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Black Veil Brides – Vindicate

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Black Veil Brides - Vindicate

Black Veil Brides - Vindicate
4.2

Rating

 4.2/5

Flyctory.com Pros

  • Nice range of songs
  • Tracks with nicely contrasting sections
  • High musical quality

The Black Veil Brides are celebrating their twentieth band anniversary this year. However, their fans are waiting since five year for a new album by the US-American metal band. The wait is over – on 8th May 2026, they shared their new album. Here is my review of Vindicate.

 

Black Veil Brides – About The Artists

The Black Veil Brides are a hard rock and alternative metal band from Cincinnati in Ohio. Founded in 2006, they are nowadays activing as a quintet. The most famous and only founding member is singer Andy Biersack. The other band members are Jeremy Jinxx Miles Ferguson (guitar, violin, cello), Jake Pitts (guitar), Christian CC Coma (drums) and Lonny Eagleton (bass). They debuted with the 2010 album We Stitch These Wounds, which peaked third in the US hard rock charts. The band also had global success, which also reflects in three silver records in the United Kingdom. However, their most rcent release, the 2021 The Phantom Tomorrow, just had rather limited success. Vindicate is the sixth Black Veil Brides album overall.

 

Black Veil Brides – Vindicate – Track by Track

The 14 songs album lasts 46 minutes.

1. Invocation To The Muse

The album follows a strict dramatic structure. The 2:15 minutes Invocation To The Muse is a intro, starting with organ sounds, followed by a narrative part, which directly leads into the title track.

2. Vindicate

After the intro, the Black Veil Brides present four songs which have already been shared before the album. The kick-off is taken by the title track. The beginning of Vindicate reminds me of fun fair music. However, the US Americans soon switch into their signature sound. Alternative metal grooves with a nice metal touch, but also elements like screams are defining the rather short three minute song.

3. Certainty

The third track starts dark and mysterious. However, the Black Veil Brides follow their typical plot, mixing these elements with very melodic metal elements. Here and there, it even feels a bit like glam metal., before the band presents death metal elements. A versatile and entertaining song with the typical BvB signature.

4. Bleeders

To me, Bleeders is the first highlight of the album. The song dealing with typical social pressure nowadays comes with a firework of hammering riffs as well as a catching chorus, which even has some stadium rock vibes. The instrumental parts are impressing. The January 2026 single release leaves a strong mark at the listener.

5. Hallelujah

Hallelujah is another great listen of the album. Again, the melodic chorus is a nice contrast to the dark daemonic style of the remaining song. The band strikes with great work on the instruments in here again. Especially the guitar parts are another treat for fans of harder rock music genres.

6. Cut (feat. Lilith Czar)

Lilith Czar is not only a successful singer and former front woman of Automatic Loveletter, she is also married to Biersack since 2016. The first new song on the album is thus a bit of a family affair. The song moves between metal parts and pop-rock sections. In that context, the latter feel especially kitschy. Almost a mainstream rocker, which is definitely one of the most special tracks on Vindicate.

7. Alive

After the (in BvB relations) plushy Cur experience, Alice is rather on the other side of the spectrum of BvB’s work. The song is on the harder side of the album. However, in contrast to that, the chorus feels like a perfect sing along for the upcoming North American tour dates. Nice.

8. Purgatory (Overture IV)

The title already suggests that these two minutes are rather an atmospheric interlude track. A beautiful, dreaming, hymnic intermission, before the Black Veil Brides keep on rocking.

9. Revenger (feat. Machine Head)

The Californian thrash metalheads of Machine Head joined the Black Veil Brides for this one. Not too surprisingly, Revenger has been one of the single releases before the album. Robb Flynn of Machine Head definitely leaves his charismatic signature in this song. The Brides sound a bit rougher than they actually do anyway.

10. Sorrow

With Sorrow, the band presents are rather straight and melodic hard rock track. If you don’t like the darker metal aspects of their music too much, this track might be a good choice.

11. Grace (Interlude)

Just 74 sections – Grace is the shortest of the atmospheric tracks of the album. This time, the sound is majorly defined by strings playing the classic Ave Maria – just the perfect introduction to the next one.

12. Ave Maria

You guess it – the Black Veil Brides way of looking at Ave Maria is not that close to what you might have listened to in church before. Right at the beginning, growling vocals blast away any kind of doubt about that. The song is fast, hammering, brutal. The metal afterburners are on fire in here.

13. Woe & Pain

The last full song of Vindicate is Woe & Pain. The vocals in the stanzas are almost spoken, while the chorus comes with the typical sing along touch of the band. This is where the vengeance has to end. Again, the song lives from its contrasting sections, which – another time – feel harmonic and not random at all.

14. Eschaton

Eschaton farewells the listener. The song is a ballad-alike, melancholic outro, in which you can listen to a very pure recording of Biersack’s voice. Definitely, an emotional finale of the album.

 

Black Veil Brides – Vindicate – Spotify

Here is the album on Spotify:

 

Black Veil Brides – Vindicate – My View

The Black Veil Brides are back. Even though the album does not make it to the very, very top of my ratings, it is definitely a great listen. Fans of the band will love listening to these fourteen tracks anyways. Thumbs up – this one is well done!

Favorite Song: Bleeders

 

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