Black Veil Brides’ Frontman Andy Biersack may have constructed a perfectly disheveled Motley Crue-meets-Kiss stage look, but his approach to tattoos is far less calculated. “I don’t pay much attention, as you can see from all the random patchwork I’ve drunkenly got,” he says. “I’m not the guy with a bunch of great artwork. For me, it’s about little stories that convey times in my life. I’ll just continue to piece together what I can for the rest of my life, and see where that ends up.”
01. Skull & Heart - “This was my first tattoo, which I got for a girl I was dating when I was 15. It’s part of Alkaline Trio, part random shit… and part Hitler hair. I actually have no idea why it has Hitler hair. I only realized it looked like that years after I got it.”
02. Koala Bear - “I recently got this done on the road. It’s a koala bear dressed like me drinking Seagram’s 7 Crown whiskey, which is just pure silliness.”
03. Unfinished Batman - “I got this unfinished Batman tattoo in a Laundromat. We were on tour and a buddy of mine started talking about how he does tattoos. I was like. ‘Let’s do it.’ But there was nowhere to go except for a 24-hour Laundromat across from our hotel. We started at about 5 A.M. and worked until bus call later that day. It’s not a terrible tattoo either. It could get good.”
04. Inverted Cross - “I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery. I’m not religious, but I understand the need for faith and hope. My inverted cross is a jarring image, and I like to leave its meaning up to interpretation. Plus, when I’m singing, my arm is up, so you can never really tell which way it’s facing.”
01. Skull & Heart - “This was my first tattoo, which I got for a girl I was dating when I was 15. It’s part of Alkaline Trio, part random shit… and part Hitler hair. I actually have no idea why it has Hitler hair. I only realized it looked like that years after I got it.”
02. Koala Bear - “I recently got this done on the road. It’s a koala bear dressed like me drinking Seagram’s 7 Crown whiskey, which is just pure silliness.”
03. Unfinished Batman - “I got this unfinished Batman tattoo in a Laundromat. We were on tour and a buddy of mine started talking about how he does tattoos. I was like. ‘Let’s do it.’ But there was nowhere to go except for a 24-hour Laundromat across from our hotel. We started at about 5 A.M. and worked until bus call later that day. It’s not a terrible tattoo either. It could get good.”
04. Inverted Cross - “I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery. I’m not religious, but I understand the need for faith and hope. My inverted cross is a jarring image, and I like to leave its meaning up to interpretation. Plus, when I’m singing, my arm is up, so you can never really tell which way it’s facing.”