The album was just released yesterday after a good couple of months of anticipation. Thoughts? I got my copy yesterday after having preordered it ages ago. I must say, it is pretty good. Not as amazing as I was hoping it'd be, but there are a couple of quite memorable songs. Nightmare itself is a great tune, but we've already known that for a good while. Welcome to the Family and Buried Alive are also awesome. But after that, the songs get really light until the last track (and the track God Hates Us in the middle, which is a random throwback to their older style, which really comes out of nowhere in the album's progression). I don't mind their lighter stuff, but I wish there was more heavy stuff which Avenged Sevenfold is so good at performing. I wanted more of Syn soloing and less of Syn on acoustic. Also, unrelated, but I'm really happy with Mike Portnoy's performance. Then again, he's Mike Portnoy. I didn't expect anything less than amazing stuff from him. Also, Fiction is a really freaking eerie track. It has The Rev on piano and vocals accompanying M. Shadows. Towards the end, The Rev starts singing solo, and it's... Wow.
