Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with PK of ALT 105.1, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the effort is “fully mixed” and “going into mastering.”

Biersack said the following while discussing the band’s latest single “Hallelujah”:

“We just wrapped the record. We put that song out… In the old days, they used to be called a ‘street track’, right? It’s not a single; it’s just showing ‘this is what we’re working on’ kind of thing. So we did that before the record was done. We just wanted to get something out, because it had been a year since we had released anything. And so now the record is done. It’s fully mixed. It’s going into mastering. Our work’s getting done. I think that we’ll probably have another song out before the end of the year. And the record will get announced early next year. I’m hyped, man. I really love the record. We’re really excited about it. We produced it ourselves. And it’s our first record with Spinefarm as a label, and so it’s just a great relationship, a great situation.”

He also added the following when asked if this is the first time the band have self-produced an album:

“Yeah. We’ve been able to work with really great producers over the years, and so [guitarist] Jake [Pitts] and I feel like we learned a lot from them. We worked with Bob Rock, John Feldmann, Erik Ron, all these guys who are top of the game. And so we wanted to try our hand. And we’re never gonna do what they do, but we felt like it’s our record and we wanted to take ownership over it and see how good we can do on our own. And I think the result is, at least for us, it’s pretty exciting. I think it’s one of the best things we’ve done because it’s unfiltered us. If you’re a fan of what we do, it’s going to be the most of what we do, ’cause without anybody else’s voice in the room, you’re left to your own devices.

As from a writer and a singer perspective, for me, one of the things I found to be the most exciting about this record was when you write a song and you work with a producer, a lot of times the producer hears it a certain way. So I get in the booth to sing it and the phrasing, they’ll say, ‘Ah, sing it this way’ or ‘that way.’ And so for this, it’s exactly how I pictured it in my mind as I’m writing the thing down. And so for better or for worse, it feels the most complete.”

[via Blabbermouth]