Bullet For My Valentine’s Matt Tuck has opened up about his love of Metallica, explaining how he’d love to see the band cover one of his songs.
Ever since they first formed in Wales 20 years ago, Bullet For My Valentine have been making a name for themselves as one of the most prominent metalcore bands on the scene. Of course, like any modern metal band, it turns out that Metallica was a major influence on the group’s members.
Speaking to Radio Bob! recently, Bullet For My Valentine’s Matt Tuck explained how his love affair with Metallica began after seeing the ‘Enter Sandman’ clip as a teenager.
“I just fell in love with the sound and the intensity of it and the imagery of that video,” Tuck explained. “It just captured me, and from that moment, that’s what I wanted to do.”
“So I kind of focused all my efforts, even at 14 years old, to sitting down, learning to play guitar by myself. I didn’t take any lessons or anything. I just stuck on The Black Album and off I went. I just kind of learned it from my ears, worked it all out.”
Check out Radio Bob!’s Bullet For My Valentine interview:
Having covered Metallica’s ‘Welcome Home (Sanitarium)’ and ‘Creeping Death’ in the past, Matt Tuck also explained how it would be a bit of a milestone to see the iconic thrash-metal group cover one of Bullet For My Valentine’s songs.
“I take myself to being a 14-year-old kid and going back into that kind of headspace,” he explained. “And Metallica has always been the reason for any of this happening in the first place.”
“So to maybe hear them giving one of our songs a little bit of makeover would be a pretty special moment for us.”
“And I think they would do it justice, especially the older stuff. Maybe a song like ‘Scream Aim Fire’,” he continued. “’cause that song was just basically built around what they’ve always done — it’s thrashy, it’s edgy, it’s intense, it’s got riffs for days, it’s got multiple guitar solos.”
“So I think they could probably do a kick-ass cover of that. That’d be good.”
Bullet For My Valentine’s latest album, Gravity, was released back in June, and the band just wrapped up an Aussie tour with an appearance at Good Things over the weekend.
Check out Bullet For My Valentine’s ‘Scream Aim Fire’:
