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viernes, 24 de junio de 2011
METAL BY NUMBERS 6/22: THE BRIDES SET THE CHARTS ON FIRE
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Out of the five metal/hard rock debuts to hit the charts this week, three of them appear in the top 100. However, this week’s top debut comes from Black Veil Brides, coming in at #17. This is a band whose image has turned off a lot of people, including us at first. After listening to their sophomore album, though, we can hear how their mixture of metalcore and glam could easily win over a lot of fans.
Regardless of what you may think of the band, their first week sales are pretty impressive.Last Summer, Black Veil Brides’ debut album We Stitch These Wounds came in at #36 and sold around 10,600 (pretty good for a band who at the time we had no clue about). Fast forward to less than a year, and here is the band selling more than double that with their second release. Guess their image isn’t as much of a turn off as we thought.
Notable Debuts:
Black Veil Brides, Set the World on Fire (Universal Republic) #17, 22,950 soldA top 20 debut couldn’t come at a better time for frontman Andy Biersack, who had a pretty rough weekend to say the least.
Of Mice & Men, The Flood (Rise) #24, 15,320 soldThe metalcore group’s sophomore album also serves as their highest ranking album to date.
Black Country Communion, 2 (J&R Adventures) #63, 8,310 soldAs impressive of a first week it is for the supergroup featuring Jason Bonham and Glenn Hughes, their first album (which only came out in September) still holds as their highest ranking album (coming in at #54).
Alestorm, Back Through Time (Napalm) 1,220 soldThe Scottish pirate metal group has the top folk metal debut of the week.
A Pale Horse Named Death, And Hell Will Follow Me (Steamhammer/SPV) 500 soldLife of Agony/ex-Type O Negative drummer Sal Abruscato’s new project has a modest first week.
Notable Sales:
Foo Fighters, Wasting Light (RCA) #12, 29,850 soldA major increase in sales sees Dave Grohl and company jumping thirteen spots up the charts and walking back in the top 20.
Def Leppard, Mirrorball (Mailboat) #34, 12,590 soldA 37% decrease isn’t too awful considering that this live release only features three newly recorded songs and was sold exclusively through Walmart and Sam’s Club. Just wait until people hear their lullaby album.
Seether, Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray (Wind-Up) #42, 11,780 soldDespite getting kicked out of the top 40, Seether only experience a 4% decrease in their fifth week on the charts.
Kid Rock, Born Free (Atlantic) #60, 8,670 soldAnother 20% increase for Mr. Rock brings him back into the top 60. Yet he’s apparently already working on a follow up album.
Hollywood Undead, American Tragedy (A&M/Octone) #98, 5,490 soldA 13% decrease in sales finds the masked rapcore group 26 spots down the charts.
Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare (Warner Bros.) #122, 4,750 soldAfter experiencing a nice boost in sales last week, A7X have fallen out of the top 100 again by 24 spots.
Five Finger Death Punch, War is the Answer (Prospect Park) #155, 3,340 soldDidn’t take too long for FFDP to find a new bassist.
Black Stone Cherry, Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea (Roadrunner) #175, 3,050 soldAnother 32% decrease as the Southern rockers fall down the charts by 73 spots.
Arch Enemy, Khaos Legions (Century Media) #177, 3,000 soldA 50% decrease for the Swedish death metal group in their second week sees them drop almost 100 spots down the charts.
Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) #192, 2,700 soldDespite a 7% increase, LP remain at the same chart position as last week. And like Kid Rock, they too appear to be already working on a follow up.
Disturbed, Asylum (Reprise) #194, 2,690 soldAfter being absent from the top 200 last week, Disturbed return roughly around the same position as last time.
Sixx:A.M., This is Gonna Hurt (Eleven Seven) #197, 2,670 soldNikki Sixx and co. fall down the charts by 25 spots despite experiencing only a 4% decrease.
Touché Amoré, Parting the Sea Between the Brightness & Me (Deathwish) 1,460 soldAfter a slow first week, post-hardcore band experiences an enormous 203% increase in sales.
