In the mid-2000s, the teenagers of that time had the honor and pleasure of seeing the birth of one of the most representative and brutal bands of modern metal, if friends we talk about bullet for my valentine, a band that from its beginnings reigned in the golden era of metal korn offering great and bestial classics that to this day remain and will continue to last with the passing of time, led by Mr. Matt Tuck, who as a result of seeing Metallica on television when he was 12 years old She knew at that moment what a future metal legend wanted to do in this life as time went by and after several disappointments in her love life she got tired and wanted to dedicate her life to what we know today as Bullet For My Valentine, I know the story sounds simple and maybe even cheesy to many.
This is an admirable life full of sacrifices and broken dreams, Bullet For My Valentine is one of the first bands of the extreme metal subgenres that dared to include songs of hatred and heartbreak in their songs, to show this the band was born with the song "Hand of Blood" song that even gave the name to the band "Bullet For My Valentine"
Despite the fact that singing songs of heartbreak and frustrated relationships is not very well seen in a genre as hostile as metal, it would be Bullet For My Valentine the band that would break with this paradigm, Matt Tuck decided to use experiences and disappointments in his intimate life to capture great classics in this era of modern metal but far beyond this we will also know a life full of extreme and murky moments, being in a band is not the paradise that many think, about demanding yourself before the microphone can also lead you to suffer from great nightmares and disappointments, one of them was when he finally had the honor of meeting Metallica the band of his dreams.
Metallica invited Bullet For My Valentine to be the opening act for a tour but Matt Tuck was suffering from Acute Laryngitis and had to say no to the opportunity of a lifetime by leaving Bullet For My Valentine out on tour with Metallica; Another of his anecdotes was when the pressure of recording his first album ate at him inside, the eternal hours of recording were burning his vocal cords to such an extent that his brain ran out of oxygen and he fell unconscious in the middle of the recording studio, many of us We see the success and glory that bands possess when they go on stage but very few of us know of the pain and sacrifice they go through when they scale to get to where they are today.
En esta oportunidad les hablare un poco de la historia detrás de la música en los escenarios del vocalista de Bullet For My Valentine. La historia de Matt Tuck…
"I will try to convince people that I am good at what I do until the day I die" These are the words of a young actor, born on January 20, 1980 and that his life would change at age 12, the band Metallica premieres the theme that started his story in a before and after yes, “Enter Sadman” that little Matt Tuck was hypnotized with what he was seeing and listening to on the television, this for him was much more than a simple metal song the riff of Enter Sadman's guitars redefined his life forever, at such an early age his only goal was to live off music for the rest of his years, at the age of 18 he decides to take his first big step and creates the predecessor band Bullet For My Valentine called Wett Killed Wam, at the beginning it was only a band of Covers, they mostly played Metallica songs and it was like a kind of dream that he had in his childhood to be on stage playing the songs of his idols, curiously for the 98 fever in the young people no longer rans metal, the band with Korn gave birth to a new genre called Nu Metal, soon iconic bands like Papa Roach, Slipknot and Linkin Park and among many more they embraced this genre to emerge for that reason Matt Tuck thought about starting the project under the wave of At that time, Nu Metal, but he did not feel comfortable, was not the genre he was passionate about.
Matt Tuck reveals that after four years playing for a few coins he felt a failure, his old project was not a band that transcended, on the other hand in his life he had been going through several disappointments, for that moment just when he felt the failure of his band His girlfriend of three years ago also cheats on him, which greatly depressed the vocalist, at that moment he decided to start writing, at first they were outbursts in poetry but then he was accommodating it and transforming it into songs, when the band could get presentations Matt Tuck himself reveals that he felt an emptiness singing the same old songs, themes that used to talk about violence, rebellion and endless things that the vocalist no longer felt, he wanted to sing his own songs but there he was at a crossroads since they were a metal band supposed that it would be frowned upon that they will now sing new sentimental themes of heartbreak and hatred for that reason the vocalist with the band decide to give the end of that old project.
