BLACK VEIL BRIDES' ANDY BIERSACK: 'JAKE PITTS And I Are 75% Done In Terms Of Writing For The Next Record'

At last weekend's Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky, BLACK VEIL BRIDES vocalist Andy Biersack confirmed to Rock Sound 's James Wilson-Taylor that there are plans for him and his bandmates to release new music soon as a follow-up to BLACK VEIL BRIDES' seventh studio album, "Vindicate", which came out in May via Spinefarm. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We've got some new material recorded, some new stuff. And then I would say [BLACK VEIL BRIDES guitarist] Jake [Pitts] and I are 75% done in terms of writing for the next record."

He added: "We don't want another five-year break between records, I think."

Regarding why it took five years for BLACK VEIL BRIDES to release the follow-up to 2021's "The Phantom Tomorrow", Andy told PopHorror: "I had a whole different thing I wanted to do. It was about a year of writing on a more broad concept record that I was uninspired by. You get to a point when you go, 'I don't think this is going to be great.' And I want what we do to be great for us. If other people like it or don't, that's really not up to me. But if I look at what we do and go, 'This is the best we could do and it's awesome, and I'm really proud of it,' then I feel like it's worth doing. Most of the records I've ever done in my life, I felt that way about. The few times that I felt like, 'Ah, this is incomplete,' those records don't stand out as some of the best stuff in our catalog. So it was really important to me that, whatever we do, it's the best thing we could be doing. It took a couple of years to really figure out what I wanted from a narrative perspective. So by 2023, we were in earnest writing. Then end of 2024 is when all the material really came together and we tracked the record throughout 2025."

"Vindicate" has been receiving critical and fan acclaim. Kerrang! stated that "BLACK VEIL BRIDES have never sounded better" and Blabbermouth called the latest album "…an exciting listen."

In addition to Biersack and Pitts, BLACK VEIL BRIDES includes guitarist Jinxx, bassist Lonny Eagleton and drummer Christian Coma.

Committed to uncompromising expression, with a foundation in hard rock tradition and rule-breaking iconoclasm, BLACK VEIL BRIDES is a transcendent celebration of life-affirming power and anthemic catharsis. A gothic vision first summoned in a small town by an isolated kid fascinated with death, rock, theatricality, and monsters (both real and imagined),BLACK VEIL BRIDES is now a postmodern heavy metal institution with a legion of like-minded fans and supporters worldwide.