It appears there’s been some confusion about whether rock band Black Veil Brides is breaking up or not. Vocalist Andy Biersack put those rumors to rest recently, in a statement that you can find below. It started when Ashley Purdy guested on a podcast (since taken down), where an out of context quote rapidly circulated the Internet.
In an interview with Loudwire, Andy Black put these rumors to bed straight away, saying: “As far as I know, there are no plans to break up the band,” he said. “I spoke to the band this morning, and that seems to be echoed by everybody. I can’t really speak to any comments about the band breaking up, because I was never aware of that. As far as I know, that isn’t the intention, and it certainly isn’t my intention.”
In other news, the band dropped a bit of news in that same interview, where Andy mentioned…
He then pointed out that the band is planning to hit the studio to record new material for the aforementioned 10-year anniversary package. “I’ll give you an exclusive. We haven’t talked about it [publicly] yet. We may as well have a little bit of sunshine amidst all the clouds. The plan is to do an entire re-record of our first record. We [originally] recorded it for just a few thousand dollars in a studio that didn’t really have the capacity to do that big of an album. We always felt it wasn’t representative, sonically, of the rest of our catalog. We feel that a lot of the songs on that album are very strong, but have never been given their day in court, so to speak. This is something that was set in motion years ago with Jake [Pitts, guitarist] being the producer of it. And we had started it and I think we finally had figured out how we were gonna be able to do it, and the intention is to not only re-record the record, but to include just about every demo we have from that era, songs that were never released before. We have an entire live DVD that was shot in 2010 in San Diego that was scrapped that we never released and no one has ever seen the footage from. We’re gonna put that out. We want to include as much of our old costumes and imagery and photos that no one has ever seen, as well as to record at least two or three new songs for the release as well.”
Given that all the members have their own projects (with Andy Black’s solo project in particular being successful), the rumors that BVB are breaking up are unfounded. The band is playing part of the final Vans Warped Tour currently – which is where the original podcast likely got tangled up.
The full story comes courtesy of NME, if you want a full recap.
