New Avenged Sevenfold is a TOTAL WIN OR FAIL?

DragonForce guitarist @HermanLi analysing the new @avengedsevenfold song Nobody.
Record from Herman's Twitch channel.

DragonForce is a Grammy nominated platinum selling metal band. For over 20 years, DragonForce have toured around the world and shared the stage with many amazing bands including Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Helloween, Sabaton, Nightwish, Powerwolf, Amon Amarth, Hammerfall, Amaranthe, Blind Guardian, Stratovarius, Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Rhapsody and many more bands on Nuclear Blast Records, Napalm Records.
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[LorD]

I feel like Brooks drumming is being overlooked. Its literally perfection!

[LordSyn]

You know your a beast guitarist if the legend himself has one of your guitars

[twoworldwars]

The stop motion animation is so pretty. Every frame could be a wallpaper

[Harsyn]

Herman Li with the Syn Custom S is pretty damn cool to see!

[sportsmom]

Herman is a down to earth guy & I love how he appreciates other bands music.

[weslyfrantz]

Syn is a guitarist you just don’t mess with. And he’s kept the idea of guitar solos alive.

[sheld]

Took me a few listens for this song to grow on me. But I can really appreciate how different it is from their previous work. I like it

[LexSevenfold]

I just love how every album sounds do different. Such a good band.

[tooruoikawa]

Sounds like A7X is growing with their audience. Very mature release from these guys!

[Ciwe]

love Herman telling a story from 20 years ago, like it was last month XD

[Exile]

Absolutely lovely how Herman knows his stuff. He called City of Evil a “power metal album in disguise” and a lot of people probably don’t know, Shadows and the rest of the band have name dropped Blind Guardian a lot (Dragonforce too I’m pretty sure!) as a huge influence on their vocal harmonies and guitar playing, especially during that era!

Love the analysis for the new song too. June 2nd can’t come soon enough.

[aidanc]

The first time I heard this song I was “pass” didn’t like it at all. Something made me listen to it again and again. Now it’s one of my go to songs 🤘🤘. I love it

[atduguay]

I feel like this entire album is a creative expansion of what A7x did with the song "Exist" on The Stage album. Anyone else feeling this? There are a lot of recognizable techniques and sounds in the Solo here. A lot in the orchestral composition too. I love it and am here for more!

[ThineHolyBacon]

City of Evil is hands down my favorite album, and my favorite style that they would play. You get tastes of it in later songs like Natural Born Killer from the Nightmare album or St. James from Hail to the King. However, when a band experiments with their styles with every album its fun to listen to it new as you never really know what you're going to get and that's exciting!

Not my cup of tea on this first track, but maybe it'll grow on me with the rest of the album they release

[JayRappa]

That solo is why Sinister Gates continues to be so well recognized. Hoping the rest of the album is just as creatively done. They took a long time so there’s quite a bit of anticipation..

[MrAnonymousAustin]

City of Evil is one of the greatest albums of all time!

[Aknight]

13:27 avenged in their Trax podcast in which they talk about this song they reference what you're saying. Specifically in the strings and the horns, they wanted a very raw and human sound; tiny imperfections and all.

And the solo, originally synyster wanted to do the solo on some weird 7/8 string fretless guitar contraption, but eventually was talked into just playing on a regular guitar. He was apparently really attached to trying to make the weird contraption work and because of that hated the end product solo in Nobody for a while.

Anyways, back on track, A7X are perfectionists, but they embrace human imperfections and raw sound

[synznipes]

Herman needs to get Synyster Gates on stream and Fucking Jam!🔥

[spencwl]

The song is supposed to convey an existential crisis and make you feel uneasy. I love it

[Blyeat]

I like how Herman Li played along to Syn’s solo with his face 😂😍