BandBio: Bullet For My Valentine

Long time no posting in the blog, finally the general elections are someway over, so I'm back to Dark Lyrics and more with the band bio of one of my favorite bans ever: Bullet For My Valentine |,,|

Bullet For My Valentine is:

Matthew Tuck - lead vocal, guitar, fucking damn cool SCREAMS
Jason James - bass, chrosu-vocals, SCREAM
Michale Paget - lead guitar, , chorus-vocals, fucking best solos ever !!!!!!!!
Michael Thomas - awesome dummer

I.- Jeff Killed Jhon

The band began as Jeff Killed Jhon in 1998 and played covers of bands like Metallica and Nirvana, 6 never published original songs, some other materials were re edited later as Bullet For My Valentine, included a now super hit: All These Things I Hate that was later included on The Poison.

II.- The Poison

Released on october 3, 2005 for UK, first album as Bullet For My Valentine, was later released for the US on Valentine's Day, 2006. Now as a heavy metal/metalcore band the album made it to #128 on Billboard 200 and #11 on Top Independent Albums Chart. After the great reception to the band, and more than half a million sells in the USA, the RIAA certified The Poison for Gold Record on january 30, 2009.

Bullet For My Valentine went on a series sof world tours to promo the album, including the Warped Tour, the Kerrang! Tour and the Earthday Birthday, they played with bands like Metallica and Guns 'N Roses, filmed their very first DVD The Poison: Live at Brixton.

Singles:

4 Words (To Choke Upon)
Suffocating Under Words Of Sorrow (What Can I Do)
All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
Tears Don't Fall

III.- Scream Aim Fire

The second studio album after Matt Tuck suffered of laringitis, son for this record Matt did fewer screams than in The Poison, nevertheless this record is tougher and faster. Released on January 29, 2008 and reached #5in the UK Album Chart and #4 in the Billboard 200 with 53,000 sellsin the very first week after release in the US. For this album the band toured along with Atreyu, Blessthefall and Avenged Sevenfold for the Taste of Chaos tough the band cancelled Canada after Jay's daughter was hospitalized. Next tour was No Fear Tour across the USA and the first participation of the band on the Rock am Ring.

Singles:

Scream Aim Fire
Hearts Burst Into Fire
Waking The Demon

IV.- Fever

The third and, as far as today, last album of Bullet, the album was finally released on match 2, 2010, 2 years had passed since Scream Aim Fire, but a new song was released before the official album relase, as a preview of Bullet's awesome work: Begging For Mercy, launched on the bands website on Valentine's Day, 2010.

Two singles were launched: Your Betrayal (march 2, 2010) and The Last Fight (april 19, 2010 -what a symbolic date-). The album was officially released on april 27, 2010. Fever sold 73,000 copies during the first week in the US and 25,000 more just in the UK. On september 25, 2010 the band launched a new single: Bittersweet Memories and as for march 21, 2011 the last single was released: Fever, tough no video was released for this one.

On january 28 Padge told the people about Bullet For My Valentine workingfor a new album that might include 5 re edited songs that weren't included on Fever, the album Fever has 11 songs, though Bullet For My Valentine composed 16, sayed by Padge, the remaining 6 songs might make it through the new record that "will sound much more like Fever".

Singles:

Your Betrayal
The Last Fight
Bittersweet Memories
Fever