Bullet For My Valentine – ‘All These Things I Hate [Revolve Around Me]’ (Visible Noise) Released 06/02/06

Bullet For My Valentine have been hailed  with some excitement since their arrival for producing hard and heavy Metallica sized metal and for having the otherwise British influences that could revitalise albion over the US as the land of metal. Here though it seems like in an effort at a more commercial sound and song structure much of this has been lost.   ‘All these things I hate (revolve around me)' does what it sets out to do well and will probably be a cross over success, but boiled down to its component parts this is a familiar recipe of sung melodic verse with chiming guitars, a screamed bridge then a catchy rock-out  chorus and fairly predictable angsty angry lyrics. It’s a formula sells and perhaps it’s unintentionally derivative but there’s nothing too much to celebrate here.