Made up of Matt Tuck, Michael ‘Padge’ Paget, Jamie Mathias, and Jason Bowld, Bullet For
My Valentine return with their 8th album ‘Social Apocalypse’. The band have accrued
multimillion album sales, multibillion streaming numbers, multiple Gold certifications at
home and abroad, plus three UK Album Chart and Billboard 200 Top 10 placement.
Thematically, ‘Social Apocalypse’ combines the bare-faced lyrical introspection of people
weathered and worn by the modern world. Working once more with producer Carl Bown – a
veteran of four Bullet albums, alongside work with Sleep Token, While She Sleeps,
Malevolence and more – the idea for each track was diligently scrutinized, constructed and
polished to its immaculate final form.
The track ‘Social Apocalypse’, rages against the end of the world as we know it, ‘I Don’t Trust
Tomorrow’ is a reflection on the fear of the unknown labelled as the heaviest Bullet song
ever complete with a hair-raising vocal turn from Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos. The second
collaboration features Against The Current vocalist Chrissy Costanza also stepping in to duet
on the exceptional ‘In The Absence Of You’.
Reminiscent of the band’s storied past without ever being repetitive of it, it’s with a steelyeyed
determination to break new ground that the beloved hallmarks of Bullet For My
Valentine past and present – Acid Rain and Fragile’s rapid-fire riffage, the melodic sensibility
of Masquerade and Never Enough, and the anthemic balladry of Read Between The Lines
and Here Without You – are refocused and re-energized for the future.
Bullet For My Valentine have established themselves as one of Britain’s all-time most
celebrated rock and metal exports and now enter the dawning of a new era with the same
burning drive and vision as ever.