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[[File:a7x_727.jpg|frame|L to R: Johnny, Synyster, M. Shadows, Zacky, and [[Too Cool to Live|the Rev]]]]

 

 

 

The band played the underground scene in America for several years before achieving more widespread recognition and success with their third studio album; City of Evil (2005). Their second album, Waking the Fallen, is certified gold. Their original sound was harsher, with extensive use of double bass drums and screamed vocals. Since then, the band has changed to be include more melody, but not sacrificed any of the instrumentist's brutal sound. The lead guitarist, Synyster Gates is also renowned for unleashing extensive and lightning fast solos.

* Jimmy (or James) O. Sullivan - The Rev/The Reverend Tholomew Plague. (1981-2009)

 

* Sounding the Seventh Trumpet (2001)

* Waking the Fallen (2003)

* Nightmare (2010)

 

* [[Aerith and Bob]]: M. Shadows, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Johnny Christ and...Arin Ilejay.

* [[Album Title Drop]]: City of Evil is dropped in "Beast and the Harlot".

* [[All Drummers Are Animals]]: The Rev was the resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]]. Watch him in any video.

* [[Always Identical Twins]]: Michelle Dibenedetto-Haner and Valary Dibenedetto-Sanders, who are Brian and Matt's respective wives.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Their stage names.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't make jokes about Jimmy's death around a fan. Just don't.

* [[Buried Alive]]: They have a song called Buried Alive.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Johnny Christ seems to be this for the rest of the band.

* [[Call Back]]: The video for "Nightmare" has two, both referencing "Afterlife". One has a tarantula crawling on The Rev's drum kit, a Call Back to the tarantula on The Rev's face. The other is Zacky dancing with a skeleton, where he was dancing with his girlfriend in "Afterlife".

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: The Rev.

* [[The Dead Can Dance]]: The song "Dancing Dead", of course.

* [[Easter Egg]]: Watching certain parts of All Excess, the DVD, will unlock a number of [http://viaheadphones.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/avenged-sevenfold-all-excess-easter-eggs/ hidden videos].

** Especially "Unholy Confessions".

* [[Epic Rocking]]: They are known to do this on occasion, but most notably on the album City of Evil, on which only one song is under five minutes and four are over seven, and most recently with "Save Me" from nightmare at almost eleven minutes.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: M. Shadows has this reputation.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Matt seems fond of these. Also The Rev throws in a few during A Little Piece Of Heaven and Afterlife.

* [[Fading Into the Next Song]]: "Beast and the Harlot" ends with a little bit of guitar violence (if it can be termed as such), which then takes a backseat for the drum opening of "Burn It Down".

* [[Grief Song]]: So Far Away, which was written for Syn's grandfather. When Jimmy died, the lyrics changed to being about him. Fiction is also about Jimmy, [[Mind Screw|despite being]] [[Nightmare Fuel|written and]] [[Harsher in Hindsight|sang by him]]....

* [[Guyliner]]: A few of them have used it, but Brian uses it consistently.

* [[I Love the Dead]]: "A Little Piece of Heaven"

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Again, "A Little Piece of Heaven".

** "Nightmare" may also qualify.

* [[Metal Scream]]: Quite a few songs start with or have these. The Beast And The Harlot, Bat Country, Natural Born Killer, to name a few. He also does this quite often with the first two albums.

* [[Power Ballad]]: Many.

* [[Preorder Bonus]]: The track "Lost It All" can only be acquired through pre-ordering the Nightmare album on iTunes.

** Subverted in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5LNNUGs40 The Art of Subconcious Illusion], which has Matt's wife Valary doing screaming vocals.

* [[Title Drop]]: "The Beast And the Harlot" features this ''as well as'' an [[Album Title Drop]]. And that's just one example.

* [[Together in Death]]: "A Little Piece Of Heaven". Kind Of. {{spoiler|The guy kills the girl at the beginning and [[Squick|does]] [[I Love the Dead|things]] with her corpse. She Then comes back as a zombie and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|murders the living hell out of him]], after which they are both in hell, and he begs her to forgive him. She does, and they come back as zombies. Then they decide to [[Crosses the Line Twice|murder an entire church full of people with chainsaws and whatnot during a REAL wedding and force the priest to wed them]]. They then live happily ever after as a murderous evil zombie couple.}}

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