Bullet For My Valentine
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Bullet For My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine is the eponymous seventh studio album by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. Originally scheduled for release on 22 October 2021, it was released on 5 November 2021 through Spinefarm Records and was produced by Carl Bown. -Wikipedia
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Sonic Perspectives
The self-titled full length from Bullet From My Valentine is their best release to date.
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Kerrang!
Some of the riffs on here are things of true monstrous beauty. Check out the sheer stomping chunkiness that propels Shatter and Paralysed towards the finish line and then try questioning this band’s metal credentials. It’s a team effort though, with the pummelling rhythms more than playing their parts and Matt Tuck never sounding better. This is Bullet firing on all cylinders and it sounds absolutely immense.
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Cryptic Rock
t is harder, grittier, and more unyielding than its predecessor in nearly every way. The technical skill and compositional dexterity exhibited on this album is engaging and exciting in a way that will intrigue new fans and entice OGs.
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Distorted Sound Magazine
This record is nothing special, but it could lead to some interesting places. Somebody needs to buy Matt Tuck a thesaurus to improve his clichéd lyric writing, but at no point will you find yourself laughing at anything, you just won’t remember any of it. Their next record could really benefit from trimming down on the length of the songs, and not being afraid to continue down this path of aggression that has been missing with this band for a while. Perhaps the reason for self-titling this record will be this was the moment that BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE decided to get their act together and take a brave step forward, rather than just present their audience with another record of rather forgettable melodic metal.
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New Noise Magazine
All in all, the album is an incredible piece of work that is definitely worthy of the name “Bullet For My Valentine.”
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Metal Wani
Put on your pink-black sleeves, paint your nails black, straighten your hair, put on your darkest eyeliner, your skinny jeans, and wallet chains, because Bullet For My Valentine are back! And this time they’re pissed off, in the best possible way.
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Wall of Sound
While contemporaries Bring Me The Horizon are exciting and trend setting, they often leave metal to the side, so a Bullet For My Valentine with full artillery is a thing of beauty and necessity. Like their cross Atlantic peers Trivium, Bullet are a band whose time has come and Bullet For My Valentine is an album that deserves headline slots.
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Express
A self-titled weapon that cuts deep.
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Boolin Tunes
From its great vocal performances, to its ridiculously fun riffs, and absolute star of the show in Jason Bowld’s drumming; Bullet For My Valentine is a great foray into classic 2000s metalcore.
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Louder Sound
Bridgend’s metal behemoths Bullet For My Valentine cover all the bases on their seventh album, Bullet For My Valentine.
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Hear2zen
For me something that is classic is something you can listen to years from now and still get the same emotions as you do on the first few listens and for me this album has the hallmarks of just that. So worry about what is now, and give this album a spin, and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Spotlight Report
Bullet are in their element with a more ferocious, darker sound combined with classic familiar elements.
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GBHBL
With only a few tracks going over the 5-minute mark and with 10-tracks making up the whole album, Bullet for My Valentine want to leave you shell-shocked by what you’re hearing. That they just so happen to be performing out of their skins is all the more impressive. The vocals are fantastic, the guitars are doing things we’ve never heard from this band before and the percussion adds so much heaviness to proceedings. Is this the best Bullet for My Valentine album so far? It’s certainly in the conversation.
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mxdwn Music
Bullet For My Valentine is back with Bullet For My Valentine, and the music signals how the band is not going anywhere anytime soon.
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Loud Hailer
The album was released on November 5th and is definitely worth listening to. If you are looking for a “Tears Don’t Fall” or “Hearts Burst Into Fire,” you won’t find that here. What you will find is an aggressive and musical album that will make you take note. The commitment to the performance is intense and is sure to impress all who listen to it. You can’t fail to connect with the new material.
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Tuonela Magazine
Indeed, while heaviness is the keyword to accurately and briefly describe “Bullet for My Valentine,” many tracks also have a solid emotional backbone for the listener to latch on to, which in turn means returning to this album time and time again. Personally, I have already added a few songs to my playlist, though I am still partial to SPIRITBOX’s “Eternal Blue” as metalcore album of the year.
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Original Rock
This is certainly going to please fans of old who have been wanting a return to form so to speak. It’s the most vital that the band have heard for over a decade and it’s great to have them back.
