Bullet for My Valentines new album is finally out and in all honesty it has felt like an eternity for this album to be released! Being the hard rock fan that I am I had to get the album and get it I did!
I’m going to get the negatives out the way first, this album is not as good as the poison. I know that Matt Tuck had some issues with his vocal cords recently and as such they can’t perform the way they used to but as my brother pointed out, its sounds like they trying to emulate Trivium. This is by no means a bad thing but I liked B4MV’s style on the previous album. This albums feels like its aimed at the younger teen crowd. This album also has heavy underlying political themes.
Onto the positives! The album starts off with “Scream Aim Fire” which I must admit is one of their best ever songs. As in traditional B4MV styles the riffs are fast and intricate and generally sound awesome. Matt’s voice isn’t as heavy as it was but it still sounds brilliant, Padge and Jay support with great backing vocals covering the heavier vocal parts. “Hearts burst into Fire” is type of track you can except throughout this album, its catchy but at the sametime seems a little poppy.
Personally the 3 best tracks on this album are Scream Aim Fire, Hearts Burst into Fire and Say Goodnight. All in all, it is a nice addition to my collection and I’m really enjoying it. Now I just need to wait a few months for the Disturbed and Metallica albums.
It is a sad state of affairs when a company cancels a probably sold-out concert because of politics. I am a HUGE Metal / Heavy Metal fan and my number 1 album of this year is definitely “The Blackening” by MachineHead. It is lyrically and musically an extremely powerful album. I would kill to have these guys performing out here in South Africa one day, yet Disney in Orlando canceled their show 2 days before its due date. 2 DAYS! I mean WTF?! The tickets had been on sale for 2 weeks and Disney pulled this off.
Robb Flynn (lead singer of MachineHead) wrote a blog post here concerning this and it has the whole story : http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2007/10/10/guest-blog-machine-heads-robb-flynn-talks-censorship/
Whats sad, as Mr. Flynn points out, is that the show got canceled to make Disney Land a “safer place” while the cinemas there are showing adult only movies containing Sex, Nudity, Excessive Violence and extreme Language. None of the Hip-Hop shows had been canceled either. What is wrong when in “The Land of the Free” you can’t even enact your human right to freedom of speech?! Its ridiculous.
Come to South Africa MachineHead, we wont ostracize you! Ask Metallica when they were welcomed by a 43, 000 strong crowd in Centurion. BRING ON THE METAL! \m/
October 23 2007 is the date to look out for people!
The new album “Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces” has been tentatively scheduled for release on October 23, 2007. I am a massive fan of these guys and I cannot wait for a new album!
Lately I’ve been using http://www.musicovery.com/ every single night. It is just so interesting. Simply select the timeframe of music you want, genres of music and your mood and it gives you an amazing selection of music.
I have no idea how it works but it would be very interesting to know! Thanks to Ernest for pointing this one out. You can read his original post here : http://dotnet.org.za/ernst/archive/2007/07/02/music-that-suits-your-mood.aspx