left out of it. In this case, more is more, even skipping a few, and most of the songs are still mostly exceptional songs, just in niche tastes.
I expected you to shoot LIBAD straight to SS tier considering how much you praised it when it came out. X) I agree with you on CoE though, it’s a great album, but one I have a hard time listening to in one sitting. It’s like "dude, slow down, I need a break." A problem I don’t have with The Stage, even though it’s even longer, since they found a better balance of soft and hard. And yes, The Stage is my favorite one (though not necessarily the one I’d recommend to start).
Probably their best album is the white one, but I just love how sincere nightmare as an album is, it feels like every member of the band put their hearts in every song to make a proper farewell to the rev. Is my favourite by far.
The Afterlife solo is the thing that made me pick up a guitar. I was blown away that a human can do that. Hail to the King holds a special place in my heart, it released when I was in the hospital for 29 days, helped me get through it
They explained why they chose to use stage names in one of the Trax podcast episodes. They knew stage names would piss everyone off. Syn was originally going to spell Gates as Gaytes but then changed his mind cause he didn't find it nearly as funny when he saw it written out on paper. Ngl Synyster Gates is the coolest stage name of all time.
I like your rankings, mostly agree. For me Nightmare is top. I just love everything about it. The Stage and Life is But a Dream took me a while to appreciate. I do think they're very good and I appreciate how the band has evolved. You missed their video game soundtrack album, Black Reign. Has a couple otherwise unreleased songs with a few songs made for Call of Duty. Was pretty good.
They're one of those bands I've never cared for at all, but every now and then will give them a listen to see if my opinion changes. So far it never has.
I like Bat Country and that's about it. I remember seeing them in Ozzfest with Disturbed and System of A Down. At first they weren't really liked by the Nu Metal crowd, but after they did a cover of "Respect" from Pantera they quickly swayed the crowd after that.
Lol i saw a comment from someone under the Nightmare video i believe a couple months back where he says Matt always looks like he's holding a Watermelon while singing in the videos lol 😆 i died how many times you showed it 💀 glad you saw and took the meme to its full Melonlicious potential .
The Stage years later is still underrated, I do actually think it’s their most consistent & mature album to date, maybe it isn’t something you’d listen to daily as much as their other albums, but every member is tight, there wasn’t a bad song, kind of like Nightmare, & I only got into the album last year & regret why it took that long lol
My ranking rn would be 1. Self Titled 2. Nightmare 3. City of Evil 4. LIBAD (really loved this one, at this point I listen to that album more than COE) 5. Waking the Fallen 6. The Stage 7. Hail To The King (Acid Rain is one of my fav songs ever tho) 8. SOST
In 2001 I told myself that if A7X made five straight classic albums, I would get a deathbat tattoo. In 2006, I almost started early, but then 2007 happened...
Helloo, is there any way I can watch the blocked live of the ranking of guitar players? I was really enjoying that video and it was getting me to new styles and ways of playing the guitar, but I couldn't watch most of the live. Maybe I could get it via discord? I appreciate any help.
I slept on The Stage for years after it came out, then in the lead up to LibaD I re-listened to it over and over and I fell in love with it. I love everything they’ve done except St7T, but I’ve gotta say LibaD just fucking blows everything else out of the water for me, I played it back-to-front, multiple times a day for most of last year 😅
My ranking Waking The Fallen Self titled Nightmare City of Evil The Stage Hail to the King Diamonds in the Rough Life Is But A Dream Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
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Bradley pretending that he isn't a A7x nerd for the entirety of the stream was hilarious. "When was LIBAD released? It's not even a year, is it?" Like dude, we know that you know. Stop pretending.
Hahaha
I distinctly recall an entire video devoted to the album so I started to wonder if Bradley was part goldfish
hey man where can i find full stream where he reacted to a7x's whole discography?
