To be a Heavy Metal Band, you need to have a lot of dedication. Metal core band Avenged Sevenfold had no difficulty delivering head pounding guitar riffs from Zacky Vengeance and Synister Gates, and heart felt vocals and yells from lead singer M. Shadows on the new album entitled NIGHTMARE. Avenged Sevenfold's drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan (Who passed early december of last year) Had the Drum tracks all written just before his death. Mike Portnoy (Of Dream Theater) was asked to record Jimmy's drums on the album and join them on the road for the Nightmare tour. He did an excellent job on executing jimmy's drum tracks.
The opening song off of the new album is entitled Nightmare; it was released digitally on May 18th of this year as a single to promote and raise awareness for the new album. overall, the song was a masterpiece in my eyes. The beginning of the song starts with a piano playing what seemed to be "Horror" like. It's followed by a guitar melody mimicking the piano piece. The Piano fades out and the rest of the song is a brutal beating (I mean that in the best way possible)
The rest of the album's songs are all the same.. opening with melodies and get faster and heavier. If someone tried to "Air Guitar" Synister Gates' Solos on this album, your fingers would cramp up after 30 seconds.
The 10th song on the album called "Fiction" changed the albums pace. The whole song is mostly a piano track followed by occasional guitar chords. It is my personal favorite of the album because Jimmy's vocals can be heard during the chorus of the album. Jimmy also wrote the piano piece on that track.
Overall, this album is a 10/10 stars. The instruments sounded perfect, crisp, and clean.
GO OUT AND BUY THE ALBUM!
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