Avenged Sevenfold Takes Home Kerrang! Award

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Avenged Sevenfold was recently awarded one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious metal awards: The 2008 Album of the Year at the Kerrang! Awards. The band is grateful for receiving such an award, and they emphasize how much this award really means to them; as England has become "a second home" to the band. They are very grateful for the fan support that they receive around the world, and thank all of their fans for their devotion.
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I trust Kerrang!. For people in here second guessing Kerrang!, apparently you aren't as metal as implied by the website. Kerrang! was one of the original metal magazines. And I don't mean modern metal, I mean the birth of it all. stop b****ing anyways people. That's why Kerrang! chose them, cause they like them. You may not, but don't go into a bands news and bash them just because you don't like them.
wow as if we here at MU havnt heard the "if you don't like [insert gay band name here] why are you posting here" enough times. its a free world and a free forum, and i hate avenged queerfold. And you're going to hear from me everytime i see a thread with their name on it.
this band sucks
np: arch enemy-black earth
this band roolz -^
I'm mainly a black/death/thrash metaler myself. I can also admit to liking some good metalcore. I can say that I like old slipknot (note love, LIKE). I can also do death growls if I REALLY have to do vocals, like the solo band called Death Crusade that I am starting nce I get a MIDI keyboard.
Yeah,its pretty bad... when there are a half dozen guitar players..a few drummers and a couple bass players.. all of those musicians and only one guy that's a great singer...but..... he's the worlds most arrogant, controlling prick...!!
One of those guys that cant play an instrument but likes to tell ya how to play yours...!!
Yeah thats alot of fun... Create entire songs worth of music....ask this guy to put some lyrics to the music...and the first thing he says is.... "well I think this part needs to be played like this...and that part doesnt sound right and on n on ....yada yada yada..."
Ive been playing guitars and writing music since before he was born..!!
Dealing with a situation like that is almost as frustrating as an Amish electrician on his first day of work..!!
and now after pulling some pinchies.....it just so happens to be time for a smoke....a Marlboro red, from a box of course.!!

"I'm mainly a black/death/thrash metaler myself. I can also admit to liking some good metalcore."
Dude, don't be ashamed! If YOU like it, than f*** what everyone else thinks. I listen to alot of stuff that many here would probably consider "gay". lol.
For example,
NP: Skinny Puppy-Convulsion
Well, hey there ZT.... I know your from around that area somewhere..but Ive never known exactly where..?? an Ive never known an email address for ya...??
I was also in Buffalo,NY... an Ive never known an email address for BLACKDOG either..!!
mhd101 - yeah Im a burner(only weed) and not offended at all.. generally, unless we're recording,
I prefer to play when Im stoned... ;-)-~ ~
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

