Bullet For My Valentine’s new album won’t be stuck in the past.
In a new Rock Sound interview, the band’s frontman Matt Tuck talked about the progress of their eighth album. When asked about the impact of Bullet For My Valentine’s ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour with Trivium on their new music, Tuck said, “We did have conversations about it before the creative process started. And because of this, the conversations have restarted.”
The singer continued, “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,” Tuck further shared about their future plans.
He added, “And seeing, obviously, what this tour has done and the reaction it’s getting and putting us back 20 years, the feeling it was making that record, there has been conversations about, should we kind of reignite that old sound? But it’s a tricky one.”
The singer explained why it is tricky to revive their old sound, “It’s a tricky one, because in my head, I kind of feel I know where I’d like to go next, but this has kind of started some conversations, which all our brains have kind of thought, ‘Oh, f*ck, what do we do?’ It’s hard. But whatever we decide, it’s gonna be sick. We won’t put anything out there that we’re not fully behind just for the sake of it.”
“But again, we’re not gonna do it because of that,” he said, referring to the success of ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’ tour. “We’ve got a good radar of what we wanna do. And once I kind of lock in on something, I see it through. And that’s the way to do it.”
The rocker concluded, “We’re not gonna write an album just because this is happening — that’s what I’m trying to say — but there is food for thought of maybe let’s try and write a couple of songs and see how we feel. If it feels dated and there’s no progression, then absolutely not. I think we know when things feel comfortable or yucky.”
At the beginning of the interview, Tuck also revealed that they’ve been currently working on 13 new tracks. Bullet For My Valentine started recording their eighth album in November 2024. It is set for release in 2025.
