1. The Poison: Title Track

2. Scream Aim Fire: End of Days

3. Fever: Alone

4. Temper Temper: Dead to the World

5. Venom: Skin

6. Gravity: Breathe Underwater

7. Bullet for my Valentine: Shatter

Hello people

I recently discovered BFMV and I really like them sofar (I dont know a lot of their songs yet, but still). Now I saw that they are coming to Zürich in 2027 and I was thinking of maybe going, but my question is if they are good live these days? Would it be worth it? Also do they play more of their older songs or mostly newer? Any info about them would be nice. Sorry for the stupid questions lmao

So I'm really excited for Social Apocalypse. As I wait for it to come out in 2027, I've been going back and listening to all their music. I really appreciate the effort they put into each album. Every album has a powerful identity, and cohesive soundscape.

So I decided to rank the albums.

(THIS WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME LOL)

1. Scream Aim Fire

2. Fever

3. The Poison

4. Self Titled

5. Venom

6. Temper Temper

7. Gravity

How would you guys rank them?

A música me parece muito punk, para mim parece um NOFX do metalcore

I've been going through bullet's discography as I wait for the new album to come out. Today I've been listening to venom, and honestly it's a really good album, they captured the right vibe/atmosphere with each song.

Honestly I love how they do that with each album, it all sounds very cohesive. What are your favorite songs off of venom?

So, I've been loving the song, hot take I guess but yeah. I noticed a certain person in the writing credits. Tom Prendergast. The guy from Bury Tomorrow. This song sounds like it fits perfectly on "Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience" from BT. Tom is DEFINITELY influencing Matt's new direction, and honestly I fuck with it. I want to see Bullet go all over the place and touch base on all their eras here. It'll be cool.

TL;DR because I am certain people won't want to read through the full thing

- "I Don't Trust Tomorrow" is labeled their heaviest song yet, has a "hair raising vocal turn" from Will Ramos. Will usually features on really heavy shit, so not an impossibility!

- Matt and Chrissy Constanza of Against the Current have a duet on "In The Absence of You".

- "Acid Rain" and "Fragile" are "rapid-fire riffage"

- "Masquerade" and "Enough Is Never Enough" focus on melody

- "Here Without You" and "Read Between The Lines" have "anthemic balladry"

- No info about "CVLT"

Not on the website, but there's apparently also a bonus track on the HMV CD version of the album.

Check the original page here: https://www.impericon.com/de/products/bullet-for-my-valentine-social-apocalypse-indie-exclusive-ltd-crystal-clear-colored-vinyl

my ideal bfmv setlist using only these songs
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01. social apocalypse
02. 4 words (to choke upon)
03. paralysed
04. raising hell
05. over it
06. saints & sinners
07. pleasure and pain
08. rainbow veins
09. my reverie
10. the last fight
11. a place where you belong
12. suffocating under words of sorrow (what can i do)
13. ashes of the innocent
14. betrayal
15. tears don’t fall
16. scream aim fire

i feel like this order would flow pretty well live. start off aggressive, slow things down around the middle, then gradually build everything back up for the final stretch.
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what would you guys change?

To those who have a copy of the 20th anniversary Rose Petal limited edition vinyl of The Poison, did you notice petals moving during shipping or over time? 🤔

I purchased a second hand copy and it arrived with a different pattern than just before shipping! 😄

I made that GIF where I overlay the picture at reception over the picture from the selled, so you can see exactly how the petals shifted, and the record rotated a bit inside the cover despite being sealed.

I’ve been going down a bit of a BFMV rabbit hole lately with the release of their new single, and I’m genuinely curious what people who have followed the band for years like myself think about Matt Tuck.

I’m not trying to just bash the guy for no reason. I’m interested in whether others think there is a legitimate pattern here of questionable decisions and just arrogant negativity.

What do people actually think about Matt Tuck as the leader of BFMV and as a person?

I've loved Bullet for during their poison/SAF days. But the more I piece together the band's history, the more I find myself thinking:

How the fuck has Padge put up with some of this for 20+ years?

