Avenged Sevenfold Life IS But A Dream

Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream... (2023) Music

Posted by gribovar at Oct. 6, 2023

The long-gestating follow-up to 2016's ambitious concept album Stage, Life Is But a Dream… sees Avenged Sevenfold go further down the rabbit hole with an innovative set of progressive metal epics rooted in existential crisis. Inspired by the band's dalliances with hallucinogens and the writings of French philosopher Albert Camus, the LP covers a wide swath of sonic terra firma, from punishing thrash and hardcore to operatic, Pink Floyd-esque space rock peppered with Daft Punk-inspired vocoders and lush orchestral flourishes.

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Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But a Dream… (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at May 31, 2023

Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But a Dream… (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 333 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 122 MB
53:21 | Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Hard Rock | Label: Warner Records

Avenged Sevenfold's 2023 album, Life Is But A Dream is a timeless work of art that blurs genres. Best served as a whole and consumed en masse to truly appreciate it's musical breadth and sonic depth, it marks their boldest statement and most revolutionary work to date. Written and recorded over the span of 4 years, it was produced by Joe Barresi and Avenged Sevenfold in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy Wallace in the Poconos, PA. Inspired by Albert Camus' The Stranger, the album is a journey through an existential crisis; a very personal exploration into the meaning, purpose and value of human existence with the anxiety of death always looming.

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Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (2007) Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 30, 2023

Coming off a Best New Artist Award at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, the members of Avenged Sevenfold returned to the studio, ambitious to create an exciting follow-up to City of Evil - perhaps overly so, as their self-titled release focuses entirely too hard on pushing the songs into non-metal territory. Their signature, blistering Yngwie Malmsteen guitar arpeggios and lightning fast double-kick drums are still evident, but the overall heavy metal thunder is diluted by their everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach. Left alone in the studio to record the album on their own, AS show their unbridled enthusiasm to be as inventive as possible as they run through a staggering amount of production enhancements: four songs have string arrangements; violinists, pianists, and vocalists make guest appearances here and there…

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VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 24, 2024

VA - Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros Records - The First Fifty Years (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 4.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320kbps - 1.7 GB
12:51:32 | Hip Hop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Latin, Funk, Soul, Blues, Non-Music, Pop, Children's, Folk, Country, Stage & Screen
Label: Warner Bros.

Unlike other labels subjected to exhaustive multi-disc retrospectives like this whopping ten-disc Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records – The First Fifty Years, Warner Brothers never embodied a scene or sound: they've always embodied what a major label should be – a dominant force that chronicles and dictates the sound of the mainstream. Coming out at the tail-end of 2008, when the influence of major labels is on a slow steady decline, Revolutions in Sound can be seen as a portrait of a time that's beginning to recede into the past: a time when there was such a thing as mass entertainment, when the pop audience all shared a common bond of hit records they either loved or rallied against. Perhaps the greatest things about this monumental box set is that it captures that colossus while also illustrating that for a while, majors did take risks. Of course, Warner was the riskiest of all the majors, never held back by an anti-rock & roll sourpuss like Mitch Miller, who struggled to keep CBS out of the tumult of the '60s (this with no less than Bob Dylan as the label's flagship rock artist). Instead, Warner embraced the underground, recording some of the strangest to shake out of the '60s, and that adventure fits a label that turned to rock & roll to help establish themselves as a real player at the turn of the '60s.

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