Misadventures (album)

Misadventures
Pierce the Veil studio album
Publication (s)	May 13, 2016 via Fearless Records (worldwide)
admission	Summer 2014 - Summer 2015
Label (s)	Fearless Records
Format (s)	CD , vinyl , download
Genre (s)	Post-hardcore Progressive rock
Title (number)	11 (standard CD) / 13 (deluxe CD)
running time	43 min 29 sec
occupation	Vocals , electric guitar : Vic Fuentes Drums : Mike Fuentes Electric bass : Jaime Preciado Electric guitar : Tony Perry
production	Dan Korneff
Studio (s)	Sonic Debris Recording Studio , Long Beach
chronology Collide with the Sky (2012) Misadventures -
Single releases 19th June 2015 The Divine Zero March 24, 2016 Texas Is Forever April 26, 2016 Circles

Misadventures is the fourth studio album by the US rock band Pierce the Veil . It was originally supposed to be released in the summer of 2015, but a release was postponed several times, so that the album was announced and released for May 13th, 2016 in mid-March 2016. It is the follow-up to the album Collide with the Sky from 2012. Like its predecessor, it was released via Fearless Records . Spinefarm Records took over the distribution in Europe .

The regular album is home to eleven tracks, including the singles Texas Is Forever , Circles and The Divine Zero . The latter was published in the summer of 2015. The deluxe version includes two more pieces. These are acoustic versions of the tracks on the album Floral & Fading and Today I Saw the Whole World . Misadventures received mostly positive reviews in the English-language trade press. It is the first album that was able to position itself in the charts outside of the United States. The album reached chart listings in Germany , Australia and the United Kingdom , among others .

Musically, the album can be assigned to post-hardcore , even if individual pieces of the album have influences from other ways of playing punk or rock music , such as pop-punk or pop-rock . The group succeeds in walking the tightrope between post-hardcore and popular pop music . Artists such as Atreyu , My Chemical Romance and Panic! called at the disco .

As on the three previous albums, the songs are mostly about personal experiences of the singer Vic Fuentes, such as failed relationships. For the first time, Fuentes takes up a contemporary historical situation in a song: In Circles , he processes the events on the night of November 13, 2015 in Paris , in which at least 120 people died in a terrorist attack . While writing the songs, he was occasionally supported by his friend Curtis Peoples, Tom Denney and Brad Hargreaves of Third Eye Blind . Unlike on Selfish Machines and Collide with the Sky , the group worked without guest musicians.

Creation and publication

Production history

prehistory

Singer Vic Fuentes and bassist Jaime Preciado announced in a video on December 23, 2013 that the musicians wanted to produce and release a new album in 2014. In an interview with the merchandising mail order company Impericon it was said that the group moved into the studio immediately after the European tour with Bring Me the Horizon , which took place between November 2013 and December 2013, and began to write their first new pieces. The musicians wanted to take their time writing the pieces as long as possible and not rush anything. In an interview that musicians conducted with the British music magazine Rock Sound , it was revealed that it took almost five months to write the new pieces. The group began writing the pieces in a small rented house in San Diego . The group later moved to Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains , where they wrote new songs for their previous album, Collide with the Sky .

According to an article in the Oakland Press , the band worked on their first new material during the Spring Fever Tour with You Me at Six , All Time Low and Mayday Parade (April – May 2013). The group announced Tom Denney , who was a former guitarist in the band A Day to Remember , as a participating partner . The musicians have worked with Denney in the past. This time Chad Gilbert from New Found Glory and Brad Hargreaves from Third Eye Blind should have been involved in the writing of individual pieces.

In an interview the group conducted with Poppy Reid of The Music Network while at the Soundwave Festival in Australia in March 2013 , Fuentes announced that Jenna McDougall, lead vocalist for pop-punk band Tonight Alive , was in a play on the new album should be heard as a guest singer. Both groups had toured together in the past. Most recently, McDougall supported the group at a concert by the band with Bring Me the Horizon. However, in a later interview with the Kerrang in August 2014, this announcement was denied as “too hasty”, even if there are some signs of cooperation.

“She's such a great person, she's so nice. We just got along well so I'm going to try and write something. "

“She is a really great and kind person. We get along well, so I'll try to write something. "

- Vic Fuentes : about Jenna McDougall

production

In mid-May 2014, the musicians began their songwriting work in the studio in South Park , San Diego. There the first riffs for the pieces Sambuka and Song for Isabelle were created . The pre-production of the album began in June 2014. The album was recorded in the Sonic Debris Recording Studio near Long Beach. On the same day it was said that the group was flying to Long Island - where their studio is located. The album is produced by Dan Korneff , who also produced Collide with the Sky . On July 20, 2014, the group paused recording and flew to Cleveland , Ohio to attend the Alternative Press Music Awards ceremony, which took place a day later. There the group was nominated in seven categories of which they won three. At this point the group was in the middle of the studio work. On August 4th, 2014, the recordings of drums and electric bass were finished.

Mike Fuentes from Pierce the Veil in the Live Music Hall in Cologne, 2016.

