Avenged Sevenfold is a band that’s genre varies from hard rock, heavy metal, and metal core. The current members include Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, James Sullivan, Johnny Seward, and Zachary Baker. Each of the members has a stage name.
Brian = Synyster Gates
Zachary = Zacky Vengeance
James = The Rev
Matthew = M. Shadows
Johnny = Johnny Christ
Synyster is the lead guitarist for the band. He plays his ‘custom Synyster Schecter guitar’. He self taught himself by watching other guitarists play, and looking through other guitar magazines. He was also named guitarist of the year in 2006.
Zacky is the rhythm guitarist for the band and he plays guitar left handed, he started to play guitar at age 13. He has amazing skills, though he’s not as good as Synyster.
Johnny plays bass for the band. He is the youngest and shortest out of all the members of the band.
The Rev is the tallest out of them all, and he is the bands drummer. He is an insane drummer. He wrote some songs like: A little piece of heaven, Almost Easy, Afterlife, and Brompton Cocktail. He co-wrote a few of the songs, such as Scream, Critical Acclaim, and Lost. He has a really cool drum kit.
Matt is the lead singer for the band, and he has a great voice. When he first started singing, he started out screaming in the first two albums, and kind of dropped it when he recorded City Of Evil. Matt started singing in his first band, Successful Failure. He then made a few other bands later on with Zacky, but then finally formed Avenged Sevenfold.
The name of the band came from the Bible, in the fourth chapter, Genesis 4:24. A few songs come from the Bible, including Chapter Four, referring to the chapter of the Bible. The abbreviation for the bands name, A7X was thought up by Zacky. Sevenfold, means seven times over, so 7X, then A from Avenged, thus becoming A7X.
Though the band say they are not a religious band. And in a interview with Matt, he said “That’s one thing about this band that I love, is that we never really shove any kind of, like, political or religious beliefs on people. We just make the music, the music’s there to entertain and maybe thought-provoking on both sides, but we don’t try to, like, really shove anything down anyone’s throat”.
