Yasss, Avenged Sevenfold walking on their early music path! and new incredible music video.
Finally, M. Shadows and friends have revealed their new music video for their second single “God Damn” following “The Stage” from album “The Stage” 2016.
A7X premiered music video via Billboard.
Song lyrics: Avenged Sevenfold – Good Damn
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Hey! Can’t you see we’re tripping on the wire
Walking through the candy land of our desires
Press the magic button and behold the world you crave
Where’s the fun in freedom when it renders you a slave?Pledge allegiance, no flag
God nation, goddamned
The devil dances with the scorned
And how the fire keeps us warmHey! It goes beyond big brother in the sky
Beyond the threat of martial law no Horus eye
No one came to cuff you they just handed you the chains
Blind follows the blind and now the one-eyed man is kingPledge allegiance, no flag
God nation, goddamned
The devil dances with the scorned
And how the fire keeps us warmTunnel vision, no man
Damnation, god damn
Can’t see the forest for the trees
Can’t heal the wound before we bleedNo form of payment, no pot of gold will satisfy the debt of what he’s owed
Spilling from the houses in a trance the children lined up on the road
Cursing at the piper as he lured your kids away
And led them to the river for what was their final day
No need for convincing on his pipe he played a song to fool them all
Fooled them allPledge allegiance, no flag
God nation, goddamned
The devil dances with the scorn
And now the fire keeps us (keeps us)Tunnel vision, no man
Damnation, god damn
Can’t see the forest for the trees
Can’t heal the wound before we bleed
About God Damn
The song is referencing the downward spiral of American politics. Our leaders continue to take us deeper in debt, to fight unnecessary and oppressive wars, to create a surveillance state, and to get wealthy by becoming increasingly corrupt.
While all this is happening, the American people ignorantly cheer for their choice of presidential nominee (no matter how horrible the choice) and ignore the greater problems that either will perpetuate once elected. We are unable to focus on the bigger picture (the forest through the trees).
Unless voters educate themselves, we will continue down this dark path… we may already be damned.
Videoclip
As quoted from Billboard, The video directed by Anders Rostad and filmed earlier this year in Southern California before a crowd of fan volunteers, some of whom traveled to be part of the shoot, the clip combines performance footage with high-tech special effects inspired by the album’s focus on Artificial Intelligence and other scientific/science-fiction themes.
“There’s a bunch of ideas that were thrown into the mixing bowl there,” A7X frontman M. Shadows, who personally greeted all those who attended the shoot, tells Billboard, “but the main idea was to get fans involved and make sure the kids knew this is a song full of energy first and foremost — ‘hey, this is a record we can wrap our heads around. It’s cool live stuff. It’s a rockin’ song’ — but at the same time, we wanted the technological hint in there, so as the video progresses you start seeing things glitching out and all of a sudden the world turns digital. And by the end, there’s a little nod to the lyrics; you see an eyeball kind of in there as an Easter egg, which is kind of big brother watching what we do the whole time as the humans turn into a digital world.”
Watch Avenged Sevenfold – God Damn Behind The Scene (Making Of The Video)
The Stage tracklisting
Avenged Sevenfold
01. The Stage
02. Paradigm
03. Sunny Disposition
04. God Damn
05. Creating God
06. Angels
07. Simulation
08. Higher
09. Roman Sky
10. Fermi Paradox
11. Exist