I’m 56-years-old, so probably most of my interest in music came from singing at school or singing in the church choir. I was in choirs and as a natural progression, I started playing some instruments, too. I was one of those kids who loved to sing. The bands I liked when I was a kid were mostly hard rock bands. Andy also left a little surprise for his dad at the end of this interview. From growing up coached by his father in hockey, being told he can’t sing by his vocal teachers, where Andy found the drive, determination, and support that helped lead him to where he is today, and, of course, some incredible stories and amazing advice we can all take to heart. With a daily active online presence of support for Andy, we had to find out more about the history of Chris and Andy’s incredible father son bond.
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See the full dates below.INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS BIERSACK BY JEREMY SAFFERįor Father’s Day we spoke with Black Veil Brides’ first tour manager, merch manager, lighting director, driver, roadie, and so much more… Andy’s father Chris Biersack. You can read our full interview with Andy Black in the new issue of Kerrang! – in stores Wednesday, March 27 and available to order now.Īndy Black will tour the UK later this year. If you have this weird thing about your brain that other people don’t have, then maybe it’s a gift.” That’s been a way of turning it into a superpower, I guess. Things I do tend to be very thought out and specific, from the aesthetic of Black Veil to the concept records and everything else I’ve done. I do a lot of shit because otherwise I would go nuts. As annoying as it is to be the OCD guy who carries a lint roller everywhere, there are applicable uses of that. I immerse myself in positive things like sleeping at home when I can, working with different animal charities, trying to remember to talk to friends and not just close into myself. I haven’t left parts of my life in the past unchecked – as much as I can remember, because again there were times where I was just blacked-out drunk and I hate that I don’t have those recollections.” And I’ve had to learn to process that stuff and be okay with it and, as it stands now today, I feel like I know what I am a lot more.
Between The Shadow Side record, the Black Veil record and this record, there was a time period where I was this completely inactive bald guy who didn’t want to leave the house. I shaved my head, I went full hermit, went off of social media. And then out of nowhere the sledgehammer of emotions came where all the stuff that I wasn’t processing and had been trying to drink through – whether it’s my anxieties or OCD or whatever else – came all at once and it fucking crushed me. “In the movies where someone gets sober everything feels better, and I did have that for maybe six months. Thankfully, about a year later she went into remission and since then I started making a point of going home more often.” It didn’t matter, because this was what mattered: being with my family during a potential crisis. And maybe it’s because I was a bit older, but running errands for her and walking around the same six places, seeing the same people that I went to school with every day, that need to be acknowledged started to melt away. I had spent there in a while, because I had only been seeing the anger. It was the first substantial amount of time So when we had time off the road just as my grandmother was going into her chemo treatments I went back home to take care of her. One of the biggest regrets I have is I was touring so extensively that I didn’t get to see my grandfather before he died, and we were really close so it was upsetting. I was drinking heavily and my grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. “In 2014 we had a little bit of time off and I was going through a tough time in my life. Thankfully, he's since found positive ways to cope with life, like working with animal charities and talking to friends instead of just isolating himself from the world and those close to him.Ĭheck out an excerpt from the interview below… He ended up shaving his head and eventually just stopped leaving the house altogether. He was struggling with guilt over the death of his grandfather, his grandmother had been diagnosed with cancer, and he was drinking heavily to avoid coping with his anxiety and OCD. He revealed that when Black Veil Brides took a break in 2014, he ended up in a dark place. With his new album The Ghost Of Ohio out on April 12, via Republic Records, Andy Black took the time to sit down with Kerrang! for a revelatory chat about both that record, and his life in general.
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