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: The album uses auto-tune on the track "Lost" and "hip-hop-ish" beats on "Brompton Cocktail". Track Listing

To understand the weight of the Avenged Sevenfold album, one must understand the climate in which it was written. The band had broken into the mainstream with 2005’s City of Evil , a record that traded screamed vocals for gritty, melodic singing and introduced a more hard rock sensibility. But the period following City of Evil was marred by darkness. avenged sevenfold avenged sevenfold album

The shadow of looms large over this album. While he was always the band’s primary songwriter, the Avenged Sevenfold album showcases his encyclopedic knowledge of everything from Frank Sinatra to Slayer. His drumming on tracks like Brompton Cocktail is labyrinthine, while his vocal contributions on Critical Acclaim and A Little Piece of Heaven revealed a sinister, theatrical side the world would never get to see fully developed. When The Rev passed away in 2009, this album became a sacred text—a snapshot of a virtuoso operating at the peak of his powers. : The album uses auto-tune on the track

The Avenged Sevenfold album is deliberately schizophrenic. It refuses to sit still. This is not a record about refining a sound; it is a record about destroying boundaries. From the opening salvo of Critical Acclaim , where M. Shadows trades his signature rasp for a sneering punk-rock bark and The Rev delivers haunting piano-backed vocals, the listener knows they are in for a wild ride. But the period following City of Evil was marred by darkness