Bradley pretending that he isn't a A7x nerd for the entirety of the stream was hilarious. "When was LIBAD released? It's not even a year, is it?" Like dude, we know that you know. Stop pretending.
Yeah and poo poo-ing only to rate everything super high. It’s all good. Avenged is amazing and that doesn’t say shit about you as a person lol. Guilty pleasure are allowed to be incredibly talented bands too ya kno
@@Bleepbloopblappp nah, just because of their image, shitty names and like uber masculine military bro stuff doesn't change the fact that every person in that band is insanely talented. They're a great band, and have produced some of the best metal albums of the 21st century in several different genres and styles. I wouldn't say we can class them as a guilty pleasure. They don't take their image and stuff seriously so neither should the fans.
Dude you for sure should start on the white self titled album. It's white with a black death bat on it. That would be the easiest album to digest in my opinion and it's my favorite personally the whole album is awesome not a single filler song 🤘🤘😊
Quick little update, The self titled is probably the best metal album i've heard only after rust in peace obviously. A little piece of heaven is such a genius song. Bumping this album 24/7.@@justinbowen1183
IMHO, "Nightmare" is their best work. So much variety, sick rifs, melodies, lyrics and solos. You have heavy Headbanging moshing songs, but you also have stuff to make a grown a man cry. And we can easily thank The Rev for this. Truly an work of art.
On trax, it was explianed by one of them (I can't rememebr which) that Zacky Vengeance got that name because he wanted to include the band's name in his own name in someway (like axl rose) and that was the best way he could think of. Also, Gates was going to be Gaytes until he saw it written down.
Also said the best revenge for all the people who crapped on him and made fun of him, so he said ima show Vengeance when im.. Omg he just said it as i was typing lmao. Anyways yeah, Its cool af esp the time period like myspace alot of ppl had fake names aliases.
Amazingly you ended up with a ranking that I feel like I can agree with. There's always a "noo noo noo you're missing the point" reaction to these, but for this one... nope, that's accurate. Great band.
Waking the Fallen has a special place in my heart and nostalgia. Of course the good old days of middle school and blah blah but the person who showed me A7X and took me to my first warped tour where we saw them was a dear and close friend who self checked out. Life is but a bean...i dont know what to say about that album but i fkng love it lol.
Hey Bradley! I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I actually wrote the Wikipedia page for Fiction. I think it’s pretty cool that something I made ended up in one of your videos.
The Afterlife solo is the thing that made me pick up a guitar. I was blown away that a human can do that. Hail to the King holds a special place in my heart, it released when I was in the hospital for 29 days, helped me get through it
Nightmare is my favorite album. All, if not all, of the songs are always there for me whenever I need them the most. Not to mention I love Portnoy's drum work in this album.
In 2001 I told myself that if A7X made five straight classic albums, I would get a deathbat tattoo. In 2006, I almost started early, but then 2007 happened...
We would have the same album tier, except I would put HTTK in the C tier and STST in high A tier, part of it because I'm a fan of hardcore style songs and never a fan of traditional heavy metal style of songs. So when they released HTTK, I'm quite disappointed with the style they're bringing to the album.
hey genuine question, on videos were you play guitar do you use an amp sim or do you mic up a real amp? this might be a stupid question i really cant tell/dont know anything about recording yet :P
Trumpet Hail to the King Self Titled Nightmare Waking the Fallen City (Strength into Betrayed into MIA is what puts it slightly above waking for me) The Stage LIBAD, very easily. there's more musical creativity in a random 30 sec clip of LIBAD than there is in the majority of their entire songs prior. The Stage and LIBAD are a major level up for them in every aspect, I never expected that level of songwriting from them, not to say they were bad before, LIBAD is on the level of Fear of a Blank Planet and The Mountain for me, if you don't know/like those, it's very understandable you're not liking the new A7x sound.
I like Bat Country and that's about it. I remember seeing them in Ozzfest with Disturbed and System of A Down. At first they weren't really liked by the Nu Metal crowd, but after they did a cover of "Respect" from Pantera they quickly swayed the crowd after that.
Here's my ranking 1. City of Evil 2. Nightmare 3. Self Titled 4. Waking The Fallen 5. LIBAD 6. The Stage 7. Hail To The King 8..Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
I slept on The Stage for years after it came out, then in the lead up to LibaD I re-listened to it over and over and I fell in love with it. I love everything they’ve done except St7T, but I’ve gotta say LibaD just fucking blows everything else out of the water for me, I played it back-to-front, multiple times a day for most of last year 😅
I recently did the samething after seeing a reel of the Nobody solo. As much shit as they get, they really are a solid band with a great catalog. My prior experience with them was wanting to hate them in high school for Bat County so i never really gave them a shot until now (i have heard the handfull of singles vaguely, and Syn's gypsy jazz clips)
They're one of those bands I've never cared for at all, but every now and then will give them a listen to see if my opinion changes. So far it never has.
