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Produced by Mike Elizondo, 2013 s Hail To The King is the sixth studio album from Huntington Beach, CA s Avenged Sevenfold, an album Revolver Magazine hailed as “the band’s crowning achievement.” The 10-song set is the band s first written without former drummer songwriter James The Rev Sullivan, who died in December of 2009. Hail To The King is the follow up to the band s 2010 release Nightmare, which earned the group it’s highest ever debut on the Billboard album chart when it took the No. 1 spot and spawned three No. 1, hit-singles “Nightmare,” “So Far Away” and “Welcome To The Family.” Fusing elements of goth, screamo and what was once called nu metal with the late-Seventies new wave of British metal-metal, their sixth LP piles clarion solos atop clean, sludge-chug riffs. Vocalist M. Shadows nearly busts a kidney calling down a Satan-y apocalypse on Shepherd of Fire, and the ballad-storm Acid Rain is Romeo and Juliet by way of Queensrÿche (Rolling Stone).