Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

Infobox Album | Name = Sounding the Seventh Trumpet
Type = Album
Artist = Avenged Sevenfold


Released = January 31, 2001
March 19, 2002 (Re-Release)
Recorded = Westbeach, California, USA
Genre = Metalcore
Length = 52:22
Label = Good Life Recordings
Producer = Donnell Cameron and Avenged Sevenfold
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fpez97iskrkt~T1 link]
*Berontak Zine rating-10|6 [http://berontakzine.com/reviews/2004/avenged-sevenfold-sounding-of-the-seventh-trumpet/ link]
*Sputnikmusic Rating|4.3|5 [http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=585 link]

Last album =
This album = "Sounding the Seventh Trumpet"
(2001)
Next album = "Warmness on the Soul"
(2001)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Type = Studio album
Upper caption = Second Pressing cover
Lower caption = 2nd Press Re-Issue Cover

"Sounding the Seventh Trumpet" is the first full length album from then American metalcore band Avenged Sevenfold. After it was released in 2001 on Good Life Recordings, it was re-released by Hopeless Records on March 19, 2002. It featured slightly different cover art (the original didn't have the title on the cover, while the re-issue did). The re-release featured a track formerly on the Warmness on the Soul EP, "To End the Rapture (Heavy Metal Version)", which was the only track on the album to feature new guitarist at the time, Synyster Gates.

Track listing

# "To End the Rapture" – 1:24
# "Turn the Other Way" – 5:37
# "Darkness Surrounding" – 4:49
# "The Art of Subconscious Illusion" – 3:46
# "We Come Out at Night" – 4:45
# "Lips of Deceit" – 4:09
# "Warmness on the Soul" – 4:20
# "An Epic of Time Wasted" – 4:19
# "Breaking their Hold" – 1:12
# "Forgotten Faces" – 3:27
# "Thick and Thin" – 4:15
# "Streets" – 3:06
# "Shattered by Broken Dreams" – 7:04

* All songs listed above were written by Avenged Sevenfold, except "Streets", which was written by M. Shadows's previous band, "Successful Failure".

Personnel

*M. Shadows - Vocals
*Zacky Vengeance - Guitar
*Justin Sane - Bass and Piano
*The Reverend Tholomew Plague - Drums
*Synyster Gates - Guitar on "To End the Rapture" (Re-Release)
*Dameon Ash - Bass (Listed on Re-Release)
* Additional screams on "The Art of Subconscious Illusion" by Valary Di Benedetto and Mr. Plague
* Recorded at Westbeach in Hollywood, California, USA
* Produced, engineered and mixed by Donnell Cameron and Avenged Sevenfold
* Assistant Engineered by Henrah Kruzchev
* Mastered by Ramon Breton and Avenged Sevenfold at Oceanview Mastering

Videography

*Warmness on the Soul