The band wrote a total of thirteen pieces. After the group had finished writing and composing eleven tracks, they went into the studio. While working in the studio, the musicians noticed that two songs would not fit into the album concept, which is why they - already working in the studio - wrote two new songs for the album. Those two pieces were Sambuka and Song for Isabelle , which Fuentes wrote first. They were discarded and rewritten when Vic Fuentes stayed in the studio of David Hodges , a former Evanescence musician , during the preproduction of the song Circles . At the time of the interview with the Alternative Press, the group was already weeks ago. A three-month stay in the studio was originally planned. The musicians also interrupted work on the album during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to be able to watch isolated games on television. This included all the games of the Mexican national team . In mid-September 2015 the recordings were almost completely finished. Vic Fuentes only had to play the vocal parts and make the final corrections. The musicians spent almost three months in the recording studio. Just writing the pieces took a little over a year. The importing and correcting of Fuentes' vocal tracks took another two months in the studio. As a result, Vic Fuentes had to take the recording equipment with him on the first section of the November 2014 world tour with Sleeping with Sirens and continue working on the album there. Vic Fuentes spent a total of four months alone in the studio in Long Island, while the rest of the band members flew back to California after finishing their recordings. In January 2015, Fuentes recorded additional audio tracks during the break between the two tour sections of the world tour with Sleeping with Sirens in the home studio in San Diego. A report in Alternative Press said the tour was booked so Vic Fuentes could have free time to write the pieces. According to the article, these have pushed him to the limit of his psyche.

On June 19, 2015, the group released The Divine Zero, the first official single from the album. Vic Fuentes admitted in an interview with the Kerrang that the song wasn't finished until shortly before it was released. He told the music magazine that the other tracks were not finished and the process could be delayed further due to the serious injuries guitarist Tony Perry sustained in a mountain bike accident just before the Warped Tour began . The musicians hope to complete and release the album after the Warped Tour. In an interview with Upset Magazine , which was published in September 2015, it was said that the group would release the album very soon. On December 22, 2015, after several postponements, the album was announced for a release in 2016. An article in the English-language Rolling Stone said that excessive touring and the ability to take your time while working on the pieces were decisive for the postponement of the album release. Finally, in mid-March 2016, the name, the track list, the artwork and the release date of the album were announced. The announcement said Vic Fuentes had been to New York City , San Diego , Seattle , Big Bear Lake , Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara for new inspiration for the album:

"I wanted every song to have real meaning, and thought that in spending time in different places, I'd find new inspirations - that's exactly what happened."

"I wanted each piece to have a real meaning and I thought about spending some time in different places where I could get new inspiration - and that's exactly what happened."

- Vic Fuentes : when the album was announced

In an interview with Alternative Press , Vic Fuentes said that individual fans of the group had managed to find the studio in which the musicians were working on the album, even though it was quite remote. This had already happened with the work on the previous album Collide with the Sky . At that time, some fans of the band managed to send small gifts and letters to the studio.

publication

The original plan was to release the album in 2014. However, it was announced in August 2014 that the album would be released in spring 2015. The reason for the delay was that the group had to write two new pieces because two previously written songs did not fit into the concept of the album in the opinion of the singer Vic Fuentes. In an interview between bassist Jaime Preciado and Rock Revolt Magazine , which appeared in the April 2015 issue of the magazine, it was said that almost every song the band wrote before the studio work was rewritten in the Long Beach studio . The group hoped to get the album out in early January 2015. However, the planned publication period was later postponed. A report by Alternative Press said that a week after leaving the studio, the musicians realized that the album would not finish Sleeping with Sirens until their joint world tour . In an interview with Yahoo on February 6, 2015, it was stated that the fourth album should be released sometime in the summer.

On June 19, 2015, at the start of the Warped Tour , which the band headlined, the group released their first single, The Divine Zero . After a release of the album had already been postponed several times for unknown reasons, it was announced in December 2015 that the album would be released in 2016. On March 15, 2016, rumors surfaced that the album will be released in May 2016 and will be named Misadventures . Accordingly, there was also speculation about the release of the single, which should be called Texas Is Forever , for March 24th and 25th, 2016. Three days after these rumors got around, the album was officially announced by the band and their label, Fearless Records . Texas Is Forever was rumored to be video-streamed on March 24, 2016 via Alternative Press . Almost five weeks later, the next song on the album was presented on April 26, 2016. This song is called Circles and was first played on BBC Radio 1 .

The pre-order phase for the album began worldwide on March 25, 2016, initially via iTunes . A little later, other digital music service providers followed with Amazon Music , Google Play and Spotify . The pre-order phase for the physical album version started on March 31, 2016 initially in the United Kingdom , the United States and Australia , whereby the pre-order phase for the album includes various extras, such as a case with special additional content, t-shirts, buttons and wall flags. The case includes a mug, a 200-page storybook with sketches, photos and lyrics from the album, as well as a bandana, bracelets and a viewfinder. The vinyl version is available through Caroline Distribution , which is owned by Universal Music . The album was released worldwide on May 13, 2016.

