I’ve never written a lyric or a song to pander to an audience, thinking ‘Oh, I hope they like this one’ but you can’t help at some level, maybe osmosis, develop a feeling of this is what this band is about, this is the emotion, this is how I feel, and this is how our fan base has developed. Subsequently the emotions that you feel that are resonating with an audience start to affect you. In the early days especially that’s just how the songs developed: on our first record I’m just writing a combination of my feelings from the first eighteen years of my life. Has that been a conscious decision or just something that comes naturally? For the fans to see there’s some correlation here but it’s minimal, there’s going to be separate releases.”Ī lot of great rock music is written for the outsider, or the underdog, and that’s something your lyrics reflect. The reason for calling it Andy Black is it draws a pretty distinct line between saying here’s Black Veil Brides and here’s my other alter ego Andy Black.
That’s kind of how these fan dynamics work. I understand that we have a mutual love with our audience, and our fans: we put out this music that we think the world will like, and we hope the world will like, and in return we get the adoration, and love, and feeling of respect from our audience which we hopefully can give them the music that we make. They didn’t sound like the band to me and I was doing it almost just as an exercise as a way of expelling other interests I had so I could really focus on Black Veil and making sure the sound of Black Veil was consistent and something I continued.
So after Warped Tour, I went over to his house and said ‘Hey, I think it would be fun, just for the hell of it, for you and I to write some of that material.’ Before I knew it I had nine or ten songs that musically had nothing to do with Black Veil Brides. I also always loved stuff like Depeche Mode and Sisters Of Mercy.
I had come home from a tour and me and my friend John Feldmann had talked for a long time about our mutual love of stuff like Psychedelic Furs, and Modern English, and the more pop orientated stuff of the 80s, the kind of new wave stuff. How did your solo Andy Black material come about?
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