It’s hard to imagine in 2024, after the band’s most recent album produced their highest-charting single, and legions of supporters passionately screaming their devotion during every performance, but before the birth of the BVB Army, the thousands of lyric tattoos, and the Gold and Platinum records that followed, Black Veil Brides was simply a dark vision dreamt up by an only child in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents showed him Kiss and played him show tunes. He already loved Batman. Then, the striking visage of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, on the cover of his dad’s dusty CD (released a dozen years before he was born) kicked open the door for Andy Biersack. The ‘Bleeders’ EP, Black Veil Brides’ inaugural release in a new partnership with Spinefarm Records, celebrates one of the singer’s first loves. The EP boasts the title track (a Black Veil Brides original unleashing a vision of their past and future) alongside a loving rendition of Sweeney Todd’s ‘My Friends’ and a faithful cover of a U2 classic (the appropriately titled ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’). ‘Bleeders’ offers a taste of what will become Black Veil Brides’ most visceral, theatrical, and unrelenting era yet. They combine a unique identity with an unquenchable creative thirst. They’re an object of devotion for those who sing their anthems in unison, a diverse BVB Army who never surrender.

Red vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.

For fans of Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills, ERRA, Falling In Reverse, Fit For A King, Motionless In White, Pierce The Veil, I Prevail, Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice and Men.