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Universal acclaim- based on 77 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 77
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Mixed: 6 out of 77
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Negative: 3 out of 77
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Dec 18, 2019This 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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Q MagazineDec 13, 2016Even if Avenged Sevenfold are guilty of occasionally overreaching in places here, it's undoubtedly made them more interesting. [Feb 2017, p.117]
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Dec 9, 2016It’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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Dec 8, 2016They 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.