Black Veil Brides Announce New Album Vindicate and 24-City North American Tour

Black Veil Brides just went all in. The band officially announced their seventh studio album Vindicate, dropping May 8 via Spinefarm Records, and paired the news with a full 24-city North American headline tour. If you've been paying attention to the singles they've been rolling out, you already know this record is going to hit different.

The title track Vindicate is out now across all streaming platforms, and it opens with this haunting calliope intro before exploding into a wall of guitars and Andy Biersack's signature scream. It's massive. A NSFW music video directed by George Gallardo Kattah dropped alongside it, and honestly, it captures the scale of what this album is going for.

A Heavier, Darker BVB

I'll be real, this isn't the Black Veil Brides that people who only know Fallen Angels might expect. Biersack has been upfront about the fact that this record is intentionally more aggressive than anything they've done before. In a recent interview with Rock Sound, he talked about how the heavier direction wasn't a calculated move. It was just where the band's heads were at creatively. The narrative of the album demanded it.

The album's 14 tracks open with Invocation To The Muse, an organ-driven dramatic intro, and close out with Eschaton. In between, you get singles fans have already latched onto like Bleeders, Hallelujah, and Certainty, plus deep cuts like Revenger, Ave Maria, and Woe & Pain. This is the band's most ambitious tracklist to date.

Biersack described the album's theme as rooted in revenge and vindication, calling it a record "for anyone who's ever had their dreams doubted or their fire challenged by people who couldn't see their vision." Each track explores a different side of that struggle, whether it's getting even with someone else or confronting yourself.

What's also worth noting is that this is a self-produced record. Biersack and guitarist Jake Pitts handled production themselves in Florida, with no outside producers involved. That kind of creative control shows, especially after hearing how cohesive the singles sound together.

Full Tracklist for Vindicate

01. Invocation To The Muse
02. Vindicate
03. Certainty
04. Bleeders
05. Hallelujah
06. Cut
07. Alive
08. Purgatory
09. Revenger
10. Sorrow
11. Grace
12. Ave Maria
13. Woe & Pain
14. Eschaton

24-City North American Tour

In support of Vindicate, Black Veil Brides are hitting the road for their first North American headline tour of 2026. The run kicks off April 25 in Riverside, CA at the Municipal Auditorium and wraps May 30 in Worcester, MA at The Palladium. That's 24 cities with support from From Ashes To New, TX2, and As December Falls. That's a stacked lineup.

One thing that caught my eye is that the Atlanta date at the Tabernacle falls on May 8, which is the same day Vindicate officially drops. So if you're in the ATL area, that's basically an album release show. The tour also includes festival stops at Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach on May 9 and Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in Columbus on May 16.

Here's the full routing:

Apr 25 – Riverside, CA @ Municipal Auditorium
Apr 26 – Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort
Apr 28 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
Apr 30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union
May 01 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore
May 02 – Omaha, NE @ ASTRO
May 04 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
May 05 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
May 06 – San Antonio, TX @ The Aztec
May 08 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
May 09 – Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
May 11 – Greensboro, NC @ Piedmont Hall
May 12 – Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
May 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Fillmore
May 15 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
May 16 – Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple
May 17 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
May 19 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
May 21 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
May 22 – Chicago, IL @ Ramova Theatre
May 23 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
May 25 – Toronto, ON @ History
May 26 – Montreal, QC @ M-Telus
May 28 – New York, NY @ Palladium Times Square
May 29 – Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore
May 30 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium

Where This Fits in the BVB Timeline

Vindicate is album number seven for Black Veil Brides, following 2021's The Phantom Tomorrow. That record gave them their highest charting rock single with Scarlet Cross, which hit number eight on the rock charts. The current lineup of Biersack on vocals, Pitts and Jinxx on guitars, Lonny Eagleton on bass, and Christian Coma on drums has been firing on all cylinders, and the response to these new singles suggests the momentum is only building.

Biersack put it well when he talked about people who only associate BVB with their early 2010s image. Those fans who maybe wrote the band off years ago and never dug into the catalog are getting surprised by what this band actually sounds like in 2026. And honestly, that's the best kind of comeback story, even if the band never really left.

Get Tickets

Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster and the Black Veil Brides official website. Don't sleep on this one. A self-produced, heavier BVB hitting rooms like the Tabernacle, Palladium Times Square, and Ramova Theatre? With that support lineup? These shows are going to sell.

Cover photo courtesy of Ticketmaster