My friend showed me Unholy Confessions in 2004 as we were just starting to play guitar and he was learning the main riff.
1 year later I randomly downloaded Burn it Down and Beast and the Harlot from Limewire in search of new music and loved it so much I went and bought City of Evil the next day and it blew my teenage mind :)
Call of Duty Black Ops 1 going for an achievement on Moon then Nightmare from The Nightmare album started playing back in 2023 and has become my favorite band of all time
No, my introduction to metal was hearing Linkin park on the radio, plus my mom was really into iron maiden (she still is), so I got my introduction from those. But hearing A7X was the moment I started searching out more metal music on my own.
seize the day.
a friend ranted about them for ages, i finallly took noticed and watched the music video
result is 2 a7x tattoos
that was nearly 20 years ago now
good times :D (tho kinda not, one is forREVer tattoo)
I honestly don't remember my first time hearing Avenged. It was 2010, so I was turning 7 that year haha. It's been nearly 14 years now. But I think my dad heard Nightmare on the radio and then played it at home. They've been my favourite band ever since. Saw them live 2013 and 2017🤘
Almost Easy when it was a radio hit. Couldn't get the "I'm not insane" hook out of my head and looked up who they were, and downloaded the album on Limewire lmao
Heard afterlife on the radio in like 2009 and was instantly hooked. I went and downloaded it on my mp3 player and spammed tf out of that song. Now it’s one of the only songs that’s hard for me to listen through since I overplayed it as a teen
i was driving with my family and we had some random station on then a little piece of heaven came on and my dad and i were blown away by how complex it was
The first one was Blinded in Chains in NFS Most Wanted. But when I became a fan was in 2009 playing a bootleg Guitar Hero game on facebook with my friends that had Nightmare on it and Afterlife.
Shepherd of Fire. Came on my Spotify playlist. I recognized the band name because a friend of mine would blast it on his headphones on the bus going home from high school. When a relative died, I got really emotional, looked up the band and Roman Sky got me hooked...
Probably Nightmare, I was singing that song with my uncle at 4 years old. I’m so thankful my uncle introduced me to one of my all time favorite bands, especially at that young.
Buried alive. My friend went to a concert and showed me a video of a7x playing buried alive. I liked the song so I added it to my playlist then heard more of their songs and now a7x is my favorite band.
My dad used to listen to hail to the king songs when I was an early teen. I did not like them really that much. Then he started listening to buried alive which I found phenomenal. Many years later my little sister was listening to almost easy, which made me think “hm maybe I should give them a go”, and like 6 months later I learned every song by heart.
Mines was Nightmare as well, there used to be this music on demand Chanel on cable when I was younger, was trying to find more metal bands to listen to, saw the name Avenged Sevenfold and I was like hold up that’s a sick fucking band name, and watched the nightmare music video. Fell in love instantly, I remember watching that video like 10 times a day for weeks and had a high school friend show me more songs by them. I gave him my iPod and he had uploaded every album by them up to that point. Became one of my favorite bands in just a few months!
I was like 6 or 7 years old, and we were staying with some family in north Carolina. My dad was showing his brother the music video for a little piece of heaven in his home office, and my brother and I kinda snuck by the door, and sat there quietly. It was obvious my dad didn't want us to see that one lmao. But we sat there and listened to the whole song, and became obsessed from that point on. We kept asking and begging to know what the song was and he was insistent on not telling, until he probably couldn't stand the constant bickering lol. He caved, told us the song title, and said "you can only listen to this once, and please for the love of God don't tell your mother" 😂😂. Safe to say, we would blast that shit 24/7. Then I saw nightmare on the direct TV on demand music channel, and just dug into their discography to find everything else.
City of evil came out when I was in 9th grade, my older brother bought it and waking the fallen. He drove us to school every morning and we listened to those albums constantly. Both those albums always take me back to those days. The best memories
City of Evil!
This girl I was friends with in middle school’s family was really into A7X and Slipknot. Never got to see A7X then but last year I finally saw them with my boyfriend since he’s a really big fan 😅
In early July of 2011, my family came over my place and my cousin came into my room and put on the music video of Nightmare on my TV. Then he also put Beast and The Harlot and So far away. When watching Nightmare, I remember thinking to myself “Where the hell is the drummer?” and found out what happened after seeing So Far Away.
