Fistly my favourite band is AVENGED SEVENFOLD.They have created the band since 2000. It was recently the drummer had past away because of cancer.they thn created a song for his death.they were all sad as they were all bestfriends.
I like their music because their songs inspire me by their lyrics and rythm.I really like them that even i bought their posters.i like this band since 3 years ago whereby the point i started learning guitar.This band was introduce to me by my cousin .
The first song that i like is dear god.This song actually really inspires me alot because they really make the song such that could make people emotional and sad.the song is mainly for the late drummer,Rev.They also just had anew drummer,his name is Mike Portnoy.After the death of Rev they decided to have a new drummer.They just produced the new album"Nightmare"early this year.
The whole album is all about the late drummer,Rev.He actually took drugs.That cause him to have cancer.I want to ask you wether you could give me a signature to a poster.I would really appreciate if you can give me that,thank you. I hope you all will create a new album soon.Good luck for your future.And the last thing,i am your biggest fan AVENGED SEVENFOLD!
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Music Review on Avenged Sevenfold
Man, where to begin. To say I was looking forward to this would be something of an understatement. I was anxiously waiting for the moment that I could get my hands on this album.
Before I get to that, allow me a moment to give a bit of history.
I got on the A7X bandwagon a little late. City of Evil found itself in my hands on a whim, I had heard a lot about them and found that I was a little curious. That album turned out to be a great trip into the past, with their LA Guns look and a sound that seemed to be an extension of the era that gave rise to my music fandom. Next up was seeing them live (with Coheed & Cambria) and wow, what a show.
I also managed to get my hands on Waking the Fallen, another excellent, albeit different sounding album. Now they have released their second major release, the highly anticipated (by some anyway) follow-up to City of Evil. Would it, nay, could it live up to its predecessor? The anticipation is killing me!
I shredded the plastic and slipped the disk into the CD player; with trembling fingers I pressed play and waited to be blown away. Blown away I was, just not in the good way.
I found Avenged Sevenfold to be a big letdown from the glorious glammed up and tatted highs of City of Evil. In its place is an album that feels devoid of any real creativity, there was no life flowing through this collection of tunes. Okay, I admit to liking a couple of songs and liking moments throughout the remainder of the disk but taken as an entire work there was no soul, no feeling behind the writing.
A comparison that seems to be apt, although this case is not quite as extreme, would be to look at Avenged Sevenfold as a new Sugar Ray. Now before you get your gears turning, hear me out. This is nowhere near the level of what Mark McGrath and crew did, but it does have some relevance.
Go back to Sugar Ray's Floored album, you know as well as I do that you have a copy of it somewhere in your closet. That album was not half bad, it displayed a variety of styles that still felt like the same band, but in retrospect it was more like a demo for the populace. Once "Fly" hit it big, that became the formula. Everything after that point sounded like "Fly." The heavy style, the punk style, they just went by the wayside in favor of the quick buck by jumping on their own bandwagon
Before I wrap this up, there is the little matter of a tune called "A Little Piece of Heaven."
One part of me wants to applaud them for coming out of left field with this seriously strange and out of place ditty. Another part of me wants to ask them what exactly were they thinking? Think of Mr. Bungle or Dog Fashion Disco leftovers being mixed with Danny Elfman score clippings. Well, any one of those names would probably be enough, but this track is goofy enough to warrant all of them together, using just one would probably give it too much credit. Words just cannot adequately describe just how odd, lame, and strangely alluring it is. Listen at your own risk.
For what it's worth, I did get the MVI-DVD version but have not brought myself to explore the features of the DVD yet. The music has been more than enough to digest for the time being.
Bottomline. No matter how you slice it, Avenged Sevenfold is a letdown. It is not a complete disaster, but unless they turn it around the next could be that wreck that puts the final nail in their coffin. Time will tell if these guys were a flash in the pan or if they can pull out of the dive that had its beginnings here. Still, I will listen to it from time to time, picking out the better cuts, like "Critical Acclaim" and perhaps "A Little Piece of Heaven" to help me perfect my bemused expression.
Before I get to that, allow me a moment to give a bit of history.
I got on the A7X bandwagon a little late. City of Evil found itself in my hands on a whim, I had heard a lot about them and found that I was a little curious. That album turned out to be a great trip into the past, with their LA Guns look and a sound that seemed to be an extension of the era that gave rise to my music fandom. Next up was seeing them live (with Coheed & Cambria) and wow, what a show.
I also managed to get my hands on Waking the Fallen, another excellent, albeit different sounding album. Now they have released their second major release, the highly anticipated (by some anyway) follow-up to City of Evil. Would it, nay, could it live up to its predecessor? The anticipation is killing me!
I shredded the plastic and slipped the disk into the CD player; with trembling fingers I pressed play and waited to be blown away. Blown away I was, just not in the good way.