Album versions

Misadventures is distributed in several versions:

• As a digipak CD with thirteen titles, including two acoustic versions of the pieces Floral & Fading and Today I Saw the Whole World as bonus material
• As a jewel case version with eleven titles
• As a download
• As an exclusive vinyl record in red, limited to 1,000 copies (via Caroline Distribution , Universal Music )
• As a transparent vinyl record exclusively from Smartpunk , limited to 500 copies

Track list

#	title	Composer (s)	length	Remarks
1.	Dive in	Vic Fuentes	4:52
2.	Texas Is Forever	Vic Fuentes	3:39	2nd single
3.	The Divine Zero	Vic Fuentes, Curtis Peoples, Brad Hargreaves	4:08	1. Single
4th	Floral & fading	Vic Fuentes	3:29
5.	Phantom Power & Ludicrous Speed	Vic Fuentes	3:50
6th	Circles	Vic Fuentes, Curtis Peoples, Steve Miller	3:44	3. Single
7th	Today I Saw the Whole World	Vic Fuentes, Curtis Peoples	3:41
8th.	Gold Medal Ribbon	Vic Fuentes	3:58
9.	Bedless	Vic Fuentes	4:44
10.	Sambuka	Pierce the Veil, Tom Denney	2:36
11.	Song for Isabelle	Vic Fuentes	4:50
12.	Floral & Fading (acoustic version)		3:48	Bonus titles on the deluxe edition
13.	Today I Saw the Whole World (acoustic version)		3:27	Bonus titles on the deluxe edition

Song lyrics

Tony Perry from Pierce the Veil in the Live Music Hall in Cologne , 2016.

In a British Rock Sound article , the group was described as "a band for the lost, broken and lonely by the lyrics of the musicians." Fuentes said he wanted to make sure that every text was fun and inspiration for every piece widespread among the listeners.

"I want to make sure that every lyric to every song is something that people can enjoy and become inspired by."

"I want to make sure that every text in every song is something that people like and inspire."

- Vic Fuentes : opposite the rock sound

For the lyrics from the fourth studio album, Fuentes went camping in 2014 in addition to the regular writing sessions in order to be able to write more song material, which makes them even more personal than older pieces by the band. According to bassist Jaime Preciado, the album also features stories that the musicians experienced with fans during meet-and-greet events before and after their concerts. The lyrics are also about self-esteem and betrayal . The events of the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris are said to have influenced the lyrical content of the album.

The song Circles deals with the terrorist attacks in Paris, with Fuentes mainly describing the events in the Bataclan Theater. In an interview with Radio.com , singer Vic Fuentes gave further details on the development of the piece. He said that while writing the lyrics, he imagined what it would be like if he and his friends got into such a situation. The background for the writing of the song was the statement of the Bataclan band Eagles of Death Metal that some concert goers tried to protect their friends from the attacks of the terrorists. Gold Medal Ribbon , meanwhile, is about the first great love of singer Vic Fuentes, who died on New Year's Day 2014. He wrote Floral & Fading for Danielle Perry, his current girlfriend. The eleventh song, called Song for Isabelle , was written by Isabelle, an acquaintance Vic met while touring overseas. This piece also includes a passage from the 1994 song Back in the Day by the American rapper Ahmad , which is a nod to Curtis Peoples. Texas Is Forever , the album's first official single, is about a former friend of Vic Fuentes. He said he had published a song about her on every Pierce the Veil album so far released.

Album cover and album title

The album cover was designed by Mike Cortada based on a sketch by Vic Fuentes. A representation of a Swiss Army Knife takes the place in the foreground, showing all the “tools”, including blades - which, according to Fuentes, were only drawn as decorations - a bottle of whiskey , an apple hanging on mechanical, praying hands , a joint , a red cross , needles and pills , and another hand that pulls the trigger of a gun . In the background are stars, a dollar bill, which dangles around inaccessible on the crescent moon , and fireworks behind palm trees . These objects, both in the foreground and in the background, each have a specific meaning:

The leaking whiskey symbolizes loved ones whom the musicians have lost over time. The apple represents the time the group spent in New York City while recording . The mechanical hands that assume a praying posture is a representation of the loss of the Catholic faith in which singer Vic Fuentes grew up. The Joint, Red Cross and Pills are said to be Fuentes' first political commentary, in which Fuentes endorses the use of soft drugs as a therapeutic measure, while the needles are meant to be a reminder of what can happen when hard drugs are misused. Fuentes said in an interview with Alternative Press that he included this motif in the concept for his friend, Tyson Srevens, who died in October 2014 and the former singer of the now defunct band Scary Kids Scaring Kids . The hand that operates the pistol, which shoots a rocket instead of projectiles, symbolizes singer Vic Fuentes' desire to escape personal pressure.

The stars in the background refer to the time of day when Vic Fuentes mostly worked on the album, while the fireworks and the palm trees refer to a special line of song from Song for Isabelle . The banknote on the moon represents today's music business and is to be understood as a criticism of all those who forget that musicians are only human and of all those who have lost their passion for music and write new pieces just for the money.

