![]() ![]() This is part of a kind of kismet that over the years has seen Andy’s interests, however disparate, eventually converge. Batman’s “I am vengeance” catchphrase among them – because they’ve already occurred to him. Andy cracks a smile as K! reels off the other similarities – his album having a song called The Vengeance vs. In the final moments of the trailer, the vigilante walks towards the screen as it’s gradually overlaid with the film’s title, the black and scarlet lettering startlingly similar to the colour palette adopted for The Phantom Tomorrow. “The pandemic alone has changed so much for so many people,” he says. The album’s release also provides an opportunity to check in with Andy, who’s in suitably convivial form, to chronicle how he’s evolved over the years. What’s more, thanks to the delays caused by COVID-19, it has arrived festooned with a variety of supplementary material – a four-video story arc, podcasts, comic books and more – that serve to deepen listeners’ understanding of its conceptual world and the characters in it. It is, without question, the most ambitious record Black Veil Brides have ever made. Later they’ll head off to an in-store appearance at a Hot Topic attended by a small number of lucky fans, before the band’s sixth studio album, The Phantom Tomorrow, is streamed across the music and pop culture-inspired clothing store’s 600-plus locations across America. Dressed in a black sweatshirt accessorised with a padlock necklace, he and his bandmates guitarists Jake Pitts and Jinxx, bassist Lonny Eagleton and drummer Christian 'CC' Coma are enjoying some downtime. ![]() Thankfully Andy is in less hellish conditions today, a brightly lit boutique hotel in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that’s more delightful than despicable. It was like an urban myth to me, except for many years the myth was that the place wasn’t some haunted hell house.” “That place was an amalgamation of all my fears. “Every subsequent scare that inspired terror in me as a kid stemmed from that place,” he admits. What’s more, the facility sat upon a network of tunnels where the bodies of the patients who died were wheeled out to be buried in mass graves beneath the field where Andy and his fellow summer campers played baseball many years later. Dunham had indeed been a hospital, dating back to the 1800s, specialising in the treatment of people with tuberculosis. “I’d spent an inordinate amount of time in this converted old creepy hospital,” says Andy. But still, the singer admits his curiosity got the better of him and he decided to see if Dunham had a dark past. One place, The Dent School House, was where the janitor had supposedly gone on a murderous rampage, killing several children and stuffing their bodies into lockers.Īndy is quick to admit that this should be filed firmly under fiction as there’s absolutely no evidence this ever took place. After some time spent scouring California’s spookiest sites, of which there are many, Andy decided to look a little closer to home. ![]() ![]() One evening, he and producer John Feldmann, a fellow horror obsessive, ended up going down the rabbit hole of looking up the most haunted sites in America. Additionally, the APMAs are recognized for presenting collaborative cover performances unlike music fans have ever seen before, including Joan Jett and Slash teaming up to perform “Star Star” by the Rolling Stones, Asking Alexandria performing Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf” with Jonathan Davis of Korn, Halestorm and Slipknot/Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor covering Temple Of The Dog’s “Hunger Strike,” Rob Halford and BABYMETAL performing Judas Priest classics “Breaking The Law” and “Painkiller” and many more.Cut to 2012, and Andy is in the midst of making Black Veil Brides’ third album, Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones. Countless renowned artists such as Rob Zombie, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, All Time Low, Motionless In White, Marilyn Manson, Run of RUN DMC, Coolio, Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon, and beyond have appeared at the APMAs, with spectacular performances from artists including (but not limited to) New Found Glory, Yellowcard, A Day To Remember, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Third Eye Blind and more. Each APMAs show has featured some of the greatest artists in modern music, ranging from today’s biggest rock stars such as Fall Out Boy, Hayley Williams of Paramore, Panic! At The Disco, Twenty One Pilots, Machine Gun Kelly, Papa Roach, Pierce The Veil, PVRIS, Black Veil Brides, Tyler Posey of MTV’s Teen Wolf and Weezer, to musical legends such as Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, Slash, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Billy Corganof the Smashing Pumpkins and Ice-T. ![]()
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