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MAY 21ST
Take your A7X obsession to a new level by playing these killer A7X quiz games.

We’ve joined up with a cool new video quiz game site, PopJax ( www. popjax. com ), to create three custom games featuring trivia written by A7X guitarist, Zacky Vengeance. You’ll see amazing footage from some of our favorite tour stops, get quizzed on just how well you know us, and best of all play for a chance at winning one of four autographed guitars. We’ve got other A7X gear and cash to give away, so get your ass on over to PopJax and check it out.

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS MISS AN A7X SHOW – NOW DON’T MISS OUT THESE A7X GAMES EITHER!!!MAY 15TH
NEW YORK CITY; GET READY FOR A RIOT.

GET UP & DO SOMETHING FOR A7X!
We have a special mission for all of you!
We want TRL to know that we demand Afterlife on the TRL countdown! We want all of you new yorkers to tear up TRL!

On May 22, 2008 1:00PM/ET [be there early and make sure you get a spot in the front] Meet over at the MTV Studios in NYC ; All fans gather in front of TRL Wear a white shirt, write on it "A7X-Afterlife for TRL" MAKE SIGNS, tons of them, make sure everyone sees you!
& BURN THAT MOTHER FUCKER DOWN!

Let them all know A7X fans ARE a force to be reckoned with, that we are bigger, better, and stronger than anyone else! And that Afterlife deserves to be 1 more than anyone!
HAVE FUN! But don't make it complete chaos, this is a serious mission to let TRL know
WE WANT AFTERLIFE!

AS FOR THE REST OF YOU, don't live in NY? Well here's what you can do:
Go to the TRL website and request Afterlife for the TRL Countdown!!

Now let's go win our boys another moon man.
;]

MAY 14TH
Well, it's that time again! Time for Season 3 of Last Site Standing! If you're unfamiliar with the contest, click HERE for information! Maybe you can win this time!
Hope it's a god season!
ENTER TO BE THE LAST SITE STANDING!

MAY 11TH
So, this really has about nothing to do with Avenged Sevenfold; don't bitch us out!
There's this band from Missouri [Meghan, the main owner's, home state] &I [Meghan] have gotten really attatched to them. They've got influences like Motley Crue, Shinedown, Seether, Avenged Sevenfold [okay, I lied; Avenged is partly in the update!], Godsmack, Bullet For My Valentine, Papa Roach, &tons of others. &I know there's a big fuckin' handful of the 6000+ of you that like/love those bands. So you should check this band, OBSIDIAN , out. They're going on a tour this summer &hitting places like Dencer, Tempe, &the legendary Whiskey A Go Go on the Sunset Strip in LA. Check them out! &hey, if you like them, add them, comment them, &comment us, too telling us you added! thanks so much! Again, their band MySpace is

http://www.myspace.com/obsidian2

- Meghan

MAY 5TH
So it was decided that in their time down under that Zacky and Syn wanted to make it possible for them to meet all of you.

So they're doing a signing THIS SATURDAY from 2-3pm.

Here's the details:

Billy Hyde Music Blackburn,
171 Whitehorse Road
Blackburn
Victoria, Australia

Brought to you by Schecter Guitar Research.

APRIL 30TH
Check out Avenged Sevenfold on MTV2 this weekend!
for more details, click here !

APRIL 28TH
Sorry about the lack of updates, lately! Our bad!
But hey, you can check out part 1 & 2 of the making of Afterlife. There are 3 parts total, so look out for another update!
PART ONE & PART TWO

MARCH 19TH
Want to see the "Making Of" Avenged Sevenfold’s latest music video "Afterlife"? Then get your asses over to F.A.N at avengedsevenfold.com right now! Still not an A7X F.A.N yet? Go pick up the MVI HERE . If you already have an MVI, click HERE to access this exclusive area on avengedsevenfold.com to get tons of exciting content. Haven’t seen "Afterlife"? Buy it at Itunes NOW!

