The beginning of the formation of the band Avenged sevenfold (1999-2004)
The band was formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, California with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev and Matt Wendt. gave the name of his band as a reference derived from the story of Cain and Abel from the Bible, however, they are not a religious band. Upon its formation, each member of the band wears a pseudonym which is also the name of their current call from high school SMA. Before the release of their debut album, the band recorded two demos in 1999 and 2000. Their first album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, was recorded when the band members were eighteen years old and still attending high school. This album was originally released on their first label, Good Life Recordings in 2001. After lead guitarist Synyster Gates joined the band, at the end of 1999 entered when he was 18 years old. The song "To End the Rapture" was re-recorded featuring a full band. The album was later re-released on Hopeless Records in 2002.
Groups The band started to receive recognition, performing with bands such as Mushroomhead and Shadows Fall and playing on the Take Action Tour. After their fourth bassist, Johnny Christ joined permanently, they released Waking the Fallen on Hopeless Records in August 2003. The band received recognition by Billboard and The Boston Globe, and also played in the "Vans Warped Tour". In 2004, Avenged Sevenfold toured again on the "Vans Warped Tour" and recorded 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 left 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 worked with vocal coach Ron Anderson-who have had clients like Axl Rose and Chris Cornell-for months before the album's release to achieve a sound that had "grit while still having the tone". The album received steller reviews from several magazines and websites and is credited for propelling the band into international popularity.
After playing at Ozzfest in 2006, Avenged Sevenfold beat R & B singer Rihanna and Chris Brown, Panic! at the Disco, Angels and Airwaves and James Blunt for the title of Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, in part thanks to the song "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" - which inspired the "Bat Country."
They returned to the Vans Warped Tour, this time headlining and then continued on their own "Cities of Evil Tour." Moreover, their lead single "Bat Country" reached # 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts, # 6 on Billboard's Modern Rock Charts and the accompanying video made it to # 1 on MTV's Total Request Live.
Encouraged by this success, the album sold well and became Avenged Sevenfold's first gold record. He was later certified platinum in August 2009
Self-titled album (2007-2008)
Avenged Sevenfold's success makes them diundangan to 2006's Ozzfest tour on the main stage, aligned with the famous Heavy Metal band like DragonForce, Lacuna Coil, Hatebreed, Disturbed and System of a Down. In the same year they also completed a worldwide tour, including the United States, the United Kingdom (as well as mainland Europe), Japan, Australia and New Zealand. After the tour for sixteen months in promotion of City of Evil, the band announced that they were canceling the tour in 2006 for the sake of 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 would incorporate a new, grittier sound. For fans wave, 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 USA, included live performances and backstage footage that spanned eight years of the band's career. Two tribute albums, 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, was released on October 30, 2007, debuting at # 4 on the Billboard 200 with over 90,000 copies sold. Two singles, "Critical Acclaim" and "Almost Easy" were released prior to the debut album. In December 2007, an animated video was made for "A Little Piece of Heaven." Due to the controversial subject matter of songs, however, Warner Brothers only released it 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 mixed critical reception generally self-titled album sold more than 500,000 copies and was awarded "Album of the Year "at the Kerrang! Awards.
Headline Avenged Sevenfold on the Taste of Chaos tour with Atreyu, Bullet for My Valentine, Blessthefall and Idiot Pilot. They used the footage from their last show in Long Beach for 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 be releasing a Guitar Tutorial DVD, which include five tracks, Afterlife, Almost Easy, Bat Country, Beast and the Harlot and Trashed and Scattered. During the festival performances sold out in Leeds and Reading, the band were forced to shorten their Leeds performance and cancel their Reading performance due to a vocal strain experienced by M. Shadows. A few days later, the band was forced to announce the cancellation of the rest of the show in September, with a tour to resume on 15 October.
Nightmare (2010-present)
In January 2009, M. Shadows confirmed that the band is writing the follow-up self-titled, their fourth album in the coming months. They also announced that they will be playing at Rock on the Range, from May 16 to 17, 2009. On April 16, they performed a version of Guns N 'Roses' "It's So Easy" onstage with Slash, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. M. Shadows is a vocal solo album Slash in the song "Nothing to Say".
They announced that they plan to start writing in June 2009 and recording in October 2009. M. Shadows also said in an interview with Loveline that the next record will be a more traditional heavy metal, more rock-oriented record, since the self-titled record very experimental. He also said it would feature more progressive, longer songs and would be the "biggest Avenged Sevenfold record." In addition, he said that they might think about a concept record. On July 15, 2009, their website and MySpace profile were updated with a statement from M. Shadows implying that work on the next album has started and they are still "throwing around ideas". The update was on the same day that Waking the Fallen got the Gold in the Americas.
On November 5, 2009, Zacky Vengeance posted a message on the official website stating that they had returned from their tour and immediately started focusing on forming a production team to begin recording the album. "We will continue to finalize our songs until we feel every note you are not good and our justice. We are also in the final stages of solidifying our production team, studios and engineers so that the second the ax falls and the album is written we will spend day and night in the studio to finish This album will definitely take you on a very dark journey .. "
On December 24, 2009 it was announced that Avenged Sevenfold had come in second place on Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Bands on the Decade, losing the top spot to Metallica. The December 31, 2009 issue of Kerrang! magazine includes an interview with M. Shadows, in which Shadows stated the following about the album, .. "This is a dark note of music is emotional Our goal is to make every single part memorable, we want to evoke reactions live and at home. It will have a ballad boulders, big fun stuff, the piano, choir, orchestra and all the visual things you expect but with a different, moodier vibe, lyrically, I've been inspired by everything from the way children are brought up nowadays, to schooling, economy, religion, war and the behavior of our government is all. plays into how kids are so emotionally detached from the real world now. "
