Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (October 28th 2016) Album • Page 6

Yeah I’m happy with this. Not quite as good as city of evil, the stage, and waking the fallen (their top 3) but better than hail to the king and nightmare. right about even with self titled which is funny because several moments feel like that record to me

 

I feel the music would be a little more weirder if the rev was around still.

 

nightmare>city of evil>the stage>this one>waking>self-titled>sounding

 

picked up the Barnes and Noble (lol) variant of this

 

Saw a post on Reddit summarizing the vinyl variants for this: 16 total.

 

Yeah, they highlight 12 on their webstore but I know there was an exclusive cover for whatever their NFT fan club is called, but wasn't aware that there was 16 different variants total. There's a ton of art done for this album, so surprised there wasn't a few combinations of cover options exclusive to them and other retailers.

 

might actually pick up one of the vinyl variants on this

 

Yeah, this album is insane, but I love it. Made me want to revisit it, and I never thought I'd say that with an A7X record in recent times. Haven't really followed them since Nightmare

 

Is this band still obsessed with nfts

 

You should absolutely check out The Stage imo, just as wild

 

Yes lol

 

Listened to this just now, and while it definitely wasn't what I was expecting, it might be one of my favorite things they've done.

I can also see the marketing department at Warner having fits over this: "There's no singles! Where's the single?" I absolutely see why "Nobody" was chosen, as it's the most straightforward song-like cut on the album.

Everything else goes all over the fucking place in a really great way, but it's definitely something that sounds stronger as an album than as a collection of songs.

 

I don’t think Warner has been asking this band for singles since the HTTK

 

Well no, they put out The Stage on Capitol.

 

My first thoughts nearing the end is "The Rev would've loved the shit out of this". Assuming but I feel like he wanted to move the band towards weirder sounds and this is them finally delivering on that. The entire thing is wild! I do think it drags a little in the first half but it picks up in the second and the GOD trilogy + the title track are phenomenal.

 

https://www.loudersound.com/news/m-...enged-sevenfolds-wild-new-album-hed-be-stoked

M. Shadows has similar thoughts!

 

this is so good lol

 

they would've leaned a lot heavier into tim burton territory if the rev was still alive

 

Album is a great example of why judging based off a single or two is ill-advised.

 

Yes, that is correct but this is 2023 and singles and playlists are king. Full album play throughs are a thing of the past. Prog metal is a good exception though.

 

Yeah well, people are dumb.

 

I wouldn’t go that far. But the point still stands.

 

i appreciate them trying to keep the art of the album alive

 

Props

 

It’s a shame what happened to the art of the album, I don’t know, modern times in the music industry stink.