The band has cited bands such as Bad Religion, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Dream Theater, and Megadeth[59], Metallica, NOFX, Alice in Chains, Black Flag, Corrosion of Conformity, The Misfits, Slayer, The Vandals, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, Deftones and AFI as their artistic influences.[60]
Avenged Sevenfold's
material spans multiple genres and has evolved
over the band's entire career. Initially, the band's debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet consisted almost entirely of metalcore sound; however, there were several deviations to this genre, most notably in "Streets" which adopts a punk style and "Warmness on the Soul," which is a piano-oriented ballad.[61] On Waking the Fallen,
the band displayed the contemporary metalcore style once more, but
added more clean vocals as well as more mature and intricate musical
elements. In the band's DVD All Excess, producer Andrew Murdock explained this transition: "When I met the band after Sounding the Seventh Trumpet had come out before they had recorded Waking the Fallen,
M. Shadows said to me 'This record is screaming. The record we want to
make is going to be half-screaming half-singing. I don't want to scream
anymore. And the record after that is going to be all singing.'"
On City of Evil, Avenged Sevenfold's third album, the band chose to abandon the metalcore genre, developing a more hard rock
style. Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled album, again, consists of
several deviations to less consistent genres and styles from the album's
main hard rock and heavy metal songs, most notably in "Dear God", which adopts a country
style and "A Little Piece of Heaven", which is circled within the
influence of Broadway show tunes, using primarily brass instruments and
stringed orchestra to take over most of the role of the lead and rhythm
guitar. Nightmare
contains further deviations, including a piano ballad called "Fiction"
and a heavy metal sound related to their metalcore roots on "God Hates
Us" and "Not Ready to Die".
The band has changed considerably since their first album, in which
during that time they have been characterized as a heavy band with a screamed and growled vocal style combined with clean vocals, chugging guitar riffs and breakdowns that one can expect from the metalcore genre.
The band has been criticised in the past for "not being metal enough".[62]
Vocalist M. Shadows responded to this with, "we play music for the sake
of music, not so that we can be labeled a metal band. That's like
telling us we aren't punk enough. Who cares?".[62] Avenged Sevenfold is one of the notable acts for New Wave of American Heavy Metal[63]
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