Waking the Fallen
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| Studio album by Avenged Sevenfold | ||||
| Released | August 26, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2003 at NRG Recordings in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California | |||
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| Length | 68:31 | |||
| Label | Hopeless | |||
| Producer | Andrew Murdock, Fred Archambault | |||
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Waking the Fallen: Resurrected
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Waking the Fallen is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on August 26, 2003, by Hopeless Records.
The album was released as 2x12", LP, Repress, 33 ⅓ RPM, Grey Marble on 2008 in US. The album was certified gold on July 15, 2009, even though it only sold 3,000 copies on its first week of release. As of August 2014, it has sold over 693,000 copies in the United States. The song "Eternal Rest" appears on Kerrang's "666 Songs You Must Own" and was featured on the Soundtrack to the movie Saw IV.
It is the band's first full-length album with new lead guitarist Synyster Gates and bass guitarist Johnny Christ.
The record continues the metalcore sound the band had used on their previous album, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, but features noticeably more clean vocals. Being the first release by the band to feature lead guitarist Synyster Gates, the record also features some guitar solos. The record is notable among fans due to M. Shadows' slightly higher pitch in his voice and high notes he sings on songs like "I Won't See You Tonight" (both parts). The album also leans more towards heavy metal rather than punk rock. This was the band's last album with a mostly underground fanbase before their launch into mainstream success from City of Evil onwards.
Waking the Fallen was highly acclaimed. Robert L. Doerschuk from Allmusic wrote "And whether attacking a riff in unison or in harmonized parts, the double-threat guitars of Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance do their duty like search-and-destroy commandos -- in and out fast, leaving devastation in their wake. Especially noteworthy -- and note-heavy -- is the guitar solo that blazes through the last moments of "Second Heartbeat" and the head-spinning single-stroke virtuosity of the Reverand throughout the album."
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