- Monday, December 31st 2012
- Sunday, December 30th 2012
Artisan News
Andy talks about working with Bert (The Used) and Chris Cheney (The Living End) for the song "Days Are Numbered".
- Saturday, December 29th 2012
- Friday, December 28th 2012
Hot Topic
BVB are signing 1000 posters for HotTopic. If you go to a HotTopic store and buy the new album on January 8th, you might get one.
Andy's Top 5 Metal Videos
Andy picks his top 5 favorite metal videos on Fuse.
- Thursday, December 27th 2012
Interview with Andy (Fuse)
Andy talks about the new record and the making of "In The End".
- Wednesday, December 26th 2012
Happy Birthday, Andy!!
- Tuesday, December 25th 2012
Average Joe
There is a Christmas episode of Average Joe. "Joe goes home for the holidays".
Watch it here.
Watch it here.
- Monday, December 24th 2012
Twitter account of the year (Alternative Press)
- Sunday, December 23rd 2012
Artisan News
Andy talks about his name, "The Prophet".
Legion Of The Black Premiere
- Saturday, December 22nd 2012
Artisan News
- Friday, December 21st 2012
Black Veil Brides at the premiere of their movie "Legion Of The Black"
- Wednesday, December 19th 2012
Andy talks about Legion Of The Black (Artisan News)
Interview with Horns Up Rocks
Andy talks to Horns Up Rocks after the private listening party.
- Monday, December 17th 2012
Andy talks about his girlfriend, Juliet
- Friday, December 14th 2012
Artisan News
What's The Worst Christmas Gift You've Received?
Andy answers at minute 1:02.
- Thursday, December 13th 2012
Jinxx interview on examiner.com
Like Jake, you are classically trained. Why the violin? Was it by choice or did your parents put one in your hands? How has that training helped you, and at the same time, do the discipline and technique create challenges within the rock genre?
I was not forced to play violin. That’s something I chose on my own. My mom suggested I play something cool, like a saxophone. I said, “I’m not playing saxophone. I want to learn violin!” My biggest push in that direction was my grandfather, who played violin. I thought that was so cool. He said, “If you start taking lessons, one day I’ll give you this violin.” I started out on smaller sizes, I was 7 years old, and it’s something I wanted to do. That goes for any instrument — you have to want to do it or you’re not going to learn. I remember being in school with kids who were forced to learn the violin and they dreaded it. They never practiced, and of course they never did anything with it afterward. I took lessons and studied until I was 17. I played in the symphony in Des Moines, where I’m from. It was like a part-time job — my first job was playing with professional orchestras when I was in high school. I would still take lessons now if I had the time. There’s way more I can learn. There’s no cap on what you can learn. There’s so much musical literature and so many techniques that I haven’t begun to discover. I still play. On every record that we make, it might not be very prevalent, but it’s there. I want to do that as much as I can. I take a violin on the road with me sometimes and practice, and I practice at home. Before Black Veil Brides started up, I played for weddings to make extra money to pay rent.
What did you learn from Jake about recording and production?
Jake hugely impacted me. He went to recording school and learned a great deal and shared a lot of that knowledge with me. We work so well together and things happen so magically and so easily. It’s helped a great deal. I don’t know where we’d be if we weren’t able to make the demos we make on our own, because we don’t go into the studio blindly. We have a solid vision of what we want, and unlike a lot of musicians who don’t know, the magic happens for us on our own.
