Trading up the heavy metal of Black Veil Brides for a triumphant pop turn, Andy Biersack steps out as Andy Black for his weighty full-length debut, The Shadow Side. His voice launches each song skyward as lush instrumentation—like the twinkling piano of “Broken Pieces”— carries it along. “Stay Alive,” a hooky rock rager collab with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, is punctuated with dense percussion blasts. Biersack’s penchant for larger-than-life, cinematic moments alchemizes the atmospherics into a fist-pumping riot of rock.