- Friday, March 15th 2013
Interview with Andy - Metal Exiles
Metal Exiles: It takes balls to do a concept record like Wretched And Devine three albums into a career. When were the first seeds for this kind of record planted?
Andy Biersack: We have always been that band that was interested in theatrics and doing things that are larger in life. In the past the bands image has been more theatrical but as we evolve the imagery has shifted more to building this story. Prior to making this record we had recorded six or seven songs for the follow up to Set The World On Fire but we were not really feeling anything for them. They were good songs but they were not all that exciting. So we did a tour of England while sitting on those songs and I still felt that they were not the best that we could do so throughout that tour I started compiling this short story called The Wild Ones which I started getting excited about. When we got back to L.A. we started working on the record again and decided that nothing was working with the songs that we had written, they weren’t as exciting as this short story. So we scrapped the material, changed producers and started focusing on making this concept record which like you said it’s our third record in and we have no experience making this kind of album. It was something that we were excited about and looking forward to doing so there was no real fear of the unknown.
Metal Exiles: I know this is a concept album but you can take most of the tracks and they are a reflection of the human struggle.
Andy: Certainly. The album is meant to be a parallel concept. Obviously it is a heightened reality; it is the stories of our past, our childhood and our growing up put into the context of a fairytale. This story is a parable told in a biblical sense about a group of people in a heightened reality. It is although a story that is indicative of our own lives and that was important to me. I did not want to write some story on a grand scale, some Tolkienesque album that had no way of relating to reality. Our lyrical content has always been so important to us but I still wanted to tell the story I wanted to tell and put it in a DC comics world.
Metal Exiles: How much of you is in Wretched And Devine?
Andy: Every lyric that I write is an extension of myself. I do not know to write songs about other things and that is not to say that people who do not write personal songs are bad lyricists, I just do not know how to do it. I can’t write about something that was not a personal experience and I am not dogging someone like Ronnie James Dio who wrote all of that fantasy stuff because I enjoy that but it is just when I sit down and put pen to paper I always come out with something relating to me..
Read the full interview here
Andy Biersack: We have always been that band that was interested in theatrics and doing things that are larger in life. In the past the bands image has been more theatrical but as we evolve the imagery has shifted more to building this story. Prior to making this record we had recorded six or seven songs for the follow up to Set The World On Fire but we were not really feeling anything for them. They were good songs but they were not all that exciting. So we did a tour of England while sitting on those songs and I still felt that they were not the best that we could do so throughout that tour I started compiling this short story called The Wild Ones which I started getting excited about. When we got back to L.A. we started working on the record again and decided that nothing was working with the songs that we had written, they weren’t as exciting as this short story. So we scrapped the material, changed producers and started focusing on making this concept record which like you said it’s our third record in and we have no experience making this kind of album. It was something that we were excited about and looking forward to doing so there was no real fear of the unknown.
Metal Exiles: I know this is a concept album but you can take most of the tracks and they are a reflection of the human struggle.
Andy: Certainly. The album is meant to be a parallel concept. Obviously it is a heightened reality; it is the stories of our past, our childhood and our growing up put into the context of a fairytale. This story is a parable told in a biblical sense about a group of people in a heightened reality. It is although a story that is indicative of our own lives and that was important to me. I did not want to write some story on a grand scale, some Tolkienesque album that had no way of relating to reality. Our lyrical content has always been so important to us but I still wanted to tell the story I wanted to tell and put it in a DC comics world.
Metal Exiles: How much of you is in Wretched And Devine?
Andy: Every lyric that I write is an extension of myself. I do not know to write songs about other things and that is not to say that people who do not write personal songs are bad lyricists, I just do not know how to do it. I can’t write about something that was not a personal experience and I am not dogging someone like Ronnie James Dio who wrote all of that fantasy stuff because I enjoy that but it is just when I sit down and put pen to paper I always come out with something relating to me..
Read the full interview here
- Wednesday, March 13th 2013
Interview with Andy - Sound Check 411
- Monday, March 11th 2013
Andy and Juliet explain why they chose the charities "Running Wil In The Night" and "Big Cat Rescue"
Scuzz Meets Black Veil Brides
- Sunday, March 10th 2013
Creating the Sonic Signature of Wretched And Divine
- Thursday, March 7th 2013
Interview with Ashley and CC - TheRockRevival.com
- Friday, March 1st 2013