Bullet For My Valentine - Band Biography
1998 a band called “Jeff Killed John” formed in Bridgend. The bandmembers are Matt Tuck, Michael Paget, Michael Thomas and Nick Crandle. This band recorded several EPs like “You / Play With Me”, “Don’t Walk Away” and “Jeff Killed John”. After the last EP Nick Crandle left the band and was replaced by Jason James. After Jay joined the band they changed the name from JKJ into “Bullet For My Valentine”.
After renaming the band they started to record another demo. That new demo was called “Four Words To Choke Upon”. The song was about everyone who said that the band will never make it to a record deal. But after a little gig in London Roadrunner Records offered a deal which the band declined. But later they signed to Sony BMG. A deal for five albums.
The band started working on their first releases. In 2004 thei released their first record “Bullet For My Valentine”. For the US they later released the EP “Hand Of Blood” including a new track called “4 Words (To Choke Upon)”.
In 2005 the band started working on “The Poison” which was released in October 2005. After a big world tour Bullet played as the opening act for Metallica and Guns N’ Roses.
In 2006 they filmed their concert at the Brixton Academy. The same year it was released as a DVD. Japanese releases also included a CD of the concert. The next year Bullet had to cancel some concerts because Matt had some issues with his throat and wasn’t able to sing. But right after the doctors allowed him to sing again her was standing in the studio, singing for the next album “Scream Aim Fire”.
“Scream Aim Fire” was released in early 2008. It had a lot more metal influence than TP and Matt said that it is the album that gets them away from their emo image. After touring through Australia and North America the band flew back to support Jays daughter in hospital. Nearly after a year of the release of SAF the band released a deluxe version of it. Matt resung the vocals on all tracks and the band added 3 new and unreleased bonus tracks.
Right now the band finished recording their third, yet untitled, album. It will be released some time in 2010.
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
After renaming the band they started to record another demo. That new demo was called “Four Words To Choke Upon”. The song was about everyone who said that the band will never make it to a record deal. But after a little gig in London Roadrunner Records offered a deal which the band declined. But later they signed to Sony BMG. A deal for five albums.
The band started working on their first releases. In 2004 thei released their first record “Bullet For My Valentine”. For the US they later released the EP “Hand Of Blood” including a new track called “4 Words (To Choke Upon)”.
In 2005 the band started working on “The Poison” which was released in October 2005. After a big world tour Bullet played as the opening act for Metallica and Guns N’ Roses.
In 2006 they filmed their concert at the Brixton Academy. The same year it was released as a DVD. Japanese releases also included a CD of the concert. The next year Bullet had to cancel some concerts because Matt had some issues with his throat and wasn’t able to sing. But right after the doctors allowed him to sing again her was standing in the studio, singing for the next album “Scream Aim Fire”.
“Scream Aim Fire” was released in early 2008. It had a lot more metal influence than TP and Matt said that it is the album that gets them away from their emo image. After touring through Australia and North America the band flew back to support Jays daughter in hospital. Nearly after a year of the release of SAF the band released a deluxe version of it. Matt resung the vocals on all tracks and the band added 3 new and unreleased bonus tracks.
Right now the band finished recording their third, yet untitled, album. It will be released some time in 2010.
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