Avenged Sevenfold was made in Huntington, California in 1999. First, there was only M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, and The Rev. Then, in 2001, Synyster Gates joined the band while he was still in school. After Synyster joined the band, the last member Johnny Christ joined in 2002. Avenged Sevenfold is a Rock/Metal that is associated by Buckcherry, Bleeding Through, and Good Charlotte. They are recored with Good Life Recordings, Warner Bros., and Hopeless. Avenged Sevenfold got the name from the "Book of Genesis" from the Bible. In 2005, M. Shadows had to get surgery on his throat because of an accident from the song "Waking the Fallen".


Band Members

M. Shadows- Matthew Sanders (Lead Singer)
Zacky Vengeance- Zackery Baker (Guitarist)
The Reverend Tholomew Plague- James Sullivan (Drummer)
Johnny Christ- Jonathan Seward (Bass)
Synyster Gates- Brian Haner, Jr. (Lead Guitarist)


Former Band Members

Matt Wendt- Bass (1999-2000)
Justin Sane- Bass (2000-2001)
Dameon Ash- Bass (2001-2002)

A hardcore music band from Huntington Beach,CA which started w/ other band's covers, playing in every place they could, like their, (matt's and zacy's) highschool, chain reaction, showcase theather to minimal audiences and after an US tour starting to get more adepts to their music,and w/ a huge staff of friends started on touring the US by themselves, and then joining the vans Warped tour w/ their new bassist , johnny christ, this band has played W/ Metallica as their opening band in tours, and does the most asskicking songs, with a great performance on ROCK AM ring 06, theyve become one of the greatest hardcore bands, band which was founded by Matt Shadows, The rev & Zacky Vengeance, after their first album, Sounding The Seventh trumpet, Synyster Gates ( a friend from childhood W/ the rev) joined them, and at the begginin of their performances on warped tour, johnnny christ joined them, since then they've been playing around the world with great sucess and an everyday growing fanbase

what every 12-16 year old listens to to be cool cause all of their friends listen to it when really its just the drummer having a seizure while the guitarist tunes to drop d and hits the 6-4th strings over and over again while the bassist takes a nap and the singer screams at the top of his puny emo lungs without even bothering to put out any words of any sort.

kids usually only listen to bands such as this due to their friends' poor taste in music while if they actually tried to think freely they would most likely enjoy actual metal bands such as obituary, morbid angel, november's doom, pestilence, death, cannibal corpse (1980's-90's), and others.

I. - (Aven-ged' Seven-fold; noun) A terrific band that receives very "little" praise from the rock fanbase. They are--with a doubt--metal/rock. Such songs, like Desecrate Through Reverence, or Clairvoyant Disease (their best songs), are considered to be metal.

II. - (Aven-ged' Seven-fold; noun) An amazing band with unique guitar riffs. They are among the few rockbands nowadays that 'actually' know the definition of intense. The vast majority of their songs have quite a bit of originality and taste.

III. (Aven-ged' Seven-fold; noun) Term for a childhood prodigy, whose talents and efforts are vaguely summarized as good.

An awesome band who just released a self-titled album and are going to be on the Rockstar Taste Of Chaos 2008 tour!!! You can also call them A7X

A band that comes from Huntington Beach, CA. They have a great sound, and produce some good music....they are my second favorite band, next to The Offspring.

Now, to be frank...the only reason the band is what it is, is the lead guitarist Synyster Gates (my guitar idol, absolutely incredible), and the drummer The Rev. They ARE the band, they are SUCH musicians its incredible. The other band members are dead weight. Zacky Vengeance, M Shadows and Johnny Christ. They have no idea what they are doing musically. They have great chemistry on stage, don't get me wrong, such talent should not be mixed with that much...bad talent....thats all....

Embarrassing American band who believe they're hardcore because they have; lame nicknames ('Synister Gates'? Need I say more?), clothes blatantly brought from the girls section in Hot Topic (and customised to fit them), muscle-hugging tank-tops, eye-liner, face-powder and nail-varnish (they blatantly have more beauty products than me and I'm a 20 year old girl. These are men clocking 30, I may add).

Talented musicians that are over-shadowed by a poor image and a terrible singer.