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• Knives Play Video
• Over It Play Video
• Piece of Me Play Video
• 4 Words (to Choke Upon) Play Video
• You Want a Battle? (Here's a War) Play Video
• Hearts Burst Into Fire Play Video
• The Last Fight Play Video
• Shatter Play Video
• All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me) Play Video
• Scream Aim Fire Play Video
• Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do) Play Video
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• Don't Need You Play Video
• Death By A Thousand Cuts Play Video
• Your Betrayal Play Video
• Tears Don't Fall Play Video
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• Death By A Thousand Cuts
• Rainbow Veins
• 4 Words (to Choke Upon)
• All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
• Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)
• Tears Don't Fall
• Don't Need You
• Piece of Me
• Hearts Burst Into Fire
• Scream Aim Fire
• Waking the Demon
• The Last Fight
• Your Betrayal
• You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)

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• Mar 06 2023 O2 Academy Leeds Leeds, England Start time: 9:25 PM 9:25 PM

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Newcastle o2 city hall, thursday april 3rd 2023.

Welsh metalcore legends Bullet For My Valentine embarked on a UK wide tour earlier last month, their first since 2021, playing tracks from their near 20-year career up and down the country, with support coming from fellow veterans Atreyu and Ukraine’s brutal yet melodic Jinjer.

Some would possibly argue that Atreyu are in the twilight of their career, and have perhaps, been on a steady decline since the departure of vocalist Alex Varkatzas in 2020. That wouldn’t quite be fair to say, as, since drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller took over the reigns as frontman (with Kyle Rosa joining the band on the kit and bassist Porter McKnight taking over screaming vocals), the band have released most recent album ‘Baptize’ in 2021 and continued to tour extensively.

They kick off proceedings this evening, with a short but thoroughly entertaining set that displays the full range of their soundscape, beginning with the gorgeous full band a capella of ‘Strange Powers Oof Prophecy’ before diving straight into the behemoth that is ‘Becoming The Bull’.

Next up is ‘The Time Is Now’ from 2018’s ‘In Our Wake’, which sees vocalist Brandon Saller go for a little walk, off the stage, through the photo pit and into the crowd, while remaining band members Dan Jacobs (guitar), Porter McKnight (bass/vocals), Travis Miguel (guitar) and Kyle Rosa (drums) watch on and play on.

Classic track ‘Ex’s and Oh’s’ follows, as Saller then asks the crowd to “Fuck shit up!!” during latest single ‘Drowning’.

They bring their set to a close, first with an intro to Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ (then promising to play that song in its entirety on their next UK tour), before proceeding with finale track ‘Blow’.

After witnessing their performance tonight, nobody could argue this band is anywhere near a decline. THIS is a band who are masters of their craft, touring the world and having an absolute fucking blast doing so. I think I speak for the majority of City Hall when I say that I hope Atreyu return sooner rather than later, and not just for that cover song!

Second up are Jinjer, arguably the heaviest band on the bill tonight, with menacing riffs aplenty delivered by Roman Ibramkhalilov while front woman Tatiana Shmayluk commands the stage with her powerful presence while delivering both growling guttural and haunting clean vocals.

They make their way through a nine-song set featuring tracks from 2019’s ‘Macro’ and 2021’s ‘Wallflower’, including the stand-out ‘Judgment (& Punishment)’, and as they do the crowd eat it up, bodies fly around the room and over the barrier during a brutal and breath-taking performance, which for all its raw ferocity, is executed with precision.

Perhaps like Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine are another band that you could argue have seen brighter days, but, again, to do so isn’t entirely fair. Sure, with heavy nostalgia bias, how could Matthew Tuck and Co hope to hit the heights of debut album ‘The Poison’, with classics ‘Tears Don’t Fall’, ‘All These Things I Hate’ and ‘4 Words (To Choke Upon)’, or third album, the critically acclaimed ‘Fever’, with hits such as ‘Waking The Demon’ and ‘Your Betrayal’.

Tonight, the tracks mentioned above are all given a live outing, interspersed with more recent material from 2018’s ‘Gravity’ and their self-titled album released in 2021, all of which are delivered with a sense of energy and freshness you just don’t see from veteran bands.

The opening trio of ‘Knives’, ‘Over It’ and ‘Piece Of Me’, referred to by Matt Tuck as “new shit”, are followed by some “old shit” in the form of ‘4 Words (To Choke Upon)’, ‘You Want a Battle? (Here’s a War)’ and the anthemic ‘Hearts Burst Into Fire’, which was the winner of a poll the band put out online when deciding the setlist for this tour. This brings about the first mass singalong of the set and sees bodies bouncing around the room and pints flying everywhere.

