Bullet For My Valentine Drummer Talks About Influences On New Album
InTheNews.co.uk's recently caught up with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE drummer Mike "Moose" Thomas. Th efollowing is an excerpt for the einterview:
Q: So do you think the music industry's more open to MAIDEN-esque metal now?
Moose: "Well, it's nice to be putting this kind of metal back in the mainstream. Kids that buy our stuff will go back and listen to early METALLICA or early Maiden and that's pretty cool."
Q: Iron Maiden are a clearly a huge influence - was it an honour to tour with them?
Moose: "Yeah, it was great. When we got the opportunity to open up for them, it was unbelievable, really."
Q: How did you go down with their crowds?
Moose: "Unfortunately not very well. It's the same for any band that plays before Iron Maiden. You get booed, you get stuff thrown at it. It's pretty hard, but we were just glad to be supporting Iron Maiden."
Q: The Poison did pretty well across the Atlantic - are you hoping to replicate that sort of success with Scream, Aim, Fire?
Moose: "Yeah, we just want to tour it and get it out there, we're pretty sick of the last one. Obviously we want to beat the last one because we're a band that likes to progress and we don't want to make the same record twice."
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5. writes:
i suppose broken face must hate Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin as well. Slayer and Pantera are also bands to be despised i suppose. i guess We can just enjoy the music genres that would not exist without these bands while simultaneously we wish that they never existed. No inherrent hypocrisy in that whatsoever. Personally, I hate whoever little motherf***er invented the guitar. I'm gonna kill that bastard and then play some bass afterwards to relax.
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12. writes:
iron maiden owns everything except disney...end of story.
and of course all of the bands that have been opening for maiden have been getting booed and assaulted with miscellaneous objects lately -- because they suck. most maiden fans (all that i know) actually have quality music taste. not this watered-down garbage played poorly by emo-esque "metal" posers.
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13. writes:
you can see a bands influence and still not like them, for me i cant stand led zeppelin and think pantera is probably one of the most overrated bands in metal history. especially when there were so many more talented bands at the time. guess its the same way today, overrated bands like bullet, shadows fall, lamb of god, trivium and dragonforce are praised while much better bands like the absence, quo vadis and skyfire go largely ignored. but i guess thats just the eternal battle of mainstream and the underground.
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14. writes:
"pantera is probably one of the most overrated bands in metal history. especially when there were so many more talented bands at the time." @ smoothjazz - there were? If you asked me after 93 it was the great fall of metal, who was left, Nile, Cryptopsy and? Black metal?
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15. writes:
Ok i better give you my reasons. Yes iron maiden ave influnaced loadsss of bands an i can see that respect. But that doesnt stop them from being sh**. And bruce d***insons voice an whole attitude suks hairy balls. To anwser "f*** a Name" i like slayer black sabboth n pantera hate led zepplin but no1 can denie there a great rounded band. To anwser "Agnostic Priest" bands like sepultura, soulfly,damageplan, suffocation, devildriver the list goes on an on
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17. writes:
this great fall of metal in the mid and late 90s is bullsh**. just because metal wasnt as mainstream anymore didnt mean that there werent better bands out there producing great material. before gothenburg got "hip", at the gates, in flames and dark tranquillity were realeasing some of their best albums in the 90s. the list goes on of bands that were releasing better material than pantera. emperor, bal sagoth, iced earth, bathory, dark funeral, edge of sanity, hypocrisy, vader, sentenced and candlemass just to name a few. thrash and power may have been dying down but the 90s were a breeding ground for great death, black and doom metal. anyway thats enough of my rant :-P
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18. writes:
Lamb of God is far from overrated, and I don't see how they are mainstream. I wish these stupid people who think they know what they are talking about would stop coming on here with there pointless rants, smoothjazz. They start droping names and they go on and on meanwhile they sound dumb. But anyway BFMV does suck
19. writes:
LOG is pretty mainstream. Featured in hot topic, all the "popular metal" cd compilations from all the labels and mtv, played on popular radio, etc. They are overrated; they're not making anything ground breaking or genre shattering, just decent metal with a sub-par vocalist.
