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Venom (Bullet for My Valentine album)

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Released
  
14 August 2015

Artist
  
Bullet for My Valentine

Label
  
RCA Records

Length
  
41:07

Release date
  
14 August 2015

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Recorded
  
Late 2013 – May 2015 at Metropolis Studios, London, England

Producer
  
Colin Richardson, Carl Bown

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Melodic metalcore

Similar
  
Bullet for My Valentine albums, Heavy metal albums

Venom is the fifth studio album by the Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine, released on 14 August 2015 via RCA Records, their second and last album under the label. It is the first album by the band since the departure of bassist Jason "Jay" James, which was announced in February 2015 while the band was recording the album. Jamie Mathias was announced as his replacement on 18 May 2015, along with the album's title, release date and release of the album's first single, "No Way Out".

Contents

"No Way Out" and "Broken" were premiered live during the band's headlining performance at the Camden Rocks Festival in London on 30 May 2015. The second and third singles, "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)" and "Army of Noise", were released on 29 June and 17 July 2015, respectively. Another two songs, "Playing God" and "Worthless" were released respectively on 10 August and 13 August 2015. The whole album was made available for streaming on YouTube on 14 August 2015.

Bullet for my valentine venom full album


Reception

Venom received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 58/100 based on 8 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". British magazine Kerrang! awarded the album 4 stars, saying that "Venom has injected a whole new life into the British metal heroes." Alternative Press and AllMusic both gave the album 3.5 stars. However, a negative review came from Bradley Zorgdrager of Exclaim! who gave the album a 3 out of 10. The critic wrote that "the lack of quality choruses leaves something to be desired. While their heaviest output won't win over any elitists, fans will also have trouble finding something here to sing along to."

The album was included at number 37 on Rock Sound's top 50 releases of 2015 list.

Bullet for My Valentine

  • Matt Tuck - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, production on "Raising Hell"
  • Michael "Padge" Paget - lead guitar, additional vocals on "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)", production on "Ace of Spades"
  • Michael "Moose" Thomas - drums, additional vocals on "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)"
  • Jamie Mathias - bass guitar, backing vocals (He is credited as a member of the band but, actually, Tuck recorded the bass guitar. Jamie said in an interview that he hopes "to be involved in future band projects.")

    • Additional personnel

  • Jason "Jay" James - bass guitar, backing vocals on all Japan and Best Buy live bonus tracks
  • Colin Richardson - production, mixing
  • Carl Bown - production, mixing, additional vocals on "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)"
  • Jim Pinder - additional engineering
  • Josh Gilbert - co-production on tracks 8 & 9
  • Shane Blay - co-production on tracks 8 & 9
  • Alex Robinson - co-mixing, vocals recording on "Ace of Spades"
  • Ted Jensen - mastering
  • Dan Brown, Austin Dickinson, Ryan Richards, Stefan Whiting, Jack Vallier, Henry Boeree, Rebekah Power, Emma Gorman, Lauren Metccalf, Alice Williams, Andrew Humphries & Ginnie Breakwell - gang vocals on "You Want a Battle? (Here's a War)"
  • Martyn "Ginge" Ford - production, mixing on "In Loving Memory (Demo Version)", engineering on "Raising Hell"

    • Songs

    1V1:26
    2No Way Out3:53
    3Army of Noise4:18

    References

    Venom (Bullet for My Valentine album) Wikipedia
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