Back in 2010, Matt Tuck had a moment of clarity about his lot in life. “I’ll be trying to convince people I’m good at what I do until the day I die,” he told Kerrang!. Bullet For My Valentine were about to release Fever, the 5K-rated album that would tear its way into U.S. and UK charts at number three and five respectively, and propel the rising Welshmen to the head of the pack of modern British metal. Despite the momentum and the major label clout behind him, Matt asserted, “that [attitude] comes from being beaten down, mentally, when I was growing up. It comes from being told we were shit. I don’t think that feeling will ever go away.” Present these words to Bullet’s frontman today and his outlook is more measured, but the sentiment is one that still clearly resonates deep within h...
