Best Avenged Sevenfold Albums

It's weird but I think this is A7X's best album. It's the most eclectic in style and is the first album and the last album (other than Diamonds) to feature The Rev on vocals. Although the instrumentation isn't difficult per say, the song writing is as heartfelt and powerful as is has ever been for this band. Their Self-Titled stands as a time capsule of an album, one that brings me the listener very clearly back to my Sophomore year of High School. And although this is an album that doesn't go into rotation as often for me, when I put it on, I am almost always in love with it. Oddly enough, it's Almost Easy to say that despite the fact that my favorite A7X albums are The Stage, City of Evil, and Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, this one kind of stands on its own as the secret best one of the bunch. And the funniest thing is that it's songs like Gunslinger and Dear God that shine through this album with the best character. Who would have thought that a country song would capture A7X so deeply to their core.

As terrible as the Rev's death was, it inspired a flawlesss album that proved a musical masterpiece from start to finish. The brutal and head banging songs such as Nightmare, Natural-Born Killer and God Hates Us have kick ass riffs while the longer songs such as Victim and Save Me are beautiful and intricate only getting better as they progress. There are then the emotion evoking Danger Line, So Far Away and Fiction as well as the middle ground -emotional remaining true to its metallic roots with strong chorus and solid riffs and structures- such as Welcome To The Family, Tonight The World Dies, and Buried Alive. It will always be a Top 3 for A7X.

Greatest album ever, period.
I can't see a7x ever topping this, the death of the REv drove them to make some of the most unforgettable masterpieces.
Musicianship is amazing, lyrics incredible and overall songwriting is perfect.

Save Me IS there best song after MIA maybe, God HAtes Us is heavy and epic, Buried alive is a flawless track, and fiction and victim are just beautiful.
Those are my favorites but honestly, all the songs kick so much ass.
Also the bonus track "lost it all" is awesome.

I have no idea why the self titled is number 1

In my humble opinion:
1) City of Evil
2) Nightmare
3) Avenged Sevenfold
4) Waking the Fallen
5) Hail to the King
6) Diamonds in the Rough
7) Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

I really do enjoy all of their albums, and the margin of difference in the top 5 is razor thin. However, City does not have a single weak song, while every other one does. One Waking, Won't See You Tonight Part 2 drags down the album. Dear God hurts A7X's chances for the top bid, and on Nightmare there are simply too many slow songs in the second half. Had they substituted 4 AM or Lost It All for Tonight the World Dies, then that album may be number one for me. For Hail to the King, This Means War is the weak spot. On City of Evil, their weakest track (my opinion) is Trashed and Scattered; if that's your weakest track, then you have created an absolutely classic album. My top 3 tracks on City are Beast and the Harlot, The Wicked End, and MIA.

City of Evil.. Wow, honestly words cannot describe how purely great EVERY single song is on this amazing record released in 2005 that set the core standpoint for Avenged Sevenfold's future. Yes, they have evolved since then with a different, darker more personal type sound but this album alone will always remain the one that clearly has the most rocking straight forward hand banging hard rock sound that you could put on replay for hours. So addictive, City of Evil 100% deserves to be listed first. Its long, it keeps pace, its heavy.. It's true modern hard rock at it's best with the creativity all the five members put into the release. 5/5 stand down.

I used to be really into A7X, then I kind of grew out of it and grew into better metal; (no offense) example: Opeth. I mean, go listen to Still Life, Ghost Reveries, or Blackwater Park like right now. But with the re-release of this album, I though I might go for a quick listen. Now, I appreciate this album the most, because of songs like: I Won't See You Tonight, Chapter Four, Unholy Confessions, etc. The half-screaming, half-singing gives A7X more variety to their music and balances out the heavy to soft much better than just clean vocals or just screaming / growling. Nearly all new metal sounds too close to the same. The guitars weren't overdone like in City of Evil, but the band still had their classic A7X album.

1) Waking The Fallen
2) Avenged Sevenfold
3) Nightmare
4) City Of Evil
5) Hail To The King
6) Sounding The 7th Trumpet

Self-titled album was an experiment that definitely worked. Nightmare had a good variety of soft to heavy songs. City Of Evil was too high note and guitar heavy for me, though it was good. Hail To The King didn't have enough variety, and Sounding The 7th Trumpet was disgusting. But they had to start somewhere. And their next release (this) was better sevenfold.

Hail to the King is a masterpiece. It is incredibly underrated. Once Shepherd of Fire kicks in, you know that the album is going to be amazing. Hail to the King is my favorite song of all time. Gates has always been great at guitar solos, and this album features a lot of their best solos. Arin Illejay's drumming is spot on. M. Shadows's vocals are flawless. I love that Avenged Sevenfold took inspiration from other bands when making this album. This Means War is a very good tribute to Sad But True. Crimson Day reminds me of Enter Sandman. The solo in Coming Home is incredible.

The first 5 songs are just straight ass kicking head banging songs, the rev would be proud. The next 5 are still bad ass songs, crimson day reminds me of a better seize the day, heretic is an amazing song, coming home is their top 5 songs ever made and planets is just a masterpiece... May not have songs you fall in love with. But this album is their best quality of work throughout an album that they have ever made. Even st james is a 9/10

Great Album! Amazing Pantera and Iron Maiden Covers with Walk and Flash of the Blade. If you have not listened to this whole album in its entirety, I highly suggest you do! Possibly the best songs on this album are Demons and Crossroads. Very good rhythm kick as drums. Best solo on this album is most likely on the last track, Dancing Dead. A7X for Life!

Demons, Girl I Know, Crossroads, Flash of the Blade, Until the End, Tension, Walk, Dancing Dead, Afterlife (Alternative Version)? All very very good songs that got cut from their debut album. If anything the album should've been a double disc because most of these songs are better than the ones from the actual album!

This album easily beats STST and HTTK. Maybe because this is a lesser known "b-sides" album, and counter part to a dvd that makes it less voted. However, there is nothing "B-sided" about Dancing Dead, Demons, Tension, Until the End, and The Fight. They are great songs that haven't been discovered by enough people to warrant them playing live.

This album is an absolute masterpiece and has great variety. It includes mostly hardcore songs, with ballads (Warmness of the Soul and Shattered by Broken Dreams) and also some punk (in Streets and Thick and Thin) My favorite tracks are Forgotten Faces, Shattered by Broken Dreams, Thick and Thin, and Warmness of the Soul. This, The Stage and Waking the Fallen are my favourite A7X albums. Definitely give this album a listen.

Woah can't believe people are putting this album last...I'd say it's 2nd best, honestly they really disappointed with self titled and haven't quite been the same since. Nightmare has some good stuff, hail and the stage are better than that self titled crap but hardly close to waking the fallen.

1. Waking the fallen
2. Sounding the 7th Trumpet
3. City of Evil
4. Nightmare
5. The stage
6. Hail to the king
7. Self titled

This was the first A7X album I've ever owned. After hearing An Epic of Time Wasted and Darkness Surrounding, I was sold and bought the album. It is heavy and raw, and the drumming is just out of this world. It is worth your time and money. SO BUY IT!

Wow it's hard to believe that they had unholy confessions live on this album. And that's not a good thing at all, I love the studio version of unholy confessions but the live version is really really bad and the same goes for most the live songs on this album.

It was as great as Waking the Fallen. It also included demos, live footage, alternate versions, two music videos, and a 30 minute documentary.

What is by far their best album. I love the screaming vocals. Eternal Rest live was also a great bonus track.