Avenged Sevenfold prove to be getting bigger and better with new DVD in review

September 19, 2008

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Avenged Sevenfold - Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough
Review by Mike Bax

I guess a pessimistic review of this package would read something like this: A short live DVD with a bunch of b-sides. And in a nutshell, that’s what Avenged Sevenfold - Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough is: a high quality DVD recording of their April 10th Long Beach California Taste Of Chaos Headlining show, with a CD containing eleven (for the most part) previously unreleased songs. The thing about this DVD/CD package is that it’s great. Really great. I’ve not seen A7X live as of yet (they just blew off a Toronto show last week I was really looking forward to because M. Shadows’ voice needed some rest). So, until I do get the chance to see them, this nicely filmed DVD will stave me off until the band can come back. Filmed by Rafa Alcantara (who filmed the 2007 road documentary All Excess) and boasting 12 live tracks (with an ‘encore’ buried in the Extras section), Live In The LBC is a tightly filmed, produced and packaged live set that will please both fans and skeptics alike. The fact that it comes bundled with a CD featuring all of the b-sides from the 2007 Self titled Avenged Sevenfold recordings (including both covers of Iron Maiden’s ‘Flash Of The Blade’ and Pantera’s ‘Walk’) makes Live In The LBC & Diamonds In The Rough totally worth the cost of admission at $18. I Haven’t heard a band do Maiden justice like ‘Flash Of The Blade’ in a loooong while. A7X is pretty much the personification of 2008 metal - and this live set shows they are going nowhere but to bigger-and-better places in the years to come.

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