Perfect Weapon (song)

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"Perfect Weapon"
Single by Black Veil Brides
from the album We Stitch These Wounds
ReleasedJune 8, 2010
Recorded2009-2010
Genre Metalcore
Length4:07
Label StandBy Records
Songwriter(s) Black Veil Brides
Producer(s) Don DeBiase
Black Veil Brides singles chronology
"Knives and Pens"
(2009)
"Perfect Weapon"
(2010)
"Fallen Angels"
(2011)

"Perfect Weapon" is the second single by American rock band, Black Veil Brides, from their debut album We Stitch These Wounds , officially released on June 8, 2010. [1] [2] The song was written by Andy Six before the first departure breakdown of the band. [3] This is the last single to include drummer Sandra Alvarenga before her departure from the band.

Contents

On September 22, 2011 "Perfect Weapon" was released as a downloadable song on the Rock Band Network. [4]

Music video

The video begins by showing the members of the band fixing their stage makeup and costumes. After all are ready, Andy Six is shown smoking and exhaling. The view changes to show Six stitching a wound on his mouth in the mirror with the other members behind him. The track "The Outcasts (Call to Arms)" is heard, with the image of the skeleton of a virgin, then the song begins. In the penultimate choir, a group of children behind them shouting "Go!" with Six, then all the children make a detour to the band, on having ended one sees Six kneeling down and praying, and between the children there appears David Sasik, the young actor who appeared in the "Knives and Pens" music video. [5]

Track listing

CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Perfect Weapon"4:07

Personnel

Black Veil Brides
Production

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