Avenged Sevenfold is a band of American Hardrock Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance rhythm guitar, and bassist Johnny Christ.
Avenged Sevenfold emerged with a metalcore genre on their debut Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, which contains vocals scream banya. The band changed their style on their third album and first major label release, City of Evil, which features melodic vocals and power ballads. The band continued to explore new sounds with Avenged Sevenfold titled issued and enjoyed continued mainstream success before their drummer, James "The Rev" Sullivan, died of heart disease and combined effect of drugs and alcohol in his body in 2009. Despite his death, the band continued with the help of then former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy to release and tour in support of Nightmare, their fifth album in 2010 which debuted on the top of the Billboard 200, which is in the first place ..
To date, Avenged Sevenfold has released five studio albums, one live album / compilation / DVD, and sixteen singles. The band has received many awards for mainstream success around the world and especially those declared as one of the leaders and key bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal and featured as second place on Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Bands Top Decade.