Yeah and poo poo-ing only to rate everything super high. It’s all good. Avenged is amazing and that doesn’t say shit about you as a person lol. Guilty pleasure are allowed to be incredibly talented bands too ya kno
@@Bleepbloopblappp nah, just because of their image, shitty names and like uber masculine military bro stuff doesn't change the fact that every person in that band is insanely talented. They're a great band, and have produced some of the best metal albums of the 21st century in several different genres and styles. I wouldn't say we can class them as a guilty pleasure. They don't take their image and stuff seriously so neither should the fans.
I feel like The Stage was really overlooked when it dropped. At the time the band seemed super old and washed out, but they pulled off such a banger at the age that most bands would be entirely out of ideas. Will always be one of my top metal albums I don't care fight me.
I don't get why people complain about the stage so much, the songwriting is great and they use a bunch of different styles
The Fermi paradox solo is all time
The Stage hadn't been overlooked. It'd been undermarketed, which is on A7X. Meanwhile, many fans who'd heard it had the newness bias of "OMG this album is their mature flawless masterpiece, their best album!", and it's really only a major creative needle-mover compared to Hail to the King, not to what they'd done before Hail to the King or since they'd released The Stage's cover songs. Life Is but a Dream... is what The Stage had been described as, yet, sadly, not a Grammy-nominated album with lofty praise which it deserves. Hail to the King and The Stage aren't aging well.
@@Goose21, Fermi Paradox is all-time. I love it, Angels, and Sunny Disposition.
The only good track on The Stage was the title song.
The self titled album(2007) is literally the best introduction to this band, it has everything TBH
Except for a crushing metalcore song. Nightmare has God Hates Us. It covers everything else which Avenged Sevenfold does, as well. Bluesy and country numbers? So Far Away, Danger Line, and Tonight the World Dies. A sprawling multimovement epic with quirky transitions? Save Me. A dark gothic piece with heavy emphasis of a keyboard instrument? Fiction. Brilliant singles? Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, and Buried Alive. The overproduced song which most people don't want to admit that they love? Natural Born Killer. It also has Victim. Nightmare's also a way more emotional album with more engaging artwork, a more interesting story than "They'd went into a studio and hadn't understood how to produce their own album.", and the Nightmare tour had been much better than the Avenged Sevenfold tour. Matt hadn't growled in 2007, only in 2008. His growls in 2010 and 2011 are Phil Anselmo-level.
I understand popular sentiments, but Nightmare should really be THE icebreaking A7X album for people who are interested in A7X from hearing singles before, if someone isn't a City of Evil-type progressive metal-inclined person.
@@chrismeadows4216 A little piece of heaven nuff sayd
Really no wrong answers here lol
@@tegyrbrayton5094, also Lost and Critical Acclaim, Crossroads cut.
@@chrismeadows4216I like the nightmare album. It has a lot of cool songs and the guitars make funny noises.
Sinister Gates is a pretty cool name. Sounds like he writes spooky books.
It's even worse than that because he spells it "synyster" 🤮 so fucking cringe
@@cdfox85that's the worst part 😂
@@cdfox85he came up with the name when he was 17 dude like common. I'm sure you did shit when you were a teenager you would cringe at I sure as hell did we all did.
@@cdfox85no its not the least bit cringe at all it’s cool, you need to lighten up
@@Marta1Buck*best part
Love the Flamenco part at the end of Sidewinder.
B.H. Senior did that part that's why it's so crisp. Junior (Syn) wasn't that good with the theory and Flamenco until after WTF if I remember correctly.
I meant self titled not Waking the Fallen. WTF was there second album.
@@IamTheMerktheDon yeah his dad recorded the flamenco part I believe and it’s really cool
Sidewinder might be the most underrated A7x song in my opinion.
@@IamTheMerktheDonif I remember right, it’s him and his dad switching off parts.
I guarantee you no one in that band regrets the stage names... they're fucking great & add to the charm and depth of the band's story/world-building
the timing cannot be better, I started listening to the avenged sevenfold albums for the first time last night
Dude you for sure should start on the white self titled album. It's white with a black death bat on it. That would be the easiest album to digest in my opinion and it's my favorite personally the whole album is awesome not a single filler song 🤘🤘😊
Lol get some taste
They take many listens but once you get it. Changes your life.
