Here are the links to some videos of Bullet at Horden Pavilion [7 May 2008]: [Suggest a link? HERE]

Intro & Scream Aim Fire  [41ln]
Tears Don't Fall  [41ln]
Hand Of Blood  [lachlanmccallum]

Sources: 41ln & lachlanmccallum

Derek Tobias, IESB, interviewed Moose during Bullet's stay at the Taste Of Chaos Tour in Long Beach. You can read more/watch it HERE.

Having released their world wide smash sophomore album 'Scream Aim Fire' on the 28th January, Bullet For My Valentine are set to release 3rd single 'Waking the Demon' on June 16th through Columbia as an iTunes exclusive download only with a digital comic book based around the track itself.

Bullet are becoming a genuine, world conquering UK act and are doing something no British heavy rock band has done for decades, sell records and concert tickets in every key territory across the globe. On week of the album release, the band were the biggest selling heavy rock act in the world and 'Waking the Demon' (3rd UK single, 2nd US single) looks set to cement that standing.

'Scream Aim Fire' the has hit the top 3 slot album charts in the USA (number 3 on the Billboard 100), UK (number 3), Japan (number 1), Germany (3), Australia (3) and the rest of Europe, the band have had a Radio 1 B-list, XFM day-time and MTV2 A-list hit with 2nd single 'Hearts Burst into Fire', a sold out UK tour (London date at Brixton Academy), graced magazine covers both sides of the Atlantic (Kerrang, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, Total Guitar, Music Week and more in UK, Revolver in USA), and joined the US monster Taste of Chaos tour.

B4MV will continue touring through May and June across Japan, the far East and Australia before heading back to Europe for all major festivals (including Reading and Leeds, Download, Rock AM Park and Rock AM Ring, Grasspop and Nova Rock) and then back to the US for a headline tour. With a second 'Scream Aim Fire' UK headline tour in the pipeline, further releases and worldwide tours and appearances, the tale of the 4 Welsh lads from Bridgend taking over the world looks set to extend well into 2009!

Source: Sony BMG

There's two new posts at Bullet's official website, about Moose's performance at Pearl Day 2008 and the Myspace chart on MTV 2 [read more]

They're also mentioned in another article at Blabbermouth:

Artisan News Service recently caught up with Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE to get their thoughts on being kicked off ROB ZOMBIE's tour because they complained about how they were being treated by the headliners.

BULLET's 2006 trek, which also featured LACUNA COIL in the middle slot, came to a premature close after frontman Matt Tuck posted a rant on BULLET's official message board calling the ZOMBIE camp "money-grubbing fucks" for forcing the other bands on the tour to sell their T-shirts at inflated prices. [See previous BLABBERMOUTH.NET stories: Story#1, Story#2, Story#3, Story#4, Story#5]

"Well, we stand for what we...we stand up for ourselves, really, and I guess he didn't like what we said," drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas told Artisan News Service. "Whatever. It don't bother us." Guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget added, "We got dropped from the tour but we joined the GUNS N' ROSES tour, so it kind of worked out well for us, you know. Yeah, kind of. Cheers, Rob!"

So does Matt Tuck feel any ill will about the Zombie situation looking back at it in hindsight?

"No, I sleep soundly each night," he said.

As previously reported, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE bassist Jason "Jay" James rejoined the band in Brisbane, Australia on Tuesday night (May 6) as the Welsh quartet resumed its world tour in support of the band's second album, "Scream Aim Fire". James left the group during the final two weeks of its stint on the U.S. Taste of Chaos tour last month when his daughter became gravely ill back home in Wales. Although the band attempted to play two shows with a guitar tech subbing for James, they quickly scrapped their remaining five shows on that trek and headed home.

Matt Tuck discussed the situation earlier this week with an Australian radio station, saying, "Yeah, (Jason's) back. He's ready to roll. Everything's cool back home. It was a very, very horrible situation at the time...But everything is cool with his little girl — she's not 100 percent, but she's on the mend. And he can relax and just do what he does best, which is rock out."

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will remain in Australia through mid-May before heading to Japan for four dates. Following that, the band will begin a European tour on June 2 in Ireland, wrapping up in early July in Finland.

