In the early years when Black Veil Brides were both touted by fans and reviled by detractors as “the most hated band in rock”, and Biersack was numbing his anxiety and OCD with alcohol, the line between his onstage persona and his personal life was blurry and, at some points, nonexistent. Growing up in the spotlight, though, has brought Andy Biersack intense pressure and scrutiny. Through a tireless work ethic and self-belief he has arguably changed the course of his life in ways few else manage. His list of credits now extends over seven albums and includes acting, presenting an online chat show, writing a comic book that accompanies The Ghost Of Ohio and a yet-to-be-released memoir of sorts.
At 28 years old, he has achieved a lot since dropping out of high school in his late-teens to pursue life as a musician in Los Angeles. As Kerrang!’s snapper packs up their equipment, Andy relates their shared realisation that it has been a decade since his picture first appeared in this magazine. A tiger’s head ring indicates his affinity with the town’s football team, the Bengals. When we meet Andy Biersack in a function room of Shepherd’s Bush’s Dorsett Hotel, he is fresh from our photoshoot and dressed in a casual denim jacket and a white T-shirt with ‘Cincinnati’ emblazoned across the front. In 2017 he appeared on cinema screens in the shlock rock thriller American Satan portraying rock star Johnny Faust, a role which he reprises in the upcoming spin-off series, Paradise City. On 2016 solo album The Shadow Side he unveiled Andy Black, a debonair vehicle for exploring darkened disco sounds and his personal relationships with love, anxiety and, most recently, his hometown of Cincinnati on second album The Ghost Of Ohio. As the frontman of Hollywood rockers Black Veil Brides, he has armoured himself in varying degrees of make-up and tattered leather over the last 10 years to lead his band, and their enduring fanbase, through allegorical tales of hope and resistance against dark forces. Andrew Dennis Biersack is a man of many guises.
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