00:00It encapsulates what Bullet is, it's heavy, it's melodic, it's anthemic, it's intricate, it has a weird structure.
00:09What's up everyone? I'm Matt from Bullet For My Valentine.
00:12I'm here with the guys at Metal Hammer to give you the five Bullet For My Valentine songs that shaped
00:15who we are and what the band is about.
00:17So first up, I think it's probably no surprise to anyone that the main song that has been the staple
00:23in Bullet For My Valentine's career is Tears Don't Fall.
00:33It was a huge song off the boys and a song, you know, over 20 years later still never left
00:38the band's setlist.
00:39It's our most streamed song. We have gold discs for single sales. It's a very special song for us, for
00:45me personally.
00:46And for the Bullet fans out there, it's one of those songs that they look forward to hearing at every
00:50show.
00:51So that would be probably number one on the list. I think second would be Hand of Blood.
01:02That was probably the first song that people heard of us as a band.
01:06The first ever music video we did, the first single we ever released.
01:10And again, it's a fan favourite, a song every time we play it live, even 20 odd years later, it
01:14still goes down well at the live shows.
01:16Next, I would choose Waking the Demon off Screaming Fire.
01:27Again, it was one of those songs that was, when I remember writing it, I just knew we had something
01:30cool, something special.
01:31It encapsulates what Bullet is. It's heavy, it's melodic, it's anthemic, it's intricate, it has a weird structure.
01:36Yeah, again, one of the songs that has never left the setlist ever since it was written.
01:41Next song, I would say, probably Screaming Fire, off the same album.
01:52Again, it was a song that, when it first came out, it just kicked right off, you know what I
01:57mean?
01:57And it was an era of the band where it was still really fresh and exciting for us.
02:00It was only our second album at that point.
02:02And coming off the back of how successful The Poison was, we did feel kind of a little bit of
02:06pressure writing it.
02:07But when Screaming Fire and Waking the Demon and a few other songs kind of came to life,
02:12it was kind of like, okay, cool, we got this, we got this.
02:15So what was that for, right? So one more, that's hard.
02:18We got like eight albums or something, so that's a tough one.
02:20I would probably pick Your Betrayal as the next one.
02:30Again, it's, you know, every opening track that we have on an album is there for a reason.
02:33And it's kind of what we want people to hear first of our band.
02:37And, you know, the way the song starts with that kind of military style snare drum and syncopated guitar riff
02:43and how it builds up into the first kind of festival band section.
02:47Just a great song, you know, a song that I'm incredibly proud of writing still.
02:49And, again, a song that goes down well every time we play it.
02:53It's a little, it's intricate, it's a little darker.
02:55It's not as fierce and as intense as Screaming Fire and that era of Bull of My Valentine.
03:00But a song that nonetheless did really big things for us.
03:03It was huge when it came out.
03:05I think Fever at that point as well, when it dropped, it was like hit number two on the billboard
03:09in America and stuff.
03:10So it kind of signaled a turning point for the band professionally.
03:13We were going from small rooms to big rooms to kind of clubs to academies and then straight to arenas
03:20off the back of Fever.
03:21So, you know, again, a really exciting part of the band's history and a song that, you know, still stands
03:26the test of time today.
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