Black Veil Brides- Saviours or Devils?
“I never meant to be the one, who kept you from the dark, but now I know my wounds are sewn, because of who you are.
I will take this burden on, and become the holy one, but remember I am human, and I’m bound to sing this song.”
Those are the first few lines of Black Veil Brides’ controversial song, Saviour. Some may claim that the lead singer, Andy Biersack, is mocking God, saying that anyone can take God’s place, anyone can be Holy. Some others may say that it is a song embodied with hope, written by the King of the Outcasts as a message, saying, “Never give in. Never give up! Don’t be afraid to be who you are, because no matter what, we’ll be there for you!” And then, there are those who don’t know anything that I’m talking about.
Black Veil Brides is a popular heavy metal/rock band who claim to be something as The Ultimate Outcasts, due to their eccentric looks and rough childhoods from bullying for being different and unique. (Please note that that not a direct quote.) Their music caters to those of all ages, with the soft and soulful song “The Mortician’s Daughter,” to the heavy and inspiring song “The Legacy.” But there is one song that has caused a bit of a stir here on Christwire: the seventh track on their second studio album, called “Saviour.”
When Andy Biersack, formerly known as Andy Sixx, wrote the song, he wanted to give something back to the BVB Army, his loyal fan base. Throughout the song he constantly reminds his fans that, even though he’s only human, he’s going to tryand do everything he can to help them through their lives. He says that there are even teenagers, kids that are around my age, that come up to him at concert signings and show him their arms, which are littered with scars. They say to him the same things, that they were cutting themselves but Black Veil Brides’ music saved their life- which was the kind of music that Andy was hoping to make.
But there are a few that claim Andy is mocking God. Let me just clear that up right now: He isn’t. Andy just happens to be an atheist, such as myself.
Take another look at the lyrics at the top. When Andy sings, “I will take this burden on, and become the holy one, but remember I am human, and I’m bound to sing this song,” he isn’t claiming to be a deity, or to be Holy. No.
The message he is trying to get across is, again, that Black Veil Brides is there for you. No matter what everyone else thinks, no matter what you think, you aren’t useless. You aren’t alone! There will always be light at the end of the tunnel- but only if you choose to see it.
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Author: Ecstasy
A glowing Outcast in a world of dust, Ecstasy is a teenage girl seeking the world on a lonely path.
8:01 am
Is it possible to start moderating entire articles?
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8:32 am
Andy Biersack is a God mocker, or the band would not be named the Black Veil Briders. They are making fun of Christians. That’s why God sent two angels to rough Biersack up.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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11:31 am
So you’re saying that God loves violence, hates his people, and that somehow you think the name ‘Black Veil Brides’ is making fun of Christians.
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11:59 am
Actually Andy named the band Black Beil Brides (which means a nun) because he admires how someone could give up everything for something they feel strongly about and he felt he could relate to it since he gave up everything for his music. And by your logic Catholic isnt christian (even though it is) so if catholic isnt christian how is he mocking christianity? Get your shit straight.
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3:38 am
Actually, I beg to differ my dear sir. Black veil bride is a religious term for a nun that marries into a church. And further more, what two angels could you possibly be talking about?
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3:17 pm
haha he used that name to symbolize nuns when they marry into the church and he thought it was amazing that someone could have that much passion for what they believe in all of you haters are like an old sex toy smelly and unpleasant and you spend all your time up peoples asses so take your religious bullshit somewhere else. the bible is a scam it starts with a talking snake and ends with a three headed monster,
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8:58 am
For an atheist you sure do sound preachy.
Black Veal Brides are just a bunch of lame-o Motley Crue wannabes. Emosexuals like you have stuffed their pockets with millions and given them far more prominence than they deserve.
Do yourself a favour and don’t get any BVB tattoos. You’ll thank me later.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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11:52 am
Just because you don’t like the band’s music doesnt mean you can talk crap on them. Where’s your cd and you millions of fans since you could obviously do a better job?
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12:50 pm
“Just because you don’t like the band’s music doesnt mean you can talk crap on them.”
Huh?
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6:32 pm
Just because you can’t appreciate the music doesnt mean you can try to be a dick about if or spew lies about them. Especially when you dont have a fucking album or fanbase like they do.