Morbid Angel, Illud Divinum Insanus (Season of Mist) 1,440 soldA 60% decrease kicks Morbid Angel’s polarizing album out of the top 200.
Volbeat, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven (Universal) 1,365 soldA slight 8% increase for the Danish garage metallers.
Hammerfall, Infected (Nuclear Blast) 680 soldThe Swedish power metal group experiences a 60% decrease in their second week on the charts.
Vampires Everywhere!, Kiss The Sun Goodbye (Century Media) 600 soldAfter experiencing modest spikes in sales, Vampires Everywhere! get a 27% decrease in their fifth week.
Art Of Dying, Vices And Virtures (Reprise/Intoxication) 590 soldA 2% keeps these Canadian rockers around for another week.
Amorphis, The Beginning of Times (Nuclear Blast) 530 soldFollowing a trend with other debuts from last week, the progressive death metallers’ experience a 60% decrease.
Memphis May Fire, The Hollow (Rise) 430 soldAfter slipping further down the charts, the Southern metalcore group experiences a 21% increase in sales.
Boris, Heavy Rocks (Sargent House) 380 sold The experimental Japanese rockers’ album that shouldn’t be confused with the 2002 album of the same name experiences a 34% decrease in their fourth week.
Exclusive Interview: Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides discusses his fall, injuries
Sometimes, things don’t work out the way you planned. Just ask Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Biersack, who shattered three ribs while attempting to jump from one pillar to another during the band’s album release show on Saturday, June 18, at the Hollywood & Highland Center Hot Topic in Los Angeles. Even though Biersack’s injury occurred only three songs into their set, he managed to play the remainder of the show before he was rushed off to hospital, where he learned the extent of the damage. The incident itself was inevitably witnessed—in all its graceless, bone-crunching detail—all around the world via YouTube.
Biersack is now recuperating in a rented West Hollywood apartment with his mother and friends for company. Although heavily medicated, he is upbeat and philosophical about the incident, and he is typically determined to go on with the show as soon as humanly possible.
Interview: Dan Slessor
What were you actually trying to do?
Really, I was trying to fly—and I’ve clearly not perfected that yet. No, I wish I had some great story for why I was doing what I was, but I was doing my usual thing where I climb up and then jump back onstage, which usually ends badly—though not this badly. The thing was, I was wearing cowboy boots on a slick, hard, marble surface, which I’d never jumped from before. I started to slip a bit while I was up there, and I sort of sat down thinking that I could push with my arms, and land on the adjacent pillar—and everything sort of worked according to plan, except for the fact my legs fell immediately and just slammed my ribs into the pillar.
What was going through your head at that moment?
The only thing I had in mind was, “Ah, shit,” because I knew once I pushed, it clearly was not enough velocity, and I was headed for the ground. More than anything, once I was able to regain a bit of consciousness, I just felt so stupid, because I knew we were only three songs into the set. If I dared to end the show there that would just be the biggest slap in the face to the fans who showed up and wanted to hear some new songs, and I didn’t want to make them miss out basically because of me making a stupid decision, so I just got on and finished up the set.
What is the diagnosis?
I’ve currently got three shattered ribs, most of which are sort of like bone shrapnel in my back area. I’m pretty heavily medicated right now, and I can’t really feel my extremities, because if I move too often I run the risk of those pieces of bone shifting and stabbing me, and sort of causing internal bleeding—and there’s also one very near my lung, that could potentially collapse it. I have to wait for these bones to fuse before I can really move too often. But this is a double-edged sword, because if I don’t move often enough, the excess bone will kind of sit there and cause blood clots inside me, so I have to at least get up and try to walk several times a day.
Have you seen the YouTube videos of your plummet?
Oh yeah, my band and road crew left for Warped Tour yesterday; they’re going to hang out there, and hopefully I can join them soon. But they stopped by and were teasing me and showing them all to me. There’s one in particular I thought was interesting, which is the montage someone’s made using all the different camera angles. There’s like sad music over the top that kind of implies I died. The thing is, I know what I did was dumb, and now I have to pay the price—and unfortunately, that means missing the first week or so of Warped, which is not good. But I can either lay here in misery and kinda hate everything, or I can understand what my plight is, take my medication and do what I can to heal.