My friend gave me a fucking cringe name in elementary school when we first started getting into and playing music. He was into Poison and Motley Crue and Hinder and all the other sleazy bands. He was my leader at the time, I didn't have my own identity yet, and he named me "Whisk Slashin'". Whisk, short for whiskey. Bruh. Who else has a cringe music alias from their youth? 😂
i'm a pretty old school A7X fan. waking the fallen defined high school for me. these rankings are spot on, even though personally i would rank 7th trumpet higher and hail to the king lower. other than that great job with the rest of it.
Conspiracy theory, and personal headcannon Nightmare: Damn, we got a lot to express but most of the album was already written Hail to The King: I got an idea, let's make a shit ton of money, and then... The Stage: We can do whatever the fuck we want with these feelings we've been repressing for almost a decade Life Is But A Dream...: I took a 7 year smoke break (i did acid)
City Of Evil into Self Titled was easily the best time to get into this band as a teenager! But how could you possibly skim over A Little Piece Of Heaven without even a mention of how batshit mental that track is!?
I really enjoyed city of evil at the time but man a7x is a band that could just never say no to overproduction. Does every vocal line need a weird call and response backing vocal and then vocal overdubs where lines are overlapping each other and theres like 10 guitar tracks at the same time? I always felt like they needed to strip down their sound or show some more restraint. Beast and the harlot was a very fun song though
I always found it hilarious that brooks WACKERMAN has the fakest sounding name but it’s his ACTUAL name and he comes from a really well known family of drummers
Only band member without a stage name and his dad was a drum teacher. Talk about keeping talent in the family along with his brother that played with a little known guy called Frank Zappa. 😂
@@cdfox85he came up with the name when he was 17 dude like common. I'm sure you did shit when you were a teenager you would cringe at I sure as hell did we all did.
B.H. Senior did that part that's why it's so crisp. Junior (Syn) wasn't that good with the theory and Flamenco until after WTF if I remember correctly.
Except for a crushing metalcore song. Nightmare has God Hates Us. It covers everything else which Avenged Sevenfold does, as well. Bluesy and country numbers? So Far Away, Danger Line, and Tonight the World Dies. A sprawling multimovement epic with quirky transitions? Save Me. A dark gothic piece with heavy emphasis of a keyboard instrument? Fiction. Brilliant singles? Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, and Buried Alive. The overproduced song which most people don't want to admit that they love? Natural Born Killer. It also has Victim. Nightmare's also a way more emotional album with more engaging artwork, a more interesting story than "They'd went into a studio and hadn't understood how to produce their own album.", and the Nightmare tour had been much better than the Avenged Sevenfold tour. Matt hadn't growled in 2007, only in 2008. His growls in 2010 and 2011 are Phil Anselmo-level. I understand popular sentiments, but Nightmare should really be THE icebreaking A7X album for people who are interested in A7X from hearing singles before, if someone isn't a City of Evil-type progressive metal-inclined person.
I feel like The Stage was really overlooked when it dropped. At the time the band seemed super old and washed out, but they pulled off such a banger at the age that most bands would be entirely out of ideas. Will always be one of my top metal albums I don't care fight me.
The Stage hadn't been overlooked. It'd been undermarketed, which is on A7X. Meanwhile, many fans who'd heard it had the newness bias of "OMG this album is their mature flawless masterpiece, their best album!", and it's really only a major creative needle-mover compared to Hail to the King, not to what they'd done before Hail to the King or since they'd released The Stage's cover songs. Life Is but a Dream... is what The Stage had been described as, yet, sadly, not a Grammy-nominated album with lofty praise which it deserves. Hail to the King and The Stage aren't aging well.
I think each album has their own vibe to them. Like, when you're in the mood for something you put that record on and there's something for everyone. It you're looking for an album with classic hard rock, thrash metal staples, you pick Hail to the King. If you're looking for a more atmospheric experience, you might want The Stage or Life is But a Dream. If you want a raw, unfiltered record with chunky riffs and palm muting, you pick Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. You want a classic Metalcore banger, you go with Waking the Fallen.
*is so good, and you should listen to it again, every now and then. If anyone ever tells you that you have to grow out of things to be mature, they very likely don't grow much.
@@MikeyJBlakeJR, the best A7X songs really are the deep cuts. Not everyone hears how much goes into the songs which couldn't be singles, but City of Evil in particular is nonstop creativity outside of formats.
M.I.A. is the one, three times. Not Ready to Die is up there, twice. Clairvoyant Disease, The Wicked End, Strength of the World, Buried Alive, Fermi Paradox, and Mattel are worth mentioning. We could draw straws of Syn's best solo, and many of them would be right.
You're probably the only Person who I saw mentioning *Roman Sky* That Solo is 1 of my Favorites of all freaking Time, it just has that much of Soul in it ❤
Brooks Wackerman is Chad Wackerman who used to play with Zappa's younger brother. His father Chuck and brother John are also drummers. Wackerman by name and wackerman by nature.