MARCH 18TH
Kerrang Magazine is hosting yet another Top 100 Bands Contest!
Guess who's in the runnings? Avenged Sevenfold, of course!
Show the band your love &vote for them! &Make sure to spread word of this! I say we can get them in the top 50, but that's just my opinion!

VOTE FOR AVENGED SEVENFOLD !

MARCH 4TH
Everyone likes free gear, so we are giving you exclusive access to raid our merch both at Taste of Chaos.

What do you have to do to get your hands on our A7X merch that you can't buy in stores?

Create a 30 clip telling your town why they shouldn't miss the best damn show of '08.

Post it on your You Tube Profile with the Tag "Taste of Sevenfold" and it will be added to the A7X Channel as a favorite.

Spread the word around to all your friends to go view your clip!

THE VIDEO WITH THE MOST VIEWS WINS THE RAID!

FEBRUARY 19TH
We have a new layout! Made by Ashlee Vee at Shadows Brigade .

FEBRUARY 8TH
NEW TASTE OF CHAOS UPDATES

We've got Taste of Chaos updates for you guys.
First of all, all you Long Beach fans better be ready to pick up tickets to our hometown show TOMORROW AT 10 AM. We're bringing it even heavier than before, so you don't want to missthis one.

Not to mention, TASTE OF CHAOS HAS ADDED ANOTHER DATE!
March 30 in Little Rock, AR at the River Market Amphitheatre

Tickets for this new date go on sale NEXT SATURDAY!

February 7TH
Time is running out - with one week to go!

If you haven't entered already - then head on over to http://www.LiveNation.com/StartYourOwnBand to win enough autographedgear to start your own band!

Prize includes Synyster Gates' "Synyster Custom", Zacky's "Vengeance Custom" and Johnny Christ's "Sting Ray" bass, And if that weren'tenough, we are throwing in a full DW drum kit, amps, three microphones, a year's supply of Ernie Ball Slinky Strings and a $250 gift certificate to Hot Topic.

The rest will be up toyou to get off your arse and play!

FEBRUARY 5TH
I decided I'd have a season 2 of LAST SITE STANDING . Many of you sites remember the contest from December. If not, click HERE to read more about it! the contest will begin Wednesday, February 6th.

JANUARY 18TH
Own the MVI? Haven't heard the b-sides to Avenged Sevenfold yet? Haven't seen the Afterlife video yet? Part of the Avenged Sevnfold F.A.N.? THEN GO LISTEN/WATCH!
[I bet you can find the Afterlife video on youtube, by now.]

JANUARY 7TH - A
We're going on a short break until January 14th!

JANUARY 7TH - B
You've all seen the clip, but the full length is now available to view by registering your copy of the MVI self titled album! This is a video that should not be missed, so don't be the onlyfool on the block without one!

Order yours HERE

and get all the special features including exclusive behind the scenes footage of the making of the new album. Don't know how to register your MVI? Head over to

www.avengedsevenfold.com for "How To" instructions.

