AVENGED SEVENFOLD 'SOUNDING THE SEVENTH TRUMPET' 2LP (Purple Vinyl)

LABEL: Hopeless Records
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 5/12/2023
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2001
VARIANT: Purple Vinyl 2LP

Avenged Sevenfold’s 2001 debut is scrappy compared to everything they’d do after, but for a group of precocious teenagers banging through their dual affection for skate-punk and metalcore, it doesn’t get much better than this. Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan’s typhoon-like drumming — which he recorded all in one take — makes you lose your breath just listening along, and tracks like “Darkness Surrounding,” “Warmness of the Soul” and “An Epic of Time Wasted” are cuts every A7X fan needs to know.