Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare" 2010

Artist: Avenged Sevenfold
Album: Nightmare
Genre: Alternative Metal

Myspace: Avenged Sevenfold
Tracklist:

1. Nightmare
2. Welcome to the Family
3. Danger Line
4. Buried Alive
5. Natural Born Killer
6. So Far Away
7. God Hates Us
8. Victim
9. Tonight the World Dies
10. Fiction
11. Save Me

Overall Sound: Avenged Sevenfold do not get much attention from me generally. I think the last time I listened to this band was when "Waking the Fallen" came out. Although I am doing this as a request to Jennifer Boggs because she thought this would be a good album to review, and recommended it to me. So here I am reviewing Avenged Sevenfold's new cd "Nightmare".

Guitar: As usual avenged sevenfold play fairly catchy guitar riffs, with the occasional metalcore chug placed throughout the entire CD. I would not say spectacular by any means of the word but there are some spots that are played perfectly to match their singer and drummer in harmony.

Bass: The bass is half there and half not there sometimes, but it matches the drums fairly well when u can hear it.

Drums: Since the Rev's passing(RIP), The EPIC drummer Mike Portnoy from dream theater plays in the studio on this album for a7x. As usual mikes performance is outstanding and helps this record in more ways than one.

Vocals/Lyrics: I know a lot of people link a7x's vocal duties to the popularity of their music. I personally do not enjoy the actual vocals on "Nightmare" and the lyrics from previous albums were written much better, but it seems the vocals are standard for a7x, so they're decent for this record as it is in my opinion.

Overall Impression: In my honest opinion, I feel like Avenged Sevenfold could have done a tremendous amount more on this album even without The Rev. However though for Avenged Sevenfold over the last couple of years they seem to produce album after album that attracts many different variety of listeners. Pretty solid CD at first glance but I would imagine if I listened to this more than once my opinion would be more critical since I listen a very different brand of music from what Avenged Sevenfold release.

Rating: 6.0/10