Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding the seventh trumpet

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is the debut album by Avenged Sevenfold, released in 2001 on Good Life Recordings, and subsequently re-released by Hopeless Records on March 19, 2002, featuring slightly different cover art. The reissue also added the track "To End the Rapture (Heavy Metal Version)", which was previously only found on the Warmness on the Soul EP, and featured the band's new guitarist, Synyster Gates, who would go on to appear on every other Avenged Sevenfold release. As of 2008 Sounding the Seventh Trumpet has sold 200,000 copies worldwide.

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet was generally well received by critics. Chris Baranowski of Sputnik Music gave the album a rating of four out of five stating that it was a "well crafted, hard hitting album". Allmusic rated the album three stars out of five and wrote "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is a magnificent album that is suitable for any fan of metal music, as Avenged Sevenfold has a firm grasp on all that is extreme". The review also praised the tracks "Darkness Surrounding" and "We Come Out at Night" as being "...excellent metalcore masterpieces, as the vocal harmonies add to these cuts to evolve the songs into fully atmospheric sonic blasts".


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