The title of the album, Misadventures , came about according to an interview with Vic Fuentes, as the album work is associated with many twists . Fuentes said the musicians put a few years of their lives into the album. He described the entire development process as a kind of " method acting " in which the musicians had so many positive and negative experiences.

promotion

Tours and festival appearances

→ Main articles : Warped Tour 2015  and Misadventures Tour

In April 2015, Pierce the Veil was announced as the final band for the Warped Tour . The group played on this tour together with former My-American-Heart guitarist Jesse Barrera as a substitute musician who temporarily replaced Tony Perry. On July 22, 2015, the group performed for the first time with their actual guitarist at the Alternative Press Music Awards . For Perry, who later won the Best Guitarist category , this performance was a personal matter.

Pierce the Veil play in the Live Music Hall in Cologne , 2016.

Jason Butler of Letlive supports Pierce the Veil in the song Tangled in the Great Escape .

On May 13, 2016, the day the album was released, Pierce the Veil played a concert at the Pabellón Oeste del Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City . Previously, on April 27, 2016, the group played an exclusive concert in an HMV store in London for 300 pre-orderers of a deluxe version of Misadventures. From June 5 to June 26, 2016, the group played a concert tour of the United States to promote the album. The group played the full length album at every concert. The tour was accompanied by I the Mighty and Movements . On March 26, 2016, in addition to the new Single Circles , another section of the Misadventures tour was announced. This began on October 29, 2016 with a performance at Le Trabendo in Paris , France and ended after 29 concerts on December 6, 2016 at the Dublin Academy in Dublin , Republic of Ireland . The band toured through Spain , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Sweden , Denmark , Belgium , Austria , as well as Switzerland , the Netherlands and the United Kingdom . Before that, the band played a headlining tour of Australia between August 16 and 23, accompanied by Beartooth , Silverstein and Storm the Sky . It was the group's first concert tour through Australia since their appearance at the Soundwave Festival in 2013. Even before the Australian tour, the group performed through Latin America between July 10 and 17, 2016 . The concerts took place in Brazil , Argentina , Chile and Mexico .

In mid-October 2016, Pierce the Veil was confirmed for the sister festivals Rock am Ring and Rock im Park . This was followed by confirmations for Nova Rock , the Download Festival and the Greenfield Festival in Europe , as well as for Rock on the Range , Welcome to Rockville and Carolina Rebellion in the United States. This was also followed by concerts with Rise Against and Emarosa , which were completed in Canada and the United States , respectively. From March 12th to 17th, 2018 Pierce the Veil will be playing as a special guest on the Young Renegades Tour in the United Kingdom .

Music and television

To promote the album, three official single releases were released in advance. The main single The Divine Zero was released on June 19, 2015, shortly before the start of the Warped Tour. The second single, Texas is Forever, followed on March 24, 2016, while the final single, Circles, was released a month later. A music video was later released for Circles , in which Matt Pinfield played a guest role. At the end of 2016, another music video was released, this time for the song Dive In . A music video for the piece Floral & Fading followed in mid-February 2017 . It was broadcast every hour on the hour on MTV and its specialty channels , as well as in the Paramount Drive-In Theater . In October 2017, Today I Saw the Whole World including its acoustic version was released as an EP exclusively on Spotify . ² A few days later a music video for this song was released.

On June 27, 2016, the band had their very first television appearance on the late night show Conan with Conan O'Brien , in which they performed the song Circles live. It was also Circles that enabled the band to make their first airplays on mainstream radio.

success

Commercially

According to Billboard , the album was sold between 50,000 and 55,000 times in its first week of sales in the United States, with that figure based primarily on traditional album sales. It sold almost twice as often as its predecessor, Collide with the Sky , which went over the counter 27,000 times within the first week. By the end of 2016, the album had sold approximately 105,000 copies in the United States alone.

Jaime Preciado from Pierce the Veil in the Live Music Hall in Cologne, 2016.

Misadventures is the band's first album to hit the charts outside of the United States. It rose to number 17 in the British and 98th place in the German album charts .

Both The Divine Zero and Texas Is Forever made the leap into the Hot Rock Songs - and the Rock Digital Songs charts - a week after their release ; however, an entry into the official single charts of the United States remained withheld. The song King for a Day from the album Collide with the Sky already made it into the two genre-specific charts. Circles only entered the Hot Rock Songs charts . The single The Divine Zero was also nominated on March 17, 2016 for an Alternative Press Music Award in the Song of the Year category.

Fans of the band chose the album in a by online music magazine Loudwire survey the Most Expected Album of the Month May 2016 (Engl .: Most Anticipated Album of May 2016 ). It was possible to vote once an hour. The voting started on April 15, 2016 and ended on April 30, 2016 one minute before midnight. The album received 36 percent of the votes. Behind were James Toseland , Red Tide Rising and Avatar .