How can you respect something sh**ty there brokenface? Don't get being sh**ty (aka Norma Jean) confused with being good and not liking something.
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21. writes:
OK smoothjazz I'm not saying metal died in the 90s, of course there were still stellar bands. But if asked me, after 95 it signalled a massive decline. Black Metal had given it's heave producing all the archetypal albums and Emperor and co. went off experimenting. I will give you Bathory since the post black metal/viking thing was amazing. It's a pretty common sentiment that death metal gave it's last show in 93 with all the technical releases from Death, Atheist, Cynic, Pestilence etc. After that we got the same thing we get with Black Metal now, a sea of generic copycats.
Your main point with was Melodic Death Metal. I suppose I can let you have that, however I personally disagree. The only MDM albums I like are pre-95, with Slaughter of the Soul being a signal for mainstreaming the genre.
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23. writes:
no, but compared to the '80s and early '90s there were A LOT more quality bands kicking a$$ in their PRIME. then grunge came along and blew up around the time metallica became huge and then sold out and all of a sudden bands became confused as to what metal was and the mainstream jumped onto grunge/reload metallica as the next trend. the '90s weren't the best priest, maiden, slayer, megadeth, etc. years either.
the underground cycles through loops. and the '90s was a set back for metal as a genre. nowadays i think we are cycling back to the old school with a rejuvinated "true metal" scene beginning to emerge with bands like dethklok, municipal waste, warbringer, evile, skeletonwitch, 3 inches of blood, etc. along with classic bands like cynic, exodus, testament, forbidden, heathen and death angel all recording again. and, outcome pending, a possible return to form by metallica (horns crossed). not to mention successful reunions of maiden, priest, sabbath w/ dio, iced earth now, carcass, at the gates.
all while grunge and nu-metal died and metalcore slowly losing momentum.
so as far as consistent quality bands emerging and classic bands at top form, the '90s were a relative drag.
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24. writes:
terminator's got a point. im glad to see the nu metal sh** decline...i used to be a slipknot fan(in 2003)i listened to mainly mainstream sh** like shadows fall and lamb of god(yes they are mainstream no matter what you say. Listen to their song redneck then the song 11th hour, you'll hear a differance). LoG have progressed as musicians without a doubt, but they watered down their recent effort with the singing...not clean singing(thankfully)but grungy...singing...you get my point.
lol @ the moron who said maiden was untalanted.
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26. writes:
yeah, bands like lamb of god have talent, nobody is denying that. but they're far from good songwriters. and i think you see a lot of that in todays metalcore scene. you have a load of talented kids coming out and forming bands, but they cant write songs for sh**. take a band like trivium for instance. loads of talent there, and the kids can definitely shred. but the amateur song writing ultimately leads to dissapointing albums which are ultimately nothing special. but take a band like amon amarth. they are ultimately not all that musically talented and nothing they play is too complicated. but it is their song writing talents that save them for their uncanny ability to make these epic passages and every song unique.
28. writes:
Personally, on the LoG thing, Their last album was definetly a shove towards mainstream, and I'm starting to lose respect for them, despite the incredible live shows they put out. Ashes of the Wake had some good Songwriting on it however, I believe. It pushed the band outside of the normal labeling of Metalcore by a slim margin, and I hoped for a new genre-break from these guys. However, they just descended further into MC than they had begun at. It's instances like this that make people p***ed at the current Metal scene. Even when something approaches being different, it fails horribly.
BTW, thank you MR. Terminator for the Warbringer mention. don't hear of too many people listening to them, so It's nice to see them get noticed here and there. They show promise in my eyes for a resurgent Thrash Metal movement, god willing. One of my favorite bands right now, goin to see them this Jan. 30 with goatwhore, arsis, and Exodus, f*** yeah!!!
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31. writes:
forgot to explain. nile have stayed true throughout their career. george kollias is better then chris adler.
while LoG are talanted musicians without a doubt, their recent effort(like f*** a name wrote)is a push towards the mainstream.
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1. broken face writes:
Unfortunately not very well You get booed, you get stuff thrown at it. HAHAAHA i wonder why. Then again i would do the same to sh**ty iron maiden