City of Evil

This is the album with Bat Country, the solos and drums on this record are amazing

Don’t have aux or Bluetooth in my vehicle, so I have to resort to radio and CDs. Love this album and CD works fine.

The best album of 2005. City of evil is fast pace and has some of the bands best music. This 20th anniversary edition is treated well.

Great album! Quality is good and the sound is awesome

Brand new

It is, no doubt, a healthy sign when a departure is made from a tradition that has become a mere convention through observance, but it remains to be seen whether success can be attained by so abrupt a change from the established vogue as is exhibited in A7X's "City of Evil" album. My only previous experience with this group is seeing the videos of "Bat Country" and "Seize the Day" (which seem to be constantly on the Fuse network), so I was somewhat apprehensive about buying this album. Much to my delight, this album is so drastically different (hitherto all I could listen to was Offspring) and it proves that modern rock can be more than screaming and deafening noise. Rather than give a rundown of all the songs, I'd rather say just a few things. The songs run a lot longer than anything else I'm used to hearing. Shadow's lyrics are quite poetic and metaphorical, and are certainly thorough-composed. However, I felt there was a lot of musical sameness from one song to the next (the majority of the songs are hovering around D minor). The range of styles shows a level of musical sophistication that one would be hard pressed to find in other hardcore albums today. While I enjoyed it very much on the first listen, I can't say that other listeners who are used to death metal won't be turned off from this album. I do think it is a fine album and does not deserve as much crap as it has been given.

I will never forget when this album hit. After the mid nineties, and even the great Pantera had fallen in popularity, there were a lot of pushes to get metal going again. There was a good serge of Nu Metal, which I was never a fan of, that lead into the metalcore seen of the early 2000's. While I do love some of those acts, most never really caught on with mainstream audiences. A7X was one of those bands. At that time, I hadn't really seen the genius of Waking the Fallen, and it seemed like an screamo band that was more interested in their female fans that actually making a metal album (It has taken time to appreciate the complex Maiden with punk influence structure of that album) but this one really broke open metal to the masses. This is the best A7X album, and while they have only gotten bigger since this album's release, this is the one that they will be remembered for until and if they can top it. There are a lot of criticisms that this album is too much of a departure from their previous albums, which may be somewhat true, but I will say that it is for good reasons. I have heard a lot of emo and AFI comparisons for this album and how the band isn't metal, and while I might agree with their subsequent self titled album being more rock, the guitar parts on here alone qualify this as a very technical metal album, just one that the uninitiated can listen to and appreciate. I understand that to the purists that this almost seems like sacrament, but that type of thinking alienates the rest of society. I know that it is a hard thing to do, to look inward at the community that we love and to realize that while integrity and all the great things that metal stands for, being completely alone isn't one of them. There was a time when this whole country loved metal and had integrity. Making music that only a few people understand isn't helping anyone. Trying to say that one thing qualifies as metal because of how hard core it is reduces music to numbers and not how it makes you feel, and A7X managed to make a metal album that was fun. This is what brought guitar parts back into metal beyond just double base drums and base guitar. I have heard the criticism that Shadow's voice sounds a little whiney here, but not any more so than old GNR. This is the album that most kids today see as metal, and I don't think that is a bad thing. For an old timer that has been listening to the genre for his whole life, it is really cool to have things chaged up from time to time.

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知り合いにこのアーティストおすすめだよーと言われたので（あんまりほめられたことではないとは思うのですが） ライブ映像の一部を聞いてみてメタルな感じだけどメロディアスで聴いていて心地よいなと思ったので購入に至りました。 結果このCDに入ってる曲も結構いいのがあって他のアルバムの曲も探っていきたいと思いました。

Esta es la obra clave de Avenged Sevenfold. Lo recomiendo tanto si eres fan de Avenged como si todavía no los conoces demasiado bien. Este disco me parece uno de los mejores a partir del 2000. Tiene canciones increíbles como "Beast and the Harlot", "Burn it Down", "Blinded in Chains", "Bat Country" y la increíble balada "Seize the Day". Recomendado al 100%. Saludos y aguante el metal.

Excelente álbum. Entrega rápida e no prazo da Amazon

Terzo album in studio per la band americana, e dopo due bei dischi il primo capolavoro! In questo album, melodia e potenza viaggiano a braccetto grazie alla potenza di The Rev dietro alle pelli, con i chitarristi che macinano riff bellissimi il tutto condito dalla voce di Mr. Shadows, che ormai ha completamente abbandonato il cantato "Growls" (soprattutto a causa di un'infezione alle corde vocali che gli ha quasi compromesso la carriera), per un cantato sempre potente ma anche molto melodico, quasi ad imitare James Hetfield dei Metallica. Infatti il gruppo di S. Francisco è una delle fonti di maggiore ispirazione per gli Avenged Sevenfold, insieme ai grandi maestri del genere come Iron Maiden e Guns N'Roses! In questo album troviamo delle vere e proprie perle come Burn it Down, Bat Country e tante altre! Un gran bel disco!

Wie schon der Titel dieser Rezension vermuten lässt, ist "City of Evil" von Avenged Sevenfold bzw. A7X (meine Lieblingsband) für mich schlicht und einfach das beste Album, aller Zeiten überhaupt. Realistisch gesehen kann kein Album näher an PERFEKT dran sein, wie dieses. Der Soud ist genial und abwchselungsreich; der Gesang reicht von hoch zu tief und Rau und beinhaltet auch Chorelemente; die Textpassagen sind oft lang, meist tiefgründig und kaum flach; die Refrains sind oft simpel gehalten und deshalb umso genialer (dazu kommen variable Songstrukturen! Dazu kommt noch die wunderbare Länge der einzelnen Lieder, von denen keines bedeutend kürzer, als 5 Minuten ist, was sich in einer Gesamtlaufzeit von 1 Std. 13 Minten niederschlägt. Das Gesamte Album ist dicht gepackt (auch in den Übergangspassagen) und beinhaltet praktisch keinen schwachen Song, ist durch und durch mit phantastischen Gitarrenriffs, aggressiven und gefühlvollen Gesangstellen, sowie schnellem und eindrucksvollem Schlagzeug überzogen. Im Gesamten spiegelt sich im teils epischem Sound, Rhytmus und Text, genau und auf wunervolle Weise der Titel "City of Evil, sowie das schaurig dunkle Cover wieder und rundet so das ganze Werk zu einem metallisch musikalischem Goldstück ab!!! KAUFEN KAUFEN KAUFEN & weitersagen!