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	98 (1 week)	1
United Kingdom (OCC)	17th (1 week)	1
United States (Billboard)	4th (5 weeks)	5

Sales

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
United States (RIAA)	-	105,000
All in all	-	105,000

Press reviews

Professional reviews
Averages
source	rating
Metacritic	86%
Album of the Year	77%
Reviews
source	rating
Alternative press
Blunt Magazine
Rock sound
Idobi radio
Spotlight Report
FUZE Magazine	Without rating
Powermetal.de
Metal hammer

German-language reviews

Front singer Vic Fuentes in the Live Music Hall in Cologne, 2016.

Dennis Müller of FUZE Magazine wrote that nowadays hardly any other band is in a position to "give the emocore of the 2000s a makeover", like Pierce the Veil. Even if the album is not really exciting, the critic attests the album a lot of fun - albeit of the fast kind. Pierce the Veil do what they do best, according to Müller, and they are among the best at that. The album proves that one more time. Peter Kubaschk from the online music magazine Powermetal.de describes the group's music as "poppy, melodic punk with subtle screamo passages and a few hardcore elements." Kubaschk names big names in the scene like Panic! at the Disco , My Chemical Romance and Atreyu as musical references. The tempo is kept reasonably high so that there is hardly any space for ballads. Floral & Fading is described as sentimental, but according to the critics, it doesn't seem cheesy. Even Texas Is Forever is highlighted positive. Kubaschk is of the opinion that the musicians know how to write lively pieces that can still achieve catchy tunes.

Eike Cramer from German-speaking Metal Hammer wrote that Pierce the Veil, together with A Skylit Drive, are among the representatives of post-hardcore who are musically very close to the border to pop music . On Misadventures, so Cramer, the band is at times in the neutral zone of pop-punk . Songs like Circles and Texas Is Forever are real hits that are in no way inferior to A Skylit Drives 500 Days of Bummer or the in-house King for a Day . However, the critic describes that even with the successful production and the own exploration of the genre boundaries, the independence has been lost, which is why Cramer did not give the album the highest rating.

English language reviews

Andy Biddulph from British Rock Sound referred to the album as the " Chinese Democracy of the Warped Tour scene" in terms of the waiting period of several years . He said that the group followed the musical path they had set on their previous work Collide with the Sky , could polish up further. Biddulph particularly praises the piece Bedless , which he described as a " pop-rock opera that has to be heard to be believed". According to the reviewer, the lyrics hit the hardest and provide a fascinating insight into the things that have been floating around in Fuentes' mind over the past four years. The album has kept its originality in order to bring the band even further forward. Peyton Bernhardt of Australian Blunt Magazine wrote that the voice of Vic Fuentes navigates the complexity of the album and becomes part of the chaos of Misadventures . The theatricality evokes shadows from the 2007 debut album A Flair for the Dramatic , while the historical charm and harmonies are reminiscent of the group's second album, Selfish Machines .

Pierce the Veil in the Live Music Hall in Cologne, 2016.

Ryan J. Downey, who has been with the group for the Alternative Press for years , found positive words about Misadventures . The band sounds somehow opulent and theatrical like Muse or even Queen . He described the album's opener, Dive In , as the best song the group has ever released to date. When writing and rewriting the pieces, Fuentes managed to emphasize the maximum meaning and emotion behind every single syllable. Drummer Mike Fuentes and bassist Jaime Preciado lay the foundation stone for singer Vic Fuentes and guitarist Tony Perry, according to Downey, who both can "snake" their way through the sound structure with their agile guitar playing from top to bottom. In conclusion, he wrote that Misadventures offer everything that the genre has in the past. Emily Marvel from Idobi Radio gave the album full marks and wrote that each track could have fit on Collide with the Sky or Selfish Machines . Still, according to the critic, every song on the album would stand out in a special way. Jana Angeles of the Australian online magazine Spotlight writes that the album takes the listener on a journey of love, life and self-awareness and that every seasoned fan realizes that the reflective music is the best of its kind. Angeles wrote that the album was so timeless that it could have been released 100 years later and still retain its value.

Awards and nominations

year	Award	category	For	result
2016	Alternative Press Music Awards	Song of the year	The Divine Zero	Nominated
	Loudwire ’s Most Anticipated Albums	May album of the month	Misadventures	Won
	Rock Sounds Albums of the Year	Album of the year		3rd place
	Kerrang's Albums of the Year			12th place
	Loudwire 's Rock Albums of the Year			6th place
2017	San Diego Music Awards			Nominated
		Song of the Year	Circles	Nominated
	Alternative Press Music Awards	Album of the Year	Misadventures	Won
		Song of the Year	Circles	Nominated

literature

• Ryan Bird: They Will Bring The Tidal Wave . In: Rock Sound . No. 191, September 2014.
• Andy Biddulph: The Sounds Of 2015 - Pierce The Veil . In: Rock Sound . No. 196, February 2015.
• Mark Sutherland: Inside The Hottest Record Of 2015 . In: Kerrang . No. 1530, August 16, 2014.
• Ryan J. Downey: Cabin Fever Dream . In: Alternative Press . No. 321, April 2015.
• Ryan J. Downey: Life By Misadventure . In: Alternative Press . No. 334, May 2016.
• Dennis Müller: Travel Diary . In: FUZE Magazine . No. 58, June / July 2016.
• Rock Sound's Top 50 Releases Of The Year . In: Rock Sound . No. 221, January 2017.

