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50 free Avenged Sevenfold trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Avenged Sevenfold started out as teenagers playing fast, furious songs in Orange County clubs and grew into one of the biggest arena acts in heavy music. Along the way they changed their sound on almost every record, lost a founding member and best friend, and kept going with an album written in his honor. This quiz covers the whole story: the singles everyone knows, the deep album tracks, the stage names and the people behind them, the famous guests and stand-ins, the cover versions and the tours. There is a run of questions on Nightmare, the record the band finished after the death of drummer The Rev, and plenty on the songs that came before and after it. It is written for A7X fans of every vintage. The opening questions are friendly to anyone who knows a handful of the hits, and the later ones will test people who have read every liner note. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01Avenged Sevenfold took their name from the Book of Genesis story of which pair of biblical brothers?
Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel supplied the name: the phrase 'avenged sevenfold' appears in Genesis 4:24. Singer M. Shadows chose it even though the band is not a religious one.
Q 02Avenged Sevenfold's hit 'Bat Country' takes its title and drug-fueled theme from a 1971 novel by which author?
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the song's title is a direct quote from the passage where Raoul Duke heads for the city while high.
Q 03Which astrophysicist reads a spoken-word piece to close 'Exist', the 15-minute finale of Avenged Sevenfold's The Stage?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote his closing speech specially for the album. The music before it was built to evoke the Big Bang and then the formation of Earth.
Q 04Avenged Sevenfold wrote 'Not Ready to Die' and 'Mad Hatter' as hidden songs for Zombies maps in which game series?
Call of Duty
Call of Duty has used the band's music since Black Ops in 2010. After the credits of Black Ops II, the group appears on screen playing 'Carry On' with two of the game's characters.
Q 05Which film composer's work inspired The Rev to write Avenged Sevenfold's macabre, horn-laden 'A Little Piece of Heaven'?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman and his band Oingo Boingo were the models The Rev named for the song. The band brought in brass and string sections to record it, and its members have compared it to an eight-minute movie.
Q 06Mike Portnoy, who drummed on Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare after The Rev died, co-founded which progressive metal band?
Dream Theater
Dream Theater was a major influence on The Rev, which is why the band turned to its drummer. Portnoy finished the album's drum tracks and toured with the group to the end of 2010.
Q 07Avenged Sevenfold beat Rihanna, Chris Brown and James Blunt to which prize at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards?
Best New Artist
Best New Artist went to the band for the 'Bat Country' video, even though they had formed in 1999 and were already three albums in.
Q 08Avenged Sevenfold's surprise 2016 release The Stage is a concept album built around which emerging technology?
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence and the self-destruction of society drive the record, whose lyrics drew on the writings of Carl Sagan and Elon Musk.
Q 09The tombstone on the cover of Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare honors The Rev by stressing three letters of which word?
Forever
Forever is carved on the stone with REV picked out, for the drummer who died during the album's production. The whole record is dedicated to his memory.
Q 10What name do Avenged Sevenfold give their winged-skull logo, projected across London, Berlin and Paris in 2016?
Deathbat
Deathbat is the name of the skull-and-wings emblem. Those 2016 projections signaled that a new album was close, weeks before it appeared without warning.
Q 11Avenged Sevenfold formed in 1999 in which Orange County city, where singer M. Shadows went to high school?
Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach is the band's hometown, and bassist Johnny Christ was born there. Their first show, in February 2000, was at the city hall of Walnut, California.
Q 12Avenged Sevenfold were the main support act on which band's WorldWired stadium tour of North America in 2017?
Metallica
Metallica took them out alongside Volbeat and Gojira. A year earlier the two bands had shared the first rock concert ever held at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Q 13Which British band first recorded 'Wish You Were Here', which Avenged Sevenfold covered for The Stage's deluxe edition?
Pink Floyd
Q 21Which Avenged Sevenfold power ballad has a video in which M. Shadows is jailed after a liquor store robbery?
Seize the Day
Seize the Day was a City of Evil single in 2006. In its video his bandmates drive off and leave him to the police, and his real-life future wife Valary plays his partner.
Q 22Which Waking the Fallen single won Avenged Sevenfold their first mainstream exposure through MTV2's Headbangers Ball?
