Avenged Sevenfold Tickets : Their Album Nightmare Hit Number One On The Billboard 200 Chart

This is a discography of Avenged Sevenfold, an American rock band from Huntington Beach

, California. They have achieved mainstream success with City of Evil, which spawned singles such as Beast and the Harlot, and Bat Country. The success followed with their self-titled album, Avenged Sevenfold with singles such as Almost Easy, and Afterlife. Their latest album, Nightmare, hit number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

Two string instrument tribute albums to Avenged Sevenfold were released in 2007: Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold: Bat Wings and Broken Strings and Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold: The String Tribute.The band members admitted in a number of interviews that they considered disbanding at this point of time. However, on February 17, 2010, Avenged Sevenfold stated that they had entered the studio, along with now-former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, to drum for the record, in place of the Rev.

The single Nightmare was digitally released on May 18, 2010. A preview for the song was released on May 6, 2010 on Amazon.com, but was removed soon after for unknown reasons. Mixing for the album had been completed in New York City, and Nightmare was finally released worldwide on July 27, 2010.It met with mixed to positive reviews from music critics but was well received by the fans.

Nightmare beat sales projections easily, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with sales of 163,000 units in its first week.After finishing recording, in December, Portnoy and the band posted simultaneous statements on their websites stating that he will not be their replacement for The Rev. On January 20, 2011, Avenged Sevenfold announced via Facebook that former Confide drummer Arin Ilejay will tour with them starting this year. Whether or not he will be joining the band on a permanent basis has not been decided yet.

Avenged Sevenfold performed at the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals on June 3/5, 2011 alongside other bands such as Alter Bridge, System of a Down, and In Flames. On April 2011, the band headlined the Golden God Awards held by Metal Hammer. The same night the band won three awards for Best Vocalist, Epiphone Best Guitarists and Affliction Album of The Year: for Nightmare, while Mike Portnoy won the award for "Drum Workshop Best Drummer" for his work on the album.

In May 2011, it was confirmed that the band had written a new song to be included in the Escalation DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops.The song is the first time developers Treyarch have commissioned an outside band to contribute a song since the franchise began. The song, titled Not Ready to Die, was released on iTunes on May 2, 2011.In August 2011, vocalist M. Shadows stated the band would finish the Uproar Festival then go home to take a break for six to seven months before starting a new record.

by: Amanda Harrison

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