Read the whole interview here
I was not forced to play violin. That’s something I chose on my own. My mom suggested I play something cool, like a saxophone. I said, “I’m not playing saxophone. I want to learn violin!” My biggest push in that direction was my grandfather, who played violin. I thought that was so cool. He said, “If you start taking lessons, one day I’ll give you this violin.” I started out on smaller sizes, I was 7 years old, and it’s something I wanted to do. That goes for any instrument — you have to want to do it or you’re not going to learn. I remember being in school with kids who were forced to learn the violin and they dreaded it. They never practiced, and of course they never did anything with it afterward. I took lessons and studied until I was 17. I played in the symphony in Des Moines, where I’m from. It was like a part-time job — my first job was playing with professional orchestras when I was in high school. I would still take lessons now if I had the time. There’s way more I can learn. There’s no cap on what you can learn. There’s so much musical literature and so many techniques that I haven’t begun to discover. I still play. On every record that we make, it might not be very prevalent, but it’s there. I want to do that as much as I can. I take a violin on the road with me sometimes and practice, and I practice at home. Before Black Veil Brides started up, I played for weddings to make extra money to pay rent.
What did you learn from Jake about recording and production?
Jake hugely impacted me. He went to recording school and learned a great deal and shared a lot of that knowledge with me. We work so well together and things happen so magically and so easily. It’s helped a great deal. I don’t know where we’d be if we weren’t able to make the demos we make on our own, because we don’t go into the studio blindly. We have a solid vision of what we want, and unlike a lot of musicians who don’t know, the magic happens for us on our own.
Read the whole interview here
Watch the sixth and last episode of Average Joe: "The Sex Tape Rapist Part II" here.
Church Of The Wild Ones Tour
'Heaven's Basement' will be the band Black Veil Brides will be touring with in April on their European tour.
Check out the dates here.
Check out the dates here.
I think everybody is 'Wretched And Divine'
‘Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones’ is a very epic sounding album name. What does the title mean to you personally?
Growing up, I wasn’t like the kid in ‘Breakfast Club,’ but I was like the weirdo like “Don’t let your kids around that guy” – I had like a James Dean complex when I was a kid and I wanted to be this rebel person but it wasn’t because I wanted to rebel against things it was just that my inclinations were more towards rock ‘n’ roll, leather jackets and that kind of stuff.
I wasn’t a kid who got into trouble, I didn’t get into drugs as a kid but just the way that I looked and my interests made me into this social pariah. So at a young age I was already fascinated by the social dichotomy of if someone looks a certain way or someone has certain interests they can be labeled as a bad person without any actual knowledge of who they are. The older I got, I started to realize more it’s not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good, you just kind of carve your own way and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.
I think on any given day somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic and I think that everybody has that inside them, it’s just how you live that balance – so I think everbody is ‘Wretched and Divine.’ Our band also, we’re a very polarizing band in opinion – people either tend to love us or hate us, there’s not really anything in between. We like to think of ourselves and the people that support us as people on the fringe, we don’t care to be part of one group or another. We kind of exist on our own bubble so to speak and with that I think that may be where the title came from.
Can you talk about the brand new single ‘In The End’ musically and lyrically?
The song probably came about two or three weeks after my grandfather died. I was very close with my grandparents and through the course of writing the song, I started to think more and more about – just from my personal perspective because everyone in the band has their own feelings on when songs are written. But when I was sitting outside writing lyrics to it, I was feeling — I’m not a religious person but I grew up in a religious family. I went to the funeral for my grandfather, a person that I love very much and everyone is speaking about how he went to heaven and how he’s in heaven. I always fight with that because I would love nothing more to believe that my grandfather is in the clouds playing Xbox 460 or whatever awesome stuff they have up in heaven but I can’t.
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Growing up, I wasn’t like the kid in ‘Breakfast Club,’ but I was like the weirdo like “Don’t let your kids around that guy” – I had like a James Dean complex when I was a kid and I wanted to be this rebel person but it wasn’t because I wanted to rebel against things it was just that my inclinations were more towards rock ‘n’ roll, leather jackets and that kind of stuff.
I wasn’t a kid who got into trouble, I didn’t get into drugs as a kid but just the way that I looked and my interests made me into this social pariah. So at a young age I was already fascinated by the social dichotomy of if someone looks a certain way or someone has certain interests they can be labeled as a bad person without any actual knowledge of who they are. The older I got, I started to realize more it’s not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good, you just kind of carve your own way and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.