@justinbowen1183 why start at an odd point in the discography and not just from the beginning
Quick little update, The self titled is probably the best metal album i've heard only after rust in peace obviously. A little piece of heaven is such a genius song. Bumping this album 24/7.@@justinbowen1183
I think each album has their own vibe to them. Like, when you're in the mood for something you put that record on and there's something for everyone. It you're looking for an album with classic hard rock, thrash metal staples, you pick Hail to the King. If you're looking for a more atmospheric experience, you might want The Stage or Life is But a Dream. If you want a raw, unfiltered record with chunky riffs and palm muting, you pick Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. You want a classic Metalcore banger, you go with Waking the Fallen.
Good take, friend. Hard agree. St7T is a great look through the window of the past of where metal was back then
i didn't hear any traces of thrash in httk, meanwhile nightmare has natural born killer and god hates us
well said, their discography is so good
Didn't include City of Evil, Nightmare, or the white album?
@@mrbobjrsrv I didn't want to be more long-winded than I already was.
Brooks Wackerman is Chad Wackerman who used to play with Zappa's younger brother. His father Chuck and brother John are also drummers. Wackerman by name and wackerman by nature.
I never get tired of the Kids React to Avenged Sevenfold video which a little girl laughs at Brooks' name before she knows that it's real in.
Truly good wacker men
There's this actual theory in sociology, that name influences and reinforces behavior related to norms associated with the name. Something along the lines of "a Dan is more likely to behave like a Dan". And it's really interesting to see this in action, lol
_City of Evil_ was so good. I had that album on repeat during my high school years. Great vid, btw!
Ya me to. It still holds up pretty well. I never much liked anything else by them though.
*is so good, and you should listen to it again, every now and then. If anyone ever tells you that you have to grow out of things to be mature, they very likely don't grow much.
@@chrismeadows4216 haha yes, is* so good. I haven't listened to them in a while, but sometimes I'll get the itch that only _City of Evil_ can scratch.
@@thedude8526 They have some other good picks, but sometimes it takes a little in-between chaff to get to the real goods of the album.
@@MikeyJBlakeJR, the best A7X songs really are the deep cuts. Not everyone hears how much goes into the songs which couldn't be singles, but City of Evil in particular is nonstop creativity outside of formats.
I don't think there's any other metal band with such a diverse discography like A7x.
These guys are simply built different 🦇💀🦇
Well said squire
Opeth.
I don't know what genre to even label these guys because every album is different
does linkin park count as metal still
Mr Bungle, Dir En Grey, Opeth
come on man, Warmness on The Soul is a fucking beautiful song
Yes it is
It’s a mid ballad compared to their others. It’s still aight tho
Was the song my wife and I picked for our first dance
And then Shadows starts singing
@@shiznitts true man, It has a good solo, actually song starts after Matt stops singing lol
Amazingly you ended up with a ranking that I feel like I can agree with. There's always a "noo noo noo you're missing the point" reaction to these, but for this one... nope, that's accurate. Great band.
“This is probably his best solo!”
Cosmic and Roman Sky: “Am I a joke to you?”.
M.I.A. is the one, three times. Not Ready to Die is up there, twice. Clairvoyant Disease, The Wicked End, Strength of the World, Buried Alive, Fermi Paradox, and Mattel are worth mentioning. We could draw straws of Syn's best solo, and many of them would be right.
@@chrismeadows4216 those are good as well.
@@chrismeadows4216 everyone knows unholy confessions had the best solo. Lol
You're probably the only Person who I saw mentioning *Roman Sky*
That Solo is 1 of my Favorites of all freaking Time, it just has that much of Soul in it ❤
@@chrismeadows4216my personal favorite is the Coming Home solo
IMHO, "Nightmare" is their best work. So much variety, sick rifs, melodies, lyrics and solos. You have heavy Headbanging moshing songs, but you also have stuff to make a grown a man cry. And we can easily thank The Rev for this.