There's this actual theory in sociology, that name influences and reinforces behavior related to norms associated with the name. Something along the lines of "a Dan is more likely to behave like a Dan". And it's really interesting to see this in action, lol
Not the kind of Metal that I use to listen... but they have two interesting albums : 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare'... but I don't feel the same about the other ones...
If you ask many people, Guns N' Roses had topped Appetite for Destruction with both Use Your Illusion albums. Creatively, there are grounds of it. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare, and Life Is but a Dream... are top contenders.
@@hellboundTX333, yes, very close, very practically. There are more classic songs between Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II than on Appetite for Destruction, several of which are far more played. Most GN'R fans don't care about Anything Goes, the original version of You're Crazy, and Think About You. A quarter of Appetite is filler.
@@hankmoody3285, Geffen had released a single album version, nearly all the hits, and Coma, Double Talkin' Jive, Perfect Crime, Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine, Breakdown, and Locomotive are too unique and interesting of songs to be left out of it. In this case, more is more, even skipping a few, and most of the songs are still mostly exceptional songs, just in niche tastes.
Nightmare is honestly my favorite album just for songs like Fiction. However I feel like there was not enough attention given to Save Me or Natural Born Killers IMO
The Stage and LIBAD are S tier for me personally, I absolutely adore those albums. The Stage was probably my most played Avenged album to date. But I also love prog and weird shit, so that probably has something to do with it lol
The Stage really isn't that weird, listening to many arrangements of City of Evil. It's just dry and more progressive rock-oriented than progressive metal-oriented, Fermi Paradox's black metal instrumentation and ballad vocals, Sunny Disposition, and Brooks' drumming on a few other songs, aside. It sounds much less inspired than Life Is but a Dream... .
When you read the literature behind exist, it may be the greatest song ever created... It's meant to be a telling of the story of the universe from the big bang until the end of time... There's no lyrics for the first 8 or so minutes of the song because there are no people alive to speak... I remember reading about it before the album came out, hearing the song, and actually being able to see fiery meteors crashing into each other...their ability to conjure up chaotic and sinister imagery is unmatched.
@@m.taylor7025in my opinion, I don't think LIBAD is a good album, the stage tops LIBAD. Like Mattel because the solo is made out of synthesizer which isn't enjoyable ( for me )
@@OatmealRoblox I think it's pretty incredible that Brian plays so many instruments so fuckin well... it's definitely more diverse... I feel like they're evolving from metalcore into something entirely new. But all of the best musicians surpass genres.
S: Waking the Fallen, Nightmare A: Self Titled, City of Evil B: Life Is But A Dream, The Stage C: Hail to the King Dumpster tier: Sound of the Seventh Trumpet I would put the S/T at S but there is one song I skip every time I listen to it and it’s Unbound. The kid part ruins the song for me and it was not needed. Everything else about the song is good though. City of Evil is good but always felt it was overrated and too bloated for its own good. HTTK is just a boring album. That was just an easy cash grab album to me. If I had to recommend any album, and it would depend on the listener’s taste, it would be Waking the Fallen, Self Titled, or Nightmare.
CoE has aged like milk to be honest. The pots and pans drumtrack pisses me off, and Matt's vocals are cringey. Which is weird, because WTF has been timeless IMO. LIBAD, The Stage, self-titled, WTF are all goated S tier Nightmare is A CoE is B HTTK is C The rest are pretty Garbo so it doesn't matter where they go.
I never understood the hate. I'm not a massive fan of A7x anymore but anyone who likes 80s metal yet can't see the value in a7x in the mid to late 00s is not very self aware. I heard so many times growing up, elitists talking about how a7x is for "pussies" while devoting their fkin life to motley crue, kiss etc. Such a weird hill to die on. A7x are just good musicians. Not saying motley crue aren't. But they lack that bullshit drama and inner conflicts. They're just good dudes who do their shit well. Thats why they still pump out high quality albums ( not to my taste but I can't deny the musicianship)
I would ask are you ranking these albums on how well they aged? Or how they were considering their era? Because comparing STST to 2024 quality standards is kinda unfair. I am biased as fuck. Fully admitting to that. But I feel that STST was exactly what it needed to be for the time period. That’s where a lot of emphasis was back then.
@thepotatotaxi2430 maybe invalidates my opinion of them being trash (they are corny trash) but the d-riding that the military does on A7X can't be invalidated, it is fact.
Fantastic band, but their whole stage persona early on especially was pretty not good. When I first listened to them I thought "wow these guys actually sound really cool, why haven't I listened to them before?". Then I looked them up to see what they look like and watched some of their music videos, and "almost" checked out from them right then and there. Thankfully the actual music saves it.
Helloo, is there any way I can watch the blocked live of the ranking of guitar players? I was really enjoying that video and it was getting me to new styles and ways of playing the guitar, but I couldn't watch most of the live. Maybe I could get it via discord? I appreciate any help.
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Bradley pretending that he isn't a A7x nerd for the entirety of the stream was hilarious. "When was LIBAD released? It's not even a year, is it?" Like dude, we know that you know. Stop pretending.
