Avenged Sevenfold were only teenagers in high school when they first formed in 1999. However, even at that point, Huntington Beach’s future heavy metal heroes had a history. Many of the band’s core members had been classmates for years and had gathered individual experience in California’s fertile punk rock underground. With new album Life Is But A Dream… on the way, here’s every single band that Avenged Sevenfold’s members were in before they started sounding the seventh trumpet.
