Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides has been doing his press rounds over the past month in promotion of the band’s model new single, “Certainty,” off of the band’s upcoming album by way of Spinefarm Information that has but to be introduced, supposedly due out on the finish of this 12 months.
This time, Rock Sound‘s James Wilson-Taylor sat down with Biersack to prod a bit extra into the seemingly heavier path Black Veil Brides are heading.
“Yeah, I believe there’s type of two issues [causing the shift],” Biersack begins [as transcribed by Blabbermouth], “One is clearly we have been round for some time and we have been making music collectively for a very long time. So, we have all the time been a band that we do not prefer to make the identical document twice. And I believe we had gotten to a spot the place none of us have been actually all that excited in regards to the thought of constructing a grand type of sing-along rock opera proper now.”
Black Veil Brides have been collectively since 2006, almost 20 years in the past, and have launched six studio data throughout that point. Biersack has additionally gone on to have solo pursuits of his personal like Andy Black.
“After which for me, creatively, that actually wasn’t the place my head was at by way of writing. So all the pieces, at the very least on a story stage, was skewing rather more, for lack of a greater time period, darker or severe or no matter. And so I believe the music simply type of — it was birthed from the identical perspective. We did not wanna make a document that was, ‘Hey, now we’re gonna make the heavy document.’
“What we’re attempting to construct right here and what my concepts are by way of the narrative, together with what [guitarist] Jake [Pitts] is writing from a musical perspective, was actually type of going hand in hand with one another. And so I believe the document is heavy as a result of it must be for it to make sense with the narrative. And I additionally suppose it is a actually strong document within the perspective that we weren’t attempting to go, ‘Each music is the screamy music,’ ‘Each music is the’ no matter. When individuals hear the entire album, I believe that the heavy moments are purposeful and there are moments of what you would possibly name extra conventional Black Veil Brides.”
In a roundabout means, Biersack sums up: “However I might say general the document is rather more aggressive than earlier albums.”
The darker tone within the document is somewhat obvious as Biersack says in a press release alongside the discharge of “Certainty,” “The idea of “Certainty” is central to this document and seems all through the album. The music was impressed by the movie Conclave, significantly its reflections on spiritual certainty and the way inflexible perception techniques can turn into prisons of our personal making. When certainty hardens, curiosity, progress, and the willingness to vary turn into not possible. A lot of as we speak’s political and social discourse exists inside these echo chambers of absolute perception, and that stress drives the narrative of this document.”
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