“Critical Acclaim” by Avenged Sevenfold

"Critical Acclaim" comes off Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled fourth album, released in 2007 through Warner Bros. and Hopeless, the first record the band produced entirely on their own. All five members share the writing credit: M. Shadows sings, Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance play guitars, Johnny Christ plays bass and The Rev drums, with Jamie Muhoberac adding organ and piano. Andy Wallace mixed it.

There's a wry edge to a song with this title sitting on an album that split the critics more than anything the band had made before, even as fans and buyers embraced it. It is also part of the band's last studio album with The Rev on drums; he died while they were working on the follow-up, Nightmare.

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