Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Rock Sound, Bullet For My Valentine guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck offered an update on the band’s upcoming album. According to him, the group currently have 13 tracks in the works.

Tuck said the following:

“13 tracks. So a huge chunk. A long way to go. None of them have proper top lines or vocals on it. It’s just in the studio with guitars and just having fun instrumentally, writing stuff, messing around with tunings. And that’s how we’ve done things on the last album.

We don’t go in there with an agenda to write a certain way. We just try and make things different, like tuning the guitar differently or using a different amp. All those little things just kind of make your brain think in a different way, and you can play certain riffs in different tunings on a different amp, which sound better than others for some reason, even though it’s the same riff.

So it’s just discovering something which gets the heart racing, makes you wanna play guitar. And then you just keep going until you get it. And sometimes it’s six months, sometimes it’s a year. So I don’t know how long this journey is gonna be, but we started it and it’ll be done when it’s done.”

He continued when asked if performing “The Poison” in full on tour will have an impact on the new material:

“We did have conversations about it before the creative process started. And because of this, the conversations have restarted. 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. 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. 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, fuck, 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.”

[via Blabbermouth]