Do you need me to explain it again Erich, but this time with smaller words so you can understand?
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7:55 pm
I don’t like their music. How is that a “lie”? They dress almost exactly like Motley Crue did during the ’80s and nothing about their music or lyrics are ground-breaking or original at all.
“Black Veil Brides- Saviours or Devils?”
How about “C” – Irrelevant?
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9:21 pm
Way to fucking miss the point to what I said.
I said you don’t have to like them, many people don’t. But yes this website lies about them all the time like when you say your satanic and that shit.
And just because you dont like them doesnt mean anything. Thats just your opinion. If you dont like them then dont comment, simple as that.
Btw, Nikke and Andy are friends and BVB will admit Motley Crue is an influence but they wanted to be diffrent and thats pretty much how they dress all the time. Yes a little more for when their performing but basically the same.
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7:58 pm
Sorry Maddy but I think that sentiment doesn’t really hold true in society. I offer Nickelback as an example.
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9:40 pm
Dave thats sadly true. I dont agree with people talking shit on music especially when they couldnt do any better. I agree that I dont like Nickelbacks music and I hate their sound but I’m not gonna say anything about them as people.
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9:09 pm
“Just because you don’t like the band’s music doesnt mean you can talk crap on them.”
Um… yes it does?
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9:29 pm
Okay and what gives you the right Ex-A? Yes you can say “I dont like their music.” But when you start with the lies and basically just trying to piss fans off and calling them names then no you just keep your mouth shut.
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2:19 pm
It’s my right as a critic.
When I call BVB consumerist noise that only panders to angsty emosexuals. I’m not being spiteful. I’m telling it like it is.
You can tell music is good when you can hear the passion and soul an artist has put into their creation, and it should apply to every song they make, not just one or two that they play over and over. Emogay music lost whatever soul it used to have back in the 90s. Before they found a way to twist it to the misguided youth.
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2:50 pm
You arnt a critic. You have an opinion but it doesnt make yours better than anyone elses. What makes you better than a BVB fan? .
Theres no such thing as an emosexual or an emogay thats not even a sub-genre.
Just because you dont feel anything in the song doesnt mean someone else doesnt.
Wtf Misguided youth had nothing to do with anything?
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5:50 am
“It’s my right as a critic.
When I call BVB consumerist noise that only panders to angsty emosexuals. I’m not being spiteful. I’m telling it like it is.”
You should be old enough to know the difference between critic and talking bad over it, because you don’t like it.
For example:
I don’t like justin beiber and his music and i’ll only say that i don’t like it. I won’t start to call him “an emosexual gay pedophile” or whatsoever, because as first i don’t know him personaly and as second, i don’t see a need to bash on him with such a words, because i don’t even want to bother about him, since i don’t like him.
“You can tell music is good when you can hear the passion and soul an artist has put into their creation, and it should apply to every song they make, not just one or two that they play over and over. Emogay music lost whatever soul it used to have back in the 90s. Before they found a way to twist it to the misguided youth.”
“Good music” defines each person on his own taste.
Wtf is “emogay”?
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12:40 am
“Where’s your cd and you millions of fans”
Maddy, do you realise that the argument from popularity if fallacious?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
You should really check out some old Iron Maiden stuff, circa ’82-’84 to see where BVB is getting the sound from.
And if you like BVB you’ll probably like Iron Maiden too. Win-win.
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12:05 pm
I already like Iron Maiden. I’ve liked them before BVB. And yes I like KISS and Motley Crue as well. And so what if their bringing an old sound back? At the end of the day its still all rock. And yes the records and millions of fans and they seem to be quite succesful unlike many of you who think you can lie about them and criticize them when you couldnt do any better.
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12:20 pm
It is weird that you named yourself after Ben Folds Five. They sound nothing like classic maiden.
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12:25 pm
Try Avenged Sevenfold. I told you this millions of times. And I like many diffrent sounds.
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12:28 pm
Do you like Falco? I like Falco.
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12:31 pm
I’ve never listened to them.
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12:53 pm
Falco is one of the premier Aryan astists of all time.
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1:12 pm
Falco was So Gay Aug
He wanted Wolfie to rock him. And he wore that gay outfit.