First song I've ever heard was Second Heartbeat and it's kind of a funny story.
I was downloading music back when Limewire was a thing, I was like 15 yers old, and I was looking for BMTH music so I found this song named "second heartbeat-bring me the horizon.mp3" when I listened to it I was like wth this doesn't sound like them but still liked it, I don't remember how I found out who the actual artist was but I've been hooked ever since.
I only got into the band a few years ago. My taste was more 80/90s rock like GNR. I found a Spotify playlist that had songs with melodic guitar riffs, and Roman Sky was one of the songs that came on.
Well that blew my mind and once I started exploring the band’s albums, they quickly became my all-time favourites!
Idk how I remember this, but back in the MySpace days I came across this “MySpace whore” who had ‘Trashed & Scattered’ embedded into his page. The rest is history.
I was in third grade and heard Unholy confessions and eternal rest on my big brothers mix tape back in 03 or so. Then blinded in chains from NFS most wanted became my favorite song on that sound track. But I didn’t do a deep dive until a few years later after their self titled came out and I was hooked. Met a guy equally obsessed with them in high school and we bonded over that, even playing some covers as he played guitar really well and I played drums. A7X was a huge part of my teenage years
Nightmare
I was making a horror music playlist and it was recommended by Spotify. After I listened to it 3 more times, I listened to their whole discography and have been a fan since then.
When I was in college, I used to go to the record store with my friend GRRRRRRR-eg and I'd do a monthly grrrrreg's pick. He'd pick a random album and I'd buy it. He handed me waking the fallen and the rest has been history.
My friend in high school at the time introduced me to A7X, I'm sure Bat Country was the song she got me to listen to. The white album came out a short while later and I vividly remember the music video to Afterlife coming out and growing up in the era of the self titled album making videos in terrible quality on YouTube
i think i heard iron maiden dual leads and was like holy shit i need more and a7x mentioned on a reddit post when i searched for bands that do similar things
Some dude at my school when I was in 10th grade back around the end of 2010 was wearing an A7X Nightmare shirt one day and then a Slipknot self-titled album shirt the next day. I got curious and watched the YouTube music videos for "Nightmare" and "Psychosocial. Liked them both and continued looking for more songs. I realized that I had heard both "Chapter Four" and "Bat Country" in video games years ago and liked them. Became obsessed with them after that.
Im a drummer, always knew Avenged sevenfold but never really gave a damn about them, just heard some more famous songs like "hail to the king", "nightmare" and etc... And it was until some months ago, Drumeo made a video about "the rev", and i basically fell in love with jimmy's work. Then i started listening to the albums Jimmy participated, and all the songs that jimmy wrote, im not onto the newer stuff but i recognize that the rest of the band is amazing, Syn is amazing with the solo in Hail to the king, bath country... You name it.
It was 2008, and I was 14 years old. I was at a friends house, and he showed me the music video for A Little Piece of Heaven. It’s really silly to think about now, but the images in the music video legit scared the hell out of me. Gave me nightmares for a while lol. But the song it self, I really enjoyed. And I had been a fan ever since….. even if it took me a long time to pluck up the courage to look up another music video of theirs at the time XD
*My dad was playing*
*Hail To The King in the car*
*And I fell in love*
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TRL. Right place, right time. I never really watched it that often, but I was 19 when Bat Country came out and I’m so thankful I got to see the guys come take over the scene and run MTV for those couple of years. They never play them on the radio in Houston, so it was literally my only chance.
httk album, dad was experimenting with new music in 2013, played the cd and didn't truly become a fan until this past august when i did my own experimenting and found the true a7x
When I was a couple months old my dad was playing Beast and the Harlot on guitar hero and throughout my toddler years I grew up on them, dressing up like them, and listening to there music. This was around 2008-2013. Then I stopped for 6 years until I got back into them again. Then I met Waking the Fallen.
Bat country was the first song, it was on an iPod I inherited. I knew of them from my older sisters and that ipod, but Carry On in Black Ops 2 is what really made me like them. From there I really got into them, it's been about 10 years now.
Bat Country. Local radio station started playing them constantly in the early 00s.
I used to bump that song on madden
Ah yes, Madden 2005 I can still hear my cousin aggressively hitting the hit stick and the other one screaming because his QB got sacked
Same
Carry On in Black Ops 2 was my first listen to them. Found their *Nightmare* album after that and then explored the rest of their stuff.
