"Beast and the Harlot" is a single by the American band Avenged Sevenfold, taken from their 2005 album City of Evil. So far, the song has hit #19 on the US Mainstream Rock and #44 on the UK Singles Chart. The actual song is about the fall of Babylon from the Book of Revelation, (particularly chapter seventeen) from which many quotes are taken, such as "Seven headed beast, ten horns raise from his head", "hatred strips her and leaves her naked", and other references. The Harlot referred to in the song is Great Babylon, quoted in the song "Fallen now is Babylon the great." On Avenged Sevenfold's All Excess DVD, during the director for this video's commentary, he says that M. Shadow's lyrics for this song about the fall of Babylon is comparing Babylon to Hollywood, showing many Hollywood clichés such as the young, innocent boys being corrupted and losing their souls. The song features M. Shadows' newer brand of vocals with no hardcore screaming (although there is one scream in the introduction to the song, transferring into his newer vocal style which was removed when the song was featured in Guitar Hero II), as well as a more traditional metal sound as opposed to their previous work--with heavy and fast riffs and a relatively normal song structure (with the exception of the guitar solo, which comes after the first chorus rather than the second, atypical of a three verse song). The song's rapid main riff was voted as the 14th greatest riff ever by the guitar magazine Total Guitar in March 2007. Total Guitar wrote: "The main riff to Beast And The Harlot is a great piece of dropped-D riffing with Zacky and Synyster cleverly placing the second part of the riff across the beat to create an aggressive syncopated feel, once again avoiding all the usual metal clichés." (via Wikipedia)