It’s not hard to make an album that’s utterly, certifiably bananas. From Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart to Devin Townsend and iwrestledabearonce, rock is littered with acts who’ve done big business slamming together disparate ideas in the name of being bonkers. Shockingly, most of them were on drugs, too. So to reveal that Avenged Sevenfold have followed-up 2016’s audacious The Stage by cracking out the hallucinogens and plunging deeper into the unknown isn’t tantamount to saying the resultant album is any good. Except Life Is But A Dream… is good. Damn good. Crazily so. In the process of shedding any lingering preconceptions about genre, consistency and the basic rules of songwriting, the Huntington Beach boys haven’t just made an album that’s more out-there than any they’ve ...