What Is The Full Sounding The Seventh Trumpet Album Tracklist?

I still get a little giddy whenever someone brings up 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'—it’s the raw, scrappy debut from Avenged Sevenfold that hooked me back when I was scavenging CD bins and trading burned discs with friends. If you’re looking for the full tracklist, I can walk you through the core songs that define that era of the band and point out the edition differences you might run into (since the original independent pressing and the later Hopeless Records release shuffle a couple of things and runtimes sometimes vary). Off the top of my head, the most consistent and commonly cited listing for the album includes these tracks: 'To End the Rapture', 'Turn the Other Way', 'Darkness Surrounding', 'We Come Out at Night', 'Hidden Faces', 'Warmness on the Soul', and 'The Art of Subconscious Illusion'. Those are the tracks people tend to name when they reminisce about that early A7X sound—fast, metalcore-leaning, and then suddenly syrupy and melodic on 'Warmness on the Soul' which always made me pause the mosh to actually listen.

I like to think of the album in two halves when I’m talking about it at a show or in a thread: one half is the breakneck metalcore fury—song titles like 'To End the Rapture' and 'Turn the Other Way' that hit hard and fast—while the other half reveals a band even at that stage capable of melodic hooks and weird, longer pieces like 'The Art of Subconscious Illusion'. 'Warmness on the Soul' is the little oddity that became a fan favorite, a softer ballad hiding on a pretty vicious record. Depending on the pressing you’re looking at, you might also see a few extra short tracks or slight re-orderings; early indie runs, demos, or reissues sometimes include bonus material or alternate takes. If you’re digging through collectors’ forums, people often point out small differences between the original 2001 indie pressing and the 2002 Hopeless Records release that’s more widely known.

If you want the perfectly exact breakdown track-by-track for a specific release (for example, the original 2001 indie CD versus the 2002 Hopeless pressing, or a later reissue), tell me which version you’ve got in mind and I’ll zero in on that edition for the definitive list. I’ve spent ridiculous hours comparing liner notes and forum posts over the years—part of the fun of being a vinyl/digipak nerd—and I can also tell you which songs got played live more often back then, or which tracks later disappeared from setlists entirely. Either way, whether you’re hunting for a specific pressing or just nostalgic for the songs, there’s something totally personal and immediate about this album that still makes me want to put it on when I need a blast of early-2000s energy.