Greece-based RockPages.gr recently caught up with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE bassist Jay James. An excerpt is available below.

Rockpages.gr: The (new) album sounds pretty dark. What inspired you?

Jay: "Well, we tried to pick it up where we left off with Poison, which did really good. Basically we tried to make a cross between our two albums. We took some time off and we tried to write the best album we could, and try to hit home on the Poison feel. We went back to the old places where we did some writing for the Poison album, some of the old studios, trying to get the same feelings we got back then, and out came Fever. It was quite hard to do it. It took us two times in writing the album, because the first one didn’t work out. The second time we’d done all the music again, and after three, or four months it turned out great."

Rockpages.gr: Poison debuted at No.138 in the US charts, Scream Aim Fire at No.4, and Fever at No.3. Does that create any kind of pressure in the band?

Jay: "To be honest with you it really takes us all over the moon! We are really happy, and proud. I must say that the album charted beyond anyone’s expectations. We thought it was going to do good all over the world, but it did even better than we expected. We started to get a bigger fanbase, a bigger following. So… pressure? Ahmm, I don’t think that there is any more pressure, because we still play the shows that we play, and I hope that we will be moving up now to bigger venues, and arenas because of this. So, we have to make the next album bigger, and better than the last one. We must try and make it No.1 next time, but also to be at No.3 at the moment is amazing!"

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Fever made its debut at #3 on Billboard's album chart. The highly anticipated 11-track record featuring the fuming single and video 'Your Betrayal' was released on April 27 and is BFMV's top selling debut to date, selling over 71,000 units in the first week.

The fever has spread across the globe where Fever has made its mark on international album charts, hitting #2 on Japan's "international artist chart", #2 in Austria, #3 in Germany, #4 in Switzerland and #5 in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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