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 City of Evil is the third album by Heavy Metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released in 2005. This album marks the band's transition from the scream-heavy metalcore of their first two records to a lighter but more technical and more melodic brand of alternative metal. This album (as well as its follow-up Avenged Sevenfold) also marks the band's most commercially successful era, where they benefited from heavy airplay on MTV and took themselves far less seriously than in their early years or in The New '10s; it's palpable not only in the band members' pseudo-thugish looks in that period, but also in the album's fast, unbridled, over-the-top and at times experimental compositions. The result is an extremely densely packed record where the band tried to see how all-out they could go, and was also the band's longest album (72 minutes) before The Stage came out in 2016.The album can be divided in two halves: the first five tracks have a heavy Speed Metal vibe, sometimes even leaning into outright Thrash Metal, all peppered with Punk Rock-inspired rhythms and breakdowns, and follow each other with little time to breathe (as in, there is absolutely zero pause between the the first, second and third tracks). The last five are generally slower but also longer and more epic − the shortest track of that part is just a little under 7 minutes − interspersed with orchestral parts. The two parts are connected by the Power Ballad "Seize the Day", and even that song is pretty aggressive.It is their first of five albums released by Warner Bros. Records, as well as their best selling one (around three million copies worldwide). And the second-to-last featuring Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan at the drums.Tracklist (singles in italics) Beast and the Harlot (5:38) Burn it Down (4:54) Blinded in Chains (6:29) Bat Country (5:08) Trashed and Scattered (5:50) Seize the Day (5:29) Sidewinder (7:00) The Wicked End (7:10) Strength of the World (9:14) Betrayed (6:44) M.I.A. (8:43)Band members
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