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Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

Avenged Sevenfold · 2001

52 min · 13 tracks · heavy metal · progressive metal · metalcore

A raw blend of metalcore aggression and melodic undertones that foreshadows the band's future evolution.

Is this for you?

Good fit if you like

  • dynamic emotional journeys
  • long immersive listening sessions
  • wave-like pacing variations
  • melodic undertones with aggression

Where this album fits

Career context
'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet' is Avenged Sevenfold's debut album released in 2001. At this point, they were relatively unknown, having formed just a few years earlier. This album laid the groundwork for their signature sound, combining heavy metal and metalcore elements that would define their subsequent rise to fame.

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

  • 1 To End the Rapture 1:24
  • 2 Turn the Other Way 5:36
  • 3 Darkness Surrounding 4:49
  • 4 The Art of Subconscious Illusion 3:45
  • 5 We Come Out at Night 4:44
  • 6 Lips of Deceit 4:09
  • 7 Warmness on the Soul 4:19
  • 8 An Epic of Time Wasted 4:18
  • 9 Breaking Their Hold 1:11
  • 10 Forgotten Faces 3:26
  • 11 Thick and Thin 4:15
  • 12 Streets 3:06
  • 13 Shattered by Broken Dreams 7:08

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