![]() ![]() Over the last few years, Black Veil Brides fell out. That’s OK, because those people still give me a reason to have a spike up my ass. Of course, you have to accept that some people will never listen though. “Now, though, people have started listening to us and that’s a nice feeling. “For the last five years, it has felt like every time we release a record, people are thinking, ‘Jesus, are those clowns together enough to even make an album?’ People have seemed surprised we could even achieve that. Whether you’re tired of it or not, you do always seem to have to justify your band’s existence. It was done because it’s what we love to do.” This album wasn’t written out of anger, angst or wanting to prove anything. “So the lyrical content is darker on this record, but the vibe is more positive in that it’s about doing what we want to do without drama or controversy. I had to let the chip I have on my shoulder about that go. You know, you try so hard to make something that’s fun and exciting, then all anyone wants to talk about is how no-one likes you. I’m so desperately sick of having to talk about how we’re this ‘divisive band’ or a ‘Marmite band’. Does letting that go suggest maturity and newfound confidence? ![]() It could be argued that feeling everyone who is against you – as you did on your last records – points to insecurity in you. It’s about letting go of some of the shit in my closet.” ![]() I tend to have a very analytical mind, I’m constantly thinking about how things can be better or different and so some of this record is about relaxing and enjoying my life. A lot of the record is about letting go – about letting go of resentments, letting go of negative experiences. There are songs like Goodbye Agony, where I’m me talking to myself in some ways. Is there an overriding emotion behind the record? It’s about me wanting to have a similar feeling to life now as to when I’m, say, 44 or 54.” Heart Of Fire, for example, is about how time changes you and how much I want to fight that and maintain the burning passion I have for music and the people I love. There’s a lot more about how things don’t always work out.” The lyrics aren’t necessarily pessimistic, they’re just a lot more realistic. It really is a true representation of an emotional feeling. To me, we should be so lucky…If you’re lucky enough to get what you want, you should pay attention to it, and study it, and live it.“On this one, there are no songs about fighting for things. I know a lot of band guys who complain about having to give an interview and having to get up early. “If you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, then it’s probably not the right field to go into. Which, he says, is pretty lucky - and he is thankful for the opportunity every day. Now, BVB has a huge following, and Andy has a new solo project in the works. All because Patrick believe in Andy, and because Andy believed enough in himself to stretch the truth. The video went viral, and, as a result, helped Andy and his band get signed to Standby Records. “For whatever reason, I think maybe he liked my hubris, he agreed to it.” But somehow, Andy says, he convinced Patrick to shoot the video for a low rate. He offered to direct a music video for Andy if he could get a band and a budget together - neither of which were things the 17-year-old had access to. The “gentleman” was Patrick Fogarty, a director and cinematographer, who directed music videos. “I happened to run across this gentleman on one of these sets who was also very bored,” he explained, “We would just start to talk, and at one point, he said to me, ‘well, you have a band, right?’ And the reality there was that I did have a band, but the band consisted of me and a bunch of songs I had worked on and written back in Kentucky and Cincinnati, but no actual members.” He was dating a girl who worked in the film industry, and he’d often spend a lot of time just hanging around sets. ![]() “I never any other interest except to be on stage, playing music…My one goal from the time I could talk was that I was going to be in a band,” he says. But, in an interview with Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman, Andy explained how the success of that band hinged on one chance meeting, wherein he told one small lie.Īt the time, Andy was a high-school dropout who had moved to LA and had a lot of time on his hands. At just 23 years old, Black Veil Brides founder and vocalist Andy Biersack has achieved the only dream he ever had: He’s in a band. ![]()
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