Album Name: Avenged Sevenfold
Release Date: October 26 2007
History Behind Cover: The band felt due to the diverse nature of the music in the album, including hard rock, metal, symphrock and country, that one picture couldnt truely capture what it was all about. Therefore they went with a simplistic cover of just their emblem on a white background.
The album cover denotes a black image of a skull with wings. This connotes the type of music the band represents, which is dark, heavy rock/metal. They have strong references of death hinted at by the skull. Overall they are just a hardcore band. Thus making the cover fit in with the bands ideology.
The bands target audience would be male and females in their teens to twenties. The cover would appeal to them as they know the iconic logo of the band which is on the cover and would get the themes it represents. They'd like to hear hardcore music.
The cover appeals to me as it is very simplistic and straight away I can recognise what band it is due to the emblem even without the band name and album name on the cover. I have been listening to this banc for numerous years and have grown to really like their music. It is still what I like to listen to today even though it was released six years ago.
Dear God
Despite this songs somewhat religious lyrics, it has little to no meaning at all. The song was improvised whilst drunk on vodka then written down in full very quickly. However it does fit in with the story of the cover of the album due to the fact this is a country style song. This is very different to what the band had done previously. It steered away completely from their metal roots.
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