13 Tracks In The Works For Upcoming Bullet for My Valentine Album
In a recent interview with Rock Sound, Matt Tuck, frontman of Bullet for My Valentine, discussed the progress of the recording sessions for the band's forthcoming eighth studio album. When asked about the number of songs currently in development, Tuck shared the following: “13 tracks. So a huge chunk. A long way to go. None of them have proper top lines or vocals on it. It's just in the studio with guitars and just having fun instrumentally, writing stuff, messing around with tunings. And that's how we've done things on the last album.”
He carried on saying that: “We don't go in there with an agenda to write a certain way. We just try and make things different, like tuning the guitar differently or using a different amp. All those little things just kind of make your brain think in a different way, and you can play certain riffs in different tunings on a different amp, which sound better than others for some reason, even though it's the same riff. So it's just discovering something which gets the heart racing, makes you wanna play guitar. And then you just keep going until you get it. And sometimes it's six months, sometimes it's a year. So I don't know how long this journey is gonna be, but we started it and it'll be done when it's done.”
Asked about the impact of Bullet for My Valentine's ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour with Trivium, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘The Poison’ on the band's new material, Tuck commented: “We did have conversations about it before the creative process started. And because of this, the conversations have restarted. So it's a difficult one because, obviously, ‘The Poison’ and that sound and that era of the band is a huge reason why we're still around today. It was a huge record for us, it was a huge record for metal and British metal. We were in the right place at the right time. We were part of a movement with Trivium and Avenged [Sevenfold] and Killswitch [Engage] and all that stuff. It was a genuine new breed of heavy metal, which we were part of, which was amazing. And that's kind of what gave us this platform. But as you grow older and you get creatively different, things change. You wanna experiment, you wanna be brave, you go on that journey. And we've never really come back around.”
For Bullet for My Valentine, ‘The Poison’ was their debut album, which catapulted the band to remarkable heights. Released in October 2005, ‘The Poison’ reached number 21 on the UK album charts, earning a spot at number seven on Kerrang!'s ‘Albums of the Year’ list and achieving gold status.
Bullet for My Valentine released the deluxe edition of their latest self-titled album in August 2022 through Spinefarm/ Search & Destroy. This extended version included four new tracks, plus ‘Stitches’, previously available only as a Japanese exclusive. The vinyl pressing followed in November 2022.
In September, Bullet for My Valentine and Trivium announced the North American dates for their ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour, with August Burns Red, Sylosis or Bleed from Within joining select shows. Produced by Live Nation, the 26-city tour will begin on March 30 at the PNE Forum in Vancouver, British Columbia and will make stops across North America, including Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and more, before concluding on May 18 at the Red Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, North Carolina.
‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ has just kicked off in the UK with 6 shows. Following these, the band along with Orbit Culture as the support act will head to mainland Europe for 18 more concerts.
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