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To be fair, Shadows wouldn't have any voice left if he didn't take lessons and clean his vocals up.
It was fraying badly at one point before he committed to learning how to properly sing.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Warner hired the vocal coach(Ron Anderson) of Avril Lavigne, Chad Kroeger, Adam Levine, Britney Spears for him, and the vocal coach actually said the surgery to remove a cyst Shadows had made clean singing more difficult for him as he lost 5 notes and he would have been better off screaming at the time.
But directives from warner are directives from warner. Make the music more alternative friendly.
Still some good songs on albums after waking the fallen. But only 2-3 per album.
Cleaned up the vocals, became more "Mallcore" and while I still usually enjoy a song or two from their albums, I can't listen to them in their entirety like the first 2 albums. I like some of the more prog aspects of certain tracks like MIA, Blinded in chains and Afterlife, but then the lyrics kick in on some songs and ruin it. Afterlife basically starts like an old school maiden tune, then morphs into creed type lyrics. They even did a country twang song.
There are also a lot of instances where while listening to their songs, I immediately realized which songs they were "inspired" by..........I.E completely stole riffs from.
Every time I hear the start of Beast and the Harlot, I first think he is trying to sound like Axl Rose, then I get flashbacks to this video game.
The strange thing is, then another band I like called bloodbound made a song called into Eternity that I found way too similar to the chorus later on.
A little piece of heaven was the song I felt most unique since they switched to Mallcore. yet its hard to explain to casual people why you find a song about ****ing your girlfriends corpse interesting.
My fiancee gets upset when I start singing Ride the lightning to the end of buried alive in the car. or when I sing unforgiven to the start of unbound.
Nightmare was such a meh album to me. The drumming was improved tho since Portnoy was just a better drummer. The Hetfield laugh in Nightmare usually makes me facepalm since it is so obvious he is trying to sound like Hetfield more and more.
Hail to the King was literally a cover album of slightly tweaked tunes.
This means war is such a blatant ripoff of Sad but true that it makes me giggle.
Sheppard of Fire tries too hard to have the intro and breaks of enter Sandman.
And heretic is a poor man's Symphony of destruction.
The 20 second clip they released of their upcoming album seems to have a lot of Malmsteen "Blitzkrieg" feel to it. Maybe it will be more prog? They have been trying to get out of their contract with Warner(Warner is suing them as a result)
Besides, they all admitted they were selling out to become more accessible.
http://loudwire.com/avenged-sevenfold-city-of-evil-anniversary/
“We knew we wanted to write a record that was more accessible than the ones we had done before,” Shadows told me shortly after the record came out. “We changed because we wanted to play the kind of music we liked, but we were smart enough to want to be listenable to more people. We knew the metalcore thing had a cap on it. There’s only so far you can go doing that.”
Often, bands shifting from one musical style to another lose a percentage of their fan base and Avenged Sevenfold circa 2005 is no exception. But what they lost from the diehard metalcore crowd they more than made up for from mainstream
Read More: 11 Years Ago: Avenged Sevenfold Unleash 'City of Evil' | http://loudwire.com/avenged-sevenfold-city-of-evil-anniversary/?trackback=tsmclip