New Avenged Sevenfold. I’m loving it. It’ll take a few listens for everything to sink in because this album is f*cking OUT THERE. Been listening to a lot of interviews with the band and I really appreciate how they approached this. Overall they just had zero interest in doing anything remotely familiar with their past music. Gates wasn’t picking up his guitar for huge periods because he was just sick of hearing the same sh*t he always plays, I can heavily relate.
I don’t expect anyone who hated them previously to jump on now, these guys are in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation where people just love to hate ‘em, but I don’t know of a single band that takes chances like this and I respect the hell out of it, especially for a “bunch of poser mallcore musicians”. There’s a ton of Mr. Bungle influence on this album, either in the music itself or just the “F*ck it, go for it” aspect.
This song is a perfect example, it sounds more like Dream Theater than A7X….well…to start….then it starts going in different directions.