Hail to the King charted as number 1 on the Billboard 200, the UK Albums chart, as well as the Finnish, Brazilian, Canadian, and Irish charts. The band's sixth studio album Hail to the King, which was released in 2013, marked the only Avenged Sevenfold album featuring Ilejay. In 2011 drummer Arin Ilejay joined the band on tours and recording.

Despite his death, Avenged Sevenfold continued on with the help of drummer Mike Portnoy (ex- Dream Theater), and released and toured in support of their fifth album Nightmare in 2010, which debuted on the top spot of the Billboard 200, their first number one debut. The band continued to explore new sounds with its self-titled release and enjoyed continued mainstream success before their drummer, James 'The Rev' Sullivan, died in 2009. However, the band's style had evolved by the group's third album and first major label release, City of Evil, into a heavy metal and hard rock style. The band emerged with a metalcore sound on their debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet and continued this sound through their second album Waking the Fallen. Shadows, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Synyster Gates, bassist and backing vocalist Johnny Christ, and drummer Brooks Wackerman.ДЄvenged Sevenfold is known for its diverse rock sound and dramatic imagery in album covers and merchandise. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Avenged Sevenfold (abbreviated as A7X) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999.

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