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Check it out on utube
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1:15 pm
Not my kind of music, Augs.
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1:21 pm
Falco is awesome and not gay. This video here holds the record for most white people in a video with no minorities.
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1:31 pm
And there was me thinking Hitlers Reichstag home movies held that record
Falco was “SOooo Gay he liked Cats and like Hitler he was a Roman Catholic from Austria
Your Slipping again Aug-y Boy Put your Pee pe away and Pull your lederhosen up
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1:35 pm
Leave my father out of this..
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1:43 pm
Who is your Daddy ?
did’nt raise the subject in this thread
You claiming to be Hitlers Son or Falco’s son
as my friends say not Bi just bi Curious
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10:39 am
Lorcan – Every generation passes through their youth into adulthood listening to whatever music best speaks to the masses of that generation. And the BVB are popular today and you enjoy their music. Andy’s lyrics clearly have meaning for you and that’s important. But my question is where will Andy & the BVB be when your 40? Time tends to erode values, not that you’ll feel any differently about their music but do think you’re kids are going to enjoy listening to the BVBs instead of the artists making music in their time?
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11:15 am
Billy Ray, Andy plans to keep making music for as long as humanly possible. And he knows he can’t do that forever so he is trying to make it count. Really I wish you would people would give BVB a fair chance and see Andy is a great guy. I understand not liking their music personally but it means alot for other people.
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12:43 pm
Think about the question you asked though. If it wasn’t for Black Veil Brides, some of their fans wouldn’t live until 40 and would have ended their lives alot sooner if it wasn’t for their inspiring music and personalities.
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1:52 pm
Well you shouldn’t be worrying about that, I mean why would you care where Black Veil Brides would be in 40 years. I think you should let the band it’s self worry about their future.
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5:55 am
“But my question is where will Andy & the BVB be when your 40? ”
Check Iron Maiden, Rolling Stones, AC/DC and other such bands. They still play and are on the sceen for over 40 years.
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1:52 pm
Andy didn’t even write the song, Jinxx did…
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4:11 pm
Black Veil Brides gives hope to the people that believe they have nothing left to live for. The band members of Black Veil Brides save lives with their music. If people cant respect that, then they need to keep their mouths shut. Self expression is supposed to be a GOOD THING not something to look down upon. Black Veil Brides is a band that not only tells you that you will be ok and to not give in to the people who try to change you and to be who you want to be, but a group of people that want to be the reason so many people are begining to believe in them selfs and look at the people who try to change that and be able to say “This is my life. Not yours. You cant control me. You never will and I will never let you.” Black Veil Brides are the saviors of the outcasts, the kids and teens that are looked down upon because of how they dress, the music they listen to , the people they hang out with, and who they like. No one should have to get bullied for such little things like that or infact bullied at all. Black Veil Brides does more to help kids and teenagers with their music, then others do by preaching about god.
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4:18 pm
This music is a corporate joke designed to take people’s money and get rich. Anyone who likes this band will look back in 10 years and be embarrassed at their choices. Same thing happened to fans of Kiss, Twisted Sister, even Mili Vannili. And those bands actually had real fans. According to billboard, BVB doesn’t even rank in the top 100 for tour grossing’s in any single year, I looked back 10 years. Even bands like Iron Maiden and New kids on the block have ranked tours.
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4:23 pm
“According to billboard, BVB doesn’t even rank in the top 100 for tour grossing’s in any single year”
Just because a band doesn’t make the most money , doesn’t make them a bad band…Majority of the stuff I listen to are by musicians that make music for free and most likely will never be known to the big entertainment biz…Does that make them any less good? No
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7:00 pm
Whats your point? Obviously they arnt just here to get money like you said because you pointed out they dont make as much money as others.
But apparently they mean enough to this website to write about them over and over, actually you should be thanking them without them like no one would have heard of this site.
Btw just because they dont make money doesnt mean they make bad music. Actually some music gets worse because they sell out. Alot of my favorite bands arnt known that well like The Ground Breaking Ceremony and Snow Whites Poison Bite.
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8:09 pm
“actually you should be thanking them without them like no one would have heard of this site.
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Actually this web site hit 15 million hits over a year before the first BVB article was written. LN and Claire are two examples of people who heard about this site long before your band was exposed.