Hahaha
I distinctly recall an entire video devoted to the album so I started to wonder if Bradley was part goldfish
hey man where can i find full stream where he reacted to a7x's whole discography?
Yeah and poo poo-ing only to rate everything super high. It’s all good. Avenged is amazing and that doesn’t say shit about you as a person lol. Guilty pleasure are allowed to be incredibly talented bands too ya kno
@@Bleepbloopblappp nah, just because of their image, shitty names and like uber masculine military bro stuff doesn't change the fact that every person in that band is insanely talented. They're a great band, and have produced some of the best metal albums of the 21st century in several different genres and styles. I wouldn't say we can class them as a guilty pleasure. They don't take their image and stuff seriously so neither should the fans.
the timing cannot be better, I started listening to the avenged sevenfold albums for the first time last night
Dude you for sure should start on the white self titled album. It's white with a black death bat on it. That would be the easiest album to digest in my opinion and it's my favorite personally the whole album is awesome not a single filler song 🤘🤘😊
Lol get some taste
They take many listens but once you get it. Changes your life.
@justinbowen1183 why start at an odd point in the discography and not just from the beginning
Quick little update, The self titled is probably the best metal album i've heard only after rust in peace obviously. A little piece of heaven is such a genius song. Bumping this album 24/7.@@justinbowen1183
IMHO, "Nightmare" is their best work. So much variety, sick rifs, melodies, lyrics and solos. You have heavy Headbanging moshing songs, but you also have stuff to make a grown a man cry. And we can easily thank The Rev for this.
Truly an work of art.
and songs like danger line are kind of a mix of both
@@T533-V2 Absolutly!
It's my stepping stone to A7X and my favourite album of all time
Buried Alive is maybe the best song to introduce someone to them it’s got a little bit of everything they do well in it.
@@brandonjackson5865 Exactly! My favorite aswell. I've seem it as A7X's "One"
Are YOU a fan of A7X? What's your favorite album of theirs??
Self Titled. Every song on that album is great.
City of evil or the stage, waking is also goated
hail to the king 🥹
...Life is but a dream 😐
City of Evil is my favorite album from any band
On trax, it was explianed by one of them (I can't rememebr which) that Zacky Vengeance got that name because he wanted to include the band's name in his own name in someway (like axl rose) and that was the best way he could think of. Also, Gates was going to be Gaytes until he saw it written down.
Also said the best revenge for all the people who crapped on him and made fun of him, so he said ima show Vengeance when im.. Omg he just said it as i was typing lmao. Anyways yeah, Its cool af esp the time period like myspace alot of ppl had fake names aliases.
Gates deciding not to go with "Gaytes" Is like if one of the peeps who decided to name their kid "rahleigh" Decided to just chilln go with 'Riley'
Amazingly you ended up with a ranking that I feel like I can agree with. There's always a "noo noo noo you're missing the point" reaction to these, but for this one... nope, that's accurate. Great band.
Waking the Fallen has a special place in my heart and nostalgia. Of course the good old days of middle school and blah blah but the person who showed me A7X and took me to my first warped tour where we saw them was a dear and close friend who self checked out. Life is but a bean...i dont know what to say about that album but i fkng love it lol.
Just don't forget them, or cry while they're away.
I don’t listen to them much anymore, but I can’t deny that they were a huge reason I started playing guitar.
based A7X 🤝🏻
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Hey Bradley! I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I actually wrote the Wikipedia page for Fiction. I think it’s pretty cool that something I made ended up in one of your videos.
The Afterlife solo is the thing that made me pick up a guitar. I was blown away that a human can do that. Hail to the King holds a special place in my heart, it released when I was in the hospital for 29 days, helped me get through it
Nightmare is my favorite album. All, if not all, of the songs are always there for me whenever I need them the most. Not to mention I love Portnoy's drum work in this album.
This was really entertaining to watch! Can you make a similar video for Trivium or Parkwaydrive? 😬😬
Trivium^!!!
parkway drive^!!!
In 2001 I told myself that if A7X made five straight classic albums, I would get a deathbat tattoo. In 2006, I almost started early, but then 2007 happened...
i’ve been waiting for this video for so long! Great choices
My favourite band! Their last 5-6 albums are one of the best, most interesting, fun metal albums ever imo..
The self-titled is probably my favourite but there's something about the most recent record that I really vibe with too.
I fucking love Sidewinder
We would have the same album tier, except I would put HTTK in the C tier and STST in high A tier, part of it because I'm a fan of hardcore style songs and never a fan of traditional heavy metal style of songs. So when they released HTTK, I'm quite disappointed with the style they're bringing to the album.
hey genuine question, on videos were you play guitar do you use an amp sim or do you mic up a real amp? this might be a stupid question i really cant tell/dont know anything about recording yet :P
Trumpet
Hail to the King
Self Titled
Nightmare
Waking the Fallen
City (Strength into Betrayed into MIA is what puts it slightly above waking for me)
The Stage
LIBAD, very easily.
there's more musical creativity in a random 30 sec clip of LIBAD than there is in the majority of their entire songs prior. The Stage and LIBAD are a major level up for them in every aspect, I never expected that level of songwriting from them, not to say they were bad before, LIBAD is on the level of Fear of a Blank Planet and The Mountain for me, if you don't know/like those, it's very understandable you're not liking the new A7x sound.