DECEMBER 21ST
Credit to DEATHBATNEWS.COM

Alternative Press posted the updated version of the Taste Of Chaos 2008 tour dates. Check ‘em out:
Feb. 29 - Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO
Mar. 01 - Memorial Hall, Kansas City, MO
Mar. 02 - Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI
Mar. 04 - Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN
Mar. 05 - Family Arena, St. Louis, MO
Mar. 07 - Hara Arena, Dayton, OH
Mar. 08 - Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI
Mar. 10 - The Armory, Rochester, NY
Mar. 11 - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Mar. 13 - Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, VA
Mar. 14 - Tweeter Center, Philadelphia, PA
Mar. 15 - Convention Center, Asbury Park, NJ
Mar. 17 - Patriot Center, Washington, DC
Mar. 18 - Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME
Mar. 20 - Nassau Coliseum, Nassau, NY
Mar. 21 - Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA
Mar. 22 - The Armory, Albany, NY
Mar. 24 - Gwinnett Center, Atlanta, GA
Mar. 25 - USF Sundome, Tampa, FL
Mar. 26 - Bayfront Park, Miami, FL
Mar. 28 - USC Arena, Orlando, FL
Mar. 29 - Mississippi Coast Coliseum, Biloxi, MS
Mar. 30 - The Woodlands/Verizon, Houston, TX
Apr. 01 - Nokia Theatre, Dallas, TX
Apr. 03 - Fairgrounds Arena, Oklahoma City, OK
Apr. 04 - Concrete Street Amphitheatre, Corpus Christi, TX
Apr. 05 - Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, TX
Apr. 06 - County Coliseum, El Paso, TX
Apr. 09 - Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix, AZ
Apr. 10 - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA
Apr. 12 - Event Center, San Jose, CA
Apr. 13 - ARCO Arena, Sacramento, CA
Apr. 15 - WaMu Center, Seattle, WA

DECEMBER 19TH
A Little Piece of Heaven animated video?!
That's right! If you haven't got your copy of the MVI, or registered on it, go to that now! Sometime in January the cartoon-video will be released!
Sit tight! Here's the TRAILER

DECEMBER 10TH
The contest is OVER! Congrats to FRANK IERO FANS [THE ORIGINAL FIF] !We'll have them up in our winner's section, soon!

DECEMBER 2ND
NEW CONTEST! It's called Last Site Standing!
More details in the blog!


NOVEMBER 29TH
From A7X's blog:
"Right now it's us versus Avril Lavigne. We don't need to tell you what the right choice is, so get out there and vote! You don't have to register or anything. Just go here and VOTE A7X! "
So go vote, already!

NOVEMBER 27TH
I took the easy way, I just made the link to A7X's blog!
WEEKLY NEWS WRAP-UP INCLUDING: Avenged Sevenfold on Metal Hammer, KROQ's Acoustic Christmas to feature A7X, &A Little Piece of Heaven Update

NOVEMBER 12TH
No link for today; only one update:
Avenged Sevenfold will be appearing live on FUSE's The Sauce this Tuesday, November 13th at 6:00pm EST. It will repeat Wednesday at 11:00am EST and Saturday at 11:00am EST !

NOVEMBER 8TH
Help out the victims of California's wildfires, and pick up the CD/MVI of Avenged Sevenfold!

OCTOBER 30TH!!
GO OUT AND BUY "AVENGED SEVENFOLD" TODAY!

OCTOBER 26TH
WATCH FOOTAGE FROM A7X'S SECRET SHOW, WHAT'S IN NEWSTANDS NOW, CHANCE TO WIN TICKETS TO THE SOLD OUT LA SHOW, & GET THE MVI VERSION OF THE NEW A7XCD!

OCTOBER 25TH
UK CD RELEASE PREVIEW AND PARTIES, & ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA CD RELEASE PARTY W/ A7X!

OCTOBER 24TH
For those who missed Loveline last night, or just want to listen/download it, click HERE to do so! Also, if you missed SCREAM20007, you're out of luck. Look it up on youtube or something, the performance was great!

Add Valary Love, as well. They're a great site, &I know they'd appreciate it


OCTOBER 23RD
A7X on MTV's The Leak, A7X on Loveline (tonight!), &A7X at Spike TV's 2007 Scream Awards (tonight!)

OCTOBER 17TH
We don't have a link for today, since it's just one update. But! That one thing happens to be WEBISODE 8 !

Copy the code below to add it to your profile


OCTOBER 16TH
PRE-ORDER A7X'S NEW RECORD ON ITUNES TODAY AND GET TWO EXCLUSIVE SONGS, &something special for the Kansas City, Kansas fans!

OCTOBER 11TH
Just a weekly wrap-up of this week's A7X news!