Footnotes

¹The Scottish music charts are determined by the British Official Charts Company (OCC), but not archived. In order to be able to determine the entire duration of an album in these charts, the chart archive of the OCC must be viewed from the entry to the exit of the work.

²Today I Saw the Whole World is on both the regular and deluxe versions; the acoustic version is only included on the deluxe version of the album. These were released as an EP on Spotify according to Fearless Records .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Eike Cramer: Metal Hammer : Pierce the Veil - Misadventures criticism
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Rating: Pierce the Veil - Misadventures review
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventure, p. 46: “News of the terror attacks in Paris, France, which included mass murder at an Eagles Of Death Metal show, gripped Vic so tightly that he wrote 'Circles', imagining the horror of what it must've been like for those fans. "
4. ↑ ^{a b} According to the insert
5. ↑ Matt Crane: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil to release new album in 2014
6. ↑ SOSGermany: Outspoken Magazine : PIERCE THE VEIL are writing a new album!
7. ↑ Dariush: Impericon : Pierce The Veil Interview ( Memento from May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Ryan Bird: Rock Sound (Issue 191): They Will Bring The Tidal Wave, p. 8: “We don't really write anything on the road, so after we got off our last tour with Bring Me the Horizon at the end of last year we pretty much locked down for five months, solid. "
9. ↑ Ryan Bird: Rock Sound (Issue 191): The Will Bring The Tidal Wave, p. 9: “We were in the process of putting together a studio in our hometown [San Diego], so while that was happening we rented out a small house and basically just sat around writing […] and then after that we moved into a cabin in this place called Big Bear Lake, which is up in the San Bernadino Mountains. We did this for our last record too ... "
10. ↑ Gary Graff: Oakland Press : SOUND CHECK: Pierce The Veil on career high, curates 'mini block party'
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press : “We like to use up every bit of time and sanity that we have.” - Pierce The Veil In The Studio
12. ↑ Mark Sutherland: Kerrang! (Edition 1530): Inside the hottest record of 2015, p. 18: “So, as well as previous songwriting partners such as Tom Denney (formerly of A Day to Remember) and and Curtis Peoples, he's also been working with two bigger names for the first time: Brad Hargreaves of '90s alt.rockers Third Eye Blind and Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory. "
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Poppy Reid: The Music Network : Pierce the Veil: Accidental Heroes ( Memento of October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Mark Sutherland: Kerrang (edition 1530): Inside the hottest record of 2015, p. 20: "Vic says reports that Tonight Alive's Jenna McDougall [...] features on the record are premature, though a duet certainly sounds on the cards."
15. ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil working on new album
16. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press : Vic Fuentes details his 'Misadventures' while writing, recording PTV's new album
17. ↑ Mark Sutherland: Kerrang! (Edition 1530): Inside the hottest record of 2015, p. 20: “The Pierce The Veil Breakfast Club convenes every morning at 10am. Vic, Jaime, Tony and Mike roll out of Sonic Debris Recording Studio in their rented car and go in search of grub. "
18. ↑ Alternative Press : Body Count to perform, Suicide Silence to appear at the APMAs
19. ↑ Annie Zaleski: Loudwire : Once-in-a-Lifetime Performances Highlight Inaugural Alternative Press Music Awards
20. ^ Brittany Mosely: Alternative Press : "Any award that we won belongs to the fans" —Pierce The Veil's Vic Fuentes reflects on the APMAs
21. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jay Tilles: Radio.com : Pierce The Veil's' Misadventures' is Sweeter than Baskin-Robbins' Gold Medal Ribbon ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ Kerrang! (Edition 1530): Pierce of Mind - Four Distractions That Have Kept PTV From Studio Fever…, p. 20: “Every time there was a game we wanted to watch, we'd put on while we were jamming. My team is Mexico, and I'd wear my jersey every time they played. That was a pretty rough loss [when the Netherlands knocked them out]! (Jaime Preciado) "
23. ↑ Chad Childers: Loudwire : Pierce the Veil's Jaime Preciado Offers New Album Update, Talks Sleeping With Sirens Tour + More
24. ↑ ^{a b} Larry Petro: KNAC : Striving For Perfection: An Exclusive Interview With Jaime Preciado Of PIERCE THE VEIL
25. ↑ Andy Biddulph: Rock Sound (Edition 196): The Sounds of 2015 - Pierce the Veil, p. 25: “A five-months stint in 'Collide…' producer Dan Korneff's Sonic Debris Studio in Long Beach got everything finished but for one vital component: Vic's vocals. As result, he's had to ship his recording gear out on tour and set up camp at the back of the bus while he finishes wriing lyrics and tracking vocals. "
