BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matt Tuck is featured in a new interview with Music-Photocalypse.net. An excerpt is available below

Q: Are there any significant changes on the new album (Fever) compared to your previous works?

Matt: In what sense?

Q: Musically?

Matt: "Musically I don’t think anything is dramatically different from what we’ve done before. The biggest difference was working with Don Gilmore – we’ve never worked with a proper record producer before. So he made me think about lyrics a lot more. And if he didn’t think it was good enough, where I thought it kind of was, he would say 'No, do it again.' So we would sit down and write together until we came up with the strongest lyrical content we could at that time for that song."

Q: So it was ok for you to comply with what another person told you to do?

Matt: "Yeah, it was difficult at first, ‘cause I never had anyone tell me what to do or 'No, that’s not good enough.´' People were always just 'Yeah, it’s cool.' And up until this time in our career it’s been done really well, so no one had any reason to, but it was good that he really pushed me super-super hard, just trying to step up my game and write things better than I thought they could be."

Q: A lot of musicians say that they don’t care about critics, but everyone probably has a person to whose criticism they really pay attention. Do you have that kind of person?

Matt: "It would be the record producer and band mates, really. As long as we’re happy and the person that’s making the record with us, we love it, then it really doesn’t matter if people criticize it or don’t like it, because it’s not really relevant. We make music first and foremost, because it’s our creative art. What we do is what we love. As long as we like that, it doesn’t matter what people think."

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Bullet For My Valentine announced they are hitting the European festival scene this summer. Check out the dates below. More tour info to be announced soon.

June

10 - Download Festival – Leicestershire, UK
11 - Greenfields Festival – Interlaken, Switzerland
12 - Download Festival – Leicestershire, UK
25 - Graspop Festival - Dessel, Belgium

July

1 - With Full Force – Löbnitz, Germany

8/9 - Sonisphere - Amnéville, France

22 Deichbrand Open Air - Cuxhaven, Germany

23 - Serengeti Festival - Schloss Holte Stukenbrock, Germany