Bullet for my Valentine - Fever (4/5)

01. Your Betrayal 04:51 02. Fever 03:57 03. The Last Fight 04:19 04. A Place Where You Belong 05:06 05. Pleasure And Pain 03:53 06. Alone 05:56 07. Breaking Out, Breaking Down 04:04 08. Bittersweet Memories 05:09 09. Dignity 04:29 10. Begging for Mercy 03:56 11. Pretty on the Outside 03:56

For those who say: Bullet for My Valentine. That’s not metal! I have only one thing to say. Screw you. Bullet for My Valentine’s 4th album ‘Fever’ hit the stores on the 26th of April. As a Bullet For My Valentine fan I have to say its an amazing step up from their last album Scream Aim Fire. Fever is back to Poison Era Mosh pit anthems and soaring guitar solo’s rather than all the messed up aggressive songs found on Scream Aim Fire. Bullet have definitely gone back to their pop metal roots, which is a shame as many people notice them through their amazing Scremo vocals on Classic tracks like ‘Tears dont Fall’ and ‘Suffocation under words of sorrow’.

Fever is a very experimental album. Matt Tuck and Co have expanded on their; verse, chorus, verse, chorus approach and now have thrown in amazingly heavy solo’s and quite a lot of melodic sing along bridges. With 11 songs that battle at the 50 minute mark, I expected a more variety. Only half the album is filled with top class tunes and the rest is just filler that sounds like the never ending screeching of bored babies.

Sure, Bullet for my Valentine have mellowed out. But maybe the band’s future is in becoming completely different. If people mope and moan about how Scremo isn’t metal then maybe they should listen to Fever for an introductory course to Bullet for My Valentine. With clean cut vocals and heavy as hell guitar parts ‘Fever’ definitely has to be the future of heavy metal. With 2010 only just starting, I predict this influential album will be close to the top on nearly everybody’s top 20 albums of the year list.

Fever is available to buy or download at Play.com

Genre : Metal / Screamo

Article by Matt Seddon