Top 10: Albums of 2010

2010 has been a fantastic year for music, band old and new have released absolutely stunning albums. That has only made the job of choosing a top 10 much harder. But here’s my attempt.

BFMV Announce UK Arena Tour

Bullet For My Valentine are touring arenas in the UK in support of their 10/10 album, Fever!

December 2010
6 Birmingham, NIA
8 Manchester, MEN
9 Glasgow, SECC
11 Cardiff, CIA
12 London, Wembley Arena

Bullet For My Valentine – Fever Review

Fever

Bullet For My Valentine have been dividing opinions since the release of the début album, but now they are back with their third effort, Fever.

Are they metal? Are they emo? Are they posers? Are they good? Just some of the questions asked about BFMV. Well, in this review I will answer those questions.

Firstly, Are they metal? Of course they are, Just listen to Your Betrayal, The Last Fight, Begging For Mercy. All fantastic metal songs, no, metal anthems. BFMV have taken the traditional metal formula and added pop sensibilities to make sure their songs get in your head and never leave.

Emo? People really need to stop using this word, just because their songs have emotional value that means they are emos? Well if that’s so then James Hetfield: emo, Corey Taylor: emo, Phil Anselmo: emo. Most good music is about something important to the artist who wrote it, so it’s definitely going to have some emotional value to them. Tracks like Bittersweet Memories, A Place Where You Belong and Pretty On The Outside would all probably be lumped in as emo by people who don’t know what they are talking about. But these are all great tracks and help give Fever a more balanced sound.

BFMV definitely aren’t posers, Matt Tuck sings with so much conviction in his voice, there is no faking that. These are four guys who love what they are doing. Okay, they have the pretty boy looks, but that doesn’t mean anything, listen to the album and you will see, BFMV are for real, there’s nothing fake about these guys.

Now, to the most important question. Is Fever any good? The answer to this question is a big, fat 100% yes!

On Fever, BFMV have taken the best parts of their first two albums, got rid of the bad bits and created a spectacular album. There aren’t any bad tracks, and each track sounds individual as Matt Tuck has finally changed his vocal pattern, giving each song a different sound. Fever is going to be hard to top. Tracks like Fever, Your Betrayal and Alone are built for stadiums. Epic sounding, huge choruses and fantastic riffs and solos. What more do you want from a metal band?

Fever is Bullet’s masterpiece, a superb album that everybody should own.

10/10

Highlights: Your Betrayal, Fever, The Last Fight, Bittersweet Memories, Pretty On The Outside

Bullet For My Valentine – Your Betrayal Video

Final Tracklisting For Fever

01. Your Betrayal
02. Fever
03. The Last Fight
04. A Place Where You Belong
05. Pleasure and Pain
06. Alone
07. Breaking Out Breaking Down
08. Bittersweet Memories
09. Dignity
10. Begging For Mercy
11. Pretty On The Outside

this is the official tracklisting for the new Bullet For My Valentine album.

BFMV Fever Artwork

FEVER

This is the artwork for the new Bullet For My Valentine album, bit weird isn’t it?

Fever Updated Tracklist

To update a previous post, it seems some of those were wrong. (I did say I got it from wiki and was not 100% sure they were correct)

Wiki now lists these tracks, they all have references so there is more chance of them being right. also, this is not the full tracklisting, only what has been confirmed so far:

Begging for Mercy
Your Betrayal
The Last Fight
Fever
Alone
Bittersweet Memories
Dignity

The album will be released on the 26th of April and the first single, Your Betrayal, will be released on the 9th of March.

BFMV Fever Tracklisting – FAKE

Please note: This is taken from Wikipedia and may not be 100% correct.

1. Hit And Run
2. Corridors
3. These Days Are Black
4. Your Betrayal
5. Numbers
6. I Am Not Alone
7. The Fever
8. Reason To Hide
9. Begging For Mercy
10. Reverse This Curse
11. The Last Fight

UPDATE: This tracklisting is fake, check here for a more up to date version.

Bad Blood Between Lostprophets And BFMV

Lee Gaze (Lostprophets guitarist) posted this on his Twitter:

“Anyone see the the rocksound article with MattTuck? What a cock. He is consistent in sounding like an asshole.”

We’ll have to wait to see if Matt Tuck responds to this. Why cant all the Welsh people be friends.

BFMV Announce Album Title Plus Free Track

Bullet For My Valentine have announced the title of their new album will be Fever.

They are also giving away the track Begging For Mercy for free here

The album is to be released on the 26th of April in the UK and 27th in the US.

The free track is a stormer, a definate step up from Scream Aim Fire and The Poison.