Biography
Comprising vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ and drummer Jimmy 'The Reverend' Sullivan best known as 'The Rev', Avenged Sevenfold formed in the summer of 1999 in Huntington Beach, California USA, while all members were still in high school. The quintet took the band's name from the Biblical story of Cain and Abel and created their unique sound, blending Metal, Emo and Punk-Rock.
They recorded their debut album, 2001's "Sounding The Seventh Trumpet", when they were 18 years old. Since then, they've made the road their home, hooking up with heavy-Rock acts such as Shadows Fall and Mushroomhead.
August 2003 saw the release of the band's sophomore effort, "Waking The Fallen", which cracked the American Top Independent Albums chart, peaking at #12.
Avenged Sevenfold unleashed its third full-length CD and Warner Bros. Records debut, "City Of Evil", in June 2005; it reached the #30 position on The Billboard 200 Albums chart spawning the smash hit "Bat Country", which peaked at #2 on the Active Rock chart and at #6 on The Modern Rock Tracks. The album eventually managed to attain platinum certification and yielded two more Hot Mainstream Rock top 20 hits: "Beast And The Harlot" and "Seize The Day".
For the selft-titled follow-up, the band gets even harder and heavier; "Avenged Sevenfold", the group's first album to be self-produced, was released in October 2007 and quickly catapulted into the top 5 of The Billboard 200; it generated three Rock radio top 20 smashes, chief among them "Almost Easy" which rocketed to #3 on The Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and also hit #6 on The Hot Modern Rock chart, "Afterlife" faltered just outside the top 10 of the Active Rock list while "Scream" inched its way to #9 on the same chart. Another single, "Dear God", offered some variation from their alt-Metal intensity sound.
On December 28, 2009, James Sullivan was found dead in his Huntington Beach home; according to a police official he died of “natural causes”. 'The Rev' was only 28.
The four remaining members enlisted the help of Sullivan's drumming hero, Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy and resurfaced in July 2010 with the band's fifth album, "Nightmare". The disc shot to #1 in the States, hit #2 in Canada and ascended into the top 10 on both U.K. and Australian sales charts. The title-track was quickly picked up by Rock radio stations across the U.S. peaking at #3 on Billboard's Rock Songs and #12 on The Alternative Songs charts; similar chart success was achieved with the second single, "Welcome To The Family", #8 on The Rock Songs chart and #15 at Alternative stations.
Discrograph
Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
(2001)
1. To End The Rapture
2. Turn The Other Way
3. Darkness Surrounding
4. The Art Of Subconscious Illusion
5. We Come Out At Night
6. Lips Of Deceit
7. Warmness On The Soul
8. An Epic Of Time Wasted
9. Breaking Their Hold
10. Forgotten Faces
11. Thick And Thin
12. Streets
13. Shattered By Broken Dreams
Waking The Fallen
(2003)
1. Waking The Fallen
2. Unholy Confessions
3. Chapter Four
4. Remenissions
5. Desecrate Through Reverance
6. Eternal Rest
7. Second Heartbeat
8. Radiant Eclipse
9. I Won't See You Tonight, Part 1
10. I Won't See You Tonight, Part 2
11. Clairvoyant Disease
12. And All Things Will End
City Of Evil
(2005)
1. Beast And The Harlot
2. Burn It Down
3. Blinded In Chains
4. Bat Country
5. Trashed And Scattered
6. Seize The Day
7. Sidewinder
8. The Wicked End
9. Strength Of The World
10. Betrayed
11. M.I.A.
Avenged Sevenfold
(2007)
1. Critical Acclaim
2. Almost Easy
3. Scream
4. Afterlife
5. Gunslinger
6. Unbound (The Wild Ride)
7. Brompton Cocktail
8. Lost
9. A Little Piece Of Heaven
10. Dear God
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