The good thing is, because I was fortunate enough to have any kind of success at that age I was paying attention to my career. Growing up in the public eye, do you feel that any past decisions you made will always be open to criticism? “Oh yeah, but I guess I just embrace that kind of stuff. “It’s been interesting to be able to see myself change and grow from the time I was a teenager online and in magazines,” Andy Biersack explains, “the weird periods, the good periods, and whatever else in between…” As he explains over the course of our conversation with lucid precision despite jet lag, it is a balance he has worked hard to redress in recent years. In the early years when Black Veil Brides were both touted by fans and reviled by detractors as “the most hated band in rock”, and Biersack was numbing his anxiety and OCD with alcohol, the line between his onstage persona and his personal life was blurry and, at some points, nonexistent. Growing up in the spotlight, though, has brought Andy Biersack intense pressure and scrutiny. ![]() Through a tireless work ethic and self-belief he has arguably changed the course of his life in ways few else manage. His list of credits now extends over seven albums and includes acting, presenting an online chat show, writing a comic book that accompanies The Ghost Of Ohio and a yet-to-be-released memoir of sorts. At 28 years old, he has achieved a lot since dropping out of high school in his late-teens to pursue life as a musician in Los Angeles. As Kerrang!’s snapper packs up their equipment, Andy relates their shared realisation that it has been a decade since his picture first appeared in this magazine. A tiger’s head ring indicates his affinity with the town’s football team, the Bengals. ![]() When we meet Andy Biersack in a function room of Shepherd’s Bush’s Dorsett Hotel, he is fresh from our photoshoot and dressed in a casual denim jacket and a white T-shirt with ‘Cincinnati’ emblazoned across the front. In 2017 he appeared on cinema screens in the shlock rock thriller American Satan portraying rock star Johnny Faust, a role which he reprises in the upcoming spin-off series, Paradise City. On 2016 solo album The Shadow Side he unveiled Andy Black, a debonair vehicle for exploring darkened disco sounds and his personal relationships with love, anxiety and, most recently, his hometown of Cincinnati on second album The Ghost Of Ohio. As the frontman of Hollywood rockers Black Veil Brides, he has armoured himself in varying degrees of make-up and tattered leather over the last 10 years to lead his band, and their enduring fanbase, through allegorical tales of hope and resistance against dark forces. ~ Neil Z.Andrew Dennis Biersack is a man of many guises. Combining the muscle of arena rock with a pop-punk spirit, Andy Black provided a new outlet for Biersack's many influences. The Shadow Side was produced by John Feldmann (Panic! At the Disco, the Used, Good Charlotte) and included guest spots from emo/pop-punk friends Ashton Irwin (5 Seconds of Summer), Joel Madden (Good Charlotte), Rian Dawson (All Time Low), Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance), and Patrick Stump (Fall Out Boy). His second single, "Stay Alive," featured Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio, blink-182). In early 2016, debut single "We Don't Have to Dance" was released, featuring cleaner vocals and incorporating a Killers-esque synth melody. For the new project, Biersack drew more upon the anthemic sounds of early U2 and Bruce Springsteen rather than his other major influences Mötley Crüe, Kiss, and Poison. Their fourth album arrived in 2014, the same year Biersack began working on Andy Black. Black Veil Brides released their debut album, We Stitch These Wounds, in 2010. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue music. Born Andrew Dennis Biersack in Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up singing and playing piano, attending Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts, where he focused on drama and vocals. From the metalcore birth of BVB through their evolution into a glam metal outfit, Andy Black's pop-leaning rock was the next step in Biersack's sound. ![]() Andy Black, the solo project from Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Biersack, followed a natural progression in Biersack's musical trajectory.
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