BLACK VEIL BRIDES' New Album Pushed Back To Early 2018; 'Really Special' Tour Planned

Los Angeles rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES are planning to release their fifth album in early 2018 to coincide with the launch of a major tour. The follow-up to BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ 2014 self-titled effort, which was originally expected to arrive in September, was produced by John Feldmann at his Southern California studio.

During a brand new interview with the Rock Sound Podcast, BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack explained the delay in getting the new disc released. He said (hear audio below): “First of all, we took fifteen months to make the record, and so in that way, we really wanted everything to be as perfect as possible. And the original deadline that we gave ourselves while the record was completed and the mixing was completed, we weren’t able to get the artwork and assets and all the stuff together exactly how we wanted it. And while listening to it, there were also elements and stuff I wanted to change.

“People don’t necessarily understand that when you’re on a major label that they determine when stuff is released,” he continued. “And so they gave us the initial deadline that they would have preferred we released the record on the first time, and they were just unable to get the assets together, and also on our end, we just weren’t quite done at the original time. So we had a discussion with the label and they were in agreement with us that it seemed like we should try to line it up with something big tour-wise. And we’ve put together something for the winter that we’ll also come to England with. It’s gonna be a really big tour and I think something that people have been wanting to see for a very long time.”

Biersack delved deeper into BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ reasons for wanting to take a bit longer to make an album they were all really happy with, explaining: “We’ve been doing this for a very long time, and it seemed like if we were gonna take time to make a record, it seemed like the right time to really try to sink our teeth into doing something that we really spent time cultivating. Before, it’s not to say that we didn’t spend time with it, but we were on deadlines and we were also a very young band that people were saying, ‘We’ve gotta get this record out. We’ve gotta get you on tour.’ And we’ve never really been afforded the opportunity to take our time with something.

“We wound up doing it in three different locations with Feldmann, because he wound up moving studios in the middle of the record,” he added. “So it was kind of fun record in the sense that I sang the vocals for it in so many different places and I saw so many different rooms and the writing process took place in so many different places while I was on tour, and we were at Jake‘s [Pitts, guitar] personal home studio for a while. And it was a really fun and interesting way of doing the album over the course of over a year.”

Asked about the overall sound of the new BLACK VEIL BRIDES album, Andy said: “We made ‘Wretched And Divine [The Story Of The Wild Ones]’ with John in 2013, and that was, at least commercially, our most successful record to date. A song like ‘In The End’ is probably our most successful song. And so a lot of times, people point to that record as the sound of the band. But what I think is interesting is that we have evolved significantly, I think, from record to record — from the first record to the fifth record. The previous record that we made with [producer] Bob Rock was a much more straight-ahead, hard rock, heavy metal record. I think that this album — and everybody says this, of course, because you want it to be true — but at least for me, I believe that it’s a nice combination of many different eras of the band. I think that it represents all the different places that we’ve been while retaining that Feldmann thing, that thing about Feldy that I don’t think anybody else can even touch or come close to; he just knows how to make things huge. And writing with Feldy is one of my favorite things, so to be able to come back into the world of doing heavy, darker rock music after doing a pop record together [with ANDY BLACK].

“We’ve been in a band together — Jake and Jinxx [guitar] and Ashley [Purdy, bass] and C.C. [Christian Coma, drums] and I — have been a band together for a decade, we know each other pretty well and the writing process is pretty simple in that way. So I think, all in all, it’s a record that’s very representative of where we are as a band at this point in our career. I’m not gonna tell you, ‘Well, it’s our heaviest and most melodic,’ or, ‘This is the best…’ I think that it’s just a record that we’re really, really proud of and I think it’s a great album and I think the fans are gonna like it, and it’s a long time coming. At this point, it’ll be four years since the last BLACK VEIL record, by the time it’s out. So I think it’s a long time coming, and I think people are gonna really enjoy it.”

Biersack also promised something very special for the upcoming tour in support of BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ new album. “I can’t tell you too much more,” he explained. “If I could, I would say more to you. But I will say this: it’s a tour that, in terms of what the fans have wanted for a very long time, it’s something that we have been hearing for years and something that people have been asking for us to do, and we were finally able to get it together, and I think it’s gonna be really something special. And that’s all I can tell you. I think that people in the world that like what we do musically, and kind of exist in the scene that we exist in, I think people are gonna be excited to come out to these shows. At least I hope so, ’cause I think it’s gonna be… It’s the kind of tour that I think you’d wanna see.”

A new BLACK VEIL BRIDES song called “The Outsider” was released last December and can be streamed below.

BLACK VEIL BRIDES released its first-ever concert DVD and Blu-ray, “Alive And Burning”, in July 2015.

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