Alternative Press about the narratives weaved throughout
The Phantom Tomorrow. The album follows the antihero Blackbird and a group of social outcasts known as The Phantom Tomorrow. Both groups are heavily misunderstood in the album’s world. As a result, Black Veil Brides’ new music tackles ideas regarding people’s belief systems and the ways in which society influences those beliefs among other things.
“The idea is that there would have to be a belief system in this world,” he says. “There’s the idea if we had all of our social ways about us, our ways of separating what we believe in and what we think is real and all the critical thinking that many of us have toward different religions or whatever. But if Jesus were alive at the time, you had to face these crossroads. Do you believe that it’s actually real? Or is this guy actually doing magic, or what is it? And instead of it being a story that’s completely about a religious figure, it’s one of [the] people ap
Andy Black, accepted the challenge of a recorded narration of his book,
Covering the band’s illustrious career to date and deeply personal events, Biersack’s autobiography extensively covers events throughout the theatrical musician’s life and times on each end of the emotional spectrum. To celebrate the recording’s release this week, Alternative Press caught Biersack to find out just how different audiobooks compare to tracking vocals, the difficulty of reading out certain chapters of his life and how the narrative experience has fueled his desire to write more in the future.
You’ve been behind a mic for the majority of your adult life, but narrating an audiobook is a whole different ball game. What was your overriding emotion when the idea of an audiobook came to the table?
Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack, who also goes by his solo alias Andy Black, has just released the audiobook version of his autobiography,
They Don t Need to Understand Stories of Hope, Fear, Love, Life and Never Giving In, which was written with longtime collaborator Ryan J. Downey.
The standard version of the book (the kind you have to read yourself instead of hearing Biersack s life story relayed through his booming deep croon) currently sits at No. 1 on Amazon s Best Sellers in Rock Music and No. 2 on the online retail giant s Rock Band Biographies category. I am so thankful for the incredible reception the book has had and it means the world to me to know that my story has resonated with so many people all over the world, beamed Biersack. This whole experience has been a dream come true.