YMMV / Black Veil Brides

• Audience-Alienating Era: Both critics and fans alike think BVB IV was mediocre, and debates rage on about whether Wretched and Divine was any good or not. Not helped by them dropping their individual member looks around this time in favor of "5 people in leather jackets", and both the videos for IV looking like they had a limited budget.
• Broken Base:
  • Andy's decision to go solo. Half of the fans are highly supportive, while the other half thinks his solo project is terrible and believes his decision will lead to the breakup of the band.
  • Surprisingly, his recent marriage to former vocalist of Automatic Loveletter and contestant on Season Two of The Voice (US), Juliet Simms also qualifies as such. A rather large amount of fans absolutely hate Juliet Simms to the point to where she has multiple hate blogs dedicated to her on Tumblr and Instagram. They tend to frequently call their marriage a sham, a publicity stunt, and have given up on the band altogether because of their relationship, believing she will be the end of the band itself. The parallels between fans' reaction to their marriage and another contentious musical couple isn't lost on the older fans of the band.
  • Andy's father's Twitter involvement with the band also qualifies.
  • Andy's rumored involvement in The Church of Scientology due to getting a tattoo of the 11th rule in the Scientology Code of Honor and marrying someone who grew up in the religion. Many of the fans have openly voiced their disgust and often accuse him of being a liar that compromised his values for fame, particularly since Andy has always presented himself as a staunch atheist, even though there is no concrete proof that he is now a Scientologist.
• Critical Dissonance: Lots of metalheads really dislike the band for their formulaic songwriting style, not to mention their (to some) cringeworthy image and obnoxious fan base; because of this, expect to see a slew of hate comments whenever they're covered on a website. Critics and metal musicians, on the other hand, tend to appreciate them a little bit more.
• Development Hell: BVB 5. Jake Pitts has repeatedly claimed the album is finished, whereas Andy claims it is still being worked on. It was hinted at being released in 2015, promised to have been released in 2016, and as of 2017 there is no tentative release date. The rest of the band has seemed to opt for silence regarding the situation.
  • It was finally released in 2018 as Vale.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Ashley Purdy during the first two albums. The name REALLY doesn't help.
• Fandom Rivalry: The BVB Army vs the Violet Prisoners.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Ashley Purdy was the second most popular member of BVB during his tenure with the band. He and Andy Biersack were shipped together for much of that time. When it was announced that he’d left, there was a reasonable amount of outcry from the BVB Army. Since late June 2020, multiple women have come forward accusing Ashley Purdy of sexual assault. It has also come to light that Ashley may have manipulated a teenaged Andy into signing away half of the band’s ownership, and an NDA (Non Disclosure/Defamation Agreement), which prevents Andy (or anyone in the band) from speaking ill about Ashley. Click here for a more in depth look at the NDA and Ashley’s claim of ownership, plus a very detailed description of what the rest of the band’s relationship with him was like.
• Ho Yay: All of them, but especially Andy and Ashley.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Some of the bands' haters grudgingly admitted that their self-titled fourth album wasn't that bad.
• Signature Song: Either "Knives and Pens", "Fallen Angels", or In the End.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: "Knives and Pens" to "Unholy Confessions". A lot of their earlier songs sound similar to A7X, this was the most blatant example.