I think on any given day somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic and I think that everybody has that inside them, it’s just how you live that balance – so I think everbody is ‘Wretched and Divine.’ Our band also, we’re a very polarizing band in opinion – people either tend to love us or hate us, there’s not really anything in between. We like to think of ourselves and the people that support us as people on the fringe, we don’t care to be part of one group or another. We kind of exist on our own bubble so to speak and with that I think that may be where the title came from.
Can you talk about the brand new single ‘In The End’ musically and lyrically?
The song probably came about two or three weeks after my grandfather died. I was very close with my grandparents and through the course of writing the song, I started to think more and more about – just from my personal perspective because everyone in the band has their own feelings on when songs are written. But when I was sitting outside writing lyrics to it, I was feeling — I’m not a religious person but I grew up in a religious family. I went to the funeral for my grandfather, a person that I love very much and everyone is speaking about how he went to heaven and how he’s in heaven. I always fight with that because I would love nothing more to believe that my grandfather is in the clouds playing Xbox 460 or whatever awesome stuff they have up in heaven but I can’t.
Keep reading here
Black Veil Brides' Andy Biersack discusses new album following surprise appearance at listening party for fans - Metal Insider
About 20 fans just received the surprise of their lives by your appearance during today’s listening party of the new album. What was your first thought upon entering the room and seeing the look on these die-hard fans’ faces?
I heard it was only going to be 20-25, but 25 in a little room like this looked like a lot of people. I thought “Oh there are a lot of people sitting around!” More than anything, I love our audience. I love hanging out with them. They’re so cool. Our fans have such incredible stories, and they’re such strong kids – so many of them – that deal with so much stuff, and of all ages. People come up to me and say, “I’m an older person, and I got back into metal because of you,” or “I got into hard rock because of you.” So much of our audience, these kids have incredible stories of strength and perseverance. They’re my heroes, they’re great.
Are there any stories in particular that tug on your heartstrings more than others?
Over the years, we’ve met so many incredible – and some are so young – kids that have dealt with such adversity. Things that I’ve never had to deal with. For them to say that our music helps them is really cool.
Yeah, I was talking to your manager and he was saying how unusual it is to see fans this passionate about a band, especially nowadays.
Yeah, we’re very fortunate. In a genre that’s becoming increasingly marginalized in the mainstream culture, we have a fan base that’s dedicated, that allows us to do things like make a movie and do all this stuff. Rock bands have a tough road right now. The popular landscape, in terms of top 40 music, is not friendly to metal bands right now. I just think that the resurgence of devotion for bands like ours, and a few other bands that are in existence and coming up, are kind of bringing back the importance of metal and hard rock music. And you get to see these kids that are, fuck, maybe one in every ten kids they go to school with listens to hard rock, and everyone else listens to Flo Rida or whatever else. So I’m proud of all these kids that were in here tonight, and everyone that listens to our band. I’m so fuckin’ proud because it’s harder and harder to be a rock fan in this world. You get beat over the head with all the fuckin’ homogenized hip hop, and that’s all that you ever hear. If you didn’t know any better, like if you watched the American Music Awards, you would think that rock music didn’t ever exist. So it’s cool that kids care about it.
Read the whole interview here
I heard it was only going to be 20-25, but 25 in a little room like this looked like a lot of people. I thought “Oh there are a lot of people sitting around!” More than anything, I love our audience. I love hanging out with them. They’re so cool. Our fans have such incredible stories, and they’re such strong kids – so many of them – that deal with so much stuff, and of all ages. People come up to me and say, “I’m an older person, and I got back into metal because of you,” or “I got into hard rock because of you.” So much of our audience, these kids have incredible stories of strength and perseverance. They’re my heroes, they’re great.
Are there any stories in particular that tug on your heartstrings more than others?
Over the years, we’ve met so many incredible – and some are so young – kids that have dealt with such adversity. Things that I’ve never had to deal with. For them to say that our music helps them is really cool.
