Hailing from Southern California, Avenged Sevenfold is a new breed of hard rock band, bringing back what made older heavy metal pure, replete with good structuring, changes, and exceptional guitar prowess. The band consists of vocalist M. Shadows (Matthew Charles Sanders), bassist Johnny Christ , drummer The Rev (James Owen Sullivan), and guitarists Synyster Gates (Brian Elwin Haner, Jr.) and Zacky Vengeance (Zachary James Baker).