Tuck tells City Hall that “It’s great to be back in more intimate venues this tour” before ‘The Last Fight’ and ‘Shatter’ keep the crowd going, until they bring it down a notch with classic debut album track ‘All These Things I Hate’, which sees bassist Jamie Matthias on lead vocals during verses and Tuck taking over the reins during the chorus.

I would like to also take a minute to show some love to guitarist Michael “Padge” Paget, as I’ve rarely seen a guitarist on stage noticeably having as much fun, while at the same time make playing seem so absolutely effortless, a master of his craft and then some.

The night continues with more dancing and flying pints during next song, the crushing ‘Scream Aim Fire’, which sees a near infinite number of crowd surfers make their way to the front of the room and across the barrier (“Over the top!” indeed).

They close out the set with a mixture of old and new tracks, ‘Suffocating Under Words of Sorrow’, ‘Rainbow Veins’, ‘Don’t Need You’ and ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’ before heading offstage and returning with the crunching ‘Your Betrayal’.

The band depart once more, leaving only Matt Tuck onstage for a solo rendition of the opening verse of ‘Tears Don’t Fall’. Before he starts though, he takes the time to show appreciation to the crowd, telling them “We’ve been doing this shit nearly twenty years now, and when we get this kind of reception and love, it never gets old. Thank you for being a part of this tonight, It’s beautiful”. The crowd are in full voice as they sing along to every single word, including the entire chorus without Tuck, before the full band join in and we hear the song once again from the start.

The only thing left to do tonight is wrap up the set, and they do that with ‘Waking The Demon’ as the crowd grasp their final opportunity to lose themselves in the utter chaos of the pit, led on by Matt Tuck demanding they give him “Everything you’ve got!”. The entire room is in motion, a tumultuous tide of flailing arms and bodies as sweat fly amidst the sonic backdrop of

Tonight was the perfect hit of nostalgia, which, coupled with newer material from the two veteran bands of the tour shows that age is merely a number, while Jinjer no doubt will have won over several new fans tonight (myself included).

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The Welsh heavy metal icons will head to Cambridge, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle and more next February and March

Heavy metal group Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed UK dates for their 2023 tour. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 27 May.

Next February the outfit will embark on their 10-date trek of the UK, hitting Cambridge's Corn Exchange on Monday 27 February before heading to Bristol's O2 Academy on Tuesday 28 February.

In March they'll hit Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Southampton, Swansea and London. Support for all the performances comes from Ukrainian metalcore group Jinjer and American metal band Atreyu.

The latest release to come from the Bridgend natives is the 2022 single 'Omen', the first release from their upcoming album. This will be their eighth studio album since 2005's debut record The Poison .

Bullet For My Valentine 2023 UK tour dates: Monday 27 February – Corn Exchange, Cambridge Tueaday 28 February – O2 Academy, Bristol Wednesday 1 March – Mountford Hall, Liverpool Friday 3 March – O2 City Hall, Newcastle Saturday 4 March – Barrowland, Glasgow Monday 6 March – O2 Academy, Leeds Tuesday 7 March – O2 Academy, Birmingham Wednesday 8 March – O2 Guildhall, Southampton Fridy 10 March – Swansea Arena Saturday 11 March – Roundhouse, London

Tickets for Bullet For My Valentine go on sale at 10am on Friday 27 May.

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One of the biggest British metal bands of the 21st century Welsh quartet Bullet For My Valentine straddle metal, punk and emo in a manner not hugely dissimilar to their Bridgend brethren Funeral For A Friend. The band formed out of the ashes of Jeff Killed John, who were on the verge of recording their debut when their…

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Bullet For My Valentine announce UK tour

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE  have announced a headlining UK tour!

Set for February and March next year, the tour will see the Welsh metalcore giants touring across the UK in a headlining run to support their latest self-titled studio album , which was released in November last year.

Support for the tour comes from  JINJER  and  ATREYU . Tickets for the tour are available now and can be purchased here .

Tour dates are as follows: 

26th – FEB – Corn Exchange, Cambridge 28th – FEB – O2 Academy, Bristol 1st – MAR – Mountford Hall, Liverpool 3rd – MAR – O2 City Hall, Newcastle 4th – MAR – Barrowland, Glasgow 6th – MAR – O2 Academy, Leeds 7th – MAR – O2 Academy, Birmingham 8th – MAR – O2 Guildhall, Southampton 10th – MAR – Arena, Swansea 11th – MAR – Roundhouse, London

Bullet For My Valentine is out now via Spinefarm Records/Search & Destroy. Get ready for the tour by checking out our feature with the band here !

For more information on BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE like their official page on Facebook .