Now Nu Metal would begin to descend as the top genre of the moment now metalcore would be born the new wave where another generation of bands would be born, to the amazement of Matt and the band this was the subgenre that suited them perfectly since the Metalcore is a subgenre that allows you to experiment with brutal high and low sounds but at the same time melodic and all while still sounding extreme, this was the genre that Matt Tuck unknowingly hoped to capture his songs there, inspired by his girlfriend's deception mixed with other fictional stories of gloomy books, which would be the first song of the band Hand of Blood, for those who have not yet heard it is the song that captures the purest essence of Bullet For My Valentine to the point as I said in initially their name as a band came out after having created the song, the originality was extreme talent scouts from the Sony music industry contact them they put on the table nothing more and nothing less than a contract for five discs.
The career of the nascent band began touching the sky, a multinational as monstrous as Sony had put their trust in them, now it was time to work, the opening vocalist of what would be their most heartbreaking and heavy album "The Poison ”at the time of recording this first full-length album, the pressures to start on the right foot put the vocalist under stress. Fortunately, a large part of the lyrics were already done but he was over-demanding, he was in front of the microphone, he wanted his gutturals or screams were to another level that did not sound similar to any vocalist from another band, the pressure to make a good album even led him to faint in that studio, to the point that his brain was left without oxygen at the time of a long screen, the producer and the band woke him up and decided to take a few days off, eventually the album was finalized and released, without a doubt it was the success he expected on the album it was still new but we already knew that it would become a classic.
That band that in most of its lyrics sang of hatred and heartbreak were monopolizing all the radios or stations; On Mtv when he was still broadcasting music videos he began to take them into account, the presentations around the world were at full capacity to the point that Matt Tuck almost fulfilled the greatest dream of his life. At the moment he receives a call from the manager of Metallica, and asks Matt if Bullet For My Valentine wanted to go on tour as the opening act of the legendary band, almost with teary eyes Matt said yes, from one second to another heaven Blue turned into darkness for the growing band, a diagnosis reveals that the vocalist suffered from Acute Laryngitis, he can no longer sing, much less scream, at that moment they were a week away from starting the tour with Metallica, it was there when Matt did the most devious call of his life; He called the Metallica manager and told about his problem, the news now was that Bullet For My Valentine had shipped Metallica, their vocalist lost his voice and Emergency Metal had to find two other bands to fill that void and these bands were Trivium and Avenged Sevenfold to the point that Metallica in gratitude took them up on stage to sing a song.
After an operation and several months of absolute rest without any singing or rehearsals, the vocalist recovers moderately, many of his fans are glad that he returned to the microphones but being sincere, more than one of us noticed that he was no longer the same, his screams were not They were as brutal as before he was taking care of himself and in part he has a duty to do it, his second album would become a second studio classic Fever had a good acceptance but Temper-Temper changed the foundations of the band, it was the most passive album and the one that sounded the least like Bullet, pleasing the new fans but being hated by those of us who saw the birth of this band. The magazine Kerrang magazine where Bullet had already won certain awards in past awards described this album as the seventh worst album of that year 2013, the band was now suffering from ups and downs, they accepted the criticism they changed producer and now their fifth album Venom in 2015 led them to glory, they returned to the heavy with lyrics that reached even more to the young people of that time, the band had resurfaced but at the same time a figure as vital as Jason James is in the screams and the bass no longer Michael Thomas was not there, neither was Michael Thomas, both were mysteriously fired from the band, the bassist Jason James hinted that they were musical differences, he did not like how Matt forced himself to lead the band to sounds and lyrics that perhaps they did not feel like making.
The then drummer at the beginning took a vacation but then he was slow to return and by phone certain differences were generated that he was replaced by Jason Bowld, this new era was the one that carried out the album Gravity, an album certainly questioned by the old followers but maturely we must understand that the band tries not to get stuck, they keep making metal but experimenting with new sounds this is how the evolution of a particular genre works I didn't like it very much but I completely understand the band and well beyond this and to the joy of the old followers
Bullet For My Valentine announced last year that they will once again return to the heavy sound that characterizes them, for this 2021 the launch of a new album is expected, we hope that this time the boys will surprise us as in those longed for years, this has been the journey of Matt Tuck, the man who brought Bullet For My Valentine to life
Bullet For My Valentine - No Way Out & Tears Don't Fall (Live at Resurrection Fest 2016)
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