avenged sevenfold the band of the month?
Seem my last attempted at doing a weekly music thing failed I’ve decided to start doing a monthly band or artist Section. It will be a band that I have been listening to mostly for that month with a few details about the band, a picture of them and video of one of my favourite songs by them,
This months band of the month is Avenged Sevenfold a really cool hard rock/metal band that have some classic rock sounding lick at the same time as being fairly modern in there sound and how they deliver there song.
“Avenged Sevenfold, also known as A7X, is a hard rock and formerly metalcore band formed in Huntington Beach, California. The band formed in 1999.”
“…The band’s name is a reference to the book of Genesis in the Bible and the story of Cain and Abel, where Cain is punished to live in exile, alone and miserable. Anyone who relieved Cain of his misery by killing him would have “vengeance taken upon him sevenfold.” The title of Avenged Sevenfold’s song “Chapter Four” references Genesis IV, the chapter of the Bible in which the story of Cain and Abel takes place. The song’s subject also appears to be this story. “Beast and the Harlot”, yet another song derived from the Bible, comes from the book of Revelation and refers to the punishment of Babylon the great, the world empire of false religion. The song “The Wicked End” also has a reference to the bible, specifically Adam and Eve. In the song, several times it is said “dust the apple off, savor each bite, and deep inside you know Adam was right.” making reference to Eve eating the forbidden fruit. Although the band’s title and members’ stage names make obvious references to religion, Shadows stated in an interview that they are “not really religious at all.” “Anyone that read the lyrics and really knew anything about us, they would know we’re not promoting either”, he said. “That’s one thing about this band that I love is that we never really shove any kind of, like, political or religious beliefs on people. We just, the music’s there to entertain and maybe thought-provoking on both sides, but we don’t try to, like, really shove anything down anyone’s throat. There’s too many bands that do that nowadays, I think.”…”
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