Yeah, I was talking to your manager and he was saying how unusual it is to see fans this passionate about a band, especially nowadays.
Yeah, we’re very fortunate. In a genre that’s becoming increasingly marginalized in the mainstream culture, we have a fan base that’s dedicated, that allows us to do things like make a movie and do all this stuff. Rock bands have a tough road right now. The popular landscape, in terms of top 40 music, is not friendly to metal bands right now. I just think that the resurgence of devotion for bands like ours, and a few other bands that are in existence and coming up, are kind of bringing back the importance of metal and hard rock music. And you get to see these kids that are, fuck, maybe one in every ten kids they go to school with listens to hard rock, and everyone else listens to Flo Rida or whatever else. So I’m proud of all these kids that were in here tonight, and everyone that listens to our band. I’m so fuckin’ proud because it’s harder and harder to be a rock fan in this world. You get beat over the head with all the fuckin’ homogenized hip hop, and that’s all that you ever hear. If you didn’t know any better, like if you watched the American Music Awards, you would think that rock music didn’t ever exist. So it’s cool that kids care about it.
Read the whole interview here
Black Veil Brides album listening party & frontman Andy Biersack interview - LocalBozo
LocalBozo.com: The new Black Veil Brides album “Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones” comes out on January 8th. But one must look first to 2011′s “Set The World On Fire” and songs like “Fallen Angels” which were epic. Yet on the new album you guys brought it to a whole new level. Please give us some insight into the process the band went through to make this all happen so cohesively and just bringing in a ton of instrumentation like violin, effects and of course plenty of haunting vibes.
Andy Biersack: You know, I think we wanted to do something that was on an entirely different scale. It was something completely different then we have ever done before. So the importance of playing stylishly with the sonic level of the record was very cool. It was something we have never done before, you know? We had to relearn the way we write songs, because we wanted to involve a lot of orchestration and soundscapes. While using instrumentation we have never used before. It was definitely a difficult learning curve to get used to that stuff because it was self imposed. We wanted to do it so we knew we had to learn it to do this. It turned out great and we’re really proud of it. I think we wanted to avoid making a follow up record to our last record. We wanted to do something that was it’s own piece, that could stand on it’s own and be it’s own entity in itself. And I feel like we succeeded in that.
LocalBozo.com: With nearly twenty songs on “Wretched and Divine,” it can easily be seen that this was a gigantic undertaking between an immense amount of writing and orchestration. Yet throughout the overall “story” featured throughout the record there exists these mini bookend moments as seen on songs “Done For You” through “Lost It All” (Tracks 14-16) where you start with a ballad and end with one. Were these singled out departures a premeditated choice?
AB: When we first started writing the record it was all based on a short story I had written. This story of the “Wild Ones,” which I wrote on a flight back from Europe. It was just an idea I had and not something we were definitely going to make a record out of. But I loved the idea of involving this comic book-esque “1984″ “V For Vendetta” kind of story into what we are doing. So we started making a record with that as the intention. Let’s make this concept record. Let’s do this (said the band). And very quickly within this process we set out to make a concept record we were cutting ourselves off from writing great songs. You start to bog yourself down with, “Okay does this work within the context of the story?” And “Does this lyric work here?” So we decided to take off the idea of the concept record for a few weeks and we just wrote. We wrote as many songs as we could. What we kept finding was no matter what we did, we kept referring back to the story. And it was just naturally happening. We were so naturally involved with it. That even when we were intentionally not trying to, we were still writing about the story. And so at that point we realized if we do it more casual and just write as we would write, the story is going to come through. And when we completed with our writing, we saw how all of these aspects fit into place.
