That’s how I was able to cultivate a Rolodex of local musicians… It’s how I put the band together.”Īs the frontman of Black Veil Brides, Black would captivate audiences around the world with thrashy anthems for young outcasts of the metalcore persuasion, scoring three Top 20 albums since 2011. There were other dirtbag, broke musicians sleeping in their cars there. “I figured I could sleep in my car in 24-hour lockout places. “I was barely 18,” says Black, neé Biersack. Having just left his hometown of Cincinnati, the young punk was broke in Hollywood, subsisting on visions of what would become his wildly successful glam-metal outfit, Black Veil Brides. Every year, we make a new record, I get to tell a new story, and I’ve always had that opportunity because of the magazine.Eight years ago, Andy Black was living in a car. Former employees, people who have worked there - my friend Ryan Downey, who wrote for AP for a long time - I’ve been able to have really great articles written about me and talk openly about things in my life. The story of my life publicly has been told through Alternative Press. Right about that time is when AP came to the table and said, “We want to put you on the cover,” and that was kind of the perfect storm of everything. We were just about to sign to Universal, things were kind of falling in place for us to make a little bit more of a run in the U.S. When we came back after doing our first full-fledged tour in the U.K., we kind of got a little bit of a fire started in the U.S. tends to be a little bit more accepting more quickly of hard rock bands.
a little bit before the U.S., and I think in many ways, the U.K. We as a band kind of took off in a big way in the U.K. How would you grade the impact that the magazine’s support had had on the band’s career? So we’re not going to be hyper-political, but it’s a fine time to poke fun at a few things.īlack Veil Brides has had a long-running relationship with AP magazine and its awards. My job as the host of a rock awards show is not to be as divisive as possible, but certainly you want to be able to interject your jokes and how you feel about stuff. I don’t want it to get overly political, but there certainly will be a nice little through line of some stuff that hopeful is funny to everybody. It’s early stages, obviously, but I think we’d be remiss if there wasn’t a mention of the times we live in now.
What can you reveal at this point about what is being planned for the show?
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When I was offered the opportunity to do it, I was very clear with everyone at AP that I would do my homework and obsessively try to do the best job I can because I think all the great examples of hosts that ever knocked it out of the park are ones you can clearly tell put a lot of thought of how to put their spin on this show or how they would be able to inject their own kind of comedic sensibility. So often you have these people who are very talented and funny people doing a job that seems almost miserable, in a sense, because they’re just reading a script and they’re doing what they can, but you really have to work really hard, I think, to inject your own personality into it, and then it can be amazing. It’s always fascinated me, because in many ways it’s a thankless job unless you can turn it into something that’s fun for you and you can show your personality. or a more edgy stand-up comedian do their take on a hosting role. To be honest, I’ve always been really interested in the role of the host, whether it’s our kind of Billy Crystal-style traditional awards show host or when you have someone like Louis C.K. Is the type of performance you were doing on your solo tour what made the hosting gig appealing, or was there another element to it?
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