Question: Are the Black Veil Brides and The Smiths both bands?

Context articles: Bob Rock
Black Veil Brides
Fallen Angels (Black Veil Brides song)
In the End (Black Veil Brides song)
Andy Biersack
Alternative Press Tour
The Smiths
Black Veil Brides (album)
We Stitch These Wounds
Set the World on Fire (Black Veil Brides album)

Robert Jens Rock (born April 19, 1954) is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing rock bands and music artists such as The Tragically Hip, Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, Bryan Adams, The Offspring, Michael Bublé, Black Veil Brides, David Lee Roth and Ron Sexsmith.
Black Veil Brides is an American rock band based in Hollywood, California.
 The group formed in 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio and is currently composed of Andy Biersack (lead vocals), Ashley Purdy (bass, backing vocals), Jake Pitts (lead guitar), Jinxx (rhythm guitar, violin) and Christian "CC" Coma (drums).
 Black Veil Brides are known for their use of black makeup, body paint, tight black studded clothing, and long hair, which were all inspired by the stage personas of KISS and Mötley Crüe, as well as other 1980s glam metal acts.
"Fallen Angels" is the third single by the American rock band, Black Veil Brides, and the first single from their second album "Set the World on Fire".
 The song is inspired by the biblical story told in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 12, in which Satan and one-third of God's angels rebelled against God, starting a war in Heaven and were therefore cast out of Heaven to the earth, becoming "fallen angels." The story was introduced to Andy Biersack and the Black Veil Brides by their band artist Richard Villa:
"In the End" is a song by American rock band Black Veil Brides, from their third studio album, "".
 The song was released on October 31, 2012 as the first single from "Wretched and Divine", and is Black Veil Brides' sixth single.
 It was released on the same date as the availability for pre-order purchases for the entire album.
 The song peaked at number 39 on the "Billboard" Rock Songs chart and remained on the charts for two weeks.
 "In the End" was featured as a bonus track on the compilation album "Now That's What I Call Music!
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 It was also one of the two themes for the 2012 WWE "Hell in a Cell" pay-per-view event.
 The song also appears in the video games "Guitar Hero Live" and "NHL 14".
 The band received "Revolver"'s 2013 Golden Gods Award for Best New Song for "In the End."
 The song was written after the death of Black Veil Brides' lead vocalist Andy Biersack's grandfather.
Andrew Dennis Biersack (born December 26, 1990), formerly known as Andy Six, is an American singer and pianist.
 He is the founder and lead vocalist for the American rock band Black Veil Brides, and is its only remaining original member.
 In May 2014, he started a solo music project under the moniker Andy Black and released his debut album, "The Shadow Side", in 2016.
The Alternative Press Tour or AP Tour was an American/Canadian concert tour that began in 2007 by the magazine company "Alternative Press".
 It featured diverse bands like Black Veil Brides, All Time Low, Bring Me The Horizon, Cute Is What We Aim For, Never Shout Never, and 3OH!
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 The tour was announced in the April or November issues of Alternative Press.
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.
 The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce.
 Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s."
 Q" magazine's Simon Goddard argued in 2007 that the Smiths were "the one truly vital voice of the '80s", "the most influential British guitar group of the decade" and the "first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms".
 The "NME" named the Smiths the "most influential artist ever" in a 2002 poll, over the Beatles.
Black Veil Brides, also known as Black Veil Brides IV, is the self-titled fourth studio album by American rock band Black Veil Brides.
 It was released through Lava Records/Universal Republic Records on October 27, 2014.
 The first track on the album, "Heart of Fire", was aired on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show in September, then "Faithless" was uploaded onto YouTube on September 10.
 Also, as of September 16, 2014, the album was released on iTunes for pre-order.
 Clips of the songs "Devil in the Mirror" and "Goodbye Agony" were posted on YouTube on the 18th and 19th, as well as "Goodbye Agony" airing on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show on the same day of its uploading.
 The music video for "Goodbye Agony" was released on October 31, 2014.
We Stitch These Wounds is the debut studio album by American rock band Black Veil Brides, released through StandBy Records 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.
Set the World on Fire is the second studio album by American rock band Black Veil Brides, released through Lava Records/Universal Republic Records on June 14, 2011.
 It is the first Black Veil Brides album with Christian "CC" Coma playing the drums.
 He replaced Sandra Alvarenga after her departure to join the band Modern Day Escape.