Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Rock Feed, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack discussed the band’s uocoming album. According to him, “this record is what you might call a darker or heavier record.”

Biersack said the following about the group’s latest single “Certainty”:

“A lot of times I think this happens, and I don’t know why it is. We do the whole record and then we feel like there’s a missing song. And this was the quote-unquote missing song. Jake [Pitts, guitar] and I did this song. Jake had an idea; he sent it to me. I wrote on it. We tracked it. It was one of those everything-came-together — bam, bam, bam — very quick sort of songs, ’cause we knew exactly what we wanted to do. And I knew lyrically what I wanted to say with it. And so it came together really quickly, and it was the last song for the record. Everything else had already been recorded. And it just felt like a real sort of mission statement for the album — from a lyrical perspective, from the musical perspective.”

He also commented on the band’s decision to self-produce their new album:

“This record is one that we’ve made on our own. Obviously, we have a label and we’re very supported by that label, and we were very fortunate to be in that position. But when it came down to it, this record was primarily made here in Florida by the band. Jake and I produced it. And it’s the kind of record that we wanted to make without any other cooks in the kitchen. And I think it’s really representative of where we’re at as a band.”

He also added the following when asked about the strong fan response:

“Well, it’s fantastic. I think we’re the kind of band that, for better or for worse, people don’t necess[arily]… There’s a version of the band that people have in their mind, most of which is primarily based on maybe when they first heard the band or what they think of the band. A lot of people who don’t even know what the band sounds like have a version of the band in their mind, so it’s been very interesting, having made this record on our own, very much committed sonically to the style that we wanted to pursue, playing these festivals and having people discover the band through these songs that maybe didn’t otherwise give it a shot beforehand.

We’ve talked about this before. We’re kind of the little engine that could in that way. A lot of people dismiss the band outright, don’t really know what we sound like, sort of associate an image that they saw in their mind of like 2010, of us looking like MÖTLEY [CRÜE] or whatever, which is fine. That’s part of our history, but they don’t really necessarily know what it is that we do. And so it’s been fun to kind of — I guess in some ways so far these songs seem to have kind of snuck up on people in a way. And it’s fun to surprise people this many years into our career with, tonally, what we do because people hear the singles and primarily the singles from records were sometimes outside your control, but they’re the big anthem songs. So people’s assumption is that the totality of our records, if they’ve never dug into the catalog, is 12 songs that sound like ‘Fallen Angels’ on every record or ‘In The End’ or whatever else. And while I love those songs, that is much less representative of the totality of our catalog as opposed to like things that are much more kind of guitar-oriented and heavy. And certainly moving forward, this record is what you might call a darker or heavier record in that way.”

[via Blabbermouth]