The band will celebrate their tenth anniversary later this year. The only important thing is the love we have for each other.” I wrote the song as my way of trying to tell her that none of this stuff matters. The vast majority of our fans are great but, when we first got together, some of them attacked her online, sent her nasty letters and even made threats. I wanted my girlfriend to know how much she means to me. “It’s a risk-taking song for us in that it’s stylistically very different and much slower than anything we’ve ever done. I was so moved by what happened to Olivia that I wrote Bulls In The Bronx, a track on our last album, as a tribute to her.”įloral & Fading, one of the songs on Misadventures, is dedicated to Vic’s girlfriend, model Danielle Victoria. She was such a sweet-looking girl but the bullies had convinced her that she was ugly, worthless and all sorts of crazy things. “It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen. She had made a video chronicling all the bullying and posted it on her Tumblr page. She had been the victim of constant bullying throughout most of her schooldays. She was a massive fan but our songs couldn’t save her. “We got a message from friends of an Australian girl named Olivia Penpraze. But there is one tale which haunts Vic to this day. Some of their stories have become Pierce The Veil songs. The band frequently receive word that their songs have helped fans who were going through a bad time. Some of Vic’s songs are inspired by fans. I’ll write about whatever seems important to me at the time.” But my songs tend to deal with events in our lives, our relationships and our friends. Some bands are very political, others will only write about love. “I often write about things which weigh heavily on my mind. It details Vic’s reaction to the terrorist attacks in Paris last November. One of the more recently written songs is their latest single, Circles. We were in the process of recording the album and still doing world tours.” “A lot of the delays in releasing the new album were caused by the demand for us to play concerts. It was like people had just discovered us even though we were on our third album. “Our fan following has grown enormously since we released Collide With The Sky. “The response has been incredible,” smiled lead guitarist Tony Perry. It also hit top spot on the UK Rock and Metal Albums chart. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and shot straight to pole position on the US Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Rock and Independent Albums charts. The postponements only served to increase anticipation for Misadventures. A 2014 release date got pushed back to 2015 and then to 2016.” We played music festivals, did tours, collaborated with other artists and wrote some new songs which we thought were better than those we originally planned to put on the new album. “But sometimes things just happen to cause delays. “We still expected to have the album out some time in 2014,” remarked drummer, co-songwriter and Vic’s brother Mike Fuentes. “But much of it was pieces of songs which had to be put together rather than fully finished material.” “It’s true, we did have tons of new stuff written back then,” admitted lead singer, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter Vic Fuentes. But fans had been told the songs for Pierce The Veil’s fourth album had been written as long ago as December 2013.

It is two months short of four years since the quartet issued their hugely successful third album, Collide With The Sky. Fans have waited a long time for the release of Misadventures, the fourth studio album from San Diego-based post-hardcore rockers Pierce The Veil.

Pierce the veil full album 2013