Sounding the Seventh Trumpet is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold, released on July 24, 2001, through Good Life Recordings.

[14] Valary DiBenedetto (M. Shadows' future wife) performs vocals on the track "The Art of Subconscious Illusion.

[16][better source needed] Sounding the Seventh Trumpet was recorded in eight days in November 2000,[17] with a budget of only $2,000.

The review also praised the tracks "Darkness Surrounding" and "We Come out at Night" as being "...excellent metalcore masterpieces, as the vocal harmonies add to these cuts to evolve the songs into fully atmospheric sonic blasts."

The video depicted the band wandering through city streets as M. Shadows' wife, Valary, searches for them.