Bullet for My Valentine have announced their first album in six years.
Bullet for My Valentine will release its eighth studio album, "Social Apocalypse," on March 19th, and has also released the title track, its first new song in four years, along with a music video. Singer Matt Tuck says the album explores how quickly the world is changing, with growing conflict and uncertainty about the future. The 10-song record features guest appearances from Against The Current singer Chrissy Costanza and Lorna Shore frontman Will Ramos. Bullet for My Valentine also announced a major European arena tour beginning January 21st in Portugal, with Pendulum and Dark Divine joining as supporting acts.
The band didn't expect such a long gap in between albums.
The band didn't expect such a long gap in between albums.
"That's just how things work out sometimes, and you don't realize until someone points out how long it's been...Why has it happened? Where has that time gone? But you just get so caught up in the downstream of life, you want to keep momentum going, you do albums and tours, and all of a sudden 20 years has disappeared!" - Frontman Matt Tuck
He goes on to describe the creation of every Bullet For My Valentine album as a "journey". Each, the frontman attests, is about capturing the essence of a moment in time; a freeze-frame snapshot of its creators and the world around them. Nothing forced, nothing scripted, nothing disingenuous. "Let life and our experiences set the course,"
It's a 10-track set that definitively captures every facet of the Bullet For My Valentine sound in masterfully-honed results. It's an album, Tuck notes, coloured by "light and shade" that is at once "clean and dirty", "intense and cinematic". "I feel like this will be Bullet fans' ultimate record, as it pulls together sounds and ideas from every chapter of our story while continuing to push them into new territory," he says.
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