He’d talk about not making it to 40, of chain smoking and guzzling whisky and leaving a good-looking corpse.
Do they still hold onto those desires? Do they resent having lived a life defined by anger? There was a time when Andy would publicly declare he’d never make old bones himself. There is definitely something compelling about checking in with a character in later life who’s been defined by piss, vinegar and an unquenchable desire to put themselves on the line for others. “I’m so curious to see what a 70-year-old Batman is like.” “Pump that nostalgia into my veins,” begs Andy. Given this preference, Andy is thrilled by the prospect of The Flash, the forthcoming standalone outing for the lightning fast DC hero, which, thanks to its time travel storyline, will see Michael Keaton reprise his role as The Caped Crusader for the first time since 1992. That’s why I’ve always gravitated towards the Michael Keaton version, because he’s kind of nuts and needs the suit because he’s not some stacked MMA fighter.” “As a kid, I needed the facade, the Andy Sixx character, to get through growing up in a small town and being made fun of. “My interest in Batman has always to do with the people who needed that character to exist,” he explains. “When you see parallel thinking like that it’s really exciting because you think: ‘I’m right on point with the things I’m doing.’” This is part of a kind of kismet that over the years has seen Andy’s interests, however disparate, eventually converge. Batman’s “I am vengeance” catchphrase among them – because they’ve already occurred to him. Andy cracks a smile as K! reels off the other similarities – his album having a song called The Vengeance vs. In the final moments of the trailer, the vigilante walks towards the screen as it’s gradually overlaid with the film’s title, the black and scarlet lettering startlingly similar to the colour palette adopted for The Phantom Tomorrow. “The pandemic alone has changed so much for so many people,” he says. The album’s release also provides an opportunity to check in with Andy, who’s in suitably convivial form, to chronicle how he’s evolved over the years. What’s more, thanks to the delays caused by COVID-19, it has arrived festooned with a variety of supplementary material – a four-video story arc, podcasts, comic books and more – that serve to deepen listeners’ understanding of its conceptual world and the characters in it. It is, without question, the most ambitious record Black Veil Brides have ever made. Later they’ll head off to an in-store appearance at a Hot Topic attended by a small number of lucky fans, before the band’s sixth studio album, The Phantom Tomorrow, is streamed across the music and pop culture-inspired clothing store’s 600-plus locations across America. Dressed in a black sweatshirt accessorised with a padlock necklace, he and his bandmates guitarists Jake Pitts and Jinxx, bassist Lonny Eagleton and drummer Christian 'CC' Coma are enjoying some downtime.
Thankfully Andy is in less hellish conditions today, a brightly lit boutique hotel in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area that’s more delightful than despicable. It was like an urban myth to me, except for many years the myth was that the place wasn’t some haunted hell house.” “That place was an amalgamation of all my fears. “Every subsequent scare that inspired terror in me as a kid stemmed from that place,” he admits. What’s more, the facility sat upon a network of tunnels where the bodies of the patients who died were wheeled out to be buried in mass graves beneath the field where Andy and his fellow summer campers played baseball many years later. Dunham had indeed been a hospital, dating back to the 1800s, specialising in the treatment of people with tuberculosis. “I’d spent an inordinate amount of time in this converted old creepy hospital,” says Andy. But still, the singer admits his curiosity got the better of him and he decided to see if Dunham had a dark past. One place, The Dent School House, was where the janitor had supposedly gone on a murderous rampage, killing several children and stuffing their bodies into lockers.Īndy is quick to admit that this should be filed firmly under fiction as there’s absolutely no evidence this ever took place. After some time spent scouring California’s spookiest sites, of which there are many, Andy decided to look a little closer to home. One evening, he and producer John Feldmann, a fellow horror obsessive, ended up going down the rabbit hole of looking up the most haunted sites in America. Cut to 2012, and Andy is in the midst of making Black Veil Brides’ third album, Wretched And Divine: The Story Of The Wild Ones.
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