26. ↑ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Edition 321.2): Cabin Fever Dream , p. 72: "Long after the other members of PTV [...] had finished their respective parts and returned home to Southern California, the vocalist / guitarist locked himself away for four months (August to November 2014) at Sonic Debris, the studio owned by Dan Korneff (Mayday Parade, A Day to Remember). "
27. ↑ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (issue 321.2): Cabin Fever Dream , p. 73: "It's January 2015 and he's resumed work at his home studio in San Diego between the legs of the World Tour [...]."
28. ↑ Kerrang (Issue 1575, July 2015), p. 5f: “Yeah! I finished the vocals at my home studio, like, a week ago. Finished it, sent it off to be mastered the next day and then, the day after, it was on Itunes! It's super fresh. [...] I dunno. I guess we'll finish it off when we've come off of Warped and get it out as soon as possible. I don't have a date or anything. Everything with Tony hit us pretty hard, so we just trying to figure out everything one step at a time. "
29. ↑ Heather McDaid: Upset Magazine : Pierce The Veil - Kings for a Weekend: Between playing Reading & Leeds and finishing new material, now's an exciting time for Pierce The Veil.
30. ↑ ^{a b} Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Confirmed: Pierce The Veil will release their new album in 2016 ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
31. ↑ Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone : Pierce the Veil Announce New Album, 'Misadventures'
32. ↑ ^{a b c} Chad Childers: Loudwire : Pierce the Veil Reveal 'Misadventures' Album Track Listing, Artwork + Release Date
33. ↑ Alice Roques: Rock Revolt Magazine : Pierce the Veil, p. 19: “We were in Long Island, and just like in Collide [with the Sky], we set up in this warehouse studio, and every song that we made we literally broke it down and wrote it from the ground up, just to exhaust every possible way the song could be done. ” (available: here
34. ↑ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 321.2): Cabin Fever Dream , p. 74: "We didn't realize the record wasn't going to be done before tour until about about one week before we left." (Mike Fuentes)
35. ^ Jon Wiederhorn: Yahoo : Pierce the Veil Risks Life and Limb to Break Through
36. ↑ Emily Carter: Kerrang : Pierce The Veil Stream New Single, The Divine Zero
37. ↑ SOSGermany: Outspoken Magazine : PIERCE THE VEIL: New album in May?
38. ↑ New Metal Discs : Novo Álbum do Pierce The Veil em Maio ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Portuguese) 
39. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil announce new album, 'Misadventures' ( Memento of the original of May 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
40. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Stream Pierce The Veil's new single, "Texas Is Forever"
41. ^ Caitlyn Ralph, Alternative Press : Listen To A New Pierce The Veil Song
42. ^ Screamer Magazine : Pierce The Veil, "Misadventures" Physical Pre-Order Now Available
43. ^ Andy Biddulph: Rock Sound (Edition 196): The Sounds of 2015 - Pierce the Veil, p. 25: "Another key factor is his lyrics. It isn't exacly a secret that Pierce The Veil have long been a band for the lost, the broken and lonely to rally around [...]. "
44. ^ Andy Biddulph: The Sounds of 2015 - Pierce the Veil . In: Rock Sound , 196, p. 25
45. ↑ Andy Biddulph: Rock Sound (Edition 196): The Sounds of 2015 - Pierce the Veil, p. 25: "Throughout the past year [2014], he's worked on lyrics on long drives and headed out to solo camping trips, meaning the lyrics on album four are set to be his most isolated and personal yet. "
46. ↑ Dustin Lothspeich: NBC San Diego : Pierce the Veil: Homecoming Kings
47. ↑ Rock Sound : Pierce The Veil Have FINALLY Announced Their New Album
48. ^ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventure, p. 46: "An old flame is the subject of 'Gold Medal Ribbon'. She was the first girl Vic ever loved, who sadly passed away on New Year's Day 2014. "
49. ^ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventure, p. 46: "People kind of let me do my thing almost to a dangerous point. But what would happen if one day I just went too far on these things? The one person who knew all of these things, just how far I'd gone this time, was my girlfriend, Danielle. […] Yes, the frontman who said in the band's first AP cover story (AP 296, March 2013) that he didn't know when he'd ever be ready for a relationship, is now happily anchored in one. He's even publicly acknowledging that PTV's adventurous and ambitious power-pop anthem 'Floral & Fading' was written specifically for her. "
50. ↑ Ryan J Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventure, p. 46: "Another real life person is referenced by name in the album closer," Song for Isabelle ". It contains a lyric from the '90s Ahmad hit' Back In The Day '", which is a nod to Vic's best friend, Curtis Peoples. But the song is about a friend Vic met while on tour overseas who was in and out of treatment for mental health issues.
51. ↑ Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventure, p. 48: "Among the pages of lyrics, there's a sketch by the frontman's own hand that's remarkably similar to the finished 'Misadventures' album cover. It turns out Vic determined exactly how he wanted the cover to look and all that it should represent when he turned the concept over to artist Mike Cortada, who executed Vic's vision magnificently. "
