Metal Music Blog

The metalcore pride of Wales, Bullet For My Valentine, has released their new album Scream, Aim, Fire. In the new album Bullet For My Valentine shows their honor to old-school metal music pioneers. Finnish “IndieRockPunkMetalzine” magazine Sue published an interview of Bullet For My Valentine in their latest magazine. This article refers to this interview done by Sue.

The pride of Wales, Bullet For My Valentine, was founded in 1998. First they were known as Jeff Killed John and they played Limp Bizkit-, Metallica-, and Nirvana-covers. Influences the band has got from Metallica, Machine Head, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Pantera, Slayer, Testament and Judas Priest. Interesting detail is that influences come from trash bands while Bullet For My Valentine plays metalcore. Anyhow, Bullet For My Valentine released their debut album Poison in 2005, which sold 350.000 pieces in United States and more than one million pieces worldwide. One thing is clear. Bullet For My Valentine has quickly climbed to the top of metalcore scene and is one of the hot names in metal music industry.

“Our sound has not changed radically, but it has been tuned“, says guitarist Padge. “We have developed as musicians and those progressive things were born because of that. We did not want to provide only the same old stuff for our fans, but with something new added“, continues Padge. “Good old and traditional metal music has always been in our hearts. We still prefer listening to old-school metal bands. Very many timeless albums were released in the 80’s“, says guitarist Padge. According to singer Matthew Tuck the new material is more furious. “It is about attitude“, says Tuck. “We wanted to create a heavier album. We added tempo and attitude“, continues Tuck.

Metalcore is one of those music genres that divide fans into different camps. New and younger metalheads have warmly welcomed metalcore bands, while old-school headbangers are a little bit suspicious with the new genre. No matter what people say, Bullet For My Valentine has its fans and they sell a lot of albums. Fans are happy and so is the band. May be metalcore is for the masses, while old school trash metal, such as Pantera, will never reach huge masses. The reason why Metallica become the best known metal band in the world is that they radically changed their style, entered the mass media and by this were able to reach huge amounts of new fans.

Bullet For My Valentine has been able to tour with big names, such as Metallica. When Sue asked guitarist Padge that with which band they have had the best tour, the answer is Metallica. “When we toured with Iron Maiden, we realized that the audience is furious warm-up bands. They did not give us a chance. With Metallica it was a great honor to play because we have been their great fans for long time“, says Padge.

Next Bullet For My Valentine is starting their new tour. Sue asked the band that what a Bullet For My Valentine “All Star” tour would look like. The answer was that there would be at least Arch Enemy, Children Of Bodom, Lamb Of God.. and may be Metallica. Wow! Now that would be a tour I would love to see. Gimme a bottle of Jack Daniels and a ticket to this tour! Rock!