I found Avenged Sevenfold to be a big letdown from the glorious glammed up and tatted highs of City of Evil. In its place is an album that feels devoid of any real creativity, there was no life flowing through this collection of tunes. Okay, I admit to liking a couple of songs and liking moments throughout the remainder of the disk but taken as an entire work there was no soul, no feeling behind the writing.
A comparison that seems to be apt, although this case is not quite as extreme, would be to look at Avenged Sevenfold as a new Sugar Ray. Now before you get your gears turning, hear me out. This is nowhere near the level of what Mark McGrath and crew did, but it does have some relevance.
Go back to Sugar Ray's Floored album, you know as well as I do that you have a copy of it somewhere in your closet. That album was not half bad, it displayed a variety of styles that still felt like the same band, but in retrospect it was more like a demo for the populace. Once "Fly" hit it big, that became the formula. Everything after that point sounded like "Fly." The heavy style, the punk style, they just went by the wayside in favor of the quick buck by jumping on their own bandwagon
Before I wrap this up, there is the little matter of a tune called "A Little Piece of Heaven."
One part of me wants to applaud them for coming out of left field with this seriously strange and out of place ditty. Another part of me wants to ask them what exactly were they thinking? Think of Mr. Bungle or Dog Fashion Disco leftovers being mixed with Danny Elfman score clippings. Well, any one of those names would probably be enough, but this track is goofy enough to warrant all of them together, using just one would probably give it too much credit. Words just cannot adequately describe just how odd, lame, and strangely alluring it is. Listen at your own risk.
For what it's worth, I did get the MVI-DVD version but have not brought myself to explore the features of the DVD yet. The music has been more than enough to digest for the time being.
Bottomline. No matter how you slice it, Avenged Sevenfold is a letdown. It is not a complete disaster, but unless they turn it around the next could be that wreck that puts the final nail in their coffin. Time will tell if these guys were a flash in the pan or if they can pull out of the dive that had its beginnings here. Still, I will listen to it from time to time, picking out the better cuts, like "Critical Acclaim" and perhaps "A Little Piece of Heaven" to help me perfect my bemused expression.
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Yngwie malmsteen
Applying his intense curiosity and tenacity to first an old Mosrite and then a cheap Stratocaster, Yngwie immersed himself in the music of such bands as Deep Purple and spent long hours practicing to learn their songs. His admiration for Ritchie Blackmore's classically influenced playing led him back to the source: Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Mozart. As Yngwie absorbed the classical structures of the masters, his prodigious style began to take shape. By age 10, he began to focus all his energies into music. His mother and sister, a talented flautist, recognized his unique musical gifts and gave him support and encouragement. His mastery of the instrument progressed rapidly. In his early teens, Yngwie saw a television performance of Russian violinist Gideon Kremer, who performed the highly difficult 24 Caprices of 19th century virtuoso violinist Niccolo Paganini. The effect was profound, and Yngwie understood at last how to combine his love of classical music with his burgeoning guitar skills and onstage charisma.
By age 15, Yngwie's trademark style had begun to emerge. He worked for a time as a luthier in a guitar repair shop, where he encountered a scalloped neck for the first time when a 17th century lute came into the shop. Intrigued, Yngwie scalloped the neck of an old guitar in similar fashion and was impressed enough with the results to try it on his better guitars. The scalloped fret board was somewhat more difficult to play than a normal neck, but his control over the strings was so improved that Yngwie immediately adopted it as a permanent alteration to his equipment.
About this time, Yngwie began playing in a number of bands built around his explosive guitar style, with long instrumental explorations. Around age 18, Yngwie and several friends recorded a demo set of three songs for Swedish CBS, but the cuts were never released. Frustrated, Yngwie began sending demo tapes to record companies and music contacts abroad. One such tape found its way into the hands of Guitar Player contributor and Shrapnel Music. Yngwie was invited to record with a new band Steeler--and the rest, as they say, is history.
From Steeler, Yngwie moved on to Alcatrazz, a Rainbow-style band, but it became clear that to fully develop his talents, Yngwie would have to go solo. Yngwie's first solo album, Rising Force (now considered the bible for neoclassical rock) made it to #60 on the Billboard charts, an impressive feat for a mostly instrumental guitar album with no commercial airplay. The album also gained Yngwie a Grammy nomination for best rock instrumental performance. He was voted Best New Talent in several readers’ polls, Best Rock Guitarist the year after, and Rising Force became Album of the Year. Rising Force blazed a trail on the concert circuit that established Yngwie as one of rock guitar's brightest new stars and added a new genre to the music lexicon: neoclas
M.shadows
Shadows was born Matthew Charles Sanders on July 31, 1981, in Huntington Beach, California. He attended Huntington Beach High School, where after a brief stint in the band Successful Failure, he went to an old friend James Sullivan and began to form the earliest incarnations of Avenged Sevenfold.He is actually an american...he has a wife.He was born to have a unique voice.He and his band members grew up together.the song Dear God is really nice.....
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