Truly an work of art.
and songs like danger line are kind of a mix of both
@@T533-V2 Absolutly!
It's my stepping stone to A7X and my favourite album of all time
Buried Alive is maybe the best song to introduce someone to them it’s got a little bit of everything they do well in it.
@@brandonjackson5865 Exactly! My favorite aswell. I've seem it as A7X's "One"
Do a Trivium ranking video. They are one of the few bands where each of their albums are so distinct in their style and production.
Yes my favorite metal band by far!
Trivium are emo garbage
Vengeance Falls is the best Trivium album, there I said it...
Yeah definitely! The crusade would be near the bottom with ascendancy at the top. Everything A & B
Ascendency number 1, and shogan coming second I think
Are YOU a fan of A7X? What's your favorite album of theirs??
Self Titled. Every song on that album is great.
City of evil or the stage, waking is also goated
hail to the king 🥹
...Life is but a dream 😐
City of Evil is my favorite album from any band
Save Me is one of my favorite songs of all time !
A Little Piece Of Heave is outstanding too
They played save me live in Lincoln last weekend. It was awesome!
@@dnmoscato92 yeah bro I wish I was there... Lucky you ! I hope one day I could see it live, but they don't do that much Europe tours and I'm broke :(
avenged sevenfold was my childhood haha
the rev is still a hero of mine, rest in peace
thats a pretty good ranking, only thing i would change is probably libad at s tier
Nightmare, LIbaD... , City of Evil, and Waking the Fallen are certified S+ brilliance!!! 🙌🏼💀🦇💙
they are a legendary metal band whether people want to admit it or not
Soon, most will. It's only a matter of time.
On trax, it was explianed by one of them (I can't rememebr which) that Zacky Vengeance got that name because he wanted to include the band's name in his own name in someway (like axl rose) and that was the best way he could think of. Also, Gates was going to be Gaytes until he saw it written down.
Also said the best revenge for all the people who crapped on him and made fun of him, so he said ima show Vengeance when im.. Omg he just said it as i was typing lmao. Anyways yeah, Its cool af esp the time period like myspace alot of ppl had fake names aliases.
Gates deciding not to go with "Gaytes" Is like if one of the peeps who decided to name their kid "rahleigh" Decided to just chilln go with 'Riley'
Waking the Fallen has a special place in my heart and nostalgia. Of course the good old days of middle school and blah blah but the person who showed me A7X and took me to my first warped tour where we saw them was a dear and close friend who self checked out. Life is but a bean...i dont know what to say about that album but i fkng love it lol.
Just don't forget them, or cry while they're away.
the stage (the album) is highly underrated. it has some of syn's best guitar work
Also some of Shadows’ best vocal work
That is my favourite album no joke
This is the only album that didn't have a guitar riff that I wanted to learn 😒
A7X was the first ever metal band that got me into metal in general. It was RUclips recommending Hail To The King. I had never heard anything like it , it felt so surreal. 6 years later I don’t listen to the band often but I still love their songs
Ironically, to the rest of us, Hail to the King sounds very much like specific other things as the rest of their albums don't. It speaks volumes of how unique they generally are.
@@chrismeadows4216 Absolutely! I had started to listen to the rest of their albums, I believe the order when I listened to the rest was-Nightmare, Self titled, COE, WTF, The Stage. Throughout the entire way I was baffled how incredibly talented this band was, doing so many different things but with their signature styles. In that merit I think it’d be a great gateway band for open minded people
@@eduardorobles7261, a pitfall for new listeners is often that they expect "a sound" of the band. There are vibes of every song which are identifiable of A7X, though not twin axe attacks, blast beats, or nasal vocals. They're really limited to four albums and a few other songs. It's specific creativity, passion, and ambition, really. Those are what make A7X A7X. They're the only band with their exact decisions.
I don’t listen to them much anymore, but I can’t deny that they were a huge reason I started playing guitar.
