Black Veil Brides have premiered a new video for their new song “Fields Of Bone.“ This track is from the band’s new concept album “The Phantom Tomorrow,“ which will be released on June 4.
“The Phantom Tomorrow” Track Listing:
01. “The Phantom Tomorrow” (Introduction)
02. “Scarlet Cross”
03. “Born Again”
04. “Blackbird”
05. “Spectres” (Interlude)
06. “Torch”
07. “The Wicked One”
08. “Shadows Rise”
09. “Fields Of Bone”
10. “Crimson Skies”
11. “Kill The Hero”
12. “Fall Eternal”
Black Veil Brides have shared a teaser for their new song/video “Fields Of Bone.“ That track is from the band’s upcoming album “The Phantom Tomorrow.“ The full music video will be released on April 9.
Black Veil Brides have announced a virtual acoustic radio tour. The shows will find the band performing an acoustic version of “Scarlet Cross” off their new album “The Phantom Tomorrow,” as well as other tracks from their catalog. Here’s the dates:
03/23 – 102.7 WEBN/Cincinnati – 6:30pm EST – https://www.facebook.com/1027webn
03/24 – WRKZ 99.7 The Blitz/Columbus – 10am EST – https://www.facebook.com/997theblitz
03/25 – WIYY 98 Rock Baltimore/Baltimore – 7pm EST – https://www.facebook.com/98online
03/26 – 101 WRIF – FM Detroit/Detroit – 5pm EST – https://wrif.com/
03/29 – WRAT 95.9FM/Monmouth Ocean – 7pm EST – https://www.facebook.com/959therat
03/30 – 98 KUPD/Phoenix – 8pm PST – https://98kupd.com/
03/31 – 94.1 WJJO/Madison – 7pm CST – https://www.facebook.com/941JJO
04/02 – KCJK 1051TheX/Kansas City – 8pm CST – https://www.facebook.com/1051THEX
During a recent appearance on “Cutter’s Rockcast,” Andy Biersack further discussed the concept of the new Black Veil Brides album “The Phantom Tomorrow.” According to him, the effort will focus on the “love of building up heroes and obsessing over other people who often don’t give a shit about you or anybody else.”
Biersack said the following:
“It’s a concept record. There is a comic book happening as well. I actually just got off the phone this morning with the publishing company for the comic book. We’re developing all the artwork and everything for that. The story is essentially the idea… In our society, especially now, we have this love of building up heroes and obsessing over other people who often don’t give a shit about you or anybody else, and we kind of have these false idols and heroes. And so the story is kind of about taking this mythological character and the people putting all of this power on to them, and then ultimately turning their back on the character because nobody can fulfill the dreams and ideas that you put on somebody else. So it’s an alternate version of our own timeline where our obsession with heroes and the iconography of somebody that’s aspirational kind of gets out of control and becomes our whole society.”
He also added the following when asked how he came up with the concept:
“In January of last year, I just kind of sat down and started writing this story. I do a lot of drawing when I’m writing as well. I’m not great, but I like to be able to represent my ideas in that way. So I wrote out this whole story and drew character designs, and then, about a week and a half later, we were set to enter the studio, and it just kind of coincidental that this whole rush of this idea came to me. And so I went to the studio with everybody and said, ‘Look, this is what I think we should do,’ and laid out the story and the plot and the ideas. ‘Cause we’ve done concept records before. The kind of method that we’ve found is best is I give the concept and the ideas, as far as the narrative perspective, to the band, and then that is how we write as a band together, to get tone and how we are gonna get through this journey. I will take those songs and then go basically write the lyrics to serve the story and plotlines along the journey from song one to the last song.
There are unfortunate kind of shackles that are put on it — meaning that you’ve gotta write within the context of what you’re writing. But I tried to keep this one more open-ended where it’s applicable… ‘Cause I didn’t wanna write about stuff I don’t know; I wanted it to be about my experience. And there’s really nothing about our story that doesn’t mimic the current situation, whether it’s on a personal level with people that I’ve known, or on a sociopolitical level, with the craziness of the worid right now. The ideas are universal, and so that made it a little bit easier to kind of get through the journey. But as far as the comic book goes, it’s kind of the same thing — I come up with the story and the artwork ideas, and then work with people who are much more talented than I am to make that a reality.”
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Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack has revealed that the band’s new album “The Phantom Tomorrow” is “almost complete.” He said the following:
“I just wanted to say thank you for all of your support and excitement regarding my most recent projects! The response to the book has been incredible and I can’t wait for you guys to see @paradisecity coming to @amazonprimevideo next month! I also wanted to update you that the upcoming @blackveilbrides record “The Phantom Tomorrow” is almost complete so be on the look out for release info and a lot more coming soon! 🆎🖤”
Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack has released an official audiobook version of his memoir “They Don’t Need To Understand: Stories Of Hope, Fear, Family, Life, And Never Giving In.” You can find that everywhere audiobooks are sold including Audible.com. Biersack commented:
“I am so thankful for the incredible reception the book has had and it means the world to me to know that my story has resonated with so many people all over the world. This whole experience has been a dream come true.”
As you are probably well aware of by now, pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. earlier today (January 6) as lawmakers were counting the Electoral College votes to officially certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. A number of rock/metal musicians have since taken to social media to comment on the insurrection, which was spurred by Trump himself. You can find some of the various reactions below:
Paul Stanley (KISS):
Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine):
Mark Morton (Lamb Of God):
Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe):
Andy Biersack (Black Veil Brides):
Robb Flynn (Machine Head):
Otep:
Alex Skolnick (Testament):
Noodles (The Offspring):
Ice-T (Body Count):
Tom DeLonge (ex-Blink 182):
Dino Cazares (Fear Factory):
Doc Coyle (Bad Wolves):
Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater, etc.):
Sacred Reich:
Black Veil Brides have shared some behind the scenes footage from the making of their recently released video for “Scarlet Cross.” That track is from the band’s upcoming concept album “The Phantom Tomorrow.”
Black Veil Brides have announced another virtual concert, which they are calling “Alive And Burning 2.” The event will stream on December 11 and tickets can be found HERE.
Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH project has been added to the 2021 Aftershock Festival. That event will take place at Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA on October 7-10 and the updated daily lineups can be found below:
October 7: Limp Bizkit, Parkway Drive, Testament, Hatebreed, Exodus, Knocked Loose, and Fit For A King.
October 8: Metallica, Rancid, Volbeat, Seether, +LIVE+, Skillet, Suicidal Tendencies, Avatar, Pop Evil, Butcher Babies, Des Rocs, Ayron Jones, Crobot, Cleopatrick, Ego Kill Talent, Crown Lands, UnityTX, and Contracult Collective.
October 9: My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Machine Gun Kelly, Gojira, Anthrax, Killswitch Engage, Asking Alexandria, Body Count, Badflower, Thursday, L7, Atreyu, Bones UK, South Of Eden, The Black Moods, Another Day Dawns, and American Teeth.
October 10: Metallica, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Mastodon, Pennywise, The Pretty Reckless, Black Veil Brides, Steel Panther, Yelawolf, Mammoth WVH, Grandson, From Ashes To New, Alien Weaponry, Law, The Blue Stones, The Contortionist, Higher Power, Creeper, and The Cold Stares.
