Released July 24, 2001 Release date 31 January 2001 Label Goodlife Recordings | Artist Avenged Sevenfold Producer Donnell Cameron Genre Metalcore | |
Recorded November 2000 - January 2001 Length 52:10
52:01 on the original version 2000 Demo
(2000) Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
(2001) Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
(2001) Warmness on the Soul
(2001) Similar Avenged Sevenfold albums, Metalcore albums | ||
Avenged sevenfold to end the rapture
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on July 24, 2001 by Good Life Recordings, and re-released by Hopeless Records on March 19, 2002, featuring slightly different cover art. The album was recorded in November 2000 at Westbeach Recorders in California. Although the album only sold 300 copies in its first week of release, it has sold 370,000 copies worldwide with 310,000 sold in America, as of November 2010. The title 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet' takes its name from the Book of Revelation, specifically referencing chapter 11 and the sounding of the last (seventh) trumpet, showing the end of the world. Valary DiBenedetto (M. Shadows' future wife) performs vocals on the track "The Art of Subconscious Illusion." The album was released as 2x12 vinyl, LP, 33 ⅓ RPM, Purple on 2008 in US.
Contents
Avenged sevenfold turn the other way lyrics
Production
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet was recorded with a tiny budget of $2,000. When the band members got into the studio, The Rev recorded all the drums in one take, and the other members of the band added their parts to what he had laid down. Zacky Vengeance played lead guitar originally. Then, when Synyster Gates joined the band, they recorded a heavy metal version of "To End the Rapture" with Gates playing lead guitar. This heavy metal version was first seen on the Warmness on the Soul single, and was later featured on the re-release of Sounding the Seventh Trumpet.
Reception
Sounding the Seventh Trumpet was generally well received by critics. 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."
Videography
Avenged Sevenfold later released the Warmness on the Soul, which featured a video for the single "Warmness on the Soul". The video depicted the band wandering through city streets as M. Shadows wife, Valary searched for them. And there is also the heavy metal version of "To End the Rapture" which was released on the reissue of Sounding the Seventh Trumpet after it was bought by Hopeless Records.
Track listing
All lyrics written by M. Shadows and Zacky Vengeance
* The "Heavy Metal Version" was featured on the re-release of Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, replacing the original.
Personnel
Songs
1To End the Rapture
2Turn the Other Way5:37
3Darkness Surrounding4:50