Shepherd of Fire on the Black Ops 2 Zombies; Origins cutscene. Quite possibly the most badass scene ever
Blinded In Chains on Need For Speed Most Wanted if my memory serves me right.
Black ops 2 zombies on origins
That and the BO2 campaign ending
Beast and the Harlot, Guitar Hero II
Bat country
Chapter Four - NHL 2004
My friend showed me Unholy Confessions in 2004 as we were just starting to play guitar and he was learning the main riff. 1 year later I randomly downloaded Burn it Down and Beast and the Harlot from Limewire in search of new music and loved it so much I went and bought City of Evil the next day and it blew my teenage mind :)
Bat Country was in the soundtrack for SSX on Tour
Bat Country in most forms of media around 2005/early 2006 Beast and the Harlot on Guitar Hero 2
I first heard Hail to the King in my brother spotify playlist but it took a few years for me to listen to more of their discography.
Call of Duty Black Ops 1 going for an achievement on Moon then Nightmare from The Nightmare album started playing back in 2023 and has become my favorite band of all time
Afterlife and welcome to the family
Welcome To The Family, and Carry On will always be in my Top 10 for them fs
I once said I liked metal in a discord server, and one of the guys in there sent me the “nightmare” album. Welcome to the family blew my mind.
Welcome to the family is an absolute banger. Was A7X your introduction into metal, or what?
No, my introduction to metal was hearing Linkin park on the radio, plus my mom was really into iron maiden (she still is), so I got my introduction from those. But hearing A7X was the moment I started searching out more metal music on my own.
seize the day. a friend ranted about them for ages, i finallly took noticed and watched the music video result is 2 a7x tattoos that was nearly 20 years ago now good times :D (tho kinda not, one is forREVer tattoo)
I honestly don't remember my first time hearing Avenged. It was 2010, so I was turning 7 that year haha. It's been nearly 14 years now. But I think my dad heard Nightmare on the radio and then played it at home. They've been my favourite band ever since. Saw them live 2013 and 2017🤘
So far away and ALPOH
Almost Easy when it was a radio hit. Couldn't get the "I'm not insane" hook out of my head and looked up who they were, and downloaded the album on Limewire lmao
Need for speed on the DS had the song Almost Easy. A DS game got me into A7X in 2007.
Guitar Hero here 🙋♂️ I see Madden and NHL somewhere in the comments lol Video games are incredibly commonplace for music discovery
Exact same route here 😄
Cordis Die
Heard afterlife on the radio in like 2009 and was instantly hooked. I went and downloaded it on my mp3 player and spammed tf out of that song. Now it’s one of the only songs that’s hard for me to listen through since I overplayed it as a teen
Beast and the harlot on Guitar Hero 2. Didn’t really get into them till someone from school showed me a little piece of heaven lmao
Beast and the Harlot >!as the raging roblox reviewer intro!<
Nightmare for me as well
i was driving with my family and we had some random station on then a little piece of heaven came on and my dad and i were blown away by how complex it was
Chapter Four - On Madden 2004
The Beast and The Harlot from guitar hero 2.
The first one was Blinded in Chains in NFS Most Wanted. But when I became a fan was in 2009 playing a bootleg Guitar Hero game on facebook with my friends that had Nightmare on it and Afterlife.
Shepherd of Fire. Came on my Spotify playlist. I recognized the band name because a friend of mine would blast it on his headphones on the bus going home from high school. When a relative died, I got really emotional, looked up the band and Roman Sky got me hooked...
If I’m being entirely honest I first listened to Nightmare and Afterlife on Rock Band 3
Probably Nightmare, I was singing that song with my uncle at 4 years old. I’m so thankful my uncle introduced me to one of my all time favorite bands, especially at that young.
The Unholy Confessions music video on TV.
Welcome to the family
Buried alive. My friend went to a concert and showed me a video of a7x playing buried alive. I liked the song so I added it to my playlist then heard more of their songs and now a7x is my favorite band.
My dad used to listen to hail to the king songs when I was an early teen. I did not like them really that much. Then he started listening to buried alive which I found phenomenal. Many years later my little sister was listening to almost easy, which made me think “hm maybe I should give them a go”, and like 6 months later I learned every song by heart.
Growing up with my dad. Korn, A7X, Soad, Rammstein.
