I do not appreciate the themes in 2 of the songs, but The Stage album by Avenged Sevenfold is musically high quality IMO and represents a change in direction for the band after riding City of Evil radio gaga to the top of the rock band world. It is a concept album about a spacefaring society that has pursued the question of God by scientific horror beyond my (and the songwriter's) comprehension. I would describe the album as paranoid about each aspect of its theme and not committed to the usual propaganda-style of us/them good/bad dichotomy

I do not appreciate the themes in 2 of the songs, but The Stage album by Avenged Sevenfold is musically high quality IMO and represents a change in direction for the band after riding City of Evil radio gaga to the top of the rock band world. It is a concept album about a spacefaring society that has pursued the question of God by scientific horror beyond my comprehension. I would describe the album as paranoid about each aspect of its theme and not committed to the usual propaganda-style of us/them good/bad dichotomy