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Agreed about the voice, I don’t get how some people dislike it, to me is so unique and one of the main reasons I love Avenged 🤷‍♂️

everyone talks about cosmic, and mattel, but this song right here sold me on the album honestly. even now i go back to it constantly because it somehow scratches every itch, m shadows’ amazing voice, crazy guitar and drum tracks, and the unshakeable SOAD vibe this song gives off. what a fucking way to start an album man, it set the bar high and i feel most of the songs hit that bar solidly

Matt's voice has always been great, but now it's *great*. The man hit a high at Rockville that rivaled Axl Rose in his prime.

the „can‘t you see, life is but a dream anyway“ at the end gets me everytime. So beautiful 🥲

Im in love with this album, I love the risk they took with it

FINALLLLLLY a real breakdown! So many channels bashing the fuck outta this album saying it’s too scattered or his voice isn’t the same. Every single person thinking they have reviewed this album needs to watch this.

ill also say that there was a 78 piece orchestra on this album there is no synthetic strings or horns it was all legitimate as stated by m. shadows himself.

LOVE your reaction to this song. This whole album is a fucking masterpiece work of art.

Can't wait for the other songs on the album. I absolutely love this album. I've been obsessed with avenged since 2007 and I think this album truly is brilliant. Its so different but also feels like home at the same time. Can't wait to see them in Mass in July! Great video, looking forward to the rest of the album 😎

I have to say when i was younger i used to not think Shads was anything special but the more i learn about singing i find myself blown away by some of the stuff he does with his voice

Actually, this album is a masterpiece for prog lovers.. and i agree Shadows vocals still works, also sometimes its not about being as clear as posible, this is art, in ther form of bringin the vibe it needs..

Matt is by far one of the greatest metal vocalists. Just spend 20 minutes listening to live performances in his early days, (2006-2014). He has a very powerful, distinct, and energetic voice along with insane control. It’s like no wonder chicks fall for this dude when listening to LBC, just saying 😂 And he’s still got it now, can’t scream as much as he used to obviously cause vocal injuries and such… but he still sounds awesome 🤙🏼

I think the most difficult part about people liking his vocals, even before his voice got damaged, and got surgery for it. M. Shadows will change his voice around on purpose depending which style they are going towards on certain songs. City of Evil was definitely different for him during that time. But I would say everything after the white album, his vocals became more clearer. But now with the stage and life is but a dream, it seems like after his voice was damage a few years ago now you can clearly hear the difference, even if he does change his voice often for the certain songs now. He sadly Will never be the same again, that being said I do love his voice because he absolutely nails it on certain songs. But there are other times where I actually can’t tell if he is changing it on purpose for it or it is because of the damage vocals?? it’s all a challenge at this point. 🎶

I never knew how much I needed (system of a avenged) in my life until this album. 🤩

Brooks is a drumming god

In my opinion is a really versatile vocalist. Personally I think he is one of the best now in their genre, what ever that is right now😅🤘🤘🤘😁. My favorite by far is Cosmic

For me, the verses and chorus leading to the bridge is your life flashing before your eyes leading to a midlife crisis, realizing you’ve done nothing meaningful with your life and deciding to end it all.

I love M.Shadows vocals 🧡

This album is so good, and awesome reaction!

Love the song and the whole album! Great video. May I know the program that you use to isolate the tracks?

Absolutely, he is underrated. 100% with you on the point that M Shadows doesnt sound like anyone.

this song is freaking sick.

He’s up there with Axl Rose in my book

What is that application you were using in this Video. Some type of Instruments Isolater? What’s it’s called?

This song is supposed to resemble being born and then waking up into complete chaos as anxiety and panic takes shape leaving disoriented from all the fast paced lyrics in the verses. Fed up,the narrator chooses to take his own life ending his contribution to his family. “Adieu,I never had the will anyway.” “Toss the rope over the branch and fall into the night, and here I swing from my family tree;say good night…” Brilliant

I just saw them this last Friday at the forum in Inglewood and the show was phenomenal. I’ve seen Avenged roughly 10 times and I think this may have been their best concert I’ve been to. Shadows voice definitely sounded rested and more powerful than it has in a while. Syn, zacky, Johnny, and brooks all killed it too. Phenomenal show !

How do you have the isolated tracks?

Brooks Wackerman is a beast.

This is literally me when the album came out and i heard it for the first time!!!!!!!

This song gave me the SOAD vibes. Ughhh soooo good.

Saw them live a while ago and they opened up with this song it was fucking awesome.

Absolutely blown away by this album. There is something special A7X has that other bands don’t and I can’t figure it out.

Zack vengeance also has great background vocals

this album is masterpiece

M Shadows is legit. He is always trying to be better. What else do you want?!? His voice is fantastic

i really like your review

Great breakdown! I’ve always loved MShadow’s voice, he may not be the most talented but it’s the unique tone for me. Recently introduce A7X to my significant other and said that the voice reminded her of a pirate in a very cool and unique way

This album is a masterpiece, and that song is the perfect opener for a show. Saw them in Quebec City this summer. Was perfect.