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Andy Biersack: You know, I think we wanted to do something that was on an entirely different scale. It was something completely different then we have ever done before. So the importance of playing stylishly with the sonic level of the record was very cool. It was something we have never done before, you know? We had to relearn the way we write songs, because we wanted to involve a lot of orchestration and soundscapes. While using instrumentation we have never used before. It was definitely a difficult learning curve to get used to that stuff because it was self imposed. We wanted to do it so we knew we had to learn it to do this. It turned out great and we’re really proud of it. I think we wanted to avoid making a follow up record to our last record. We wanted to do something that was it’s own piece, that could stand on it’s own and be it’s own entity in itself. And I feel like we succeeded in that.
LocalBozo.com: With nearly twenty songs on “Wretched and Divine,” it can easily be seen that this was a gigantic undertaking between an immense amount of writing and orchestration. Yet throughout the overall “story” featured throughout the record there exists these mini bookend moments as seen on songs “Done For You” through “Lost It All” (Tracks 14-16) where you start with a ballad and end with one. Were these singled out departures a premeditated choice?
AB: When we first started writing the record it was all based on a short story I had written. This story of the “Wild Ones,” which I wrote on a flight back from Europe. It was just an idea I had and not something we were definitely going to make a record out of. But I loved the idea of involving this comic book-esque “1984″ “V For Vendetta” kind of story into what we are doing. So we started making a record with that as the intention. Let’s make this concept record. Let’s do this (said the band). And very quickly within this process we set out to make a concept record we were cutting ourselves off from writing great songs. You start to bog yourself down with, “Okay does this work within the context of the story?” And “Does this lyric work here?” So we decided to take off the idea of the concept record for a few weeks and we just wrote. We wrote as many songs as we could. What we kept finding was no matter what we did, we kept referring back to the story. And it was just naturally happening. We were so naturally involved with it. That even when we were intentionally not trying to, we were still writing about the story. And so at that point we realized if we do it more casual and just write as we would write, the story is going to come through. And when we completed with our writing, we saw how all of these aspects fit into place.
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Andy at the private listening party in NYC.
- Wednesday, December 12th 2012
Andy's Twitter
Over 100k views already BVB Army! You guys are fucking amazing and we thank you all from the bottom of our hearts! #IntheEnd #TheWildOnes
Vote for the song of the year: In The End.
Vote here: Revolver Magazine
Vote here: Revolver Magazine
In The End
In The End Video
You can watch the new BVB's video "In The End" on VEVO. We can see parts of the movie as well.
"In the end, as you fade into the night
Who will tell the story of your life?"
Watch it here
"In the end, as you fade into the night
Who will tell the story of your life?"
Watch it here
- Tuesday, December 11th 2012
"In The End" premieres tomorrow!
Black Veil Brides Rewind: The Jake Pitts Interview - Examiner.com
You came into this band through Jinxx and actually built the foundation with Christian before Andy and Ashley came into the picture. Did the sound and direction change much once they joined you?
Basically, what I had done before was write the guitars, drums and bass, the whole musical composition, but I wouldn’t do a whole lot with the vocals or melodies at that point. I just wrote the music part of the songs. I played with Jinxx and for a while we played with C.C. as well. I would demo on Pro Tools using my recording equipment at home. Jinxx would come over and we’d write songs together and write the guitar parts together. Once we met Andy and Ashley, everything clicked and it all fit. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Andy is clearly a team leader and very much a businessman, yet he ensures that this is a band and not a solo project. Could you sense his leadership abilities early on?
Oh, definitely. The first time I met him he seemed very professional for how young he is and very intellectual. He knew exactly his plan, what the goal was and what it took to make it happen. As far as our strategy and image, he told me the first time I met him what his idea for the band was about, and was it something I was interested in. It was definitely what I wanted. He had the direction and I had the music, so it worked perfectly.
Were your previous bands in any way similar to Black Veil Brides or was this a musical departure?
