When was beast and the harlot released

Lyrics: [ ] This shining city built of gold, a far cry from innocence, There's more than meets the eye round here, look to the waters of the deep. A city of evil. There sat a seven-headed beast, ten horns raised from his head. Symbolic woman sits on his throne, but hatred strips her and leaves her naked. The Beast and the Harlot.

She's a dwelling place for demons. She's a cage for every unclean spirit, Every filthy bird and makes us drink The poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings. Fallen now is Babylon the Great. The city dressed in jewels and gold, fine linen, myrrh and pearls. Her place will come all at once as mourners watch her burn. Destroyed in an hour. Merchants and captains of the world, sailors, navigators too. Will weep and mourn this loss with her sins piled to the sky, The Beast and the Harlot.

The day has come for all us sinners. If you're not a servant, you'll be struck to the ground. Flee the burning, greedy city.

Lookin' back on her to see there's nothing around. I don't believe in fairytales and no one wants to go to hell. You've made the wrong decision and it's easy to see. Now if you wanna serve above or be a king below with us, You're welcome to the city where your future is set forever. Those clattering drum rolls. And the most ludicrous key change in 21st-century metal. Where contemporaries like Bullet For My Valentine , Killswitch Engage and Trivium were dealing out more heads-down, no-nonsense metal anthems, Avenged were embracing their more bombastic 80s influences, making OTT, fret-burning guitar music cool again to a whole new era of music fans.

So we wanted to incorporate a bit of that vibe. We came out of the gates swinging. Indeed, as a single it was preceded by the similarly successful Bat Country and preview track Burn It Down — two songs that had brought in elements of snarling gutter- rock and Maiden-heavy dual-guitar heroism.

Neither mixed the two as urgently or flamboyantly as Beast And The Harlot , though, and as the band began to tour the album, it was immediately clear which track was hitting the spot the most with live crowds. Musically, it remains their most full-throttle, pedal-to-the-heavy-fucking-metal moment yet, refusing to let up over a blitzing five minutes and 44 seconds as it wields together chunky riffs, lashings of guitar noodling and a driving, relentless drum-battering from The Rev.

The video for the song also showed Avenged in a different light, establishing them as the new poster boys for party-hard, gunslinging, heavy metal excess in all its forms.