I wrote a little bit in San Diego, some out in Florida and in Detroit. It was spread out over a long period of time. The writing process for our album was pretty tense and crazy. I had heard that they did Mayday Parade’s self-titled last record, and I thought that was one of the best sounding records I ever heard. We came out to Jersey to work with a couple of producers: Dan Korneff and Kato Khandwala, out of House Of Loud studios. What brought you guys to this neck of the woods? What was the recording process like? You guys recorded it at House Of Loud in Elmwood Park, NJ. In this interview, frontman Vic goes no-holds-barred for an emotional conversation about love, life and music, and of course, why the band trekked from San Diego to New Jersey to record their latest masterpiece.Ĭongratulations on your July album release of Collide With The Sky. Pierce The Veil are currently knee-deep in the Collide With The Sky Tour. When asked about what inspires his lyrics, he points to deeply painful realities, such as teenage suicide and an ex-girlfriend’s breast cancer diagnosis.Īnd while some rock stars inevitably become jaded and disingenuous, there’s a particular flair about Fuentes that-without question-makes him exempt from the existential equation.
But, in reality, Fuentes is just a soft-spoken dude who speaks from the heart. Some may even perceive his vocals as whiny, but that’s just the way of the gutsy gun. On Pierce The Veil’s records, Vic Fuentes is a deep, emotionally fueled vocalist. Every now and again the guitars and pretty pianos peer up-front to change the radio station, though. “Tangled In The Great Escape,” featuring Jason Butler of Let Live, is a melodic fusion of rock guitars, but the vocals ride shotgun while the still palpable instruments coast in the backseat. But no one’s calling the authorities, because it just works. During the break of the song, it sounds like Rodrigo y Gabriela’s figuratively ill-behaved puppy ran all over Pierce The Veil’s musical lawn.
For example, the track “Bulls In The Bronx” opens with heavy, hard drums and grimy guitars, but then progressively channels the Spanish guitar. The album stays true to Pierce The Veil’s classification of post-hardcore, as the music builds on a number of different subgenres and sounds. Recorded right in New Jersey’s backyard, Collide With The Sky was born in Elmwood Park at producer David Bendeth’s House Of Loud studio. Pierce The Veil released their second full-length studio album, Selfish Machines, in 2010, and are currently touring in support of their third, perhaps most celebrated record, Collide With The Sky, which marks the band’s inaugural major label release on Fearless Records, this past July. Together, Vic (vocals/guitar), Mike (drums), Tony Perry (lead guitar) and Jaime Preciado (bassist/backup vocals) have ventured into a rock rendezvous to boot. The quartet released three studio albums and has toured tirelessly around the globe since their 2007 aptly titled debut, A Flair For The Dramatic.įormed in San Diego, California in 2006, Pierce The Veil are the brainchild of the brothers Fuentes, Mike and Vic, previously of the group Before Today. In the fall of 2006, they switched their name to Pierce the Veil, which was the name of a track on the previous Before Today album, and brought on board bassist Jaime Preciado and guitarist Tony Perry.It’s been a bullish six years for Pierce The Veil. In time, Tancil and Ballatore quit the band, leaving Victor and Mike to start over and rebuild. Before Today played as a unit for several years, and after signing to Equal Vision Records, released the album A Celebration of an Ending in September 2004.
The two formed the group in December of 1998, and it was soon turned into a quintet by guitarist Joe Tancil and bassist Mitchell Ballatore. They first started playing together as the band Before Today while students in high school. The heart of San Diego emo-inflected post-hardcore outfit Pierce the Veil lies in two brothers, vocalist/guitarist Vic Fuentes and drummer Mike Fuentes.
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