new Avenged Sevenfold album 'Life Is But A Dream' broke me... | Album Reaction

This album is what happens when an extremely talented group of individuals get bored making the same stuff and say F it and chuck everything at a wall and it somehow works decently lol. Its definitely not going to hit for everyone but its really grown on me the more i listen.

I am obsessed with it since the release. I heard the first 2 singles and was confused and thought it was just them having a pretentious take of prog but the whole album was all over the place yet knitted tightly and they were not afraid of showing their influences all throughout the genre of music. It also has a great replay value.

If people would stop expecting them to release another “Bat Country” …. They could actually appreciate this album. It’s so good 😭😭😭

“wHy DiD tHeY nOt MaKe An aLbUm LiKe NiGhTmAre?” What’s fun with making the same stuff? Loving this album

Man I love this album. They throw everything they've ever wanted.

First listen was weird, but I love this album. Mattel is by far, my favorite song on this album. Game Over is second fav. Cosmic and Nobody are also pretty epic. We Love You grew on me.

It took a minute but by the 3rd listen it hit me......DAMN THIS IS A GOOD ALBUM!

What you’ve got to understand about avenged is they’re one of the only big bands who isn’t trying to sell out commercially. This album is nothing like anyone has ever heard before. It has influencies from so many different genres, we all (as A7x fans) got the jist that they were going to go Down the more proggy route after the stage. They are never going to replicant waking the fallen and we have to respect that. Syn Gates orchestrated this whole album they’re just trying to break the mould. This album is nothing we’ve ever heard before. Yes there’s songs we won’t like but the composition of each song is unbelievable in musical terms.

In my opinion this is the best album they’ve ever made. I can completely understand why some hate this album, but I for one love it

this album is not weird if you look at the lyrics to know the context

Man, it's like people forget that people in bands can be, in essence, wacky, experimental, artistic, and expressive. When I sit to listen to their discography, it's super nice to see the change in music expression and influence. They went from metalcore rawr band, to jocks, to shredders,to stadium band, to prog metal and then to this. I love the stability and marginal progress and evolution bands like Trivium and ABR are producing, but this is different. And in the grand scheme of things , this is not even incredibly avant garde. People need to chill.

Cosmic is their best song ever, and I was an angsty teenager listening to City of Evil on my family roadtrips lol

This album is fucking brilliant. It's candy for prog enthusiasts.

It's a conceptual album. It's definitely a fun album to listen to and makes a lot of sense with things that are going on these days, especially with fake AI generated bs. Couldn't have asked for anything different. Took me a few listens, but I see what they were going for, and I love it.

Great Reaction! Metalheads hate it. Musicheads Love it. I think people will love the songs more if they think of the 3 aspects: Music, Concept, Lyrics Love how they are heavily circling around Absurdism and Existentialism. Here are my thoughts for the songs: 1. Game Over - Meaninglessness of Life 2. Mattel - Simulation. Much like a continuation to The Stage album concept 3. Nobody - Realization that we are "one with the universe" and a "nobody" in the grand scheme of things 4. We Love You - Most say it's about capitalism. But I interpret the song as representation of human ego and the illusion of choice 5. Cosmic - Cycle of Life and Death. The idea that we are all made up of the same cosmic energy - we do not go away. We just take up a new form or has been in a different form in our past lives. Written in beautiful love song 6. Beautiful Morning - Inner struggle to find meaning. The character they are trying to portray in this song is everyone's worst day for their life. 7. Easier - Surrender 8. G - Story of Creation. And God is contemplating that he made an error to create humans and just wants to delete what he made. 9. Ordinary - While people commit suicide, a curious AI wants to have a soul and live. Thus the electronic vibe 10. Death - Suicide 11. LIBAD - Closing the curtains

More bands should try to make a progressive album! I really dig this album 😊

I found it kinda fun to watch chat give every song either a 3 or under or a 7 or higher, with almost no in between. Also, what this really proves to me is how much understanding the songs, and the idea behind the album, helps you enjoy it, at least for me.

I absolutely adore this album and I’m sorry others didn’t hear it the same as me it’s amazing

I do agree that some of the ideas don't mesh together super well all the time, but weird transition and genre changes are what made songs like the Summoning incredibly popular. Now granted A7X went a little crazier with it than Sleep Token, but all the weird ideas together have a certain charm and I like that they even thought to put them together.

This album was good. Haters gonna hate.