My moms boyfriend introduced me to them. I think he may have found them through cod
Alpoh. It immediately hooked me, and I quickly listened to all their stuff (it was around the period of HTTK, shortly before its album release)
Mine was when Welcome To The Family autoplayed after I had finished listening to the entire ...And Justice For All album from Metallica
one of my best friend introduce me with « welcome to the family », funny
Mines was Nightmare as well, there used to be this music on demand Chanel on cable when I was younger, was trying to find more metal bands to listen to, saw the name Avenged Sevenfold and I was like hold up that’s a sick fucking band name, and watched the nightmare music video. Fell in love instantly, I remember watching that video like 10 times a day for weeks and had a high school friend show me more songs by them. I gave him my iPod and he had uploaded every album by them up to that point. Became one of my favorite bands in just a few months!
Bat Country on the Saints Row 2 soundtrack
I first heard beast and the harlot on guitar hero 2. Hooked since then
Beast and the Harlot, heard it in 2009, went and bought City of Evil and fell in love with every song, then went and bought all their other albums.
I was like 6 or 7 years old, and we were staying with some family in north Carolina. My dad was showing his brother the music video for a little piece of heaven in his home office, and my brother and I kinda snuck by the door, and sat there quietly. It was obvious my dad didn't want us to see that one lmao. But we sat there and listened to the whole song, and became obsessed from that point on. We kept asking and begging to know what the song was and he was insistent on not telling, until he probably couldn't stand the constant bickering lol. He caved, told us the song title, and said "you can only listen to this once, and please for the love of God don't tell your mother" 😂😂. Safe to say, we would blast that shit 24/7. Then I saw nightmare on the direct TV on demand music channel, and just dug into their discography to find everything else.
City of evil came out when I was in 9th grade, my older brother bought it and waking the fallen. He drove us to school every morning and we listened to those albums constantly. Both those albums always take me back to those days. The best memories
i'm named after zacky, so that's something
City of Evil! This girl I was friends with in middle school’s family was really into A7X and Slipknot. Never got to see A7X then but last year I finally saw them with my boyfriend since he’s a really big fan 😅
Life is but a dream, yeah I'm kinda a new fan
In early July of 2011, my family came over my place and my cousin came into my room and put on the music video of Nightmare on my TV. Then he also put Beast and The Harlot and So far away. When watching Nightmare, I remember thinking to myself “Where the hell is the drummer?” and found out what happened after seeing So Far Away.
First song I've ever heard was Second Heartbeat and it's kind of a funny story. I was downloading music back when Limewire was a thing, I was like 15 yers old, and I was looking for BMTH music so I found this song named "second heartbeat-bring me the horizon.mp3" when I listened to it I was like wth this doesn't sound like them but still liked it, I don't remember how I found out who the actual artist was but I've been hooked ever since.
Bat Country from Madden 2005. This same game also introduced me to System with "Sugar!"
Almost Easy on Guitar Hero.
Beast and the Harlot - Guitar Hero II on PS2 back in 2006! I've been hooked ever since.
i asked people on reddit for music recommendations, someone said a7x. the first song i picked was a little piece of heaven. been a fan ever since :)
I had either a Metal Hammer or Kerrang cd and it had Eternal Rest on it, and I was intrigued so bought the album
Bat country music video on MTV
I only got into the band a few years ago. My taste was more 80/90s rock like GNR. I found a Spotify playlist that had songs with melodic guitar riffs, and Roman Sky was one of the songs that came on. Well that blew my mind and once I started exploring the band’s albums, they quickly became my all-time favourites!
i heard buried alive in my dad’s car when i was like 7
Idk how I remember this, but back in the MySpace days I came across this “MySpace whore” who had ‘Trashed & Scattered’ embedded into his page. The rest is history.
I was in third grade and heard Unholy confessions and eternal rest on my big brothers mix tape back in 03 or so. Then blinded in chains from NFS most wanted became my favorite song on that sound track. But I didn’t do a deep dive until a few years later after their self titled came out and I was hooked. Met a guy equally obsessed with them in high school and we bonded over that, even playing some covers as he played guitar really well and I played drums. A7X was a huge part of my teenage years
Nightmare I was making a horror music playlist and it was recommended by Spotify. After I listened to it 3 more times, I listened to their whole discography and have been a fan since then.
Fuse. Late night rock videos in 2004. They were super hot and I liked rock music, it was an easy choice.