Because there are quite a few things that seem strange when you put them all together.

1. Matt seems to have an enormous amount of creative control

This is probably the foundation of my question. Matt isn't just the vocalist/frontman. He's been the primary songwriter, has increasingly handled guitar/bass recording on albums, has had enormous influence over production and has generally been the person talking about the band's musical direction, which has led to extremely terrible albums like Temper Temper and gravity and now their new single.

Lots of great bands have a primary songwriter/leader. But BFMV has always been presented as a band, and Padge isn't some hired guitarist. Padge has been there since the Jeff Killed John days and is responsible for a huge amount of the guitar identity that made Bullet special including riffs, harmonies, leads and solos. So I'm curious how people interpret the fact that Matt has increasingly become the person deciding what BFMV should sound like.

2. The Temper Temper recording situation is fucking bizarre

This is one of the things that really made me start questioning the whole dynamic. Matt and Moose went to Thailand to begin recording Temper Temper while Padge and Jay were notinvolved in those initial sessions. Padge later talked openly about being pissed off and hurt about being told he wasn't going to record the album with his own band in the normal way. But WTF? Who does this ? And Matt openly addmitted later in an interview that, "yeah I did that, had to be done."

Imagine being in a band for over a decade, being one half of the band's defining guitar partnership, and finding out that the frontman and drummer have gone overseas to start making the album without you. And then you listen to Temper Temper and it is just utter garbage. You could see Padge was embarrassed during the interviews.

Why was Padge excluded from the initial process in the first place? Was this purely a production decision? Did Matt and the producer want to work differently? Was there tension within the band?

I've seen conflicting explanations and would love to know what people who followed it at the time remember.

3. Then there's the fact that Matt records so much himself

This is another thing I've never really understood. Matt has recorded pretty much ALL of the guitars and bass on BFMV records. Again there's nothing inherently wrong with that, and I know sometimes one guitarists records rhythms but also doing bass too?

But why have a guy like Padge in the band and then have Matt record so much of the instrumentation? Padge is 10x better than Tuck. Some of the stuff he did on The Poison, Scream Aim Fire and Fever is a massive part of the band's identity. So when I hear Matt talking about recording the guitars/bass himself, I can't help wondering whether this is a symptom of the same larger issue:

Matt wants control over exactly how the finished record sounds? Makes me wonder how collaborative the band actually is behind the scenes.

4. Gravity is the ultimate example

Matt has openly talked about wanting to move away from the old BFMV sound. He essentially said they'd done the crazy riffs, solos and technical guitar stuff and wanted to do something different and had "nothing to prove."

But that argument never really made sense to me when ANY band has said it. Having nothing to prove doesn’t mean you have to stop writing great riffs or make your music more commercial. You can have nothing to prove and still write the heaviest, most technical record of your career. Gravity felt more like they were trying to prove they could make a radio-friendly modern rock album, which is fine, but just say that. Calling it “nothing to prove” feels like a cop-out when you’re deliberately moving away from the things that made the band distinctive.

Plus, Matt basically told everyone in the band to get fucked, I'm writing this album.

It's almost the musical equivalent of owning a Ferrari and deciding: “Actually I think I'd rather drive a Prius.”

That says a lot about the band's internal power structure.

5. Jay James' comments about his role and departure are pretty uncomfortable

Jay was there for roughly 15 plus years and was part of the band throughout its entire rise, yet he was essentially just removed from the band in 2015 after being one of its founding members. Matt has also publicly said that Jay did not really have much creative influence over what BFMV did, which is a pretty brutal thing to say about someone who had spent most of his adult life in the band.

The whole situation makes me wonder how much of a democratic creative partnership BFMV ever really was, because from the outside it sometimes seems like Matt determined the overall direction while everyone else contributed within that framework. Jay had been there through the early days, the Poison era, the band's rise to massive success and years of touring, and then he was simply gone. I would genuinely love to hear Jay's own perspective on what happened, because there seems to be a lot more to that story than the relatively simple public announcement that he was leaving.

