Black Veil Brides Sign to Spinefarm and Announce New EP

Glam metal revivalists Black Veil Brides recently announced they’ve signed to Spinefarm Records and announced their new EP Bleeders due out June 21. In addition to the title track, which the band released as a single, the EP will also feature a cover of the song “My Friends” from Sweeny Todd, and a cover of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday.”

We’ll get to the single in a minute, I just need to say that again: Black Veil Brides, a glam metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio is covering “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” You have to understand that, even when U2 did that song in 1983, there were concerns that the band weren’t connected closely enough to the Bloody Sunday incident of 1972 to do the song, and U2 are actually Irish. This might be the most inappropriate cover of a song since the Barenaked Ladies covered Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” for the Coneheads soundtrack, and, yes, that exists, you can look it up. On a list of bands that shouldn’t cover “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” Black Veil Brides are somewhere in the top 100 with The Locust and Weird Al Yankovic.

So Black Veil Brides released the video for the lead single off the EP “Bleeders,” and the video is a very obvious homage to Sweeny Todd, with vocalist Andy Biersack taking on the role of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street himself. So that means that the EP has two songs related to a black comic musical about a barber that murders people and turns them into meat pies, and one song about a massacre of unarmed civilians in the midst of a real-life civil war. One of these things is not like the others.

The pre-orders for the Bleeders EP are up on the official store for Black Veil Brides.