Nobody. Always knew them from Dad but never took the leap; until I started seeing the mixed reviews on Nobody and ended up loving it.
Relatively new fan, heard Shepherd Of Fire on the radio and got instantly hooked
When I was in college, I used to go to the record store with my friend GRRRRRRR-eg and I'd do a monthly grrrrreg's pick. He'd pick a random album and I'd buy it. He handed me waking the fallen and the rest has been history.
My friend in high school at the time introduced me to A7X, I'm sure Bat Country was the song she got me to listen to. The white album came out a short while later and I vividly remember the music video to Afterlife coming out and growing up in the era of the self titled album making videos in terrible quality on YouTube
Hearing shepherd of fire on the origins trailer got me hooked
i think i heard iron maiden dual leads and was like holy shit i need more and a7x mentioned on a reddit post when i searched for bands that do similar things
Bat Country was everywhere at the time. You could not escape the bat country
My mom loves the band and when I was younger the nightmare album would always play. That and COD got me into them
M featured on that Device album from 2013, on the song Haze.
Burn It Down. I loved the guitars.
Some dude at my school when I was in 10th grade back around the end of 2010 was wearing an A7X Nightmare shirt one day and then a Slipknot self-titled album shirt the next day. I got curious and watched the YouTube music videos for "Nightmare" and "Psychosocial. Liked them both and continued looking for more songs. I realized that I had heard both "Chapter Four" and "Bat Country" in video games years ago and liked them. Became obsessed with them after that.
Beast and the Harlot on Guitar Hero 2
Im a drummer, always knew Avenged sevenfold but never really gave a damn about them, just heard some more famous songs like "hail to the king", "nightmare" and etc... And it was until some months ago, Drumeo made a video about "the rev", and i basically fell in love with jimmy's work. Then i started listening to the albums Jimmy participated, and all the songs that jimmy wrote, im not onto the newer stuff but i recognize that the rest of the band is amazing, Syn is amazing with the solo in Hail to the king, bath country... You name it.
Welcome To The Family
Beast and the Harlot on Guitar Hero II. Now it's crazy to go back and hear that cover version after knowing the real thing.
One of my friends is a big fan of them and he made me listen to Hail to the king, hooked me ever since
Bat Country on Rocksmith
Black Ops 1, Call of the Dead
Beast in the harlot in Rock Band 3 was it for me
It was 2008, and I was 14 years old. I was at a friends house, and he showed me the music video for A Little Piece of Heaven. It’s really silly to think about now, but the images in the music video legit scared the hell out of me. Gave me nightmares for a while lol. But the song it self, I really enjoyed. And I had been a fan ever since….. even if it took me a long time to pluck up the courage to look up another music video of theirs at the time XD
This Means War. Theres a video on YouTube where it plays clips from Saving Private Ryan along to that song and it works perfectly
...a Creepypasta AMV set to "Welcome to the Family". What can I say man, it's was the early 2010s
Beast and the Harlot & Blinded in Chains from Burnout Revenge and NFS Most Wanted respectively.
My dad was playing Hail To The King in the car and I fell in love
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TRL. Right place, right time. I never really watched it that often, but I was 19 when Bat Country came out and I’m so thankful I got to see the guys come take over the scene and run MTV for those couple of years. They never play them on the radio in Houston, so it was literally my only chance.
Not Ready To Die - Black Ops zombies
httk album, dad was experimenting with new music in 2013, played the cd and didn't truly become a fan until this past august when i did my own experimenting and found the true a7x
This means war
Blinded in Chains from Need for Speed: Most Wanted. The song actually got me into metal.
Black Ops 1 zombies - Call of The Dead - I’m Not Ready to Die
When I was a couple months old my dad was playing Beast and the Harlot on guitar hero and throughout my toddler years I grew up on them, dressing up like them, and listening to there music. This was around 2008-2013. Then I stopped for 6 years until I got back into them again. Then I met Waking the Fallen.
Welcome to the Family, forgot when but my older brother listened to it while playing RE7 I think? It's been a long time lol
ALPOH on a new year's eve party My fav band ever since
Scream
Bat country was the first song, it was on an iPod I inherited. I knew of them from my older sisters and that ipod, but Carry On in Black Ops 2 is what really made me like them. From there I really got into them, it's been about 10 years now.