Since it’s going to take a while to fully heal, will the injury affect the way you perform?
Certainly. The doctors have all told me that basically it’ll take me the entire span of Warped Tour to heal, so if I go back and play on Warped, it’s going to be too soon. To me, it’s all about whether I feel physically up to it. I’m not going to go out and do it if I feel like I can’t move, because I don’t want to ruin my body permanently so I can never perform again. But if I feel like I can go onstage and competently play, then I’m going to do it. I know I’m not going to be able to perform to the best of my abilities, but I feel like the fans at least deserve to see the show in some capacity.
And next time, when you’re contemplating some great leap, will you take an extra moment or two to think about it first?
I don’t think so. I’d like to say that I would, but that wouldn’t really be me.
Interview: Dan Slessor
What were you actually trying to do?
Really, I was trying to fly—and I’ve clearly not perfected that yet. No, I wish I had some great story for why I was doing what I was, but I was doing my usual thing where I climb up and then jump back onstage, which usually ends badly—though not this badly. The thing was, I was wearing cowboy boots on a slick, hard, marble surface, which I’d never jumped from before. I started to slip a bit while I was up there, and I sort of sat down thinking that I could push with my arms, and land on the adjacent pillar—and everything sort of worked according to plan, except for the fact my legs fell immediately and just slammed my ribs into the pillar.
What was going through your head at that moment?
The only thing I had in mind was, “Ah, shit,” because I knew once I pushed, it clearly was not enough velocity, and I was headed for the ground. More than anything, once I was able to regain a bit of consciousness, I just felt so stupid, because I knew we were only three songs into the set. If I dared to end the show there that would just be the biggest slap in the face to the fans who showed up and wanted to hear some new songs, and I didn’t want to make them miss out basically because of me making a stupid decision, so I just got on and finished up the set.
What is the diagnosis?
I’ve currently got three shattered ribs, most of which are sort of like bone shrapnel in my back area. I’m pretty heavily medicated right now, and I can’t really feel my extremities, because if I move too often I run the risk of those pieces of bone shifting and stabbing me, and sort of causing internal bleeding—and there’s also one very near my lung, that could potentially collapse it. I have to wait for these bones to fuse before I can really move too often. But this is a double-edged sword, because if I don’t move often enough, the excess bone will kind of sit there and cause blood clots inside me, so I have to at least get up and try to walk several times a day.
Have you seen the YouTube videos of your plummet?
Oh yeah, my band and road crew left for Warped Tour yesterday; they’re going to hang out there, and hopefully I can join them soon. But they stopped by and were teasing me and showing them all to me. There’s one in particular I thought was interesting, which is the montage someone’s made using all the different camera angles. There’s like sad music over the top that kind of implies I died. The thing is, I know what I did was dumb, and now I have to pay the price—and unfortunately, that means missing the first week or so of Warped, which is not good. But I can either lay here in misery and kinda hate everything, or I can understand what my plight is, take my medication and do what I can to heal.
Since it’s going to take a while to fully heal, will the injury affect the way you perform?
Certainly. The doctors have all told me that basically it’ll take me the entire span of Warped Tour to heal, so if I go back and play on Warped, it’s going to be too soon. To me, it’s all about whether I feel physically up to it. I’m not going to go out and do it if I feel like I can’t move, because I don’t want to ruin my body permanently so I can never perform again. But if I feel like I can go onstage and competently play, then I’m going to do it. I know I’m not going to be able to perform to the best of my abilities, but I feel like the fans at least deserve to see the show in some capacity.
And next time, when you’re contemplating some great leap, will you take an extra moment or two to think about it first?
I don’t think so. I’d like to say that I would, but that wouldn’t really be me.
miércoles, 22 de junio de 2011
Black Veil Brides: "We couldn't live without women on tour" - video
VIDEO HERE!
Black Veil Brides have told NME they "couldn't live without women on tour."
The black-clad rockers made this confession as part of a video interview with NME at the recent Download Festival, which you can view above.