The latest single and video from "Scream Aim Fire" is "Waking The Demon".

Sources: official website and Blabbermouth

An awe-inspiring trop of international metal bands are about to be let loose on the unsuspecting Town Hall, writes Scott Kara

Like that other Welsh music superstar, Tom Jones, metal band Bullet For My Valentine get knickers thrown at them.

"Yeah we do,' chuckles singer and screamer Matt Tuck shyly. That's all he's saying about it too.

As mainstream metal goes Bullet are big. Watch for the shower of panties when the quartet from Bridgend in south Wales, and Orange County nasties, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu play a triple bill at the Auckland Town Hall next Wednesday.

You really have to feel for the poor old Town Hall. Three of the world's biggest mainstream metal bands, hundreds of their devoted fans, and one night of carnage.

Bullet have been around since 1997 and were originally known as Jeff Killed John - a name they thought better of in 2003, thank goodness.

They grew up listening to the 80s and early 90s thrash bands like Metallica, Pantera, Testament and Machine Head, but in the band's formative years of the late 90s nu metal was still the craze.

"It exploded when we were just getting good at playing and we fell into that trap a little,' admits Tuck with a laugh. "But we've always been a bit more old-school than Korn and all that.'

In 2005 they released their debut album, The Poison, a crunching and heavy but ultimately predictable beast.

On latest, Scream, Aim, Fire, what comes through is a mix of their old-school influences with a newer, more modern and metallic metal sound.

At times, like on the frantic Eye of the Storm and Waking the Demon, it's brutal and uppity thrash. However, songs like the sad Say Goodbye and Hearts Burst Into Fire, a bogan drama queen epic if ever there was one, show there is a sensitive side to the hard as nails exterior bands like Bullet exude.

"We're more interested in writing good songs than how heavy metal we can sound,' says Tuck. "Yes, we are a metal band but at the end of the day what's the most important thing for us, and the biggest thing for us to achieve is write great songs, no matter how soft or heavy they are.'

And then there's Atreyu. Guitarist Dan Jacobs would just like you to know he's looking forward to "rocking everyone's faces off' at the Town Hall next week.

That shouldn't be too hard to do since the band's latest album, the grandly titled Lead Sails Paper Anchor, is made of highfalutin stuff. It's as if Jacobs and his cronies decamped to their bedrooms, flailed their heads around and reminisced about being kids of the 80s before recording it.

"I'm a big fan of classic rock and I think the rest of the world, especially the younger generation, is not that familiar with that, and I think they would be really into it if it was presented to them properly. So I figured, why not take the influence of the old-school amazing metal and pop it in with a modern day twist and represent it in a new modernised form?'

The veterans have released four albums with quite distinct sounds on each: Lead Sails is the most accessible yet.

"We've always been like a chameleon with our music and able to slip through the cracks and play with pretty much anyone, and especially with our new record it's allowed us to work the mainstream market a little more and get to play in front of a few more people who would never have heard of Atreyu before.

"It exposes them to our new music but also it's a gateway to our old music.'

Jacobs says the best way to stand out is to be yourself. When they first started they did the "singing and screaming thing' but had roots in hardcore, punk and metal. "It was just a hybrid of lots of different things and we didn't really fit into one genre.'

These days they're playing headlining shows on the Taste of Chaos Tour and opening for Linkin Park. They started touring when they were 18 - they're in their late 20s now - and he admits he wanted to be in a band for "attention factor'.

"You know, it's something to strive for the fact you know you can make a living out of having people thinking you are cool and listening to your music and something you created.

"Even from day one we've always wanted to take over the world; we didn't know to what extent, we just knew we wanted to do that, and here we are still trying to do it.'

LOWDOWN
Who: Bullet For My Valentine/Atreyu/Avenged Sevenfold
What: Mainstream metal mayhem
Where & when: Town Hall, Auckland, May 14
Latest albums: Scream Aim Fire - Bullet For My Valentine; Lead Sails Paper Anchor - Atreyu; Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

Source: nzherald
By: SCOTT KARA