I put the metal elements into my most recent band. It was more of an alternative … I hate to say … almost like a pop-punk band with a metal edge, where I had guitar solos and the vocal style was more pop-punk. I wasn’t as interested in it because it wasn’t what I wanted to do, so I was writing and recording songs that I wanted to listen to. It didn’t have to be for anything, but I ended up revisiting those ideas and most of it became Set The World On Fire, stuff I was doing after my previous band and on my own time. I was building an arsenal of music and playing what I like to play, and now that’s what this band is.
Read more here
Basically, what I had done before was write the guitars, drums and bass, the whole musical composition, but I wouldn’t do a whole lot with the vocals or melodies at that point. I just wrote the music part of the songs. I played with Jinxx and for a while we played with C.C. as well. I would demo on Pro Tools using my recording equipment at home. Jinxx would come over and we’d write songs together and write the guitar parts together. Once we met Andy and Ashley, everything clicked and it all fit. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Andy is clearly a team leader and very much a businessman, yet he ensures that this is a band and not a solo project. Could you sense his leadership abilities early on?
Oh, definitely. The first time I met him he seemed very professional for how young he is and very intellectual. He knew exactly his plan, what the goal was and what it took to make it happen. As far as our strategy and image, he told me the first time I met him what his idea for the band was about, and was it something I was interested in. It was definitely what I wanted. He had the direction and I had the music, so it worked perfectly.
Were your previous bands in any way similar to Black Veil Brides or was this a musical departure?
I put the metal elements into my most recent band. It was more of an alternative … I hate to say … almost like a pop-punk band with a metal edge, where I had guitar solos and the vocal style was more pop-punk. I wasn’t as interested in it because it wasn’t what I wanted to do, so I was writing and recording songs that I wanted to listen to. It didn’t have to be for anything, but I ended up revisiting those ideas and most of it became Set The World On Fire, stuff I was doing after my previous band and on my own time. I was building an arsenal of music and playing what I like to play, and now that’s what this band is.
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Wretched And Divine Deluxe CD/DVD Pre-order
Pre-order the Deluxe version of Wretched And Divine on Hot Topic.
The Deluxe version includes a DVD with the making of the album.
Pre-order here!
The Deluxe version includes a DVD with the making of the album.
Pre-order here!
- Saturday, December 8th 2012
Trailer for "In The End"
Here we have the teaser for the 'In The End' music video. They posted it on Facebook, where they will also premiere the 'Legion Of The Black' movie on January 6. Now we have it on YouTube. You can pre-order the movie on that same page. You must have a Facebook account.
In The End will premiere on VEVO on 12/12/12.
In The End will premiere on VEVO on 12/12/12.
Win a signed poster - Ourzone Magazine
Go here and click "Enter" to win a signed poster of Black Veil Brides.
You must follow @ourzonemag on Twitter first.
They will contact the winner via Direct Message on Twitter.
Deadline: December 27, 2012.
You must follow @ourzonemag on Twitter first.
They will contact the winner via Direct Message on Twitter.
Deadline: December 27, 2012.
Black Veil Brides on the new Ourzone Magazine
Whether the mere mention of their name causes your ear canals to close in a burl of disgust, or open wide to let the music roam free - you can't fault Black Veil Brides in terms of impact. For a band who only released their debut album last year, they've become one of the most talked about names in modern day rock. And it's undeniable that things are only going to get bigger following the release of next year's hotly anticipated album Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones.
One man who knows this all too well is front-man Andy Biersack. He spared us some of his precious time while he was in the UK earlier this month to discuss the band's latest musical venture. "We're excited to release the record," he smiles. "I'm absolutely not nervous. It's such a big step up for us that having other people listen to it is an exciting thing for us. I can't wait for the fans to hear it."
It must be a mutual thing then, because we can't wait to hear it. But what's this we're hearing about punk-rock vibes on the new album?
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One man who knows this all too well is front-man Andy Biersack. He spared us some of his precious time while he was in the UK earlier this month to discuss the band's latest musical venture. "We're excited to release the record," he smiles. "I'm absolutely not nervous. It's such a big step up for us that having other people listen to it is an exciting thing for us. I can't wait for the fans to hear it."