Frontman Andy Biersack and bassist Ashley Purdy opened up about who is the most rock and roll member of the band, who has the worst habits and how long they have gone without sleeping.
Black Veil Brides have told NME they "couldn't live without women on tour."
The black-clad rockers made this confession as part of a video interview with NME at the recent Download Festival, which you can view above.
Frontman Andy Biersack and bassist Ashley Purdy opened up about who is the most rock and roll member of the band, who has the worst habits and how long they have gone without sleeping.
"65 days," replied Biersack. "I am a clinical zombie. I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day and then I can sleep pretty well at night."
As for who has the dirtiest tour habits? "We call [guitarist] Jinxx stinky bones. His bones smell. He can shower forever, but he will always emanate stink. He calls himself the cockroach. He knows she smells a bit like poo."
Biersack recently (June 18) suffered three shattered ribs after falling from a 15 foot high balcony during a gig in Hollywood, California.
Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides Talks "Set the World on Fire", "Batman" Movies, and More
"We're actually in the middle of a Wal-Mart parking lot. I'm not seeing a whole lot," says Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack while on tour.
That Wal-Mart parking lot was probably never the same after Biersack and Brides rolled through though. Black Veil Brides have practically flipped rock 'n' roll upside down and inside out since they dropped 2010's We Stitch These Wounds, however, the competition will be razed for good with their new offering, Set the World on Fire.
It's an anthemic, arena-ready collection of fist-pumping rockers that's bound to get audiences worldwide chanting their name. Think of it as Shout at the Devil 2011 and you're only halfway there. Biersack infuses a vibrant storytelling style that gives the songs serious depth, and the band's rabid following continues to follow him down the rabbit hole. Nobody's coming back from Fire though…
Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides spoke to ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author about Set the World on Fire, his favorite Batmanfilm, and so much more in this exclusive interview…
Where are you going on Set the World on Fire? How do you feel you've grown since We Stitch These Wounds?
We wrote the whole thing at once. It's a little more cohesive. Overall, it's a better record. We’re upping our game considerably. Like any first record, the songs were an amalgam of all the things that we had written over the first 20-something years of our lives. I was only 16 or 17 when I wrote most of the songs for that record, and I recorded it when I was turning 19. It was an interesting situation because you have far more time to write your first album than your second. We were able to bring together the moments of our lives that meant something to us and hopefully capture them with the songs on the record. There wasn't as much of a theme running throughout. I think our second record has more of a theme because we were able to sit down and do it all at once. We were able to improve upon everything we liked about the first album going into the second.
How have you grown as a writer?
My writing style will always be mine, but I tried to make a concerted effort on this record to hopefully write a little bit more based on how I felt the emotion in the moment as opposed to spending time trying to come up with the coolest sounding metaphor and those kinds of things. My lyrical style will always stay the same. I hope that's part of what people enjoy about the band. I know I enjoy writing. It's evolved a little bit more. I learned more about how to write about the human condition and hopefully capture what I’m trying to say in a much more succinct way.
If Set the World on Fire were a movie or a combination of movies what would it be?
It'd have to be the Black Veil Brides movie! We can only thing in terms of how our things would happen. Cinematically, I could tell you what the songs look like in my head but I couldn’t compare it to something else. It's a foreign concept to me. We know what our creation is and we’re very proud of it.
"Carolyn" has always stuck out though. What's the story behind that one?
It's an interesting song. It's the first song that I ever wrote lyrically from someone else's perspective. It’s about Jake's mother who has struggled with illness and how he felt. When you find out that someone’s sick, there's nothing you can really do except say that you're there and you’re going to try to help or do whatever you can. At the end of the day, you can't really cure someone if they’re sick. I took Jake's story and tried to put my own perspective on it. Like anything in life, if there's a situation where you see something terrible is happening and you can't necessarily stop it, the least you can do is promise you're going to be there for the person who’s being affected by it. That's what that song is about.
What are some of your favorite movies?
Our look is obviously very much inspired by Mad Max and post-apocalyptic warrior movies with body paint and all of that. We enjoy that image. I'm a big fan of comic books and comic book films. I've always been a big fan of anything with a cinematic, larger-than-life feel. I enjoy the films of Tim Burton, but I've never been The Nightmare Before Christmas guy. I take more inspiration from Batman films and those kinds of things though.
