Songfacts®:

• "Hallelujah" isn't exactly the word you'd expect to hear booming out of a Black Veil Brides record. But rather than being a religious song, it's about the modern gospel of screens and cancel culture. Frontman Andy Biersack rails against what he calls our new digital shrines - those glowing rectangles we all bow before - where ideological purity is demanded with the same fervor once reserved for saints.
• Biersack, who grew up Catholic, says the song isn't religious per se, but the framework was inevitable. Religion, after all, was his first brush with unquestioned authority. "Anytime you grow up in any kind of religious situation, the good and bad filters its way in," he told Cutter's Rockcast. Which is perhaps why the song treats cultural discourse like a new kind of faith, complete with zealots, heretics, and, crucially, no room for middle ground.
• To drive the point home, Black Veil Brides enlisted the One Voice Ensemble, a Tampa-based choir whose gospel harmonies soar over the guitars like a haunted congregation that took a wrong turn somewhere between Sunday service and a Slayer show.
• "Hallelujah" is the lead single from Black Veil's seventh album, and for the first time, the band produced it themselves. No outside hands, just Andy Biersack and guitarist Jake Pitts calling the shots, which Biersack gleefully pointed out meant "no one was distilling down [our] ideas to make it more palatable."
• The band debuted "Hallelujah" live on July 26, 2025, at the Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, California.
• Marco Pavone, who's previously worked with Pink Floyd and The Black Dahlia Murder, directed the animated video. Rendered in stark black and white, the visual style was inspired by the artwork of Gustave Doré.
• "Paradise Lost," John Milton's epic poem about Adam and Eve's encounter with Satan, was on Biersack's mind when they made the video.
  
  "'Paradise Lost' has been something that has factored into my life," he told Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong. "I grew up Catholic, and a lot of times people call it Biblical fan fiction because it's a story that's kind of expanding on the Biblical text. But it always fascinated me, this idea that Milton kind of inadvertently turned Lucifer into this sort of sympathetic character."