52. ^ ^{A b} Ryan J. Downey: Alternative Press (Issue 334): Life by Misadventures, p. 48: "A bottle of whiskey pours out for lost loved ones. The apple represents the time the band spent in New York. Gray fireworks behind palm trees reference a specific lyric in "Song for Isabelle". The stars around the knife are meant to invoke night time ("I've lived most of my life at night. Ninety percent of what I do is in the dark."). He calls the image of a joint and a medical symbol his first "political commentary". Conversely, the needle is a somber reminder of the dangers of hard drug use. Vic says he put it on there for his friend Tyson Stevens, the Scary Kids Scaring Kids frontman who passed away in October 2014. The mechanical praying hands are open to broader interpretation, but they do have something to do with Vic's increasing sense of lost faith . He was raised in the Catholic Church but as the years go by, he's felt more and more disconnect from it. [...] Another hand on the cover is the one shooting a rocket ship instead of a bullet. This is me trying to get the fuck away from a lot of the pressure. [...] The dollar bill dangles just out of reach from the moon. This symbolizes the business of music. [...] It's an angry commentary to any person who forgets that we're people. It's also a comment on people still doing this who clearly don't want to be and don't have the passion for doing it anymore but are doing it for money. "
53. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil announced for Warped Tour 2015 ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
54. ↑ Chad Bowar: Loudwire : Pierce the Veil Unveil New Single 'The Divine Zero,' Name Fill-In For Injured Guitarist
55. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil talk Tony's APMAs return, “The Divine Zero” in the Gibson Backstage Lounge ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
56. ↑ Jack Parker: All Things Loud : PIERCE THE VEIL SHARE DETAILS OF ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
57. ↑ Julian Trejo: Polvora : PIERCE THE VEIL regresa a México ... y al 2 × 1
58. ↑ Jen Walker: Kerrang : Pierce The Veil To Play Album Tracks In London
59. ↑ Caitlyn Ralph: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil announce tour, to play new album in full
60. ↑ Terrance Pryor: AxS : Pierce The Veil release new song 'Circles', announce European tour
61. ^ Peyton Bernhardt: Blunt Magazine : This Is Not a Drill: Pierce The Veil Announce Australian Tour
62. ↑ Caitlyn Ralph: Alternative Press : Massive Lineups for Welcome To Rockville, Carolina Rebellion and Forta Rock announced
63. ↑ Revolver : Rock On The Range announces 2017 lineup
64. ↑ Christina O'Neill: Metal Hammer : Watch Pierce The Veil's video for Dive In
65. ↑ Tamsyn Wilce: Rock Sound : Pierce The Veil, Good Charlotte, Issues + More Announced For Download Festival
66. ↑ Greenfield Festival : US punk rocker Green Day confirmed for the Greenfield Festival 2017
67. ^ Maggie Dickman: Alternative Press : All Time Low announce headlining tour dates with Pierce The Veil
68. ↑ Rabab Al-Sharif: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil go all out for "Circles" video - watch
69. ^ Maggie Dickman: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil drop awesome new music video for “Dive In” —watch
70. ↑ Blabbermouth.net : Video Premiere: PIERCE THE VEIL's 'Floral & Fading'
71. ↑ Dom Vigil: The Prelude Press : Pierce The Veil Release New Music Video For "Today I Saw The Whole World"
72. ↑ Joe DeVita: Loudwire : Pierce the Veil's 'Misadventures' Debuts at No. 4 on Billboard 200 Chart, Volume Books 'Conan' Appearance
73. ↑ Keith Caulfield: Billboard : Meghan Trainor's 'Thank You' Heading for Top 3 Debut on Billboard 200
74. ↑ Keith Caulfield: Billboard : Drake's 'Views' No. 1 for Third Week on Billboard 200, Meghan Trainor Debuts at No. 3
75. ↑ ^{a b} Graham Hartmann: Loudwire : Top 10 Highest Selling Hard Rock + Metal Albums of 2016 Include Five Different Metallica Releases
76. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE UK US
77. ↑ Chart tracking Singles: US Hot Rock Songs - US Rock Digital Songs
78. ↑ Alternative Press : And the nominees for the 2016 APMAs are ...
79. ↑ Chad Childers: Loudwire : Vote for the Most Anticipated Release of May 2016
80. ↑ Metacritic : Pierce the Veil - Misadventures Evaluation
81. ^ Album of the Year : Pierce the Veil - Misadventures Rating
82. ↑ ^{a b} Rating: Pierce the Veil - Misadventures review
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87. ↑ Dennis Müller: FUZE Magazine (issue 58: Jun / July 2016): p. 53: Reviews
88. ↑ Chad Childers: Loudwire : Pierce the Veil, 'Misadventures' - May 2016 Release of the Month
89. ↑ Loudwire : 20 Best Rock Albums of 2016
90. ↑ George Varga: Pacific San Diego : Nominees announced for San Diego Music Awards ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
91. ^ Rutger Rosenborg: NBC San Diego : San Diego Music Award Nominees Announced
92. ↑ Rabab Al-Sharif: Alternative Press : Nominees for 2017 APMAs announced — vote now!
93. ↑ Whitney Paxton: Alternative Press : Pierce The Veil release 'Today I Saw The Whole World' EP

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