How Drugs, Alcohol Almost Destroyed Bullet For My Valentine

Fans can be thankful that Bullet For My Valentine are still together considering the inner-tensions that threatened to tear the band apart just a few years ago.

The band's frontman Matt Tuck has revealed to Brendan Crabb that internal issues and substance abuse caused a rift within the Welsh metal band during a 2010 tour, and they resulted in group intervention-style meeting.

“Mainly it was stuff going on behind the scenes on the [2010] Fever Tour, between the band members,” he said. “We went through a bit of a sticky patch for about six months where things started to kind of implode. Even though we'd been around for a while, we were starting to fall into a case of almost not caring anymore.

“[We were] starting to get into bad habits of drinking and experimenting with certain fucking drugs, just doing stupid shit that everyone in bands kind of does at some point. But for us it wasn't at the start, it was now when we'd become established and things just started to become awkward.

He admitted, “We weren't talking to each other much, and we just started to resent being in the band. It just all got to us really, because we were riding a wave of success and being busy, which is great. But at the same time we almost started to dislike it, and being away from home.”

This anger led to the creation of new record Temper Temper, Turk writing throughout the disagreements right up until the members sorted their issues out.

“So it took its toll, but thankfully we're such a tight unit that we addressed it and nipped it in the bud. Things are a lot better now and everything's cool. I got that down on paper, almost as therapy, just to get it out of the system and it was nice to write about situations that actually did mean something to me personally.”

Read the full interview here.