Los Angeles rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES are at producer John Feldmann‘s new Southern California studio wrapping up vocal tracks for their as-yet-untitled fifth album, tentatively due in early 2017. Frontman Andy Biersack told Alternative Press about the follow-up to the band’s 2014 self-titled effort: “Ultimately, it would be very silly for me to come out in the capacity of the guy that says [adopts loud, boorish tone], ‘This is the greatest fuckin’ thing we’ve ever done! It’s our most melodic and our most heavy,’ and all that other shit you hear everybody say. The reality is that I’m better at what I do now than when I was 18. All of us [in the band] are. You’re looking at a group of people who understand this band more than anything else. Emotionally, I think this record will connect all the dots and bring the story full circle.”
He continued: “If you listen to all of our records, there is a through line. And it is watching the growth of five people who come from different backgrounds and didn’t have a whole lot in common, barring a shared experience in life. At this point, the level of comfortability in the band is that we know how to finish each other’s sentences, musically. And I think we know where we’re going.”
Biersack also spoke about his mindset going into the making of the new BLACK VEIL BRIDES album. He said: “Anybody who follows me on social media knows I haven’t been very active. That’s because as I write this record and work on these things, I find that the free time I have, I want to spend enjoying the moment with my family. When I’m writing for the record, it’s an emotional experience because I’m talking about things that affect me deeply. During the making of the ANDY BLACK record [Biersack‘s solo project], I don’t think I was ready to talk about a lot of that stuff.”
According to the singer, “nine or ten songs” have been recorded for BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ forthcoming album and “are currently in the mixing process.” He added: “I don’t think we’ll go too much further; it’s been a process of shedding down to this point. Rather than record a hundred songs we didn’t like, we were really able to strip away the stuff that didn’t seem as strong. It feels like the story I want to tell will be done in the ten or eleven songs in this record. I can’t tell you how great it is seeing how much [guitarists] Jake [Pitts] and Jinxx have grown as players and songwriters. The future is so bright.”
GOLDFINGER frontman John Feldmann previously helmed BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ 2013 effort “Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones”.
BLACK VEIL BRIDES released its first-ever concert DVD and Blu-ray, “Alive And Burning”, in July 2015. The cover artwork for the set was designed by the band’s longtime friend and previous album cover illustrator Richard Villa.
BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ fourth, self-titled album was helmed by producer Bob Rock, whose resume includes LPs by METALLICA, MÖTLEY CRÜE, THE CULT and many others.