"Well, hey there ZT.... I know your from around that area somewhere..but Ive never known exactly where..?? an Ive never known an email address for ya...??"
Haha, yeah, uh, about that.......Sorry dude! I'll give it to ya, just not here. You know, so I don't get any hate mail...... ;)
It's funny how when a band wins a prize somewhere on earth they start saying that this place has become a second home to them. I mean If AX7 would win a prize in a toilet bowl they would say that it is a second home for them...no wait this just in : the toilet bowl is their first home, since they sound like sh** and are full of sh**.
Hey Godlike, I am still waiting for that email, ya lazy butt
Kali, hope you are doing fine, I was wondering where you guys where in the threads, guess you where here...
Hey sorry, my buddy Red...!!! Kalis_ got hers at the end of July... that was ALOT to write.... yours will be shorter because of previous knowledge of the situation.... hell, there is even an update to the story that you will get that she isnt aware of...!!
I'll get to it this weekend..!! spent the first part of the month doing some traveling and wasnt around a computer very much... !! but now Im back....for awhile anyway..!!
OK..., Red...so perhaps I should just forward the same email to you ( the one that Kalis_ got) .... along with the updates...?? Maybe it would be easier to read the "whole story".....rather than try and catch you up from when we last spoke.... Im not sure if I ever really told you how the whole "saga" began..???
High school was the worst time of my life, I don't miss it and never will. I didn't show up to the 10 year reunion because I didn't want to see those f***faces again, I would have probably settled some old scores with the cool sports guy...
And Godlike, as for the mail, forward it to me plus updates, that'll save you time and I will finally get the story...
I hated every moment of high school....perhaps thats why I was stoned most of the time...??
f^ckin jocks and preppies... and of course...I cant leave out the prissy little b****es that thought they were better than everyone else...!! I havent been to a reunion yet.... even the 20 that came and went last year..!!
High school was weird for me. Had peace mostly from all "cliques," but that happened after (mind you it did not take long) people found out who my sis is. I would mention that my last name is Archuleta and would be asked if (enter sisters name) was my sis, I would say yes and got the reply "I am so sorry!" Perhaps they figured that that was enough to deal with. Love my sis dearly, but damn am I glad her bittchy faze went away!
Well that's stupid...at my school some people are cool with everyone, while OTHERS just sticked to their own little groups. Teens tend to mind their own and don't bother the metallers all that much, at least from what I see....unless there's an a$$hole who picks a fight with anyone. But as I said b-4, I'm a nobody,and I'm completely away form all the "drama" people are into. I guess I'm just boring! If people made fun of me I wouldn't know it b-cuz I always have my headphones on...the world is just so loud (and not in a good way) Say, do you still have long hair?

Um... The award probably should have gone to the best album..... not the most popular band..
I've heard this album and there have definately been better releases over the past year.
and the only reason England is a second home to them is because everyone in the USA throws sh** at them.
Back in skool, well, I'm not a particularly large kid, but when people f***ed with me, I just busted them in their sh**. My 9th grade year started like that, but eventually I just ended up chillin with the ghetto black people and makin fun of the goth kids. NowI just hang out with a bunch of a$$holes who make fun of everyone and take names, but all in the name of making people laugh and trying to meet people just as a$$hole as we were.
Now that I'm out of school though, I just bring those people to Metal concets and we douche it up and mosh the whole time.
As for Average SemenHold, I hate em. 90 percent of all their songs have the same song construction, where halfway thru the song they have to throw in a melody part where the dude tries to sing all passionatly and sh** but all i hear is c***sucking expressed in noise-form. f*** em.
Tis truly quite uncomfortable to be a lesbian trapped in a mans body..!!!
mhd101 - does that happen to be Madison, Wisconsin..?
Ive been playing guitars for almost 30 yrs and Ive always wanted to learn to play the piano..!!
I used to have long hair.....then it started to get thin....so now I shave my head..!! The bald look is not the coolest...but when you have lots of tattoos it makes up for it...!!
Kalis_.... I got your email....finally.....!!!! I am SO relieved to know that you dont hate me.... and
YES....I have learned MANY valuable lessons over the last 6yrs....!!
oh yeah..... this band is quite horrid...!!! I have never been able to listen to an entire song..!!
Black Sabbath - Hand of Doom
mornin Red.... I just got done reading your email..... ..once again, your words of wisdom have left me with LOTS to think about...!! So, I shall thank you for sharing your thoughts....I will reply a little later....after Ive had some time for it all to sink in.. Its truly too bad that your not closer... I would think it'd be nice to chat in person..?? I have free nights and weekends with my cellphone...but I just dont think Canada is included..???
mhd101..... you didnt answer my question from #115.. is that Madison, WI... where you live..?