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8:19 pm
And think of the number of people who go online, and the number of people that regularly come here. Yeah, that number plummets quickly in terms of scope.
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8:25 pm
I think most sites would be happy with our traffic. Over 10 million people read the Skrillex article alone.
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9:35 pm
August when you guys write an “article” over BVB, A7X, Falling in Reverse, MCR, or Skrillex or any music groups the comments and reads go way up. Is this true or not? Is it not true you have had more people start commenting here since? From all the names that post here with band names in them its safe to assume your using their fame to get readers to see this joke site.
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9:38 pm
Yeah! BVB supporters rejoice! Do not listen to the haters!
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9:45 pm
All their hate goes to his dick.
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3:41 am
Andy Biersack must have a freaking huge dick then. XD sorry just had to say it. I see you like Bryan Starzzzzz like me and alot of people who are commenting on this right now.
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1:56 am
Can you dickheads please make one of these for motionless in white?? I feel like a good laugh and considering you are 40 year old virgins living in your mothers basement I think you will have plenty of time, Long live metal! /m/
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3:24 pm
Well, at least SOMEONE on here knows what they’re talking about. I’m so glad I found this because, yes, BVB is amazing and they aren’t satanic at all. I happen to be Christian myself and have been all my life. Black Veil Brides is my favorite band of all time. They have helped me through so much and all you idiots on here that are saying they suck or they’re spawns of the devil are hypocritical judgmental people who have nothing better to do with their lives. You all say that BVB fans are “brainwashed.” Ha, more like you guys are the ones that are brainwashed. God doesn’t want you all to be hating on us like this. God loves all his children. He doesn’t care if we’re black or white, gay or straight, and he certainly doesn’t care that we listen to certain types of music or look up to certain types of people. He would want us all to just get past our differences and come together as one big community. You all have people that you look up to in your life whether it be a parent or the Priest for that matter. Sure, I love the Priests at my church but I also love Andy, Jake, CC, Ashley and Jinxx all the same. So, as one of my other favorite bands, Motionless In White, said, “Open your mind before your mouth.”
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10:15 am
Motionless in white <3 and I agree with you, this is one of the only threads on this website that isn't total bullshit
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4:35 pm
Motionless! I got to meet Rikke at Warped ;D
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12:52 pm
This website is a JOKE. I’m a Christian. And I’m proud to be one. Black Veil Brides is my favorite band and Saviour is my favorite song by them. It gets you thinking. All of you that say this song is about the band being there for all of the fans, You’re RIGHT. Andy and the band are not mocking God. “Black Veil Brides” is a Catholic term. When a Nun is welcomed into the church, she wears a black veil and she’s basically being married into the church. All of the band members are Atheist. They use religious references and to my knowledge, they no longer use the Pentagram as their logo. It was never a completed Pentagram either. None of the points connected in a complete circle. It was just a star with little semi-circles around it. This website is full of crap. This is a website for all of the Christians who think that anything that isn’t in the Bible is unholy, or that’s what it seems like.
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2:21 pm
Even if they would use the pentagram, that wouldn’t make them evil, because pentargams were used as religious symbol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram
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9:21 am
Jinxx wrote the song Saviour… making the whole article invalid…
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11:55 pm
So, what’s an emosexual? can I ask?
Seriously, people say atheists are bad, but every organised religion hates anything that isn’t 100% true to their cause.
To quote black veil brides:
“Leave us alone, You’re on your own.”
They’ve done nothing wrong, your argument is invalid.
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11:17 pm
Andy and the other band members are NOT mocking God. The band name ‘black veil brides’ is supposed to be about nuns. Andy named the band that because he was raised in a somewhat religious household and he thought it was awesome that the nuns could give up their own personal lives to support what they believe in just like he has with his music. And when he talks about becoming the ‘holly one’ he is also says ‘remember i am human’ meaning that he is someone that people look up to, but he isn’t God and doesn’t claim to be.
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11:24 pm
Why would Black Veal Brides marry baby cows if they weren’t satanic or at least beastialists?
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11:19 pm
maybe people should look at the lyrics and loo at the band and understand them and wat here message is before judging. because clearly alot of people know nothing about this amazing band
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