Cosmic will forever be my favorite metal song
I like Bat Country and that's about it. I remember seeing them in Ozzfest with Disturbed and System of A Down. At first they weren't really liked by the Nu Metal crowd, but after they did a cover of "Respect" from Pantera they quickly swayed the crowd after that.
Like to see you do album reviews of Killswitch, Trivium and Cradle of Filth
7/7 would Avenged Sevenfoldathon again
Here's my ranking
1. City of Evil
2. Nightmare
3. Self Titled
4. Waking The Fallen
5. LIBAD
6. The Stage
7. Hail To The King
8..Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
I've heard that with City of Evil, they wanted to be Children of Bodom with clean vocals. Explains the "a bit too much"-ness of it all.
No matter what your final decision on A7x is, they are definitively one of the most influential bands in the meta/rock genre in the last 20 years.
Brooks wackerman sounds like a stage name
'Warmness on the Soul' is GOOD!!!
I slept on The Stage for years after it came out, then in the lead up to LibaD I re-listened to it over and over and I fell in love with it. I love everything they’ve done except St7T, but I’ve gotta say LibaD just fucking blows everything else out of the water for me, I played it back-to-front, multiple times a day for most of last year 😅
I recently did the samething after seeing a reel of the Nobody solo. As much shit as they get, they really are a solid band with a great catalog. My prior experience with them was wanting to hate them in high school for Bat County so i never really gave them a shot until now (i have heard the handfull of singles vaguely, and Syn's gypsy jazz clips)
Brooks wackerman's brother Chad played in Frank Zappa's band in the late 70s and played on S tier albums IOU and Metal Fatigue by Allan Holdsworth
Weird. Within the last week I've been thinking how cool it would be if you made a video like this like... and here it is. 😮
They're one of those bands I've never cared for at all, but every now and then will give them a listen to see if my opinion changes. So far it never has.
For years, i had this feeling that i have seen you before... now i know where, you are the human version of Ripper Roo from Crash Bandicoot hehe
My friend gave me a fucking cringe name in elementary school when we first started getting into and playing music. He was into Poison and Motley Crue and Hinder and all the other sleazy bands. He was my leader at the time, I didn't have my own identity yet, and he named me "Whisk Slashin'". Whisk, short for whiskey. Bruh.
Who else has a cringe music alias from their youth? 😂
A7X is basically a metal Bad Religion. I love em tho. Blinded in Chains at the start of a race in NFSMW just gets you going right away.
i'm a pretty old school A7X fan. waking the fallen defined high school for me. these rankings are spot on, even though personally i would rank 7th trumpet higher and hail to the king lower. other than that great job with the rest of it.
You didn't have to do that for me I wasn't even going to do it for myself.
Certainly glad I don't have to
But what if I told you I want to
Jokes on you, I already did even though I didn't have to
CHEKMAYT
AX7 is definitely not my cup of ☕.
But I think they did great to remain relevant for the past 2 decades.
i love diamond in the rough just for the 2008 songs
ready for some good old me-ol
I was a closet Avenged Sevenfold fan in my early years. I’ve exposed my fandom for them now, and I wish I did sooner
Conspiracy theory, and personal headcannon
Nightmare: Damn, we got a lot to express but most of the album was already written
Hail to The King: I got an idea, let's make a shit ton of money, and then...
The Stage: We can do whatever the fuck we want with these feelings we've been repressing for almost a decade
Life Is But A Dream...: I took a 7 year smoke break (i did acid)
Brad is a chad for doing this. Self titled and City of Evil are masterpieces.
he litteraly made my top of albums, but I put nightmare as top 1, the rest is just perfect
I actually kind of agree with the list. However, Hail to the King still is a banger. Every song is "unskipable"
For me City of Evil is their best record and Save Me it's their peak.
Thanks for doing that for me, you didn’t need to.
City Of Evil into Self Titled was easily the best time to get into this band as a teenager! But how could you possibly skim over A Little Piece Of Heaven without even a mention of how batshit mental that track is!?
White album is perfection imo, every song is single material
I have to add that the names were jokes making fun of other bands, and that M Shadows stopped screaming because he had to have throat surgery. 😁
Lmao, warmness on the soul was the song i danced with my wife to at my wedding lmao
You are brave my friend 😅
I really enjoyed city of evil at the time but man a7x is a band that could just never say no to overproduction. Does every vocal line need a weird call and response backing vocal and then vocal overdubs where lines are overlapping each other and theres like 10 guitar tracks at the same time? I always felt like they needed to strip down their sound or show some more restraint. Beast and the harlot was a very fun song though
Nobody:
Copyright: 💀💀💀
Bradley you should do Death Albums next
I always found it hilarious that brooks WACKERMAN has the fakest sounding name but it’s his ACTUAL name and he comes from a really well known family of drummers
Chad Wackerman's brother, amazing Zappa's drummer.