"OK....got it.! Not sure if I'll be out that way anytime again soon... but I can converse easier with ya now..!! thanks.!!
I can send ya some pics of some of my projects... My Nightswan looks amazing after I stripped and refinished it last summer..!!"
Sounds smashing, 'ol chap! :)

Since we're on the topic of High School, it wasn't all that bad for me. I mean, there were times where I felt completely isolated, but hey, it seems to be like that everywhere I go in life, so I say f*** it! :)
Now playing: Ministry-You Know What You Are
^just ONE of the bands that helped me get through High School!
ZT you said that you felt completely isolated sometimes in high school but that's exactly what we wanted, us the normal, non popular dudes. Just leave us alone, we don't want to be popular or on the map...but they wouldn't let us alone so I had to take matters into my own hands, so I started beating them with hockey sticks, baseball bats and garbage bins. After they that they left me alone...
Yeah, I truly hated high school.....remember now...this was the 80s....
I lived in a small town and that small town school was full of either jocks/preppies or redneck farmers... and then there was me...long hair and earrings wearing denim and leather...!!!
Damn, I got picked on ALL the time.... especially in gym class.... I can still hear it now.... calling me names and pointing..... I got so sick of being called "donkey d***"...and "Kind Dong"....damn it was f^ckin humiliating..!!!
Yeah I was good at sports man, but I didn't play in the school teams because I hate dall those f***ers, full of sh**, full of themselves. And I hated all those b****es revolving around them. i felt like it was caveman era. And I value the brain more than the muscles. Muscles are ok but damn they don't make you think !!! But beating them was pretty fun I have to admit. Little regret in that. The garbage bin one was pretty f***ing funny, it was those huge hard plastic red one, I took it by a handle and swung it right on the guys head. He felt weak after that...just so you know why I did that, I was taking something in my locker and this sport jock asshead punched my in the back of my head for no reason.
I agree with Red.... It made a big difference when the guy getting picked on started fightin back....
after I threw some punches and kicked some asses a few times, that ended ALOT of the hassle..!!
I hated sports tho..... I never participated in any of em.... although it always p***ed off the coaches cuz I was one of the biggest guys in my school...yet I never wanted to be a jock..!!
You know I remember all my friends saying : just ignore them they will leave you alone. f*** that ! It never worked, the less you fought back the more they picked on you, easy prey. I mean I admit I was fighting dirty, sneak attacks, weapons of all sorts, bug spray in the eyes but I didn't give a sh** because in my book, the one that ends up on the floor in pain and fear is the looser. so they would go around and tell me how weak I was to attack them from behind but by the 3rd year they where so scared of me that they chose to leave me the f*** alone because they didn't have the balls to go as far and as violently as I did. They wanted an easy war, where you come in and take whatever you want but they got resistance, guerrilla, and they are not as tough as they thought they where. I mean how tough can you really picking on little dudes with glasses that only want to be left in peace ? That's right motherf***ers, you got me in full hatred...
But after the 3rd year of high school and until now, I never got into a fight, I leave peacefully and you know why ? Because people are doing exactly what I want : they let me live in peace and harmony...
Yep.... the ol saying goes..."it takes a bigger man to just walk away.."
When in reality.... it makes it much easier if you either, kick the sh^t outa the biggest guy..which makes the rest of em back off.... or... do something crazy that will make em all think your a psycho MF......then nobody messes with ya..!!!
Red... in response to post 144, everybody ends up dead. Gandhi still managed to make more of a difference to an entire nation while he was alive than most people do to the small world immediately surrounding them. He was a pacifist and a genius and is remembered for his life. And he dies, like every other human has and will. Most aren't even remembered as having lived, let alone as having done something extraordinary and beautiful with their lives.
You can't take shots at a hero for dying, it's part of the human condition.
Yeah, I've seen that movie. Powerful stuff. They made us watch it in school for some reason. Great movie, though.
He was an easy victim... well, yes, but perhaps that is because his way of attacking what was wrong was by victimising himself. "Stop fighting or I'll starve myself to death." He made himself the victim, and there is nothing special about making a victim of someone who makes himself a victim. He didn't get his arse kicked. He let his arse get kicked - he practically kicked his own arse. And besides, he was shot, and anyone can kill anyone with a gun, doesn't matter who you are. So nothing special about his getting killed there, either.