It must be a mutual thing then, because we can't wait to hear it. But what's this we're hearing about punk-rock vibes on the new album?
Keep reading
- Friday, December 7th 2012
"We're an easy target for critics" band discuss bodypaint, codpieces and shaving their bumb
Gigwise.com
Check out this interview with Andy, Jake, CC and Ashley.
"When we caught up with Black Veil Brides, it's no surprise that they had a lot to talk about. From being creative and growing as a band while still keeping the standards high, to not profiting from their fans' vulnerabilities - even covering getting uncomfortable cuts in weird places while shaving - we've got it all.
Watch our interview talking about body paint, the new album, being an outcast and whether they'll still be wearing codpieces with Destroyer boots when they turn 50" - Gigwise
Watch this interview here
"When we caught up with Black Veil Brides, it's no surprise that they had a lot to talk about. From being creative and growing as a band while still keeping the standards high, to not profiting from their fans' vulnerabilities - even covering getting uncomfortable cuts in weird places while shaving - we've got it all.
Watch our interview talking about body paint, the new album, being an outcast and whether they'll still be wearing codpieces with Destroyer boots when they turn 50" - Gigwise
Watch this interview here
- Thursday, December 6th 2012
Average Joe
Watch the fifth episode of Average Joe: "The Sex Tape Rapist Part I" here.
Interview with Andy - Hollywood Music Magazine
Hollywood’s glam rock gods Black Veil Brides are releasing their third album on January 8th 2013 a full scale monster of a concept album entitled: Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones. Winners of such coveted awards such as “Best New Artist” at Revolver’s Golden Gods and “Best Newcomers” at the Kerrang! Awards it’s easy to say that the Black Veil Brides have one of the most anticipated album releases and tours of 2013. Here’s what Black Veil Brides’ vocalist and founding member Andy Biersack had to say about what the new album is all about.
Why did you go the concept album route on the new album?
Andy Biersack: Around April of last year we started working on a follow up to our second record. We got about six songs in as far as the writing process and it never really felt as exciting as I wanted it to be. It felt it was a little too much of a logical follow up to our last record and I guess I became a little disillusioned to the idea of making just another rock record. We weren’t really being as tenacious as we should be as in terms of what we were doing. Around that time we had done a round of festivals in Europe and in Germany I remember just sitting there and thinking that I wasn’t particularly excited about anything that was happening on the record and I really wished that there was more that we could do. That’s when I sat down and started writing down the concept of this story, just a couple paragraphs, outlining the story of this “Wild Ones”. It’s a Viva- Vendetta-esque story where this bad guy organization called F.E.A.R. takes away science and creativity from man and I suppose is a parallel to the religious and political upbringing of all of us in small towns in America. And that was something that really excited me. When we got back to LA I really got excited about making it into a record and around that time I met John Feldmann our producer. It was a combination of meeting him and having this story that I was so excited about that two days later I shut down production with the other producer and moved everything over to John Feldmann’s studio and really started working on and fleshing out what would become this sort of concept record.
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Why did you go the concept album route on the new album?
Andy Biersack: Around April of last year we started working on a follow up to our second record. We got about six songs in as far as the writing process and it never really felt as exciting as I wanted it to be. It felt it was a little too much of a logical follow up to our last record and I guess I became a little disillusioned to the idea of making just another rock record. We weren’t really being as tenacious as we should be as in terms of what we were doing. Around that time we had done a round of festivals in Europe and in Germany I remember just sitting there and thinking that I wasn’t particularly excited about anything that was happening on the record and I really wished that there was more that we could do. That’s when I sat down and started writing down the concept of this story, just a couple paragraphs, outlining the story of this “Wild Ones”. It’s a Viva- Vendetta-esque story where this bad guy organization called F.E.A.R. takes away science and creativity from man and I suppose is a parallel to the religious and political upbringing of all of us in small towns in America. And that was something that really excited me. When we got back to LA I really got excited about making it into a record and around that time I met John Feldmann our producer. It was a combination of meeting him and having this story that I was so excited about that two days later I shut down production with the other producer and moved everything over to John Feldmann’s studio and really started working on and fleshing out what would become this sort of concept record.
