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Avenged Sevenfold: Also Known as A7X

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The band Avenged Sevenfold is originally form Huntington Beach, California and is also known with the abbreviator A7X. The group is formed by M. Shadows who is the vocalist, Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance whose are responsible for make the guitars sound, Johnny Christ in the bass guitar and The Reverend Tholomew Plague who plays the drums. The band launched their first album when the integrants of the band were only 18 years old and it was called “The Seventh Trumpet”.

The next record of the band was named “Waking the Fallen” and it was very recognized especially in the Rolling Stone magazine. The last year they Avenged Sevenfold launched their last material entitled “City of Evil” and it has many influences from Metallica, Pantera, Misfits and Guns N’ Roses. Several times A7X has been classified as a metalcore group. However, they say that they are a band that plays metal and hard rock and also that they have no likeness to metalcore music.

Avenged Sevenfold has 4 albums that have been recorded with three different labels. The first disc was entitled “Warmness on the Soul” which was recorded with the recording company Good Life Recordings, the second album was named “The Seventh Trumpet” (which was their first commercial album) recorded with the same company. The third record of A7X is known as “Waking the Fallen” made in the recording company Hopeless Records and finally “City of Evil” which was launched the last year and was made with the recording company Warner Brothers Records #30.

The origin of the name of the band is a reference to the book of the Genesis in the old testament of the Bible and the story of Cain and Abel.



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