Only band member without a stage name and his dad was a drum teacher. Talk about keeping talent in the family along with his brother that played with a little known guy called Frank Zappa. 😂
killer drummers...their surname has to do something with it
Sinister Gates is a pretty cool name. Sounds like he writes spooky books.
It's even worse than that because he spells it "synyster" 🤮 so fucking cringe
@@cdfox85that's the worst part 😂
@@cdfox85he came up with the name when he was 17 dude like common. I'm sure you did shit when you were a teenager you would cringe at I sure as hell did we all did.
@@cdfox85no its not the least bit cringe at all it’s cool, you need to lighten up
@@Marta1Buck*best part
Love the Flamenco part at the end of Sidewinder.
B.H. Senior did that part that's why it's so crisp. Junior (Syn) wasn't that good with the theory and Flamenco until after WTF if I remember correctly.
I meant self titled not Waking the Fallen. WTF was there second album.
@@IamTheMerktheDon yeah his dad recorded the flamenco part I believe and it’s really cool
The self titled album(2007) is literally the best introduction to this band, it has everything TBH
Except for a crushing metalcore song. Nightmare has God Hates Us. It covers everything else which Avenged Sevenfold does, as well. Bluesy and country numbers? So Far Away, Danger Line, and Tonight the World Dies. A sprawling multimovement epic with quirky transitions? Save Me. A dark gothic piece with heavy emphasis of a keyboard instrument? Fiction. Brilliant singles? Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, and Buried Alive. The overproduced song which most people don't want to admit that they love? Natural Born Killer. It also has Victim. Nightmare's also a way more emotional album with more engaging artwork, a more interesting story than "They'd went into a studio and hadn't understood how to produce their own album.", and the Nightmare tour had been much better than the Avenged Sevenfold tour. Matt hadn't growled in 2007, only in 2008. His growls in 2010 and 2011 are Phil Anselmo-level.
I understand popular sentiments, but Nightmare should really be THE icebreaking A7X album for people who are interested in A7X from hearing singles before, if someone isn't a City of Evil-type progressive metal-inclined person.
@@chrismeadows4216 A little piece of heaven nuff sayd
Really no wrong answers here lol
@@tegyrbrayton5094, also Lost and Critical Acclaim, Crossroads cut.
@@chrismeadows4216I like the nightmare album. It has a lot of cool songs and the guitars make funny noises.
I feel like The Stage was really overlooked when it dropped. At the time the band seemed super old and washed out, but they pulled off such a banger at the age that most bands would be entirely out of ideas. Will always be one of my top metal albums I don't care fight me.
I don't get why people complain about the stage so much, the songwriting is great and they use a bunch of different styles
The Fermi paradox solo is all time
The Stage hadn't been overlooked. It'd been undermarketed, which is on A7X. Meanwhile, many fans who'd heard it had the newness bias of "OMG this album is their mature flawless masterpiece, their best album!", and it's really only a major creative needle-mover compared to Hail to the King, not to what they'd done before Hail to the King or since they'd released The Stage's cover songs. Life Is but a Dream... is what The Stage had been described as, yet, sadly, not a Grammy-nominated album with lofty praise which it deserves. Hail to the King and The Stage aren't aging well.
@@Goose21, Fermi Paradox is all-time. I love it, Angels, and Sunny Disposition.
The only good track on The Stage was the title song.
I think each album has their own vibe to them. Like, when you're in the mood for something you put that record on and there's something for everyone. It you're looking for an album with classic hard rock, thrash metal staples, you pick Hail to the King. If you're looking for a more atmospheric experience, you might want The Stage or Life is But a Dream. If you want a raw, unfiltered record with chunky riffs and palm muting, you pick Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet. You want a classic Metalcore banger, you go with Waking the Fallen.
Good take, friend. Hard agree. St7T is a great look through the window of the past of where metal was back then
i didn't hear any traces of thrash in httk, meanwhile nightmare has natural born killer and god hates us
well said, their discography is so good
Didn't include City of Evil, Nightmare, or the white album?
@@mrbobjrsrv I didn't want to be more long-winded than I already was.
_City of Evil_ was so good. I had that album on repeat during my high school years. Great vid, btw!
Ya me to. It still holds up pretty well. I never much liked anything else by them though.
*is so good, and you should listen to it again, every now and then. If anyone ever tells you that you have to grow out of things to be mature, they very likely don't grow much.
@@chrismeadows4216 haha yes, is* so good. I haven't listened to them in a while, but sometimes I'll get the itch that only _City of Evil_ can scratch.
@@thedude8526 They have some other good picks, but sometimes it takes a little in-between chaff to get to the real goods of the album.
@@MikeyJBlakeJR, the best A7X songs really are the deep cuts. Not everyone hears how much goes into the songs which couldn't be singles, but City of Evil in particular is nonstop creativity outside of formats.
