BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack is featured in a new interview with Metal Exiles discussing the band's new concept album, Wretched And Devine: The Story Of The Wild Ones . An excerpt is available below:

Metal Exiles: It takes balls to do a concept record like Wretched And Devine three albums into a career. When were the first seeds for this kind of record planted?

Andy Biersack: "We have always been that band that was interested in theatrics and doing things that are larger in life. In the past the bands image has been more theatrical but as we evolve the imagery has shifted more to building this story. Prior to making this record we had recorded six or seven songs for the follow up to Set The World On Fire but we were not really feeling anything for them. They were good songs but they were not all that exciting. So we did a tour of England while sitting on those songs and I still felt that they were not the best that we could do so throughout that tour I started compiling this short story called The Wild Ones which I started getting excited about. When we got back to L.A. we started working on the record again and decided that nothing was working with the songs that we had written, they weren’t as exciting as this short story. So we scrapped the material, changed producers and started focusing on making this concept record which like you said it’s our third record in and we have no experience making this kind of album. It was something that we were excited about and looking forward to doing so there was no real fear of the unknown."

Metal Exiles: How much of you is in Wretched And Devine?

Andy: "Every lyric that I write is an extension of myself. I do not know to write songs about other things and that is not to say that people who do not write personal songs are bad lyricists, I just do not know how to do it. I can’t write about something that was not a personal experience and I am not dogging someone like RONNIE JAMES DIO who wrote all of that fantasy stuff because I enjoy that but it is just when I sit down and put pen to paper I always come out with something relating to me."

Metal Exiles: I know you made a mini movie of this but is there a chance for this to become a full blown feature?

Andy: "I do not see a ceiling for it at all. I am having so much fun on tour playing these songs live that we are just going to keep going. This is the first time in my career that I am not thinking of the next record, I am living in this record and I am going to see how far we can go with it."

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Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones (released via Lava Records/Republic Records) landed at #7 on the Billboard 200 selling over 42,000 copies its first week. Upon release, the album also soared to the #1 Spot on the iTunes Top Album Chart and the iTunes Rock Chart. The latest release nearly doubled in first week sales what the band’s 2011 release Set The World On Fire did. That album debuted at #1 on the iTunes Rock chart, #4 on the iTunes overall album chart and #17 on the Billboard Top 200 selling 22,948 copies.

The first single from the album, 'In The End', hit rock radio on January 22nd. The video was directed by Patrick Fogerty and comes from the larger full-length film Legion Of The Black the band made as a companion piece to the album.