Metal Anarchy

Black Veil Brides bassist Ashley Purdy has issued a statement regarding comments he made on a since deleted episode of Another FN Podcast, in which he seemed to imply the band would be breaking up after Warped Tour. According to him, his statement was taken out of context, but considering he literally said the trek “is where you are going to see Black Veil Brides for the last time ever in your entire lives,” the confusion was understandable.

Here’s Purdy’s new statement:

“Just for the record and clarification: And this is expressed in great humor..

I never once said, “the band is breaking up”, as news outlets used as their headline to click bait you basically into reading way more into a story than it actually was.

The miss information came from a podcast that i was doing with a fellow musician and another industry colleague where we we’re just having a discussion about music and laughing and having a good time.

It was basically a friendly discussion and less of an interview but when someone did ask what’s on the horizon for Black Veil Brides the honest answer is still the same.

We have eight shows left on the Final Warped Tour ever, so again, yes, that’s the last time you’ll see us play there, and again, come see us now as this will be the last time. See the context.

We have one festival show out in October and that’s it, so yeah thats all thats on the calendar and that’s kind of how all of that got taken out of context.

Very few listened to the entire podcast in it’s entirety before that headline quote of the band breaking up got blown outta proportion, of course for something news worthy it played into the dramatic.

But honestly, it was a lighthearted and fun discussion that one news outlet just writes Ashley says “the band is breaking up” and then so on and so forth everyone just takes that and runs with it again out of context from the entire discussion and not the literal words i’ve ever said.

Anyhow, Day 1 of Warped and we’re all excitedly looking forward to performing for you all. ‘See us now cuz you won’t see us there again.’ Lol”

This news comes after frontman Andy Biersack shot down the break up rumors following Purdy’s initial comments.