I don't think the pacifist way is always the best, but I really don't think there's any valid perspective that criticises Gandhi for what he did or how he did it.
Oh my man, bad idea, that could get you into even more trouble, plus those bastards can't really help you outside the walls. I say just blow up one of their cars and watch it go...they will probably avoid ANY eye contact with you for, let's say, a 1000 years.
Hahahahahaha, well I know he will not blow up a car but f*** man he's got to make himself a little psycho so they will leave him alone. that's what I did and it worked. they just thought that I woulb be willing to go so far that one of them would end up pined to the front of a city bus and then smash the bus into a wall...of course it was staged but they believed it...idiots.
Imagine the face of the sport jock while strapped to the bus and the grin of the psycho driving it...hahahahahahahahaha. Well it's funny as a story but for real I hope it would never happen. But you know sometimes we judge these kids that go to their school and go loco but how much where they picked on, to what level ? did we pushed them to have a mental breakdown ? I hope not because that would just be even more terrible.
I don't know, I mean I got picked on A LOT because I grew up a metalhead and nobody else was. I had pride for my musical roots! Everybody around here (in Iowa) listens to rap or c*ntry, it seems.. but I never had the urge to go shoot up or stab up the school. I hated high school, but that sh*t's all in the past now. I guess you just gotta be strong enough to get past it.. some people make it, others don't. I can gladly say, though, that I've never been one of those to try and push someone over that edge.. I really try and bring them back, so to say.
metalheaddrummer, not that I would start sh** but, I would kick your a$$ out of the school if you snitched on me. If you can't physically get the guy to back off you gotta be smarter and break him mentally. What Red said is a bit over the line but hes got the right concept down; maybe slash his tires instead, or potatoe in the tailpipe, key the ouside, piss on all of his door handles, or sharpie the windshield until he cant see. You have to be creative dont be a narc.
Hahahahaha, it was meant to be over the line but like I said I went through that and fought my way in to peace. Had to do some not very nice stuff but they deserved it. Or he could put some dope in his locker and call the police...hahahahahaha that'll do just fine.
Actually you had a couple of words right in your post but they where used wrongly. Here are the words I accept as right : blow, talent, heart. Now here's how the words should have been used : A7X have no f***ing talent, their commercial move show how much they have a rotten heart. They really really blow...
People just love to hate when people are on top, all this talk about a7x going mainstream and becoming soft. Just because a band doesnt scream doesnt make them soft read the f***ing lryics there still harder then most underground bands, and if u ever been to one of their concerts u'd kno what the f***s up about them, and how they get down on stage.
Actually, it's not a matter of hating a band because they're popular, it's a matter of hating them because they suck (each other off). They "get down" on stage all right, that is to say I'm sure they "get down" on each other while Mr. Shadows attempts to give himself a rimjob.

yeah, cause the whole 'they're gay and screw each other' bit is so f-ing original. that definately means they suck as a band, cause they suck each other!! ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!! haha, not really. if you dont like them, fan freaking tastic; but alot, and I mean alot of people do so go be alone in a corner somewhere and quit trashing those who enjoy quality music

Damn you guys are a buncha d***riders...I see this band getting bashed for everything...you f***s cant let go of the past...Avenged use to be a hardcore band but they got mainstream but they still sound solid, i personally liked their older sh** but how can you say they have no talent?? they actuallly made the transition Metallica couldn't do and will never do....dont get me wrong Metallica is badass are alot better than Avenged if you went back 30 years ago....they are f***in lame as sh** now....Avenged also have a wide range in music, they change their sh** up and it sounds good...Their covers of Pantera and Iron Maiden are f***in solid too...I like Pantera better than Avenged but i hate to say it the cover sounds better than the original....Think about it, if you made somebody listen between the two they WILL say Avenged's version is better...I ve experimented with that and the only people that said Pantera's was better were the d***riding fans!!! You f***s are all biased....I'm not a huge fan Avenged but jeez these guys are actually decent and their songs dont sound the same....
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