“This is probably his best solo!”
Cosmic and Roman Sky: “Am I a joke to you?”.
M.I.A. is the one, three times. Not Ready to Die is up there, twice. Clairvoyant Disease, The Wicked End, Strength of the World, Buried Alive, Fermi Paradox, and Mattel are worth mentioning. We could draw straws of Syn's best solo, and many of them would be right.
@@chrismeadows4216 those are good as well.
@@chrismeadows4216 everyone knows unholy confessions had the best solo. Lol
You're probably the only Person who I saw mentioning *Roman Sky*
That Solo is 1 of my Favorites of all freaking Time, it just has that much of Soul in it ❤
@@chrismeadows4216my personal favorite is the Coming Home solo
I don't think there's any other metal band with such a diverse discography like A7x.
These guys are simply built different 🦇💀🦇
Well said squire
Opeth.
I don't know what genre to even label these guys because every album is different
does linkin park count as metal still
Mr Bungle, Dir En Grey, Opeth
come on man, Warmness on The Soul is a fucking beautiful song
Yes it is
It’s a mid ballad compared to their others. It’s still aight tho
Was the song my wife and I picked for our first dance
And then Shadows starts singing
@@shiznitts true man, It has a good solo, actually song starts after Matt stops singing lol
I guarantee you no one in that band regrets the stage names... they're fucking great & add to the charm and depth of the band's story/world-building
Brooks Wackerman is Chad Wackerman who used to play with Zappa's younger brother. His father Chuck and brother John are also drummers. Wackerman by name and wackerman by nature.
I never get tired of the Kids React to Avenged Sevenfold video which a little girl laughs at Brooks' name before she knows that it's real in.
Truly good wacker men
There's this actual theory in sociology, that name influences and reinforces behavior related to norms associated with the name. Something along the lines of "a Dan is more likely to behave like a Dan". And it's really interesting to see this in action, lol
Do a Trivium ranking video. They are one of the few bands where each of their albums are so distinct in their style and production.
Yes my favorite metal band by far!
Trivium are emo garbage
Vengeance Falls is the best Trivium album, there I said it...
Yeah definitely! The crusade would be near the bottom with ascendancy at the top. Everything A & B
Ascendency number 1, and shogan coming second I think
thats a pretty good ranking, only thing i would change is probably libad at s tier
Nightmare, LIbaD... , City of Evil, and Waking the Fallen are certified S+ brilliance!!! 🙌🏼💀🦇💙
avenged sevenfold was my childhood haha
the rev is still a hero of mine, rest in peace
Sounding the seventh trumpet is a great album
It's fine I guess but it's so awful compared to every other album lol
@BradleyHallGuitar Yeah I get that, I quite enjoy the rawness of it. It's like Avenged Sevenfolds St. Anger if St. Anger was good
Not the kind of Metal that I use to listen... but they have two interesting albums : 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare'... but I don't feel the same about the other ones...
Highlight of the album is art of subconscious illusion imo
yea prob my second or third favorite
Save Me is one of my favorite songs of all time !
A Little Piece Of Heave is outstanding too
They played save me live in Lincoln last weekend. It was awesome!
@@dnmoscato92 yeah bro I wish I was there... Lucky you ! I hope one day I could see it live, but they don't do that much Europe tours and I'm broke :(
City of Evil was their "Appetite for destruction". Never gonna top it, ever..
If you ask many people, Guns N' Roses had topped Appetite for Destruction with both Use Your Illusion albums. Creatively, there are grounds of it. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare, and Life Is but a Dream... are top contenders.
@@chrismeadows4216 Nope, not even close.
@@hellboundTX333, yes, very close, very practically. There are more classic songs between Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II than on Appetite for Destruction, several of which are far more played. Most GN'R fans don't care about Anything Goes, the original version of You're Crazy, and Think About You. A quarter of Appetite is filler.
@@chrismeadows4216If UYI was a single album it could've top Appetite but i dont think it does as it is
@@hankmoody3285, Geffen had released a single album version, nearly all the hits, and Coma, Double Talkin' Jive, Perfect Crime, Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine, Breakdown, and Locomotive are too unique and interesting of songs to be left out of it. In this case, more is more, even skipping a few, and most of the songs are still mostly exceptional songs, just in niche tastes.
Nightmare is honestly my favorite album just for songs like Fiction. However I feel like there was not enough attention given to Save Me or Natural Born Killers IMO
Blegh, Fiction is like the only song I can't listen to on that album. Skip.