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The Soundboard
They’re an all-around enjoyable enough band to where that’s likely to be the case more often than not, but at the same time, it’s disappointing to see how they’ve pretty much dug themselves into a hole where this is the best they can do now. If that is the case, at least they’ve pulled themselves out of their latest tailspin, but it’s not wrong to wish for just a bit more than an okay effort.
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Upset Magazine
One of the biggest names in UK metal, Bullet For My Valentine have provided a vigorous reinvention; it’s an album well worth waiting for.
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Spill Magazine
Bullet For My Valentine has outdone itself. Coming out of the gate swinging, never letting up and never disappointing, the album is well worth the wait, and everything you could hope to hear from Bullet For My Valentine, pleasing both old and new fans alike.
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Metal Master Kingdom
In a way, the frustrations about the pandemic and the lockdowns have played a big role in shaping the album to be the heavy monster that it is. Even if not every song hits the target directly, this is a Bullet album that fans will die holding tightly in their hands, just like they did The Poison and Scream Aim Fire. After no concerts for two years due to the pandemic, the pits at Bullet shows are about to get violent once again when these tracks are played live.
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Invicta Magazine
Bullet for my Valentine have been suffering from an identity crisis for over a decade now and this latest release does nothing to displace the staggering monotony and uninspired drudgery they have churned out in the last 11 years. If you want metalcore, just go listen to Trivium, because honestly, you’ll have a far better time.
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Markus' Heavy Music Blog
Overall, it can be said that Bullet For My Valentine continues to move towards a more melodic direction. Sometimes, like on ‘Death By a Thousand Cuts’, things get a bit too commercial. Still, the record has a high entertainment factor build-in and comes out of the speakers powerfully. ‘Bullet For My Valentine’ is certainly not the very big hit, but still pleases.
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Louder Than War
Speaking of the music, Bullet make sure they are covering all bases. From Take it Out on Me, released in 2008 on the Scream Aim Fire album to Shatter from 2021 in their new release, they make sure they play something for everyone. Whether you’re an early Bullet for My Valentine fan or only just discovering the band, the setlist will not let you down. Carefully constructed, the set travelled through peaked and troughs in just the right places.
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Uncivil Revolt
Bullet for My Valentine is one of the rawest records they have ever done. Honestly, I believe this is their finest work since 2010’s Fever. BFMV have come back to revisit their roots and deliver music that make demons run for cover. There were a couple times where I thought their experimentation got in the way of their creative mojo. It is not a perfect album, but it is a great one that redeems them. They screamed, they aimed, and they fired an album worth owning. Thank you Rockaholic for introducing me. To Bullet for My Valentine, I salute you.
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Buzz
Bullet For My Valentine still produce their signature clean singing parts on this album, but even those are delivered with an extra dose of venom. The Bridgend boys have delivered an album that’s savage in its approach and a throwdown of the gauntlet to any pretenders of the throne, signalling that they are ready to retake their place at the head of the UK metal table. They mean business and Bullet For My Valentine is the proof.
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The Rock Fix
Overall, I think Bullet may have struck gold with this one. There is something for everyone on this record and the highs really outweigh the lows here. After the polarising response from the band’s previous album ‘Gravity’, I think this is exactly what the band needed and they have bounced back in convincing fashion. I cannot wait to hear these songs live and I’m eager to see how well this album goes down with old and new fans alike.
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Hi Fi Way
This is BFMV putting all their cards on the table. It’s still has melodies and songs you can sing too. It also has bone breaking, moshing heaviness. It’s a two fingered metal salute to the world and I’m all for it. It’s an album of displacement, being lost, of despair and anger. BFMV execute those feelings to perfection. It’s a jaw dropping, open mouthed return to form. Turn it up loud!
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I'm Musical Magazine
This is definitely an album that won’t disappoint fans of any of the band’s prior works but there is plenty for new fans to discover as well. If you like a mixture of heavy, fun, emotionally charged and somehow relaxing despite that, this is the album for you.
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Heavy Magazine
I think that this is the first metal album I’ve ever listened to where I’ve thought that every track could be the lead single for the album. Here we are, though, and there’s even a couple which may have some kind of mainstream viability. And not because they are not heavy, they are definitely heavy! There’s just an element of matured songwriting within this album that works, and it works really well!
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