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Andy Biersack on Concept Albums, His Fans + Politics - Noisecreep
Noisecreep recently spoke with Black Veil Brides lead singer Andy Biersack about Wretched and Divine, the group's hardcore fans and his thoughts on the recent American presidential election.
Andy, this has time for the band been a long time in the making. How do you feel now that you're on the heels of what seems like the band's biggest release to date?
Excited - the only word is excited, honestly. This my favorite thing I've ever done artistically and I can't wait for people to hear the amount of work that's gone into this. It was not an easy task doing a project on this scale – it's different building this kind of story, a really a tough thing to do, and I've actually been inspired just by watching the rest of the band and everyone else relate to this. Just a huge effort by everyone, all working together.
Did you like concept albums as a kid?
I remember growing up how everybody hated concept albums, that's at least from my era of growing up. They were usually considered sort of goofy. But then, all of a sudden, you had this resurgence thanks to thing's like Green Day's American Idiot, and so I'm happy people came back around on storyline, concept ideas. As a kid, I was also a fan of Batman, which a lot of people are aware of today. I liked the characters that had no superpowers, but rather with a heightened kind of reality. Those were my kind of super heroes.
Read the whole interview here
Andy, this has time for the band been a long time in the making. How do you feel now that you're on the heels of what seems like the band's biggest release to date?
Excited - the only word is excited, honestly. This my favorite thing I've ever done artistically and I can't wait for people to hear the amount of work that's gone into this. It was not an easy task doing a project on this scale – it's different building this kind of story, a really a tough thing to do, and I've actually been inspired just by watching the rest of the band and everyone else relate to this. Just a huge effort by everyone, all working together.
Did you like concept albums as a kid?
I remember growing up how everybody hated concept albums, that's at least from my era of growing up. They were usually considered sort of goofy. But then, all of a sudden, you had this resurgence thanks to thing's like Green Day's American Idiot, and so I'm happy people came back around on storyline, concept ideas. As a kid, I was also a fan of Batman, which a lot of people are aware of today. I liked the characters that had no superpowers, but rather with a heightened kind of reality. Those were my kind of super heroes.
Read the whole interview here
- Wednesday, December 5th 2012
BVB in the New Kerrang! Magazine
Check out the last issue of Kerrang! in which Andy gives us some more information about the album.
What time is it?
It's Bier O'Clock!
And BVB mean business. Anyway, since they're headlining our tour, K! had the first listen to the new "concept" album, Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones, anywhere in the world! Andy Biersack talked to us through it...
Read the whole article here.
What time is it?
It's Bier O'Clock!
And BVB mean business. Anyway, since they're headlining our tour, K! had the first listen to the new "concept" album, Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones, anywhere in the world! Andy Biersack talked to us through it...
Read the whole article here.
Loudwire's Poll: most devoted fans? Vote for BVB here.
- Wednesday, December 3rd 2012
Rebel Yell - Official Music Video by Patrick Fogarty.
7 things you need to know about "Wretched And Divine"
Black Veil Brides are a modern rock phenomenon. In a few short years the facepaint-clad crew have amassed an almighty, fiercely loyal following (or the BVB Army as they like to be known), so it’s little surprise that the band’s new album, titled Wretched and Divine and slated for release in January, is eagerly anticipated to say the least.
With that in mind we got on the phone to guitarist Jinxx and got the lowdown on what you need to know about the new record.
Keep reading here: Music Radar
With that in mind we got on the phone to guitarist Jinxx and got the lowdown on what you need to know about the new record.
Keep reading here: Music Radar
Vote for BVB's video "Coffin" as your favourite. Go here.