6. And then we get to Moose...

This is probably the one that bothers me the most. Moose wasn't some hired drummer who joined after BFMV became successful; he was there from the beginning and had been playing with Matt and Padge for decades. When his wife became pregnant, he temporarily stepped away to be with her, fully intending to return to the band. According to Moose's later account, when he came back and tried to get involved again, he was essentially told "youre out."

Meanwhile Jason Bowld was playing drums, and Moose eventually discovered that the band were recording with Bowld. He says he was even asked to appear in a video while someone else played the drums, which he refused. Eventually, according to Moose, he was called in and told that the band wanted him to step down. That is an absolutely fucking awful way to treat someone who had been there since the beginning, especially when he hadn't actually chosen to leave. From Moose's perspective, he had gone home to support his pregnant wife, came back expecting to continue his career with the band he'd spent decades building, and instead found that they had effectively moved on without him.

The public narrative of “Moose decided to leave to spend more time with his family” sounds very different from his account, where he says he wanted to return and was ultimately pushed out. If anyone has the full interviews from Moose, Matt, Padge, Jason Bowld or manager Matt Baskett explaining exactly what happened, I'd genuinely love to see them, because this whole situation seems incredibly harsh towards Michael and I'd like to understand what actually happened rather than just relying on the band's public version.

This is just another example of Matt Tuck being a control freak and an asshat imho.

8. And then there's the Poisoned Ascendancy situation

This one is REALLY frustrating and disappointing to me because it isn't just former BFMV members talking. I'm also a huge Trivium fan, so I've followed the whole Poisoned Ascendancy situation pretty closely, and honestly I thought Trivium handled the situation far better publicly and professionally. BFMV and Trivium had finally put together what should have been an absolutely massive tour celebrating The Poison and Ascendancy, and then the bulk of the dates were suddenly cancelled. Matt's explanation was that BFMV needed to step away from the tour to focus on writing and recording the new album. What a LOAD of crap.

What makes it much harder for me to understand is what happened afterwards. Trivium continued touring and somehow managed to release an EP and a single before Bullet even released its new album, while BFMV ultimately produced a ten song record that runs roughly 39 minutes. So if the reason for abandoning a massive tour was that Bullet desperately needed the time to finish the album, I find it difficult to reconcile that with the eventual result. And personally, having now heard the new song, I think it's bloody awful. Obviously that's subjective, but it makes the whole thing even more frustrating as a fan. Trivium apparently managed to keep touring, write and release new material, while Bullet sacrificed a huge tour supposedly because they needed the additional time to focus on their own record.

Then you have Paolo Gregoletto publicly suggesting that Matt Tuck was the person who didn't want to continue, followed by comments from Trivium's side describing Matt as the sole decision maker and accusing him of showing disrespect towards Trivium and their crew. I'm not going to pretend those accusations are proven facts because I wasn't there, but BFMV and Tuck gave VERY LITTLE explanation which emphasises a lot of what is said is probably true.

This wasn't some random internet argument. This was another established band whose members had actually spent months working alongside Bullet, and they were clearly pissed off enough to speak publicly about it. As a huge Trivium fan, I also thought they handled the fallout considerably more professionally and respectfully than the picture coming from the Bullet side.

And that's what makes this fit into the bigger pattern I'm questioning. If Matt really does have the level of control over BFMV that Trivium described, then it would explain a lot of the other stories surrounding the band: Padge being sidelined during Temper Temper, Jay's lack of creative influence, Moose's departure, and Matt increasingly controlling the musical direction and recording process.

Again, I'm not saying “Matt definitely screwed Trivium” because there are two sides to that story. But when another major band comes away from working with you publicly describing you as the sole decision maker and accusing you of disrespecting their people, and then you look at the amount of time Bullet supposedly needed to finish the album versus what they actually produced, I think it's completely fair to question whether there was more going on behind the scenes than we're being told.

