early stories avenged sevenfold

The band was formed in 1999 in Huntington Beach, California with original members M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, The Rev. and Matt Wendt. provide a reference band name comes from Cain and Abel story of the Bible, however, they are not a religious band. At its formation, each band member was wearing a pseudonym which is also the name of their calling while attending Upper Medium School. Before releasing 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 still was eighteen years old and still attending high school. This album was originally released by the company their first label, Good Life Records in 2001. After lead guitarist Synyster Gates joined the band, signed in late 1999 when he was 18 years old. The track "To End the Rapture" featuring re-recorded with full band members. The album was later re-released on Hopeless Records in 2002.

The band then began to receive recognition, they played with bands such as Mushroomhead and Shadows Fall and play in the Take Action Tour. After their fourth bassist, Johnny Christ joined permanently, they released the album Waking the Fallen on Hopeless Records in August 2003. Band received recognition by Billboard and The Boston Globe, and also played in the "Vans Warped Tour". In 2004, Avenged Sevenfold tour back in the "Vans Warped Tour" and record 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 leave Hopeless Records and signed a contract proposed by Warner Bros..

Genre music

Avenged Sevenfold material covering various genres and has evolved over the band's ten-year career. Initially, the debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet consisted almost entirely of metalcore, but there are some deviations to this genre, notably in "Streets" which adopts the style of punk and "Warmness on the Soul," which is a piano ballad-oriented. In Waking the Fallen, metalcore bands displayed in a contemporary style once again, but add more extensive clean vocals and musical elements are more mature and complex. In the band's DVD All Excess, producer Andrew Mudrock explain this transition: "When I met the band after Sounding the Seventh Trumpet has come out before they had recorded Waking the Fallen, M. Shadows said to me 'this tape scream. We want to make will be a half-half scream and sing. I do not want to scream anymore and the record after that will be singing all .. ""

In City of Evil, Avenged Sevenfold's third album, the band chose to leave the metalcore genre, developing a more hard rock style. Album Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled, once again, consisted of several deviations to the genre are less consistent and the style of playing hard rock songs and heavy metal, especially in the "Dear God", which adopts a country style and "A Little Piece of Heaven ", which circled the influence of Broadway show songs, especially the use of brass instruments and friction orchestra to take over part of the role of lead and rhythm guitar. Nightmare contains further irregularities, including a piano ballad called "Fiction" and returned briefly to their metalcore roots on "God Hates Us". The band has changed a lot since their first album, in which during that time they have been characterized as a heavy band with screaming and growling vocal style combined with clean vocals, chugging guitar riffs and the damage that one can expect from the genre of metalcor