Bullet For My Valentine

This EP was a wakeup call to bring back a bit of guitar technicality to the mainstream. Its heavy, its frantic, its guitars slice you to bits. This was BFMV at their very best, even today if I want to listen to this band I will put this CD on. Yes `Poison' is quite a good record but this is a finely crafted almost perfect CD of songs. No weak filler here.If you want to hear Bullet at their best looking like they could take over the world this is the one BFMV CD to rule them all.Hand of Blood: Violent screams, chugging rhythm, leads bursting forth all over the place. Time to breath? No way.Cries in Vain: Starts with a sound as if emerging from water before the stop start riffing kicks in. Like Killswitch Engage drowning in a sea of Iron Maiden.Curses: The ballad, not in a skip this track way, more to help you take a breath. Begins in a lovely acoustic way before kicking it up a notch or ten.No Control: Letting lose after the ballad trackJust Another Star: What a closing track! Violent, technical and soaring.No weak songs buy now.

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Back with a vengeance after a period of mediocrity. This album is heavy and awesome.

Start to finish amazing

All BFMV fans need this in their collection.Catalogues the bands beginning from their thrash metal roots.Not as melodic as their later offerings. ..... but who cares. They ARE the new PANTERA(RIP Diamond Darrell)

I got this for my sons birthday and he really enjoys it. Has a good mix of songs. Very happy.

Such a fantastic album. An amazing band.

Bands like Bullet and Trivium get a lot of grief these days for not being true metal or whatever (like anyone expected this to sound like Atlantean Kodex), but you have to give credit where it's due. These guys, along with Killswitch, Shadows Fall, and to an extent Funeral For A Friend, brought guitar harmonies, double bass drumming, and real metal riffs to the mainstream, giving birth to about a million similar bands. I guarantee everyone who bought this back in the day has since gotten into Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer etc. I mean, look at how popular those bands have become in the last ten years. It's not just Guitar Hero and social media. It was albums like 'The Poison' and 'Ascendency', too.This is the self-titled debut EP from Welsh superstars Bullet For My Valentine, and it contains some of their best songs. The only dud is 'Curses', a soppy ballad that does nothing for me, but the rest is golden. 'Cries In Vain' was obviously too good to waste on an EP, so it went on 'The Poison'. Reason you need this is 'Hand Of Blood', one of Bullet's heaviest and most infectious tunes. Worth the price alone. The production is pretty rough-sounding, and Matt sounds whiny as hell, but it's all good (except 'Curses'), with fun songs like 'No Control' keeping the metalcore flag burning. Really, this is a twin purchase with 'The Poison'. It sounds a little dated, but all that does is bring back pleasant memories. Worth a listen.