“ I think that’s why this album was self-titled,” Tuck says proudly. When you tie in the piercing metal, the melodies, ballads and their classic recipe, you’ve got the epitome of Bullet For My Valentine in one album. You just want to write stuff that’s from the heart.” “ Our producer, Carl (Addy) was like ‘damn dude, these lyrics – they’re poetic ’” Tuck laughs reflectively “I was like okay, cool – that’s not something you really think about. If you’ve ever seen Tuck in interviews, you’ll know he’s a very humble musician, so these words aren’t used lightly. Now, I’ve written a lot of songs over the years, and I think lyrically and vocally, this song has melodies and other elements,” where the frontman can honestly say – “ I don’t think I’ve ever written a more beautiful song.” “Can’t Escape The Waves is a pretty special song to me. The 41-year old talks about track five on Bullet For My Valentine, which he describes as notable. However, as much as the upcoming album has moments of straight-up-thrash-metal, if you know BFMV, you’ll know they always balance the heavy with the melodic, the immensely emotional, and you wouldn’t have it any other way. “After we came out of Gravity, it was like a tsunami, it was just f*cking riffs and carnage man, and that’s the really cool link between these two records.” Tuck describes their monster 2018 effort Gravity as a catalyst for the self-titled record. “We just really wanted to push the boundaries and Knives was the song that gives the compliment to not be scared to write heavy music.” “It’s a kind of dialled up version of Bullet, really,” Tuck says in summing up the album in a few words. The whole reason why I picked up a guitar and wanted to be in a band, as it is for most musicians and metalheads growing up in the early to mid-90s.” It’s something that I have in me from growing up. It couldn’t be more different to Gravity, which I love.”īullet For My Valentine is so thrashy at times, it’s reminiscent of the band’s 2005 cover of Metallica ’s ‘ Welcome Home (Sanitarium)’, (as featured in our list of top Metallica covers) but the metal titans weren’t explicitly on the band’s mind when writing and recording in 2021. On already released singles ‘ Parasite’ and ‘Knives’, Tuck says – “It’s the starter, the catalyst for the rest of the record.

Having heard an advanced copy of the band’s upcoming album, let me tell you, Tuck isn’t kidding – it could easily be their heaviest album yet and you’ll feel a fire under your ass once you hear it. People seem to really be on board with the heavier side of what Bullet has to offer these days, and we’ve got a lot more good sh*t to come as well.”

On the heaviness of singles like ‘ Knives’ and ‘ Shatter’ the frontman smiles – “ It’s feeling good, man (he laughs). When we pulled aside Tuck once again, after checking in with the metal maestro regularly over the years, he was feeling great about the pending album release, albeit before the release date was shifted. The way we put it when we first heard ‘ Knives’ was ‘ straight up thrash metal’ – and that it is. If you’ve heard any of what Matt Tuck and the boys have delivered so far, you might have got the shock of your life. įast-forward to 2021, and Bullet have hit their pinnacle with their eighth record, aptly self-titled. The UK band have grabbed many new fans and also let many go as they’ve tossed around different styles and directions all the way from the prolific Fever record of 2010 through to the contentious Temper Temper and to the more recent reinventions with Venom and Gravity. The band launched onto the scene in the late 90s and and exploded with their 2005 Hand of Blood EP before pulverising metal as we knew it with their first LP The Poison later that year.Īkin to bands like Trivium as our writer KJ Draven puts it in his review of the band’s self-titled record (read it here), Bullet For My Valentine have undergone a plethoric journey across seven studio albums, which not many of their kind withstand these days, and more importantly to the same popularity as they always have. Welsh rockers Bullet For My Valentine have stood the test of time through the wave of metalcore, deathcore and all the many other sub-genres that have popularised over recent years (and decades).

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