Originally Posted by Nathanblake719

Avenged Sevenfold are a very accessible metal band that have been around since 1999. They have been around making album after album trying their hardest to make a dent in popular culture and have a successful crossover hard rock/metal album in the charts.They have not succeeded although they were nominated for a grammy this year which they refused to attend because they found out that the grammys weren't televising the best rock album category. Avenged Sevenfold are true metal fans dont get me wrong, those guys are decent fellows but that doesn't mean that they don't ****ing suck. Their first albums were in the metalcore genre and if you listen to it you can clearly hear how ****ing terrible it is. But then they moved on to a more commercial and accessible sound. Their sound of the bands most well known songs like Seize the day, Beast and the Harlot, Bat Country and MIA you could describe as Alternative Rock, Pop, and maybe even hard rock. Despite being influenced by legendary hard rock and metal bands Guns N' Roses and Metallica Avenged Sevenfold's sound is so mediocre and average. They also have a cartoon character vibe about them with their ridiculous names like M. Shadows, Synester Gates and Zacky Vengeance. Their ballad Seize the day was an alternative pop rock track that sounded like it could've been written and performed by Pink. The video was a ridiculous attempt at redoing November Rain. Avenged Sevenfold are a very overrated band in the Metal community. They seem to have such critical acclaim and respect as a metal band even though they've tried so hard their whole careers to be a pop rock band and be mainstream which has never worked. Any album they have done or will do in the future is not even worth checking out. It's below average canned crap.

Originally Posted by Nathanblake719

Tool are a band that started in the early 90's. They are a very overrated band that are incorrectly labeled Alternative Metal and Progressive metal. Their fans talk about Tool as if every work that they've done is absolute genius. I swear to god I've tried to like it but it honestly sucks. It's just badly organized drop d riffs with barely any decent song structure. They aren't even a metal band and I checked on google they're considered one of the best Metal bands of all time. If anything they are Alternative rock and maybe Hard Rock because they have distorted guitars. Another thing is the fact that the band similar to Slipknot seem to be embarrassed to show themselves in music videos or pictures. I don't think they even appear in any music videos. Their music video for Sober is talked about and shown allot on music video tv shows. The only thing I like about Tool is that they seem like down to earth nice guys. I've seen an interview between Lars Ulrich and Maynard James Keenan for the show beats 1 where Maynard really comes off as a really intelligent and articulate man, if only his music were actually good. Just to prove that Maynard sucks musically just listen to his terrible side projects A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. It's downright terrible crap.