AVENGED SEVENFOLD — Nightmare (review)

AVENGED SEVENFOLD — Nightmare album cover Album · 2010 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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This album was made at quite a turbulent time during the bands career and it can be heard.

I was sad and quite shocked to hear the death of The Rev, although in the past 2 years their have been a lot of weird deaths.

This album is still a pretty good album, when it comes to the matters in which it was made, but some people may say that the album was rushed, but I disagree. Their was a lot of effort, and what may appear to be rushed compared to their other efforts could be viewed as confused.

At times the influences come off to strong, there is some odd experimentation and at the odd times, a loss of identity, which is sad, because it took them about 4 years to build up an amazing sound, which at times is lost.

This album is still pretty good, and it did come off really well in my first hearing of it, and some songs may have to grow on me, but it just still proves that these guys get a lot of hard time for being a bit too popular.

And Mike Portnoy’s drumming is pretty amazing at times.

1. Nightmare – Good start. It’s obvious who the influences where. Progresses well throughout. 9/10

2. Welcome To The Family – I love the chorus. Pretty kick ass. Very reminiscent of their last album. 10/10

3. Danger Line – Not their best lyrics. But pretty interesting. 8/10

4. Buried Alive – Fade To Black intro? Sounds a bit like if some of the songs off of Death Magnetic where to be really good. The ending sounds way too much like This Was My Life by Megadeth. 9/10

5. Natural Born Killer – Loving the blastbeats. Great vocals. Pretty amazing. 10/10

6. So Far Away – Good pop acousticy song. It does build up well throughout. 9/10

7. God Hates Us – A bit too testoesterony. Quite random at times. At times quite good, but overall the weakest song. 7/10

8. Victim - Intro sounds a bit too much like Pink Floyd. Great arrangement. I love the chord changes throughout. 9/10

9. Tonight The World Dies – Quite a dark pop song. Some interesting vocals. 8/10

10. Fiction – Amazing intro and build up. The Revs vocals are pretty good in this. Quite an odd arrangement. Best song the album. 10/10

11. Save Us – Pretty interesting song with some cool twists and turns and some killer vocals in the chorus. Great ending. 9/10

CONCLUSION: Not their best, but you have to give them some credit for the matter in which it was made.

RIP The Rev
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