Top 10 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, as well as the last album (other than Diamonds), to feature The Rev on vocals. Although the instrumentation isn't difficult per se, the songwriting is as heartfelt and powerful as it has ever been for this band.

Their self-titled album 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 flawless album that proved to be 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 like Victim and Save Me are beautiful and intricate, only getting better as they progress.

Then there are the emotion-evoking Danger Line, So Far Away, and Fiction, as well as the middle ground - emotional yet remaining true to its metallic roots with strong choruses 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.

I think this one is by far the best and damn near perfect. It just has this flow of energy, from start to finish, with the most iconic drumming, arguably the best guitar work, and the strongest vocals out of them all.

Self-titled is great overall, and its highs are REALLY good. Although I admire the experimentation, it was bound to result in some questionable moments too.

I'm torn on Nightmare because I think that if it ended on "So Far Away," it would be the best. However, the second half of that album is really tiring.

Waking the Fallen is great at what it's trying to do, but I do prefer singing over screaming, so some scream-heavier tracks don't resonate with me as much, unless I'm in the mood for that.

Hail to the King sounds nice overall, but it lacks creativity, so I would rate it much lower than the four mentioned above.

I listened to The Stage twice, and both times it confused me a lot. Maybe I should give it another go and really try to understand it, as I saw some good moments. But for now, it ranks toward the bottom for me.

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet was just bad. Sorry, it's not even good for a screaming album. The only redeeming quality is "Warmness on the Soul," which is a nice little ballad.

I haven't yet listened to the entirety of their new album, so I don't know where I would place it.

I used to be really into A7X, then I kind of grew out of it and grew into better metal. No offense, for example, Opeth. I mean, go listen to Still Life, Ghost Reveries, or Blackwater Park right now.

But with the re-release of this album, I thought 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 in 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 similar. The guitars weren't overdone like in City of Evil, but the band still had their classic A7X sound.

1. Waking the Fallen
2. Avenged Sevenfold
3. Nightmare
4. City of Evil
5. Hail to the King
6. Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

The 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 Seventh 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.

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 and kick in the drums. The 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 is an absolute masterpiece and has great variety. It includes mostly hardcore songs, with ballads like Warmness of the Soul and Shattered by Broken Dreams, and also some punk elements 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 favorite A7X albums. Definitely give this album a listen.

Wow, I can't believe people are putting this album last. I'd say it's the second best. Honestly, they really disappointed with the self-titled album and haven't quite been the same since. Nightmare has some good stuff. Hail and The Stage are better than that self-titled album, but hardly close to Waking the Fallen.

1. Waking the Fallen
2. Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
3. City of Evil
4. Nightmare
5. The Stage
6. Hail to the King
7. Self-Titled