@@rpmartin8650 I can understand why you wouldn't want to listen to it every time you put on the album. Not everyone wants to go from sad to sadder lol
they are a legendary metal band whether people want to admit it or not
Soon, most will. It's only a matter of time.
the stage (the album) is highly underrated. it has some of syn's best guitar work
Also some of Shadows’ best vocal work
That is my favourite album no joke
This is the only album that didn't have a guitar riff that I wanted to learn 😒
I laughed at 0:04
The Stage and LIBAD are S tier for me personally, I absolutely adore those albums. The Stage was probably my most played Avenged album to date. But I also love prog and weird shit, so that probably has something to do with it lol
The Stage really isn't that weird, listening to many arrangements of City of Evil. It's just dry and more progressive rock-oriented than progressive metal-oriented, Fermi Paradox's black metal instrumentation and ballad vocals, Sunny Disposition, and Brooks' drumming on a few other songs, aside. It sounds much less inspired than Life Is but a Dream... .
When you read the literature behind exist, it may be the greatest song ever created... It's meant to be a telling of the story of the universe from the big bang until the end of time... There's no lyrics for the first 8 or so minutes of the song because there are no people alive to speak...
I remember reading about it before the album came out, hearing the song, and actually being able to see fiery meteors crashing into each other...their ability to conjure up chaotic and sinister imagery is unmatched.
@@m.taylor7025 Look up Gorgio Bruno and then listen to Roman sky. I think you'll enjoy it. :)
@@m.taylor7025in my opinion, I don't think LIBAD is a good album, the stage tops LIBAD. Like Mattel because the solo is made out of synthesizer which isn't enjoyable ( for me )
@@OatmealRoblox I think it's pretty incredible that Brian plays so many instruments so fuckin well... it's definitely more diverse... I feel like they're evolving from metalcore into something entirely new. But all of the best musicians surpass genres.
I would want to see Bradley in a7x clothing, would make my day.
Sounds cursed as fuck
Nightmare is really fun. Fuckin Save Me is such a great closer
Am I the only one that thinks their best album is City of Evil?
S: Waking the Fallen, Nightmare
A: Self Titled, City of Evil
B: Life Is But A Dream, The Stage
C: Hail to the King
Dumpster tier: Sound of the Seventh Trumpet
I would put the S/T at S but there is one song I skip every time I listen to it and it’s Unbound. The kid part ruins the song for me and it was not needed. Everything else about the song is good though.
City of Evil is good but always felt it was overrated and too bloated for its own good.
HTTK is just a boring album. That was just an easy cash grab album to me.
If I had to recommend any album, and it would depend on the listener’s taste, it would be Waking the Fallen, Self Titled, or Nightmare.
Critical Acclaim is my favorite.
City of Evil is everything I like about music. I didn't get how everyone found the last two albums genious. I found them weird and disapointing...
CoE has aged like milk to be honest. The pots and pans drumtrack pisses me off, and Matt's vocals are cringey.
Which is weird, because WTF has been timeless IMO.
LIBAD, The Stage, self-titled, WTF are all goated S tier
Nightmare is A
CoE is B
HTTK is C
The rest are pretty Garbo so it doesn't matter where they go.
I never understood the hate.
I'm not a massive fan of A7x anymore but anyone who likes 80s metal yet can't see the value in a7x in the mid to late 00s is not very self aware.
I heard so many times growing up, elitists talking about how a7x is for "pussies" while devoting their fkin life to motley crue, kiss etc.
Such a weird hill to die on. A7x are just good musicians. Not saying motley crue aren't. But they lack that bullshit drama and inner conflicts. They're just good dudes who do their shit well. Thats why they still pump out high quality albums ( not to my taste but I can't deny the musicianship)
I would ask are you ranking these albums on how well they aged? Or how they were considering their era? Because comparing STST to 2024 quality standards is kinda unfair. I am biased as fuck. Fully admitting to that. But I feel that STST was exactly what it needed to be for the time period. That’s where a lot of emphasis was back then.
Always considered a7x, disturbed, and ffdp to be the triad of trash bands that every dude in the military listens to when they say they like metal
Nah it was more like 3 doors down, Shinedown, and Ffdp
Disturbed is actual garbage trash, but I like them. FFDP is ass. A7X is fucking amazing and invalidates everything you just said.
@thepotatotaxi2430 maybe invalidates my opinion of them being trash (they are corny trash) but the d-riding that the military does on A7X can't be invalidated, it is fact.
@@jacobtittle9658 A7X and the military and monster energy are in a 3 way at all times. Still love a7x but the other two are ok to iffy
Fantastic band, but their whole stage persona early on especially was pretty not good. When I first listened to them I thought "wow these guys actually sound really cool, why haven't I listened to them before?". Then I looked them up to see what they look like and watched some of their music videos, and "almost" checked out from them right then and there. Thankfully the actual music saves it.
Helloo, is there any way I can watch the blocked live of the ranking of guitar players? I was really enjoying that video and it was getting me to new styles and ways of playing the guitar, but I couldn't watch most of the live. Maybe I could get it via discord? I appreciate any help.
SOUNDING THE SEVENTH TRUMPET WAS NOT A PIECE OF SHIET
Seventh Trumpet and Waking The Fallen are the only worthwhile albums. Everything else is cringey jock rock disaster barf.
a band I tried to like, but never made it even through a single song. DAT TERRIBLE VOICE. Plus so much cringe