Mark of the Beast (album) explained

Mark of the Beast
Type:Album
Artist:Manilla Road
Cover:Manilla road mark of the beast.jpg
Released:December 2002
Recorded:1981
Genre:
Length:66:05
Label:Monster
Prev Title:Spiral Castle
Prev Year:2002
Next Title:Gates of Fire
Next Year:2005

Mark of the Beast is an album released by American heavy metal band Manilla Road in 2002. Around half of the album was originally recorded in 1981, and was intended to be the band's second album. The results were judged unsatisfactory by the band and so was scrapped in favor of writing the album Metal. With half of the scrapped songs existing for 20 years as a bootleg called Dreams of Eschaton (which would also have been the original title in 1981), Monster Records cleaned up the master tapes and released the project under the name Mark of the Beast with additional unreleased early tracks.The cover is taken from a drawing by Jim Fitzpatrick.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Shelton.

  1. "Mark of the Beast" – 9:35
  2. "Court of Avalon" – 7:29
  3. "Avatar" – 9:34
  4. "Dream Sequence" – 2:45
  5. "Time Trap" – 5:59
  6. "Black Lotus" – 5:03
  7. "Teacher" – 4:51
  8. "Aftershock" – 5:10
  9. "Venusian Sea" – 6:16
  10. "Triumvirate" – 8:22

Credits