The Stage
by Avenged Sevenfold
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Oct 28, 2016
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 77 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 77
  3. Negative: 3 out of 77
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  1. JaneMetascore
    Dec 18, 2019
    0
    This music is no longer creative, it's just distortion, like it's Mao's distortion. This music is too sane in how it scams listeners into compliance. These songs have terrible choruses, like any moron could write a better one. These ballads are quite bad, too. This music fails to make a leap forward.

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#78 Most Discussed Album of 2016

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Q Magazine
    Dec 13, 2016
    60
    Even if Avenged Sevenfold are guilty of occasionally overreaching in places here, it's undoubtedly made them more interesting. [Feb 2017, p.117]
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Dec 9, 2016
    80
    It’s evident the band have begun a new chapter where they appreciate rather than become their influences. They’ve truly 
arrived.
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  3. The Guardian
    Dec 8, 2016
    80
    They have blown the creative doors off, cramming an insane amount of ideas into 74 minutes of prog-metal bombast. Their knack for a chorus is as apparent on the shorter, sharper likes of Paradigm and God Damn, but it’s the outrageous opulence of towering ballads Higher and Roman Sky, and the overblown, starry-eyed Muse-ings of 16-minute closer Exist, that make this such a satisfying forward leap.
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