OCTOBER 10TH
Click the link to possibly gt your chance to see Avenged live!. Below, we have a calendar for October of all the Avenged Sevenfold updates/shows/events that we just got in our inboxfrom the Avenged Sevenfold MySpace! Enjoy!
*click on the image to enlarge*

OCTOBER 9TH
A Message from A7X, Vote "Almost Easy" for Oven Fresh, &Hot Topic listening party

OCTOBER 8TH
A7X on Loveline, Order tickets for Scream Awards, &Preorder the cd!

OCTOBER 5TH
A7X in Kerrang, A7X at SpikeTV's Scream Awards, Webisode 9, &Something special for UK A7X fans!

NEW LAYOUT AS OF OCTOBER 3rd!!
This is a site dedicated to the 5 boys who work so hard in the band we all know&love. One plays the drums;Two others shred guitar. Another works the bass. And the last lets out his amazing voice for all to hear. There isno doubt that they do all they can to transform the music they into complete masterpieces. Matt Sanders. BrianHaner Jr. Zachary Baker. Jonathan Seward. & James Sullivan. Or as most of you know them, M. Shadows.Synyster Gates. Zacky Vengeance. Johnny Christ. & The Rev[erend Tholomew Plague]. Their band?Avenged Sevenfold.

DISCLAIMER : THIS SITE IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH ANY MEMBER OF AVENGED SEVENFOLD

PLEASE NOTE : We post MULTIPLE MULTIPLE bulletins. If you arent up for that, dont add. That's yourwarning.
NO HATE MAIL REGUARDING THE AMOUNT OF BULLETINS WE POST

AMANDAFUCKING SEVENFOLD
Obviously, I'm known as Amanda FUCKING Sevenfold, &on this site i'm the monitor. I basically look out for things when Meghan cannot take care of the site. I'm the main owner forVenom&Tears , a Throwdown fansite.
Favorite Member: M. Shadows
Favorite Song: I Won't See You Tonight Part1&Gunslinger
Favorite Album: Waking the Fallen.Stage Name: M. Shadows
Occupation: Lead Singer
Age: 26
Birthday: July 31, '81
Random Fact: His fiancé, Valary DiBennedetto, used to be the bands manager.
Quote: "If an 18-year-old kid were to come up and talk shit about my band it would be a really bad scene for them."

Stage Name: Zacky Vengeance
Occupation: Rhythm Guitarist
Age: 26
Birthday: December 11 '81
Random Fact: Zacky has a clothing line called Vengeance Univerity [Est. 6661].
Quote: "You wouldnt go to war without your best ammo. So why would you get on stage without a Schecter."

Stage Name: The Reverend Tholomew Plague
Occupation: Drummer
Age: 26
Birthday: Februrary 10, '81.
Random Fact: The Rev has another band with Synyster Gates, Pinkly Smooth.
Quote: "What about the being naked in a liquor store? I was naked in a liquor store and...."

“They’re cheesy. They sing nowadays; they should scream like they used to. They’re sellouts.”

They fight. They fuck. They destroy hotel rooms.

They’re misunderstood.

They are warm. They are loyal. They are brave. They are authentic.

They are disciplined.

As musicians, the members of Avenged Sevenfold are definite virtuosos in a time when being accomplished artists seemingly means so little. They are inquisitive and never fullysatisfied with their own work. They seek to grow and improve every day, regardless of the obstacles or costs involved.

They are a rock band. They are rock stars. They are Avenged Sevenfold.

Avenged Sevenfold, the album, is a self-produced effort. While the band shared co-production credit on 2005’s million-selling City Of Evil with Mudrock, this new album is solely theirresponsibility — and they’re primed to accept it.

But attaining such stature didn’t arrive in an overnight jaunt. To the contrary, Avenged Sevenfold had been an integral part of the independent, underground rock scene years beforebreaking through on commercial radio. In fact, the Orange County, California-based act launched its career several years ago (they were barely out of high school) with the release of itsdebut in July 2001 of Sounding The Seventh Trumpet.

