THE NEW AVENGED SEVENFOLD COVER ART IS A REAL NIGHTMARE

And by “nightmare,” I mean “I actually think it’s pretty bad-assed.” I know that admitting you enjoy A7X is high treason to some metal heads, but fuck’s the fun of having a website if you can’t be honest?

And if this had almost any other band’s name on it, you’d all think it was the fucking shit. Now, you might argue, “Sure, but if it had Limp Bizkit’s name on it, you’d slam it,” and I suppose that could be true – I am definitely biased against certain bands. But I’d like to take this moment to say that Limp Bizkit have honestly never had an album cover this cool, and do you really think I enjoy enjoying Avenged Sevenfold? They call themselves things like “Zacky Vengeance” and “Johnny Christ,” for fuck’s sake! And they wrote a pro-Bush anthem! And they dress like douche bags! I see guys dressed like that sometimes, and I judge them. It’s hard to reconcile thinking that people are idiots with thinking that they’re talented. But it happens, so. Yeah.

Nightmare comes out July 27 on Warner Bros.

-AR