BLACK VEIL BRIDES’ ANDY BIERSACK Says MÖTLEY CRÜE’s ‘Technology Swine’ Album Is ‘F***ing Superior’

BLACK VEIL BRIDES frontman Andy Biersack as defended MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s poorly obtained 1997 album “Technology Swine”, calling it “fucking superior”.

Launched in June 1997 through Elektra Data, “Technology Swine” dipped its toes into techno and is extensively thought of CRÜE‘s most experimental and most various album, with “Magnificence” described by one critic as a observe that “sounds nothing like MÖTLEY CRÜE.”

On Thursday (January 2),Biersack took to his account on X (previously Twitter) to put in writing: “I have been desirous to say this since I used to be 6 years previous, and I believe it is lastly time to let you know as soon as and for all that the 1997 album ‘Technology Swine’ by MÖTLEY CRÜE is objectively fucking superior, and if you happen to do not prefer it, you’re, regrettably, incorrect.”

When requested by certainly one of his followers why he waited so lengthy to share his ideas, he responded: “It is like they at all times say; generally it takes 28 years to defend a late 90’s outlier grunge document.”

CRÜE started recording “Technology Swine” with John Corabi as lead singer, however ended up bringing authentic vocalist Vince Neil again into the fold and releasing the document with Neil‘s vocals.

Final April, Neil informed the “Outsider” podcast that he was not a fan of “Technology Swine”. “I hated that document. I nonetheless hate that document,” Vince stated. “[There are] no good songs on it. And I informed ’em, I’m going, ‘This document sucks.’ ‘No. We adore it. We adore it.'”

Requested why he reunited with MÖTLEY CRÜE after stepping away from the band for 4 years between 1992 and 1996, Vince stated: “Properly, when MÖTLEY went out [on tour with Corabi as the band’s singer], their tickets stopped promoting. And I used to be doing fairly good. However I wasn’t promoting out locations. I used to be opening for guys. And so their supervisor known as me up and stated, ‘We might like to satisfy with you in New York.’ So I flew to New York and sat there and talked to ’em.’ And it took some time for me to say ‘okay.’ However I lastly gave in and went to the recording studio the place they have been making ‘Technology Swine’, which was at [MÖTLEY bassist] Nikki‘s [Sixx] home. And… I do not know. It was dangerous for some time, ‘trigger I did not wanna be there.”

Throughout an August 2024 interview with Joshua Toomey of the Discuss Toomey podcast, Biersack mirrored on the “cringe-inducing” expertise of opening for MÖTLEY CRÜE greater than a decade in the past. He stated: “We toured with MÖTLEY CRÜE in soccer stadiums in Europe, and I assumed, ‘That is the best factor that is ever gonna occur to us.’ And I am going to always remember, the primary present was in [Warsteiner Hockey Park in Mönchengladbach, Germany in June 2012], and after the primary track was carried out, it wasn’t booing, it was whole silence, like robust, arms crossed, indignant silence. And also you’d nearly favor them boo at that time, as a result of if it is 20,000 folks and you’ll see all of them be lifeless silent, it is extra unnerving than listening to at the least some noise. So it might occur after each track. And so I am the singer, I am the M.C., I’ve gotta like, I obtained to say one thing. So I simply began saying to our drummer C.C. [Christian Coma], I’m going, ‘Simply go into the subsequent track as quickly as this one’s over.’ We mainly performed a medley of our songs as a result of we might by no means cease between the songs ‘trigger it was too cringe-inducing to need to cope with the silence. We have been coming off stage early each evening on that tour, which a variety of occasions the manufacturing folks for these huge excursions adore it. So on the very least they appreciated us.”

Biersack beforehand talked about BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ tour with MÖTLEY CRÜE throughout a 2021 look on the “Drinks With Johnny” podcast. He stated on the time: “I’ve at all times stated one of many excursions that, I suppose, it did not shock me ‘trigger I did not know what to anticipate, nevertheless it definitely did not go the way in which that I assumed or that I had dreamed or imagined was we opened for MÖTLEY CRÜE in soccer stadiums in Europe — that is 2012 or one thing — and we have been actually excited. We had turn into pleasant with Nikki [Sixx, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist] and Mick [Mars, MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist] and some of the blokes and we have been simply so excited to do it.

“We have been used to taking part in festivals or issues the place folks can be upset that we have been there,” he continued. ‘I had by no means skilled such a degree of simply crushing disinterest the place we might get carried out with a track, and my job because the vocalist is to be, like, ‘All proper, everyone,’ after which there would simply be only a soccer stadium stuffed with silence and folks simply us with their arms crossed — not mad, simply not within the slightest. And you then’re caught with that bizarre factor of, like, ‘All proper, nicely, this is the subsequent one.’ And also you’re simply attempting to get via the set in order that you do not have that basically awkward time in between.”

In Could 2024, BLACK VEIL BRIDES launched the title observe from their “Bleeders” EP, impressed by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s “Sweeney Todd”. The band paid tribute to the traditional musical with a music video for the title observe that’s impressed by the musical’s 2007 Tim Burton-directed movie adaptation.

Launched in June 2024, the three-track EP, which included “Bleeders”, a canopy of “My Pals” from the Sondheim traditional, and a canopy of U2‘s “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, was BLACK VEIL BRIDES‘ first launch for Spinefarm.