First time heard them when I was 11. Dad brought me my first PC (exactly this day 20 years ago, on his birthday!), a few days later bought first games and NHL -2004 was among them. It's soundtrack had "Chapter Four". I really liked that guitar harmony, it reminded me of knights, battles and all that stuff))
Dad is not here anymore, but memories are still with me)
Sounding the seventh trumpet is a great album
It's fine I guess but it's so awful compared to every other album lol
@BradleyHallGuitar Yeah I get that, I quite enjoy the rawness of it. It's like Avenged Sevenfolds St. Anger if St. Anger was good
Not the kind of Metal that I use to listen... but they have two interesting albums : 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare'... but I don't feel the same about the other ones...
Highlight of the album is art of subconscious illusion imo
yea prob my second or third favorite
Nightmare is honestly my favorite album just for songs like Fiction. However I feel like there was not enough attention given to Save Me or Natural Born Killers IMO
Blegh, Fiction is like the only song I can't listen to on that album. Skip.
@@rpmartin8650 I can understand why you wouldn't want to listen to it every time you put on the album. Not everyone wants to go from sad to sadder lol
based A7X 🤝🏻
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Sounding the seventh trumph is one of my favorite album ever. The mix of Punk, metalcore and melodeath, all is so perfectly mixed for me it's like gluing all I love togheter.
I actually never heard none of their albums, maybe because i'm a DT fanatic for ~20 years. i made a playlist with the albums you put in A+S tiers, in ascending order, and now i'm in the midpoint of The Stage and I like what i hear
DT?
Dream Theater?
Dark Tranquility?
Something else???
Great list! I’m glad Waking The Fallen got the respect it deserves, it’s gotta be my favorite album of all time!
Your editing is absolutely top notch 👌🏻
Nightmare is my favorite album. All, if not all, of the songs are always there for me whenever I need them the most. Not to mention I love Portnoy's drum work in this album.
The Stage and LIBAD are S tier for me personally, I absolutely adore those albums. The Stage was probably my most played Avenged album to date. But I also love prog and weird shit, so that probably has something to do with it lol
The Stage really isn't that weird, listening to many arrangements of City of Evil. It's just dry and more progressive rock-oriented than progressive metal-oriented, Fermi Paradox's black metal instrumentation and ballad vocals, Sunny Disposition, and Brooks' drumming on a few other songs, aside. It sounds much less inspired than Life Is but a Dream... .
When you read the literature behind exist, it may be the greatest song ever created... It's meant to be a telling of the story of the universe from the big bang until the end of time... There's no lyrics for the first 8 or so minutes of the song because there are no people alive to speak...
I remember reading about it before the album came out, hearing the song, and actually being able to see fiery meteors crashing into each other...their ability to conjure up chaotic and sinister imagery is unmatched.
@@m.taylor7025 Look up Gorgio Bruno and then listen to Roman sky. I think you'll enjoy it. :)
@@m.taylor7025in my opinion, I don't think LIBAD is a good album, the stage tops LIBAD. Like Mattel because the solo is made out of synthesizer which isn't enjoyable ( for me )
@@OatmealRoblox I think it's pretty incredible that Brian plays so many instruments so fuckin well... it's definitely more diverse... I feel like they're evolving from metalcore into something entirely new. But all of the best musicians surpass genres.
When I was a teenager Avenged Sevenfold was my favorite band, hands down. I took a long break from metal, only recently getting back into it, but before that I had only listened to the first four albums (the only ones out at the time anyway). My favorite albums were definitely Waking the Fallen (2003) and Avenged Sevenfold (2007). I haven't listened to anything past their 2007 album yet.
Just found this band last year, some crazy awesome stuff.
i’ve been waiting for this video for so long! Great choices
Genuinely cheered so loud when you sang the praises of waking the fallen, it's easily my favorite album of theirs, honestly one of my favorite music albums of all time :D
My favourite band! Their last 5-6 albums are one of the best, most interesting, fun metal albums ever imo..
i was wondering what modern platform might be able to allow me to observe this beautiful (he's just gorgeous) rascal during his live endeavors. i'd be delighted
Thank you for your service.
