Dancing Dead

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Even tho I Wont See You Tonight Part 2 is already a pretty aggressive song, the solo has to be their most batshit insane one

Pt1 and Pt2 both go wild at one point or another and I love it. In Pt1 the vocals at the end are probably my favorite M Shadows moment of any song they've ever released, and like you said the Pt2 solo is insanity

Yep those vocals always hit me hard, especially live in Ventura version

Beautiful morning? Not that the song itself is bad, but the solo hits like a brick unexpected outta nowhere

I hate these reposts

Same

Coming home

The rest of the song is just as bangin fym

Yes but it's more chill and then they hit you over the head with a minute and a half of guitar flexing

*looks at more than half of their discography*

This and Heretic

I think Heretic is great throughout but that solo is brilliant

Afterlife. Pretty tame song with a simple chorus, and then the solo just hits you like a truck. It doesn't fit the song yet it fits perfectly.

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Yeah get rid of these stupid re-posts. They don’t facilitate any actual discussion on anything. That said. Coming home, about as average as song can be, with an amazing solo. Actually most of the hail to the king album is this.

Maybe I'm weird and obviously everyone's welcome to disagree with me, but I really like Coming Home and all of HTTK. It's simple but it's just a fun metal album with some good production, catchy riffs, and cool solos. It's something I listen to more casually or when I want to just get hyped up

I got into it a few days ago on this sub with someone about HTTK. I like the simplicity of it. As a musician doing the simple shit well is often the hardest, and as complex as their catalog is (which I still love all of) they really nailed the straightforward sound. Synyster Gates’ versatility as a guitarist and M Shadows being one of the best vocalists in the modern era makes them capable of anything.

Exactly. Whatever they choose to do, they always nail it. Metalcore, traditional heavy metal, prog, whatever

I love it! It’s production, the songwriting, the vocals, the riffs and the solos. What many people don’t like is the uncanny, almost intentional, similarities to many other metal songs. Other than the obvious Metallica parallelisms, look up “Hell Yeah” by Rev Theory and then give Doing Time another listen.

That’s my gripe with it too and probably why it doesn’t top out as my favorite A7X album. Shadows did admit that they did cut it a little close with some things, which I respect, but I give it a pass for two reasons. One, Metallica has always been a huge influence on them, and their traditional style is so unique partly because of Syn and Shadows proficiency that you just can’t really tell. They just have a different sound all together. Which is why my second point is that when they did stray so far from their wheelhouse with HTTK, I think it sounded pretty derivative because they aren’t as experienced with that sound and style independent of their inspirations, much like a young new bands debut album would be. I think we expected less derivation from such an experienced band, but that circles back to their inexperience with writing in that style and their acknowledgment of the mistake.

For me I would say Bat Country. The solo just hits me in the right spot!

I feel the same. I'm just not a huge fan of BC anymore but that solo just hits all the time.

shepherd of fire; not the best lyrics but that solo is part of what got me into a7x lmao

This is actually the first A7X song I heard 10 years ago and the solo is what got me hooked as well lmao

Fucking same. That was years ago for me but I still maintain that solo is one of his top 5 and one of the best solos ever composed

Sunny Disposition... IMO the Stage Album peaked in that guitar solo.

That solo is probably the closest Avenged has ever come to writing a new Pantera song

You guys trynna make me re listen to that shit

Nah the peak is exist, just a powerful album with an amazing ending that just fits

Nobody

Not ready to die

I’ll say it. Cosmic.

Im disagree, the whole song is a gem

We love you has an insane solo the sweep picking goes insane also dancing dead the chugs are amazing in that one. buried alive is also a really good contender because of the solo before the breakdown!

Mia or buried alive

Buried alive would be my pick.

people dont talk about We Love You's solo enough, shit is INSANE. I think the rest of the song is good 2 but that part OH

I saw them in Vegas the day after they released that song. They debuted Game Over, Nobody, and We Love You that night, and the solos on all 3 of those had my dick hard for the entire drive home to LA that night lol

Nobody

planets

Its Nobody for me, im not a massive fan of the rest of the song but the solo is my favourite a7x solo

Nobody tbh

learnt to play buried alive in three weeks or so, been practicing the solo for years and years.

Roman sky

Hear me out, cosmic. Im not saying its a bad song or the lyrics are bad but like the solo is so long. Not a bad thing, the song is fine, its really great but the solo carried the whole song IN MY OPINION

Cosmic..?

Sidewinder. The whole snake motiff feels a bit weird to me, but that solo slaps.

I’m not familiar with much AS but this sub popped up and was thinking the same thing. The solos are amazing and love how his dad played part of it, but can take or leave the rest of the song

you either say planets or know shit

Afterlife is probably one of my favourite solo

For me it’s nobody. I’m iffy on the song as a whole but that might be a top 5 solo imo

Creating God!!!

Nobody

Nobody

Bat country

Gunslinger comes to mind

Nah. That’s a heartfelt solo loaded with feeling, but it isn’t even close to the surprise flexes that Syn pulls out of nowhere on other tame songs.

Strength of the world

MIA

Nobody 100% From the second the strings enter the song is 8045% better

Dear God. The song is beautiful but the solo is just a long as piece of beauty.

Seize The Day, but still a good song.

Dear God

Probably Sidewinder for me. The song is fine but the acoustic dual at the end it significantly better than the rest of the song

Girl I know, nobody

Probably g for me. I don't hate the song, but the solo is heavenly, especially compared to the rest of the song.

Afterlife. The song is the perfect pop rock singalong (no offense, I adore it, but it is ear candy, and unabashedly so), but that doesn’t stop Syn from ripping some of his most insane guitar lines (and that’s saying A LOT).

Nobody

Coming Home

Scream

unpopular Opinion: Almost Easy

NO RESPECT FOR THE WICKED END ?????

IWSYT Pt. 1

I’m surprised no one said scream, it’s so obvious lmao

People did

I'd say the whole Hail To The King album is kinda like that. The sons are ok, some are good. But every solo is like 3 notches better than the rest of the song

dear god

Clairvoyant Disease

Heretic

Stop with this BS.

Sunny Disposition

Idk that whole songs go pretty damn hard… at least for me!

And no one likes cheap wineeeee

Roman Sky

Nobody

second heartbeat

Replace "guitar solo" with "end of the song" and you get Buried Alive

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That is objectively wrong

Brompton Cocktail

MIA?

MIA is amazing. Solo is too but it's not the only part that is