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Avenged Sevenfold (album)

Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold cover 2007.jpg
Studio album by Avenged Sevenfold
Released October 30, 2007
Recorded 2007 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Los Angeles, California, Eldorado Recording Studios, and Burbank & Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California
Genre
Length 53:30
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold chronology
City of Evil
(2005)
Avenged Sevenfold
(2007)
Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough
(2008)
Singles from Avenged Sevenfold
  1. "Critical Acclaim"
    Released: August 17, 2007
  2. "Almost Easy"
    Released: September 18, 2007
  3. "Afterlife"
    Released: January 29, 2008
  4. "Dear God"
    Released: June 15, 2008
  5. "Scream"
    Released: July 14, 2008
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 56/100
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars
The A.V. Club B
Blender 3/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly B
IGN 7.9/10
Kerrang! 4/5 stars
Metal Hammer 8/10
Rolling Stone 2.5/5 stars
Sputnikmusic 1.0/5

Avenged Sevenfold is the fourth studio album by Avenged Sevenfold, released on October 30, 2007 by Warner Bros. Records. The album, originally slated for an October 16 release, was delayed by two weeks in order to provide more time to complete bonus material and production for the record, including the making of the animated music video for the song "A Little Piece of Heaven". The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200. On September 23, 2008, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album has also been released on vinyl. The band supported the album with a tour, beginning a day before the release of the album and ending in 2009.

Although critical reception to the album was mixed compared to previous releases, Avenged Sevenfold won the Kerrang! Award for Best Album in 2008. In addition, the album was included in Kerrang's "666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". As of 2014, it has sold over 960,161 copies in the United States and 152,123 copies in the United Kingdom.

Avenged Sevenfold revealed the track listing for the album on their YouTube profile on August 9, 2007, as well as their text messaging service, A7X Mobile. The band has also posted a teaser on a recent YouTube blog featuring an excerpt of vocalist M. Shadows screaming in the studio.

On August 17, 2007, a clip was posted with about 2 minutes of their first track on the new album, "Critical Acclaim" on the band's YouTube. The single was later uploaded in its entirety on YouTube and released on the iTunes Store on August 28.

In the weeks leading up to the album's release, a series of ten video clips, called "webisodes", were recorded featuring "Wolfie the Fox". The first webisode was released on August 24, 2007; a 3:41 clip that was posted on the band's YouTube channel. The clip consists of a pre-recorded phone message from "Wolfie the Fox" and a few scenes of their process of making "Critical Acclaim". Each of the subsequent webisodes was similar in content. The clips featured a short mock-interview between M. Shadows and Wolfie the Fox, various band members during the making of various tracks for Avenged Sevenfold, and other background videos. About eleven days before the album's release, the Wolfie Trailer was posted on YouTube. In it, Wolfie sings "Critical Acclaim" and talks about the MVI version of the new album. The webisodes can all be viewed on the band's Myspace and YouTube pages.


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