''We Stitch These Wounds'' is the debut studio album by American

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, released through

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on July 20, 2010. It is Black Veil Brides' only studio album to feature drummer Sandra Alvarenga before she left the band and joined the band Modern Day Escape.

Release and promotion

In December 2009, Andy Sixx announced that the recording of their first album had begun. Simultaneously, they announced

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bassist, taking the reins, and producer/engineers G. Preston Boebel and Josh Newell taking care of the technical side of the record making process.

Track listing

Chart performance and reception

The album sold nearly 11,000 copies in its first week, reaching the position of #36 of the Chart ''Billboard'' 200 and #1 Independent Release, despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, with most critics taking note of

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Album information

Album artwork

The album cover for ''We Stitch These Wounds'' was painted by Richard Villa (who also painted the artwork for '' Set the World on Fire'', "

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," '' Rebels'', and '' Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones'') and features a Victorian style painting of Black Veil Brides' lead vocalist

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stitching a wound on his lip.

Track information

The opening track "The Outcasts (Call to Arms)" features Andy's grandfather, Urban P. Flanders, and the track is also used at the beginning of the "Perfect Weapon" music video. Three of the songs—"We Stitch These Wounds," " Knives and Pens," and "The Mortician's Daughter"—had been previously self-released on their EP, ''Never Give In'', but were re-recorded and re-released. "The Mortician's Daughter" didn't change much, "Knives and Pens" had a small change in the melody transitioning to the chorus and a guitar solo was added, but the most noticeable difference amongst the redone tracks can be heard on the song "We Stitch These Wounds," with different melodies, accompaniments, a long guitar solo, and a minor lyrical change, making it sound like an entirely different song altogether.

Re-recording

In celebration of the 10th-year anniversary of the original album, a re-recorded studio album titled ''Re-Stitch These Wounds'' was released through

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– lead guitar *

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– rhythm guitar, violin, backing vocals *Ashley Purdy – bass, backing vocals *Sandra Alvarenga – drums ;Production *

– producer * G. Preston Boebel – producer,

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, mixing * Dave Casey – sound design * Josh Newell – producer, engineer, mixing * Troy Roe – main background vocals ;Additional personnel * Urban Flanders –

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on "The Outcasts (Call to Arms)"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:We Stitch These Wounds 2010 debut albums Black Veil Brides albums Virgin Records albums