10/10 band, 10/10 video!
The self-titled is probably my favourite but there's something about the most recent record that I really vibe with too.
You know this is a good youtuber when his fave band's singer straigths Up says he IS one of his favs youtubers
I remember being a tr00 kvlt teen on a metal forum and seeing everyone crapping all over A7X in like 2003.
I downloaded Chapter 4 just to see what the fuss was all about and it just immediately hooked me. Like how could anyone be mad about this song??
Totally changed the way I looked at heavy music moving forward, like real pivotal moment in my life as a metalhead.
I am so happy for listening to these guys for 9 years
I fucking love Sidewinder
This was really entertaining to watch! Can you make a similar video for Trivium or Parkwaydrive? 😬😬
Trivium^!!!
parkway drive^!!!
Critical Acclaim is my favorite.
Loved it and the full live stream too!
LIBAD is by far my most listened to from their discography.
Black Sabbath for the next one? Might as well go back to the beginning.
Or Nevermore as something random.
Diamonds in the rough has "Tension" on it and its always a flip between that song and ALPOH as my favorite a7x song
City of Evil was their "Appetite for destruction". Never gonna top it, ever..
If you ask many people, Guns N' Roses had topped Appetite for Destruction with both Use Your Illusion albums. Creatively, there are grounds of it. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare, and Life Is but a Dream... are top contenders.
@@chrismeadows4216 Nope, not even close.
@@hellboundTX333, yes, very close, very practically. There are more classic songs between Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II than on Appetite for Destruction, several of which are far more played. Most GN'R fans don't care about Anything Goes, the original version of You're Crazy, and Think About You. A quarter of Appetite is filler.
@@chrismeadows4216If UYI was a single album it could've top Appetite but i dont think it does as it is
@@hankmoody3285, Geffen had released a single album version, nearly all the hits, and Coma, Double Talkin' Jive, Perfect Crime, Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine, Breakdown, and Locomotive are too unique and interesting of songs to be left out of it. In this case, more is more, even skipping a few, and most of the songs are still mostly exceptional songs, just in niche tastes.
Nightmare is really fun. Fuckin Save Me is such a great closer
Dude imma go see em tomorrow in Buffalo! First stop on Leg 3 of the Libad tour and i cant waaaiiiittt
My introduction to A7X was the Bat Country music video on Comcast On Demand in 2005 and I’ve been a fan ever since. Love these guys.
I expected you to shoot LIBAD straight to SS tier considering how much you praised it when it came out. X)
I agree with you on CoE though, it’s a great album, but one I have a hard time listening to in one sitting. It’s like "dude, slow down, I need a break."
A problem I don’t have with The Stage, even though it’s even longer, since they found a better balance of soft and hard. And yes, The Stage is my favorite one (though not necessarily the one I’d recommend to start).
Probably their best album is the white one, but I just love how sincere nightmare as an album is, it feels like every member of the band put their hearts in every song to make a proper farewell to the rev. Is my favourite by far.
Weird. Within the last week I've been thinking how cool it would be if you made a video like this like... and here it is. 😮
This is definitely the best ranking of albums I’ve seen yet. Libad definitely needs more time to settle with fans but it’ll be S tier in the future.
Critical support for the Call of Duty songs (Not Ready to Die, Carry On, etc..)
The Afterlife solo is the thing that made me pick up a guitar. I was blown away that a human can do that. Hail to the King holds a special place in my heart, it released when I was in the hospital for 29 days, helped me get through it
Life is but a Dream is dark and hilarious at the same time
They explained why they chose to use stage names in one of the Trax podcast episodes. They knew stage names would piss everyone off. Syn was originally going to spell Gates as Gaytes but then changed his mind cause he didn't find it nearly as funny when he saw it written out on paper. Ngl Synyster Gates is the coolest stage name of all time.
Sounding the 7th trumpet is a super underrated album
I’ll be awaiting the day you make a full video as Beansly Balls
Brad is a chad for doing this. Self titled and City of Evil are masterpieces.
