Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage (October 28th 2016) Album • Page 8

I think this is where I am too. Glad they really went for it and it's different sounding, but I can't imagine coming back to it.

 

No he’s clearly the GOAT

just not a dream theater fan and think brooks and rev are better

 

Ok, you were making me nervous! I am pretty much indifferent on Portnoy.

 

I like Liquid Tension Experiment better than DT for hearing the prog wankery without the vocals.

 

So... these guys were one of my absolute favorite bands from the ages of 12-15, to the point where I was obsessed and listened to them constantly. However, uncharacteristically of myself, I COMPLETELY fell off of listening to them after Nightmare (which I loved) and I still have no idea why. I think I listened to Hail to the King once and it really wasn't what I was into anymore at the time so I just totally checked out

The buzz this album was getting made me go back and listen to their discography again and while some of it has aged pretty cheesily like I expected, I have no idea why I completely dropped them, when these guys are at their best there is nobody who does this sound better than them. City of Evil is 10/10 and the highs of Nightmare and s/t are still incredible.

Once I started moving into the stuff I had never heard before I was blown away. The Stage, which I just listened to for the first time yesterday, is incredible, very possibly their best work, and it's not easy for quality to outshine nostalgia for me but that album impressed me so much that I was literally mad that I had never bothered to listen to it. Now I've also listened to this new one (why does it not have its own thread) and I also love it, I respect so much that they never play it safe and always change it up every album. I actually think I fell off of them because HTTK was so derivative (a thought I still had on my revisit the other day) but these last two made me so happy, I think I'm fully back on the A7X train for now

COE>Stage>LIBAD>Nightmare>S/T>WTF>HTTK>STST (I never connected with WTF like most people did, wasn't a fan of music with mostly screaming vocals when I was a teen)

 

I don't like this trend. I get that it might make sense from a financial perspective, but I love getting a collection of songs to chew on.

Single songs don't feel the same, they wear out faster, and every time an artist has claimed it would mean faster turnaround, it never happens.

 

After a few spins on the latest

City of Evil
Waking The Fallen
The Stage
Self-Titled
Life Is but a Dream...
Nightmare
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Hail to the King

I could see Life overtaking S/T but I have a lot of nostalgia for that record.

 

waking the fallen
city of evil
self titled
the stage
life is but a dream
diamonds in the rough
sounding the seventh trumpet
nightmare
hail to the king

 

The Stage
City Of Evil
Life Is But A Dream...
Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold
Hail To The King

I haven't listened to DIamonds In The Rough all the way through, I don't remember anything about Waking The Fallen, and I've never listened to Sounding The Seventh Trumpet at all.

 

diamonds in the rough has some absolute bangers even if the band doesnt think so lol

 

I Won't See You Tonight Parts 1 and 2 might be the best Avenged Sevenfold songs for my money.