What’s your favorite Batman movie?
Since it’s the grittiest of the Batman films, Batman Returns would be it. It's a very dark movie; they even wound up firing Tim Burton because it got too dark. I also like it because there were two versions released. My mom wouldn't let me see one version but my dad would’ve [Laughs].
—Rick Florino
06.20.11
Via @AndyBVB
That Wal-Mart parking lot was probably never the same after Biersack and Brides rolled through though. Black Veil Brides have practically flipped rock 'n' roll upside down and inside out since they dropped 2010's We Stitch These Wounds, however, the competition will be razed for good with their new offering, Set the World on Fire.
It's an anthemic, arena-ready collection of fist-pumping rockers that's bound to get audiences worldwide chanting their name. Think of it as Shout at the Devil 2011 and you're only halfway there. Biersack infuses a vibrant storytelling style that gives the songs serious depth, and the band's rabid following continues to follow him down the rabbit hole. Nobody's coming back from Fire though…
Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides spoke to ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author about Set the World on Fire, his favorite Batmanfilm, and so much more in this exclusive interview…
Where are you going on Set the World on Fire? How do you feel you've grown since We Stitch These Wounds?
We wrote the whole thing at once. It's a little more cohesive. Overall, it's a better record. We’re upping our game considerably. Like any first record, the songs were an amalgam of all the things that we had written over the first 20-something years of our lives. I was only 16 or 17 when I wrote most of the songs for that record, and I recorded it when I was turning 19. It was an interesting situation because you have far more time to write your first album than your second. We were able to bring together the moments of our lives that meant something to us and hopefully capture them with the songs on the record. There wasn't as much of a theme running throughout. I think our second record has more of a theme because we were able to sit down and do it all at once. We were able to improve upon everything we liked about the first album going into the second.
How have you grown as a writer?
My writing style will always be mine, but I tried to make a concerted effort on this record to hopefully write a little bit more based on how I felt the emotion in the moment as opposed to spending time trying to come up with the coolest sounding metaphor and those kinds of things. My lyrical style will always stay the same. I hope that's part of what people enjoy about the band. I know I enjoy writing. It's evolved a little bit more. I learned more about how to write about the human condition and hopefully capture what I’m trying to say in a much more succinct way.
If Set the World on Fire were a movie or a combination of movies what would it be?
It'd have to be the Black Veil Brides movie! We can only thing in terms of how our things would happen. Cinematically, I could tell you what the songs look like in my head but I couldn’t compare it to something else. It's a foreign concept to me. We know what our creation is and we’re very proud of it.
"Carolyn" has always stuck out though. What's the story behind that one?
It's an interesting song. It's the first song that I ever wrote lyrically from someone else's perspective. It’s about Jake's mother who has struggled with illness and how he felt. When you find out that someone’s sick, there's nothing you can really do except say that you're there and you’re going to try to help or do whatever you can. At the end of the day, you can't really cure someone if they’re sick. I took Jake's story and tried to put my own perspective on it. Like anything in life, if there's a situation where you see something terrible is happening and you can't necessarily stop it, the least you can do is promise you're going to be there for the person who’s being affected by it. That's what that song is about.
What are some of your favorite movies?
Our look is obviously very much inspired by Mad Max and post-apocalyptic warrior movies with body paint and all of that. We enjoy that image. I'm a big fan of comic books and comic book films. I've always been a big fan of anything with a cinematic, larger-than-life feel. I enjoy the films of Tim Burton, but I've never been The Nightmare Before Christmas guy. I take more inspiration from Batman films and those kinds of things though.
What’s your favorite Batman movie?
Since it’s the grittiest of the Batman films, Batman Returns would be it. It's a very dark movie; they even wound up firing Tim Burton because it got too dark. I also like it because there were two versions released. My mom wouldn't let me see one version but my dad would’ve [Laughs].
—Rick Florino
06.20.11
Via @AndyBVB
martes, 21 de junio de 2011
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