Matt Tuck, frontman for Welsh bashers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, is featured in a new interview with ARTISTDirect.com discussing the band's new album, Temper Temper. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Was your vision for Temper Temper clear from the beginning?

Matt: "Yeah, we always wanted it to flow like it did so we were aware of writing in a way that was spontaneous. It was a fresh way of doing things. We did want to make a complete album. Each song individually had to be an amazing song, but even more importantly, the album had to sit as one piece of work together as a unit. We wrote a lot of other songs as well. They were great individually, but they never made it on the album just because when we put them in the album they didn't fit very well. It was always a conscious decision to write great songs individually but also focus on the album as a whole."

Q: Has the process of composing songs changed? These tracks hit harder.

Matt: "It was a conscious effort for us to do things differently in the songwriting process. One of the main ideas was slowing things down. Automatically, as soon as we did that, it was a bit of a struggle for us. It was odd slowing things down. It felt a bit uncomfortable to play, which is odd. You'd think the faster things are, the more uncomfortable they'd be. It was actually the reverse. As soon as we came to grips with everything and did the first few songs of the album, it was all good."

Q: When you slow things, they get even heavier.

Matt: "That was the main point in slowing it down. It wasn't to make the album more accessible, it was to make it heavier, bigger, and fatter. It was a conscious effort that definitely paid off. For us, the longer we've lived with it, it gets better and better. As we've been in rehearsals for three weeks now, it makes the experience of playing the songs far more enjoyable as well. Everything's a bit thrash-y and quick, which is great live. We're seeing the benefit of slowing things down in the bigger picture."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Temper Temper debuted in the US at #1 on the Hard Music Albums chart, #4 on the Alternative Albums chart, #5 on the Rock Albums chart, and #13 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In Canada, Temper Temper enters the Top 200 at #9, and hits the Hard Music Chart at #1!

The tracklist for Temper Temper is as follows:

'Breaking Point'

'Truth Hurts'

'Temper Temper'

'Pow'

'Dirty Little Secret'

'Leech'

'Dead To The World'

'Riot'

'Saints n Sinners'

'Tears Don't Fall' (Part 2)

'Livin' Life (On The Edge of A Knife)'

Deluxe edition bonus tracks:

'Not Invincible'

'Whole Lotta Rosie' (from the Live Lounge show on BBC Radio 1)

'Scream Aim Fire' (from the Live Lounge show on BBC Radio)

Check out a stream of the new album at Soundwavefestival.com.

Videos for the singles 'Temper Temper' and 'Riot', can be seen below:

Bullet For My Valentine have announced dates for a UK tour in March, with special guests HALESTORM. Dates include:

March

12 - O2 Academy - Birmingham, England
13 - O2 Academy - Glasgow, Scotland
15 - O2 Apollo - Manchester, England
17 - Roundhouse - London, England