I don’t think I know a rock band that is disliked more than Avenged Sevenfold. The most amazing
thing is that none of these “haters” have any credible reason to dislike the
band. It appears that ever since the turn of the millennium, any hard
rock/metal band that gains popularity of any kind gets a lashing; it’s impossible
to win. But at the end of the day I’ve never met any of these seemingly
professional music analysts in person, they prefer to remain hidden, while in
reality (you know, that world beyond the computer screen) I meet more and more
fans of the band as they become among this generations biggest hard rock acts.
By the time Disturbed
released their fifth and most recent album, Asylum, in summer of 2010, fans pretty much
had an idea of what a Disturbed album would sound liked; David Draiman’s growl of a singing voice and Dan Donegan’s heavy and sometimes over-computer processed guitar licks
on top of many different electronic sounds that only a production studio could
muster. There were definite differences between each album, but by the time
Asylum came out, the band just sounded uninspired and unwilling to really try
anything new. To no surprise the band would go on “hiatus” approximately a year
later.
