The Hard Rock Cafe on the Las Vegas Strip presents… Black Veil Brides.
The Hard Rock Cafe was packed with black clad, spike haired fans of all ages for the Chuch of the Wild Ones tour with headliners Black Veil Brides. BVB had been in Vegas a couple times in the last couple years for festival shows but this time around the near capacity crowd was here for them alone, and BVB didn’t disappoint. Fans piled into the venue early to get a spot up front, and by the time the glamcore band hit the stage it was wall to wall screaming fans as they roared into “I Am Bulletproof” from the new release Wrenched and the Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones.
The new release is a concept album based on a story of BVB versus a corrupt organization F.E.A.R…. and the ensuing film Legions of the Black’s play on the album will show the story of the Wild Ones and their fights against F.E.A.R. The band played a lengthly set that included songs from the new Wild Ones album, and even more BVB songs from Set the World on Fire, and was peppered with a few classic BVB tunes from We Stitch These Wounds. The show included a hard hitting Idol cover “Rebel Yell” and later wrapped up with “The Legacy” and “Fallen Angels” before the band reemerged for an encore of the new single (and video) “In The End”.
The musicianship from the band is impressive seeing their mean age is somewhere in the early 20′s. Guitarists Jake Pitts and Jeremy Ferguson rip through speeding runs and lightening fast solos while bassist Ashley Purdy and drummer Christian Coma hold down a solid bottom end. Singer Andy Biersack is a real enigma though, with the ability so early in the game to work a stage so well and hold an audience in the palm of his hand, and quite a vocal talent live. In between songs Biersack talks to the crowd of understanding the hardships of youth and life and believing in yourself throughout it all. He can alternately belt, growl and sing through the groups’ catalog and come out strong and a very real presence at the forefront of BVB. The band seems to play to some prerecorded fills here and there, but for the most part rocks with a goth/metal/glam show that is amazingly solid and roars till the bitter end.
Check out all things Black Veil Brides at blackveilbrides.net, the site will link you to FB, Twitter, and more. The new video is quite a cinematic little work toward most likely the concept and the story of The Legion, check it our here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0EQlIzPowM. I dare you not to raise a fist in the air.