Unholy Confessions
Unholy Confessions went into rotation on the show in 2004. The band disliked the first video, filmed in an abandoned warehouse, and reshot it as a live performance at the Henry Fonda Theatre.
Q 23The Rev sang and Synyster Gates played guitar in which experimental side band outside Avenged Sevenfold?
Pink Floyd's ballad was the last of six covers the band issued through 2017, a run that also took in songs by the Rolling Stones and Mr. Bungle.
Q 14Which vocal style did M. Shadows abandon on Avenged Sevenfold's City of Evil after months with a vocal coach?
Screaming
Screaming vanished from the album by design: before the previous record was even made, he had told producer Mudrock that the one after it would be all singing.
Q 15Which genre label fits Avenged Sevenfold's first two albums, Sounding the Seventh Trumpet and Waking the Fallen?
Metalcore
Metalcore describes the debut and its follow-up, though both strayed from it: the first even carries a piano ballad. The third album dropped the style for classic heavy metal.
Q 16Which Avenged Sevenfold ballad did Synyster Gates begin for his grandfather and finish as a tribute to The Rev?
So Far Away
So Far Away became the heart of the band's memorials: in concert the crowd holds up lighters or phones while a banner honoring the drummer hangs behind the stage.
Q 17Which touring festival did Avenged Sevenfold first join in 2002 and later return to as headliners?
Warped Tour
Warped Tour crowds came for pop-punk, and Zacky Vengeance says the band got noticed there by playing the fastest, craziest music on the bill and breaking their instruments.
Q 18Avenged Sevenfold's rarities set Diamonds in the Rough includes a cover of 'Walk', a groove-metal anthem by which band?
Pantera
Pantera's song sits on the disc beside a second cover, Iron Maiden's 'Flash of the Blade', and B-sides left over from the self-titled album sessions.
Q 19Brooks Wackerman became Avenged Sevenfold's drummer in 2015 after fourteen years with which Californian punk band?
Bad Religion
Bad Religion had Wackerman from 2001, and he also played with Tenacious D. The group worked with him in secret for over a year before announcing the change.
Q 20Avenged Sevenfold's 'Beast and the Harlot' retells the fall of which ancient city, drawn from the Book of Revelation?
Babylon
Babylon stands in for Hollywood in M. Shadows' telling, with its tales of innocents corrupted. The same song supplied the phrase that became the album title City of Evil.
Pinkly Smooth
Pinkly Smooth made avant-garde metal with The Rev out front as lead vocalist and pianist. Talk of a second record ended with his death in 2009.
Q 24Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows, who calls himself the group's darker character, was born with which surname?
Sanders
Sanders is the family name, and the 'M' stands for Matthew, which he kept out of his stage name because he disliked how it sounded.
Q 25Besides classical, which guitar style did Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates study at the Musicians Institute?
Jazz
Jazz, and gypsy jazz in particular, remains one of his loves away from metal. His father, a session guitarist known as Papa Gates, has played on the band's records.
Q 26'Malagueña Salerosa', covered by Avenged Sevenfold in 2017, is a traditional huapango folk song from which country?
Mexico
Mexico is its home, although the song addresses a woman from Málaga in Spain, whom the singer feels too poor to win. It has been covered more than 200 times.
Q 27Hail to the King gave Avenged Sevenfold their first number-one album in which of these countries?
Britain
Britain put the album at number one in 2013, as did the United States, Canada, Brazil, Finland and Ireland. The band wrote it as a tribute to their classic metal influences.
Q 28Which guitarist joined Avenged Sevenfold on stage in 2009 for 'It's So Easy', then put M. Shadows on his solo album?
Slash
Slash played the Guns N' Roses song with them in Los Angeles, then gave M. Shadows the lead vocal on 'Nothing to Say' for the solo record he released in 2010.
Q 29Avenged Sevenfold topped the bill in 2014 alongside Linkin Park and Aerosmith at which English rock festival?
Download
Download gave them its Friday night in June 2014 and brought them back as headliners in 2018, the year they also played Hellfest and Rock am Ring.
Q 30Avenged Sevenfold launched The Stage in 2016 with a live-streamed concert on the roof of which Hollywood landmark?
Capitol Records Building
Capitol Records Building was a fitting stage: the album came out through Capitol, and it went on sale straight after the rooftop set with no warning.