Kenbo Slice said:
Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet and Waking the Fallen are AMAZING albums, then City of Evil came out...and it was all downhill from there.
I mean how do you go from this:
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to this??
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Now, while I agree with you that it all went downhill from
City of Evil, personally I felt that it did still have their "feel" to it. After that though . . . eugh. I've never listened to the entirety of their self-titled album and I don't think I've managed to fully listen to any song off of "Nightmare" because they simply drifted away from their roots (yes, I know the drummer/backing vocals/songwriter guy died, yadda yadda).
Of course, I'm pretty sure I actually listened to
City of Evil before
Waking the Fallen and
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, so that might color my perspective a bit. . .
Slightly more OT:
Linkin Park;
A Day To Remember (Though I do still like them, it's much more selective than on all of their earlier albums);
Destroy The Runner;
Emarosa; and
Escape the Fate are all valid contenders.
In an odd twist,
The Devil Wears Prada; Drop Dead, Gorgeous; Hollywood Undead; The Human Abstract; Memphis May Fire; Norma Jean; and
Veil of Maya are all bands that I didn't really care for until something new of theirs came out that I heard. (Memphis May Fire being a particularly interesting case because I loved their first EP with the original singer, was "meh" about their first album, felt their second EP was a bit better, and now really like their second album.)
