Song · Avenged Sevenfold
“Beast and the Harlot” by Avenged Sevenfold
From the album City of Evil (2005)
“Beast and the Harlot” by Avenged Sevenfold appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2006. It was first released in 2005 on the album City of Evil. Its best result is #72 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #498 alternative song of 2006.
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"Beast and the Harlot" is a single from City of Evil, the third studio album by Avenged Sevenfold, released in 2005, and it's where you can hear the band changing shape. It was among the first songs M. Shadows recorded after swapping the harsh, unclean vocals of their earlier work for a cleaner delivery and a more hard rock sound, and the guitars carry the melody: Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance work the riff hard, with some of the lead lines spun as variations on it. Johnny Christ plays bass, The Rev drums and Gates adds piano. The band produced it with Mudrock, and Andy Wallace mixed.
The Skinny found the whole thing wildly over the top. The UK Rock Chart didn't mind, sending it to number one in March 2006, and it reached 19 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 95 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2006 | 107 |
| 2006 | 72 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006 | 106 |
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