sounding the seventh trumpet

Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is the first studio album by the American rock 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 sold 370,000 copies worldwide with 310,000 sold in America. 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' 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.

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, Val 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

  1. "To End the Rapture"
  2. "Turn the Other Way"
  3. "Darkness Surrounding"
  4. "The Art of Subconscious Illusion"
  5. "We Come Out at Night"
  6. "Lips of Deceit"
  7. "Warmness on the Soul"
  8. "An Epic of Time Wasted"
  9. "Breaking Their Hold"
  10. "Forgotten Faces"
  11. "Thick and Thin"
  12. "Streets"
  13. "Shattered by Broken Dreams"

Personnel

Avenged Sevenfold

  • M. Shadows – lead vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboard
  • Zacky Vengeance – guitar, backing vocals
  • The Rev – drums
  • Justin Sane – bass

Session musicians

  • Synyster Gates - guitar in "To End the Rapture"
  • Valary Di Bennedetto - vocals on "The Art of Subconscious Illusion"
  • Mr. Plague - (sound effects)

Production

  • Recorded at Westbeach in Hollywood, California, USA
  • Produced, engineered and mixed by Donnell Cameron and Avenged Sevenfold
  • Assistant Engineered by Henrah Kruzchev
  • Mastered by Ramon Breton and Avenged Sevenfold at Oceanview Mastering