When Avenged Sevenfold formed in 1999, guitar virtuosity was out of fashion, replaced by the groove-driven muscle of nu metal. However, the classical influences behind the band – not to mention their two players, Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance – is what would make them superstars during the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal revolution. Now, the Californian quintet are looking down the barrel of 25 years of existence and their eighth album, Life Is But A Dream…. To mark the occasion, here are the very best riffs that Avenged have blasted our eardrums with so far.
