The seventh studio long-player from the veteran California-based metal ensemble, and their first new collection of music to feature ex-Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman behind the kit, Stage sees Avenged Sevenfold rolling up their sleeves and delivering an ambitious concept LP.
Dropped with little to no promotion -- WWE superstar and Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho leaked the album's original title, Voltaic Oceans, via his Instagram account a month prior to the release -- the narrative concerns itself with the Orwellian consequences of a world struggling to adapt to the myriad complexities of artificial intelligence -- there's even a spoken word appearance by celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Despite some forays into Floyd-ian space rock -- the soloing in the orchestra-driven "Roman Sky" is positively Gilmour-esque -- the 11-track set mostly sticks to the kind of propulsive, melodic carnage that fans have come to expect from the group, albeit with a progressive metal twist.
Avenged Sevenfold may have expanded their sonic horizons, but Stage is more Operation: Mindcrime-era Queensrÿche than it is Muse, and for all its opining on nanotechnology and interstellar travel, it still feels rooted in heavy metal tradition.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stage | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 08:32 | 0 MB | 55 MB |
| 2 | Paradigm | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 04:18 | 0 MB | 28 MB |
| 3 | Sunny Disposition | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 06:41 | 0 MB | 44 MB |
| 4 | God Damn | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 03:41 | 0 MB | 25 MB |
| 5 | Creating God | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 05:34 | 0 MB | 37 MB |
| 6 | Angels | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 05:40 | 0 MB | 34 MB |
| 7 | Simulation | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 05:30 | 0 MB | 35 MB |
| 8 | Higher | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 06:28 | 0 MB | 39 MB |
| 9 | Roman Sky | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 05:00 | 0 MB | 27 MB |
| 10 | Fermi Paradox | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 06:30 | 0 MB | 42 MB |
| 11 | Exist | Avenged Sevenfold | Play | 15:41 | 0 MB | 95 MB |
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| 73 mins | 467 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avenged Sevenfold | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |