Metal Anarchy

Black Veil Brides have been facing backlash from a number of fans who are disappointed with the band’s decision to tour with Falling In Reverse. The adverse reaction was related to Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke, who remains a divisive figure in the scene due to past abuse allegations, controversial views on gender identity, etc. As such, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack has officially addressed the controversy, saying the group “have been treated with a level of kindness and enthusiasm on this tour.”

Biersack said the following:

“We have and will continue to tour with a lot of different artists. I’ll say this though even though it likely won’t land because I imagine you have a presupposition here but thus far we have been treated with a level of kindness and enthusiasm on this tour that we aren’t accustomed to.

In fact for 3 legs of Trinity we were fairly universally loathed by the other bands fans either passively or in many cases overtly whereas last night the people in attendance who maybe didn’t know much about BVB gave us a chance and seemed to want to really have fun at a show rather than lean on the scene oriented “BVB sucks” take.

@RonnieRadke went out of his way to show kindness to us which is again something that is uncommon for us to experience on non headlining runs historically.

You needn’t come to a show if it’s not for you and that’s entirely at your discretion but to attempt to grand stand on moral grounds to me who is a member of a band once called “the most hated band in the universe” as if anything I believe changes by virtue of us being afforded the opportunity to play our music for more people who seem to actually enjoy it and hopefully share our message and entertain them is an extremely myopic and in my opinion unfair position to take.”