Honestly, at this point I almost wish Padge, Jason, Jamie and Moose would just say fuck it and form a band together. Padge obviously needs no introduction, Moose is an incredible drummer and was part of Bullet from the very beginning, and Jason would slot back in on bass and backing vocals nicelyu. Jamie has also been a guitarist and frontmanhimself before, so I genuinely think he could easily go back to playing guitar while taking on the frontman role, especially considering I actually think his vocals are stronger than Matt's.

Imagine those four getting together with complete creative freedom and no one person dictating what the music has to sound like. You'd have four guys who have all been involved in some of the best eras of BFMV, finally able to make the kind of heavy, melodic, riff driven metal they actually want to make. Honestly, I'd fucking listen to that in a heartbeat.

Got tickets to London, I cannot wait, anyone else going? What show, and what one song do you want the to play? I'll never get bored of seeing The Poison live, so fingers crossed

Full pre-orders for Social Apocalypse are up on both US and UK stores! Deluxe vinyl, regular vinyl, signed deluxe CD, regular CD, some clothing, a bag and a pin. The UK store has bundles.

Get it!

This is easily a top 5 BFMV intro.

Hi,

My friend didn’t get her presale code yet for the sale today. Anybody else got this problem? Is the code going out very late maybe? Or is there anyway to get the code in time for the sale?

1. Waking the demon

2. Deliver us from evil

3. Hit the floor

4. Alone

5. No more tears to cry

6. Eye of the storm

7. Tears don't fall

8. All these things I hate (revolve around me)

9. Cries in vain

10. Worthless

Like, okay, it's not their BEST work neither in production or songwriting but there are some bangers on there (truth hurts, tears don't fall part 2, not invincible, P.O.W).

It's like fever 2.0 just a bit shittier but it's definitely better than anything after Venom

Incrível como nenhum fã de bfmv gosta desse álbum, sinceramente também não é um dos meus favoritos, mas ele também definitivamente não é ruim

The epic “Breath for me!!!” chorus is so unique in its own way followed by the subtle “don’t wake me from this slumber…; I feel the way it was written is epic. Aside from a few songs, I haven’t really heard a chorus similar in Bullet’s repertoire. What are your thoughts on these types of choruses after a fast paced pre-chorus?

Hey everyone!

As a die-hard BFMV fan, I spent some time really breaking down the new single "Social Apocalypse", and I wanted to share my perspective on where the band is heading with this release:

​Atmosphere & Visual Lore: The video instantly gives strong post-apocalyptic, survivalist vibes (think The Last of Us meets an "anti-cyberpunk" collapse). I loved how the narrative shifts from people hypnotized by their devices to a complete red-lit chaos. The subtle nods to past eras—like the Venom family drama aesthetics and the gritty/yellow-filtered band shots reminiscent of All The Things I Hate—felt like a great touch.

​Thematic Critique: Instead of a generic sci-fi apocalypse, the song delivers a raw, timely critique of digital addiction, isolation, and modern intolerance. It highlights how we are already living through this "social apocalypse"—where screen obsession destroys real human interaction and empathy.

​Sound & Production: That siren/alarm-like intro sets a tense, panicky tone that completely fits the concept. The electronic glitches and robotic vox elements feel entirely justified within the theme rather than forced. Jason’s drumming brings so much euphoria and drive, and Matt's clean hook gets stuck in your head instantly. The overall heavy energy reminds me of the self-titled album with touches of Venom.

​Final Verdict: BFMV is telling a story again through their music video and visual concept, and that immersive narrative aspect was something I really missed. It’s abrupt, heavy, and definitely raised my hype for the upcoming record!

​What are your thoughts on the single, the themes, and where do you think they’re taking the new album?

Guys, wanna go down the nostalgy road?
I did an Interview with the Boys long ago, and I decided to upload it on YouTube.
To those who are interested, enjoy!

Depois de ouvir algumas vezes a música nova, me fez lembrar da discografia e inclusive ouvir algumas músicas antigas.

Me diz o que achou do meu tier list?

Mudaria algo?

O que dizer do álbum gravity e temper temper? São um dos mais criticados até hoje.

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