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.