He absolutely is... I will ALWAYS stand by this. As much as I may criticize some of his stylistic choices (particularly around City of Evil), to maintain the level of consistency that he has live through intense touring, to have such an incredible dynamic range of tones and pitches, to be able to project his voice as loudly as he does, and to have SO MUCH character within his delivery, and an incredibly distinct timbre.. he's genuinely one of the best to ever do it as far as I'm concerned.

matt is one of my favorite vocalist by far, so glad hes back and (in my opinion) better then ever

I’ve somehow never heard that scream at the end of the song

Whole band is underrated.

M shadows stepped up in this album imo. I wasn't as fond of his note choices in other albums and I honestly think his tone is miles better than the city of evil era. Instrumentally the band has always been world class though imo. Still a great band and an amazing discography.

What app are u using to isolate the different parts?

Matt and Corey Taylor are the goats of the 2000’s 2010’s and 2020’s

Short answer: YES

Coming from a long time fan listening since I was a kid and A7X being one of my favorite bands ever. M shadows voice is not the same, obviously he’s older now but even his screams are off. Don’t get me wrong, he still has an incredible voice and is easily recognizable anywhere. It’s still m shadows but just with a dying voice. Seems like some of these songs are written so he doesn’t have to belt out as much. Not bringing him down by any means here though. Still in my top vocalists of all time

Is this your fist listen dicotec?

This is definitely the song I drink my dark roast coffee to in the morning

My thought on this song is Brilliant!!! Like every other song on this album.

Wooooooooo

It seems anyone that knows music appreciates this album and the layers involved. The people that hate it is perfectly find but i rarely see a good explanation of whats bad about it. If people said its not my taste sure that makes sense. But terrible and bad are things this album is not.

Yay thank u

Cool

I love how polarizing this album is. It's separating the fans of metal to 2 camps. 1 camp is us, the ones who notice art at its truest form. We listen to music with the perspective of the artist and try to understand what they are doing instead of listening with our own bias. Camp 2 is the people who only like bands with less than 30,000 listeners on spofity. The bands no one has ever heard of, with pitch perfect production and mixing. The cleanest of clean. Nothing wrong with that music btw, it's just not the ONLY style of music. These are the people with 0 musical theory knowledge and don't play an instrument. They love to hate on the big bands. A7X has made a true masterpiece here. The more I listen to the album. The more I love it. The bands evolution is really amazing. HTTK is personally my least favorite album, the drumming was just way too stagnant. Even if it was intentional, they tried to control him too much. Besides that, The Stage was such a ride of an album. Ahh! I love these guys.

I just came for the voice experts in the comments. 😂

I think a good portion of people ragging on his voice are hung up on the esthetic of the band. To them they appear to be a bro bro, sellout, buttrock band that makes watered down radio metal, so they judge the vocals as such. Even when they were a young crusty crossover metalcore band, I've always though that Shadows wrote really great melodies and had a style of singing were you got the sense that he was really pushing himself to the far limits of his abilities and I think that makes him an intriguing singer to listen to.

I've seen lot of people saying it sounds like SOAD For me sounds more like Slayer than SOAD

this song is actually really sad

I will say Corey Taylor and Shadows do have a lot of vocal similarities

IMO these singers sound like M. Shadows: Axl Rose Justin Bonfini Adam Gontier John Cooper

Nope, nobody else sounds like m shadows!

I'm actually a little annoyed at them for the track "Cosmic". It's rooted itself so deep into my brain that I'm literally losing sleep to listen to it more. I actually feel like Synyster Gates is the true mastermind behind this album, but it's a brilliantly abstract spectacle of music, front to back. "Cosmic" though? I don't quite know what to call the place that song takes me to.

Omg I thought this said overrated. I clicked on that link so FAST. 😂 I clearly am very emotionally attached to this band! ❤ Not just his voice; but he has a level of intelligence and wisdom that I think most people overlook. Very smart man!

😄😄😄😄👋👋👋👋🙏

James Hetfield sounds like M Shadows. But Shadows is better at it.

he is overrated on the amount of hate he gets.

a band should at least have a few good albums and avenged sevenfold does not have those. look at dillinger escape plan, devin townsend, gorguts, electric wizzard.....even lamb of god has better albums than them.

"Is M.Shadows Underrated" What a stupid thing to say

M Shadows is a pretty weak vocalist, never was amazing live but thats fine, i still love the band

Both "anyway" have the same notes, in a different root key a(3) ny(4) waaay(6-7) I never had the will anyway (C#4, D4, F#-G#4) C# chord Life is but a dream anyway (E3, F3, A-B3) E chord C# is the third of A E is the third of C

Posted this as a comment but decided to raise it up to top level; M. Shadows is dimensions above Axl Rose, no comparison, not even in the same league. If you want to make comparisons you can jump straight to Chris Cornell. Then we can have opinionated discussions