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Bullet For My Valentine are returning to North America for their first headlining tour in five years.

The band will return Stateside in October for a month-long trek with support from Of Mice & Men and Vended, featuring the sons of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Shawn “Clown” Crahan. The tour starts October 8th in Montreal and wraps up November 10th in Orlando, Florida.

“Attention please!! So after 5 long years we’re finally heading back to the USA and Canada for a proper headline tour!! We cannot wait to play and see you all again, it’s been far too long,” the band said in a statement. “We’re gonna be bringing our old friends in Of Mice & Men and heavy metal upstarts Vended along for the ride so get ready for some serious mosh pit action!! Make sure you pick up your tickets fast as we’re expecting them to fly out. VIP packages are also gonna be available on this tour for the first time in years. More info to follow. See ya there.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, July 28th at 10 AM local time. Check out all the dates below.

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“We’ve got a few more — 10 or 11 more — summer festivals out in Europe to play over the summer. Then we have a little break in, sort of, August-September, and we head out to America for a month or five, six weeks to do a headline run up there. I’m not too sure what’s gonna happen at the end of the year, if there’s anything in there yet. And then we’re gonna stop [touring] and start writing again. So ’24 we’ll be writing an album. And then 2025 we’ll be back. [2025 is] an anniversary of something big,” apparently alluding to the fact that 2025 will mark the 20th anniversary of [our] debut album, The Poison. ”

Bullet For My Valentine recently teamed up with Pendulum for new collab single “ Halo .” The band released a deluxe version of their latest self-titled album last year.

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Bullet For My Valentine have announced a new tour.

Still flying high after the success of 2015’s Venom , Welsh metal titans Bullet For My Valentine have announced they’ll be playing a string of dates later this year. The tour will notably see the band returning to some places they haven’t played in a good while, including a trip back to the O2 Academy Brixton – where the band recorded their The Poison: Live At Brixton DVD back in 2006.

Speaking of the tour, Matt Tuck says: “ We’re excited to announce our next UK tour in support of our latest album ‘Venom’! We can’t wait to get back out and see all our UK friends in venues that have massive sentimental meaning for us. We’re gonna be bringing the full rock show to town so make sure you get your tickets early. See you there .”

The dates are as follows:

24 Newport Centre 27 O2 Academy Newcastle 30 O2 Academy Glasgow

3 Manchester Academy 6 O2 Academy Birmingham 9 London O2 Academy Brixton

The fan ticket pre-sale for the tour begins at 9am on Wednesday 27 January, followed by the general sale on the Kerrang! Ticket Store kicking off on Friday 29 January. You can read an exclusive interview with Matt Tuck about the tour in the new issue out Wednesday. In the meantime, remember this? This is what we have in store.

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In 2006, Bullet For My Valentine cemented their reputation as British heavy metal's bright young things, and the UK's answer to the current buzz band of the American side of the genre, Trivium. However, they still divide the critics and the fans; depending on which side of the purist divide you stand, Bullet For My Valentine either perfectly capture the zeitgeist with their melodic, riff-laden hard rock, or they are a worrying portent of the genre's dilution into saccharine, chart-pleasing "goo".

So when last November's scheduled shows were cancelled after the front man Matt Tuck finally succumbed to a combination of a punishing tour schedule and bouts of laryngitis and tonsillitis, it was something of an understatement to say that the response was somewhat mixed.

A couple of months later, there seems to be no sign of that changing. For every kid headbanging like it was their last night on earth, there was a pair of jaded hecklers wishing it was. So it was a rather apologetic Tuck who thanked the fans for not deserting them since the postponement.

At heart, Bullet For My Valentine are consummate crowd-pleasers. Despite the fact that their front man is still in recovery (Tuck's vocal coach stopped by on the day of the gig), all the stops were duly pulled out.

While the familiar likes of "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" and "Tears Don't Fall" took their place on the set list, this was a night of firsts; first rescheduled show, first inclusion of a cover version and, most important, the first airing of new material from their forthcoming second album. "Scream On Fire" and "Disappear" indicate that the band have no intention of abandoning their combination of near-poppy choruses in melodic construction with the traditional side of heavy-metal bombast.

Even the genre purists had their moment, with a record-perfect rendition of "Creeping Death" by Metallica. The guitarist Michael "Padge" Padget had mastered the required lightning-speed fretwork with almost laughable ease. Indeed, the only crowd-pleaser to miss the cut was hit "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)".

That's not to say that the band were without their "cheesy" moments, as Tuck chose to close the show standing on the drum rise, his guitar perched precariously just above his crotch, both hands in classic satanic salute. On the other hand, maybe that just goes to show that Bullet For My Valentine are more "real" than some give them credit for being.

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