BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Frontman Discusses Songwriting Process For Next Album

March 16, 2009

Guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck of Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE recently spoke to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine about the songwriting process for the band's next album.

The podcast containing the entire interview is available for download as an MP3 audio file at this location.

Tuck revealed that there are about four or five songs that are all but finished. "Usually we write and record 14 tracks that I then have to write vocal lines for, but this time I'm trying to write the vocals as I write the music," he said.

As for lyrical themes, he states, "There's one song that's about not being able to have what you want. Being in the band, it doesn't happen much. When it comes to girls, you can have the pick of the bunch, but you always want what you can't have, y'know… but it's this one chick, man… so it's a song about obsession."

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE recently re-released "Scream Aim Fire" with four bonus tracks that were recorded and "canned" before the band decided to write more songs. In the podcast, Matt discusses why they were put aside and how they are, in fact, some of the best songs the band wrote at the time. "It's a shame they'll never shine like some other tracks, because they're just bonus tracks. It doesn't take a genius to spot the difference between my voice on the 'Poison' and 'Scream…'; something was up. So I re-recorded the songs after my voice got better." He added, "I know I could have sung that album much better."

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