Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

\r\nIf I was asked to choose among my all time favorite bands for a compilation- cd, definitely I would include Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns ‘N’ Roses and Pantera. In a way, Avenged Sevenfold are a combination of this compilation.
\r\nSometimes, an experience or an event is enough to change one’s life. Either you fall and stay there, or you get back on your feet and move on. After Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, Avenged Sevenfold’s drummer, passing, they had to move on and so they did. Mike Portnoy was added in the line-up, having to finish what Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan had begun before he left.
\r\nThe influences from the previously mentioned bands, mostly from Metallica, are often very obvious during the songs. Both the riffs and the vocals, even though their structure is pretty complicated, refer to the music patters of these bands. Yet you can’t really say that they remind you this or that in particular.
\r\n“God Hates us”, “Victim”, “Tonight the World Dies”, “Save Me”…I think that if I go on, I will mention all of the songs of the album “Nightmare”. Leaving aside all this “label”, “music genre” thing, the bottom line is that Avenged Sevenfold play Metal, modern and loud. What makes their work even more appealing is the emotional part of the songs and the ballads/ ballad-like ones.
\r\nI don’t know if they are the hope for the future or anything like that, I don’t know what the future of Metal will be like anyway; what I do know, though, is that AS have to be more popular and that may be achieved by throwing all these damned “labels” away for good! (In the past I, too, had underestimate them)\r\n

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\r\nNicoleta Sarantou\r\n

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