Music to My Ears: Avenged Sevenfold.

I've always loved music; but -if you discount my massive love for and obsession with Busted before they broke up- ever since I discovered Green Day during my summer half term all the way back in 2006, music has been one of -if not the most- important parts of my life. By the end of that half term I was pretty much obsessed with Green Day.

From trying to hunt some of Green Day's music videos down on the music channels, I discovered Kerrang!. Kerrang! then led me to Scuzz and together they provided me with an array of new music to listen to that I just couldn't get enough of. Like I said at the very beginning of this post, I've always loved music; but the music I found myself listening to in 2006 took my love a whole staircase, let alone step, further. It was as if everything had come together and made perfect sense. This music was me. I could really connect with everything I was listening to. This general genre of 'rock' that I was almost constantly listening to was a part of my identity. Now I know that sounds cliché, and maybe a little pathetic too, but it's the truth. As I fell in love with this music I found a huge part of myself, of my identity.

Now back in the summer holidays of 2006 I was pretty sure that Green Day's music was as good as it got and that I would be a loyal fan of theirs forever. But in that very same summer -August if you want to be precise- I discovered a band called Avenged Sevenfold, and my already completely changed world changed some more. To 12 year old me their music was perfection -just for the record the same goes for present-day me too- and they instantaneously became my new favourite band.

The men in question, minus The Rev + Arin, the band's drummers
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What's different about Avenged Sevenfold to all my previous favourite bands, and what makes them so damn special to me, is that although other bands have come along and I've listened to their albums practically on repeat for months, Avenged Sevenfold have always remained my favourite band. Those bands I listened to for months are all amazing artists and their music is incredible. Many of them are some of my favourite bands today and have been for years, but none of them are my absolute favourite band, because none of them are Avenged Sevenfold.

After almost eight years I am still a loyal Avenged Sevenfold fan, and I'm pretty sure I'll remain that way for the rest of my life. I've done a lot of growing up in the past nine years and Avenged Sevenfold have been with me every step of the way. If it wasn't for them I wouldn't have met some of the friends I've made over the years, including two that I used to be very close to. If it wasn't for Avenged Sevenfold a lot of things in my life would be different, and that thought makes me feel very uncomfortable. I'm sure that without them my life wouldn't be as good or as fulfilling as it is. Avenged Sevenfold truly do mean the world to me, and I owe them a hell of a lot.

Zacky Vengeance + Synyster Gates doing what they do best
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What I'm basically trying to say here is that Avenged Sevenfold are a massive part of my life, both in terms of the music they produce and their very existence as human beings and as a band.

If you haven't heard their music before I would definitely recommend checking them out -but then again I would, wouldn't I? They may not be every readers cup of tea, but you never know some of you might turn out to be fans.
-Hannah. :)