“Growing up Catholic, I love all of the pageantry of the sacred heart appearing to you,” he says. He notes that he always finds references from across different religions to tie various theological and superstitious concepts into his work.
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This is a band full of very talented individuals, and when coming together, we’re able to make something that we feel is representative of that.”īiersack says the story for The Phantom Tomorrow originally came from a narrative perspective as he sat at his kitchen table drawing characters and doing research. The Black Veil Brides singer notes that guitarist Jinxx is also a classically trained violinist, Christian Coma is an “absolute monster on the drums,” bassist Lonny Eagleton is traditionally trained, and Pitts “is fantastic at production, has all these resources as a musician and is an incredible guitar player. “We never want to be a band that is sitting there going, ‘What are the kids doing now? How can we make it cool?’ Because if you’re doing that, you’re immediately making disingenuous music.” “The goal is never to force something,” asserts Biersack.
He offers an example of how placing an electronic sound under a guitar riff, as on “Torch,” might not have occurred before but feels natural now. “Obviously, Jake has gone into music production at a much larger scale, doing EDM music on his own with his wife - something he was never into necessarily before but discovered and got really good at,” he explains. According to Biersack, the diversity of material stems from the band members’ expanding musical palettes. The album intro and the “Spectres” interlude veer into atmospheric instrumental territory, “Crimson Skies” is more aggro than the rest, while the vocal melody in the intro to “Born Again” sounds like it could launch into EDM territory. The new music features revved-up riffs, radiant guitar and vocal harmonies varied tempos and Biersack’s impassioned singing. The comic book synopsis describes the story of a scientist whose world falls apart and who seeks redemption through his avenging actions. The Phantom Tomorrow is the Black Veil Brides’ third concept album, preceded by 2013’s Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones and its Vale prequel. So much of our interest is in stuff like Misfits or those kinds of things where they’re singalong-able or that you can be in a rock crowd and pump your fist and sing the chorus to. “That’s where we have our sweet spot, so I don’t know that there’s a conscious decision. “We just tend to be around four minutes because that’s where as a band we feel like we’ve reached maximum songitude, or whatever you want to call it,” ponders Biersack.
It has crafted long songs before, but only when it feels justified. The group still keeps its tunes in the 3:30 to 4:30 time range, which comes from an intuitive place rather than an overt plan. 29 on Sumerian Records) brims with the melodic heavy rock that fans have come to expect from Black Veil Brides, albeit in a darker vein than their last album, 2018’s Vale. Beyond The Blackbird, The Phantom Tomorrow (arriving Oct.
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