Back for its 20th anniversary - Swirl coloured 2LP and first black vinyl pressing since original 2005 Warner release. Silver foil jacket excklusive to this 2025 pressings!
With over 2.5 millions copies sold worldwide, City of Evil continues to be one of Avenged Sevenfold's most popular albums.
The album includes fan favorite "Bat Country", single "Burn It Doen" & "The Wicked End". Avenged Sevenfold (abbreviated as A7X) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. Avenged Sevenfold are known for their diverse rock sound and dramatic imagery in album covers and merchandise. The band emerged with a metalcore sound on their debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet and largely continued this sound through their second album Waking the Fallen.
The band's style had evolved by their third album and first major label release, City of Evil, into a more traditional heavy metal style.
No° 63 on Guitar World Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time". Kerrang! includes City of Evil on both "666 Albums You Need to Hear Before You Die" & "50 Albums You Need to Hear Before You Die". City of Evil is No° 35 on Kerrang!'s "50 Greatest Metal Albums Ever". Rolling Stone includes the album on their list "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
Editions pressed to red and yellow swirl colour 2LP (ltd 500 copies ww) or 180g classic black double vinyl, which is absolutely not classic to Hopeless Records, but a rare thing. Both have new silver foil jacket artwork, which is exclusive to these 20th anniversary editions.
For Fans of Metallica, Slipknot, & Bullet For My Valentine, Metalcore, Alternative, Post-Metal, Emo, Heavy Metal.
Side A: 01. BEAST AND THE HARLOT / 02. BURN IT DOWN / 03. BLINDED IN CHAINS
Side B: 04. BAT COUNTRY 05. TRASHED AND SCATTERED 06. SEIZE THE DAY 07. SIDEWINDER
Side C: 01. WICKED END / 02. STRENGTH OF THE WORLD
Side D: 03. BETRAYED / 04. M.I.A
