Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides has been doing his press rounds over the past month in promotion of the band’s brand new single, “Certainty,” off of the band’s upcoming album through Spinefarm Data that has but to be introduced, supposedly due out on the finish of this yr.
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 sort 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 wish to make the identical report 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 concept of creating a grand type of sing-along rock opera proper now.”
Black Veil Brides have been together 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 the whole lot, no less than on a story degree, was skewing far more, for lack of a greater time period, darker or critical 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 report that was, ‘Hey, now we’re gonna make the heavy report.’
“What we’re making an attempt 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 sort of going hand in hand with one another. And so I believe the report is heavy as a result of it needs to be for it to make sense with the narrative. And I additionally assume it is a actually stable report within the perspective that we weren’t making an attempt to go, ‘Each tune is the screamy tune,’ ‘Each tune 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 may name extra conventional Black Veil Brides.”
In a roundabout method, Biersack sums up: “However I might say total the report is far more aggressive than earlier albums.”
The darker tone within the report is fairly obvious as Biersack says in an announcement alongside the discharge of “Certainty,” “The idea of “Certainty” is central to this report and seems all through the album. The tune was impressed by the movie Conclave, significantly its reflections on non secular certainty and the way inflexible perception programs can grow to be prisons of our personal making. When certainty hardens, curiosity, development, and the willingness to alter grow to be not possible. A lot of right this moment’s political and social discourse exists inside these echo chambers of absolute perception, and that rigidity drives the narrative of this report.”
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