Review by illusionist for Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King (2013)

Avenged Sevenfold's most boring, sterilized and soulless release to date. They phoned this one in, folks.

It's basically a C-rate Black Album fused with a Guns N Roses cover band, with none of the fun quirks and creative songwriting that made Avenged Sevenfold interesting in the past. The band says they have "progressed", but what they really did was take the easiest, safest path. 

The only track I legitimately enjoyed was "Planets", yet the only song I hated was the title track. Most of these songs aren't particularly terrible, they're just bland and completely unremarkable.