Miles of van touring ensued, performing in tightly packed clubs, and sweating shoulder-to-shoulder on both national and international levels. Despite the truly D.I.Y. affair (which stillfound the fledgling act putting on an eye-opening, elaborate stage show), Avenged Sevenfold never offered anything less than a full-throttle set. The band released its second independentfull-length in August 2003, Waking The Fallen, a couple years later, greatly expanding on its metal-based foundation and giving us a not-so-subtle nudge that something exciting was in theimminent forecast.

Our suspicions were confirmed a couple years later, with Avenged Sevenfold’s breakthrough 2005 Warner Bros. debut, City Of Evil, featuring the wildly popular single “Bat Country.”That was the turning point for the fearless, genre-bending quintet that, after years of clocking in on the independent level, had finally advanced towards a milestone they had been seekingthroughout their careers.
A7X wrapped 18 months of relentless touring in October 2006 and immediately began writing Avenged Sevenfold. After the success of City Of Evil — where they proved they had trulycaptured the imagination of music fans of all shapes and sizes — they became the only band to headline Warped Tour and Ozzfest while simultaneously hitting Number One on MTV’s TRL.The natural question was whether the band would continue its creative odyssey or return to the formula that brought them such success on the last go-around. Thankfully, they continuedtheir musical exploration without caving in to any outside influences.

For this self-titled release, the act returned to the garage at M. Shadows’ parents’ home where these high-school friends had penned every other song in their discography. The bandsought to delve into genres and recording techniques they had discovered on the road. For instance, they wanted to incorporate the narrative lyrics and biting guitar tones they’d admiredin country music, as well as the powerful bottom end of hip-hop they felt would only add to the power of their music and message.

“All those months on the bus we really weren’t finding new rock that was moving us,” says frontman M. Shadows. “Instead, we were listening to everything from Toby Keith to T.I., andfinding elements we could incorporate into what we were doing to make our next record more interesting to us.”

In the studio, Avenged Sevenfold enlisted engineers Fred Archambault and Dave Schiffman (System Of A Down, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers), and the team went to work.

The resulting sound and rhythm of Avenged Sevenfold is, in a word, eclectic. Yet it’s still trademark A7X. “‘Scream’ has a groove we really wanted to inject into this record,” saysguitarist Synyster Gates. “And on ‘Lost,’ you can hear the influence melodic bands like NOFX have always had on our band.”

A7X composed the string sections, including the individual instrument orchestration, with the assistance of Marc Mann and Steve Bartek from Oingo Boingo (and who currentlyorchestrate for Danny Elfman). With the soaring strings in “Afterlife,” the haunting and theatrical performance of “A Little Piece Of Heaven,” or the gentle vocals of a child in “Unbound,” theband’s creative and varied approach is surprising. Percussionist Lenny Castro brought a dynamic to “Brompton Cocktail,” and noted pedal steel and banjo player Greg Leisz added acountry flair to the song “Dear God.” Yet as Gates adds, “it’s the dueling guitars, Shadows’ voice and the Rev’s brutality that make every one of the songs sound like AvengedSevenfold.”

Lyrically, Shadows was striving for something more personal on the new album. “I feel we all experience a certain inner conflict, the push and pull between how we think we should act,or want to act, and the temptations and human instincts that we often blame when we don’t end up being the person we want to be.”

In fact, the album’s first single, “Almost Easy,” focuses on more similar temptations. “Afterlife” addresses the notion of “memento mori,” or the need to remember that death mayintervene before we have reconciled differences with friends or loved ones.

These guys worked their asses off making Avenged Sevenfold (enlisting studio legend Andy Wallace to mix the record), literally sweating every detail with the same (if not stronger)conviction they had years earlier in trying to prove themselves to the masses. But it’s best you understand what was really going on during the three months these five best friends wereholed up making Avenged Sevenfold.

They were having the time of their lives.