I like your rankings, mostly agree. For me Nightmare is top. I just love everything about it.
The Stage and Life is But a Dream took me a while to appreciate. I do think they're very good and I appreciate how the band has evolved.
You missed their video game soundtrack album, Black Reign. Has a couple otherwise unreleased songs with a few songs made for Call of Duty. Was pretty good.
I would want to see Bradley in a7x clothing, would make my day.
Sounds cursed as fuck
They're one of those bands I've never cared for at all, but every now and then will give them a listen to see if my opinion changes. So far it never has.
I love the new style dude, I think you're opinion is pretty solid
Love this concept man! Please do an Iron Maiden dive and tier list 🤘🏻
I like Bat Country and that's about it. I remember seeing them in Ozzfest with Disturbed and System of A Down. At first they weren't really liked by the Nu Metal crowd, but after they did a cover of "Respect" from Pantera they quickly swayed the crowd after that.
Great video mate
How about "I Listened To Every DEATH Album And Everyone Should Too"?
WAKING THE FALLEN IS ON TOP 🗣️🗣️🦅🦅🔥🔥💯💯
A7X at their apex will forever be top tier! The only argument is around what constitutes their apex.
"so you don't have to" bro I already did
‘Nightmare’ is a great album. When I listen to this band, it’s usually that album. It’s raw with emotion and the realest imo
Avenged as been my favorite band for 20 years and still is to this day S tier Band
Lol i saw a comment from someone under the Nightmare video i believe a couple months back where he says Matt always looks like he's holding a Watermelon while singing in the videos lol 😆 i died how many times you showed it 💀 glad you saw and took the meme to its full Melonlicious potential .
City of Evil is everything I like about music. I didn't get how everyone found the last two albums genious. I found them weird and disapointing...
I love how goofy this band is.
Also, Zack and Syn are my favorite members, they write some cool riffs.
Going to see them next week.
Very awesome band..love the new album
The Stage years later is still underrated, I do actually think it’s their most consistent & mature album to date, maybe it isn’t something you’d listen to daily as much as their other albums, but every member is tight, there wasn’t a bad song, kind of like Nightmare, & I only got into the album last year & regret why it took that long lol
They get so much hate for their eyeliner days, they have some great stuff and the stage is a masterpiece imo
My ranking rn would be
1. Self Titled
2. Nightmare
3. City of Evil
4. LIBAD (really loved this one, at this point I listen to that album more than COE)
5. Waking the Fallen
6. The Stage
7. Hail To The King (Acid Rain is one of my fav songs ever tho)
8. SOST
In 2001 I told myself that if A7X made five straight classic albums, I would get a deathbat tattoo. In 2006, I almost started early, but then 2007 happened...
Helloo, is there any way I can watch the blocked live of the ranking of guitar players? I was really enjoying that video and it was getting me to new styles and ways of playing the guitar, but I couldn't watch most of the live. Maybe I could get it via discord? I appreciate any help.
I slept on The Stage for years after it came out, then in the lead up to LibaD I re-listened to it over and over and I fell in love with it. I love everything they’ve done except St7T, but I’ve gotta say LibaD just fucking blows everything else out of the water for me, I played it back-to-front, multiple times a day for most of last year 😅
The Stage will be looked back on as one of the best metal albums of the last 25 years. That album is genius.
It’s Bradley F***ing Hall 🤘🏽
My ranking
Waking The Fallen
Self titled
Nightmare
City of Evil
The Stage
Hail to the King
Diamonds in the Rough
Life Is But A Dream
Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
I've heard that with City of Evil, they wanted to be Children of Bodom with clean vocals. Explains the "a bit too much"-ness of it all.
he litteraly made my top of albums, but I put nightmare as top 1, the rest is just perfect
Life is But a Dream is as EASY "S" for me. It's the A7X album I knew they were capable of making, but came completely out of nowhere.
It's so good hearing 0.026 seconds of every song.... Not annoying AT ALL!!!!!!!!
Good call..Waking the fallen has always been my fave a7x album.
Same, COE very VERY close second