Short Biography
The Fever is spreading. Bullet for My Valentine is infectious!
"Bullet For My Valentine pummelled a sold-out main hall with riffs and harmonic angst so unbridled that the gathered nearly came unglued at times." Mike Daniel - Dallas News
It is hardly a secret. Bullet For My Valentine are this generations greatest exponents of metal. Not simply because of one, two or even three amazing albums destined to be classics in the genre; but also because of the manifest evolution - with each album pointing the way to peaks that remain beyond the powers of ordinary bands.
The band's latest and greatest effort, ‘The Fever', has spread across the globe hitting the...
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Short Biography
The Fever is spreading. Bullet for My Valentine is infectious!
"Bullet For My Valentine pummelled a sold-out main hall with riffs and harmonic angst so unbridled that the gathered nearly came unglued at times." Mike Daniel - Dallas News
It is hardly a secret. Bullet For My Valentine are this generations greatest exponents of metal. Not simply because of one, two or even three amazing albums destined to be classics in the genre; but also because of the manifest evolution - with each album pointing the way to peaks that remain beyond the powers of ordinary bands.
The band's latest and greatest effort, ‘The Fever', has spread across the globe hitting the #1 spot on The U.S Rock and Alternative charts; and top 5 across Europe, Japan and Australia.
And if there was any proof required of the band's confidence in their craft you need look no further than Bullet's choice of touring mates. Lesser bands than Bullet would not dare take the stage after the wounded primal beast that is Bring Me The Horizon. BMTH have backed up being the single most talked about band of The Warped Tour last year by producing an album of breathtaking riffs and complexity in ‘Suicide Season'.
Bringing their rhythmic ferocity to this already amazing bill are Canada's Cancer Bats. Fuelled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have more fun than any other band, their new album 'Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones' is "Crusty, jarring and still as acerbic as ever, this is Cancer Bats at their best" - Rock Sound
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In-depth Biography
Since their inception in 2003, the Welsh quartet Bullet for My Valentine have been taking cues from '80s metal bands and the punk-infused metal of the new millennium to make melodic, dark rock with, well, metal tendencies. Coming from Bridgend, South Wales -- breeding ground for the likeminded Funeral for a Friend and LostProphets -- the group consists of childhood friends Matthew Tuck (vocals/guitar), Michael Padget (guitar/vocals), Jason James (bass/vocals), and Michael Thomas (drums). Everyone in the group, except James, had been performing together for a few years in Jeff Killed John, when the day before entering the recording studio, their bassist abruptly walked out.
Regrouping under the new name Bullet for My Valentine with James on board, the guys reworked their sound and were signed at their second gig by London's Visible Noise. They released a self-titled EP in the U.K. in November 2004, and their debut full-length, The Poison, appeared that next fall. May 2005 saw the band sign to the U.S.-based Trustkill, re-releasing their EP, titled Hand of Blood, in August. That same year they won Kerrang!'s Best British Newcomer Award and headlined the magazine's XXV tour. With February 2006 came the U.S. release of The Poison, followed by a nationwide tour in support of Rob Zombie before Bullet for My Valentine headed back to the U.K. in June for their third stint at the Download Festival. ~ Corey Apar, All Music Guide
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