BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Completes Work On New Album

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE have announced via Twitter that they have finished recording their third album for an early 2010 release. The CD was tracked at a Malibu, California studio with producer Don Gilmore, who has previously worked with LINKIN PARK and LACUNA COIL, among many others.

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE previously stated about the recording process for the new LP, "There have been many obstacles along the way, lots of hard work and long hours in the studio. However, we think that we [have] produce[d] BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's finest album to date!!!

"We have written lots of material and we have narrowed down these songs to what we think are the best of the bunch! There are eight tracks recorded and finished, from some of the best stuff we've ever written. They have all the qualities that you would expect from BULLET but with 'something' else. A twist! We are all blown away so far with how everything is going. Don Gilmore [LINKIN PARK, LACUNA COIL] is an incredible producer and has really helped us develop our sound."

Regarding how the new BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE song — which the band has been played at some of its shows this past summer — compares to the group's previous material, guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck told the German edition of Metal Hammer magazine, "It's kind of completely new. I don't think it's like anything on 'Poison' [2005] or 'Scream Aim Fire' [2008], is it?" Drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas concurred, "It's kind of more classic, if you ask me. It's not speedy, it's not thrashy." Tuck added, "It's not thrashy or really intense metal or anything. It's just like a mid-tempo kind of really nice, hard rock song. I don't even class it as metal, really. It's got metal influences and a really cool metal riff, but the song, as a vibe, is more hard rock."

According to Tuck, the as-yet-untitled effort will mark a slight departure from the more aggressive sounds of "Scream Aim Fire", which has sold more than 300,000 copies in the United States since its January 2008 release. "On the last [album], we tried to be a bit more thrashy, and that was cool, but we just wanna go back to more kind of classic sound now," he said. "We want people to [think] it's a good blend of what we've done in the past.

He continued, "It's a lot more mature-sounding. The record, as a whole, is a lot more mature-sounding, it's a lot more classic. It'll stand the test of time [more] than both the previous things we've done."