The Welsh organization is one of the largest and most maximum dividing steel teams in the United Kingdom, with oxen and a bad press along Good Fortune Road. When they return with seven album, singer Matt Tuck becomes non -public with Roisin O’Connor in marriage, Brexit and how pandemic has shaped his maximum “intense” “intense” music to this day

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Matt Tuck can be the maximum modest leader in the world of steel. At the level of his Ball organization for my Valentine’s Day, he is a maelstrom of members and hair running. But in person, the singer is so reserved that the cantinero confuses our verbal exchange for a task interview. After more than 20 years of music, there is still some enigma. Tuck social networks are committed to the updates of the organization, which almost have no idea of ​​occasions in their non -public life or, for example, what you like to eat for lunch. He is not Ozzy or a Lemmy. But he likes it that way. “Sounds strange, but I have never been a center of attention,” he said. “I am a quiet person, I am. “

Before our interview, which takes a position in a western pub in London near the space he stores with his wife and 11 -year -old son, they warned me of the planned relief of Tuck, which could be reluctant to talk about anything other than music. There is a belief of him as “delicate”, even, a reputation has forged more than 20 years with a Welsh organization that has controlled to make waves in the United States, adding a million albums sold and 10 more sensible in the 200. For thousands of young fans, they were a bridge in the Global of Steel, even if they bothered the legions of pimes with strange states. “We are the first British steel organization in playing sands for a long time,” Tuck said in 2010. But it is an interviewee that gets involved and Frank Frank, a little tired, perhaps, through some decades of vitriol media.

We are here to communicate on the seventh Bullet album, a homonymous effort that was written and recorded during the blockade. This is undoubtedly the heaviest registration of the organization to date: an attack of hammer and bedroom battery guitars that pirate 10 tracks in a formidable landscape. There is a greater meaning of art around the total project, because the homonymous albums that part of a race seem to suggest. The photographer and director Fiona Garden enlisted for her “knives” clip, a visual hurricane who fuses the futurism of the taste of the matrix with the horror of the hammer. It corresponds a bit to the visceral words: “breakdown, torn, intellectual aptitude fails,” roars Tuck. “Walk to the edge, taken to hell, never again. “

Over the years, Tuck has gradually written about his non -public life in his music. His new album, 2018 Gravity, responded to the depression he felt in the midst of a transient division of his wife, Charlotte. Since then they have reconciled and things are “perfect” now. “It’s great,” he said. “Life provides you curved balls, but even after a long era of time, we have controlled to unite it. I am very proud of us, we have never been so happy. ” Not everyone has embraced emotion. The gravity was also criticized by what criticisms have rejected as a “Rock radio bastard hybrid in Linkin Park’s style,” a sound of the 2000s that incorporates synthesizers and so many catchy hooks as humanly imaginable. But Tuck has not read criticism. “I don’t care,” he said. “We knew, writing this album, which was going to be a divisor. “

The BFMV department dates back to more than a few years. The organization designed the wrath of the purists who hated their ambition: steel does not intend to pass the mainstream, but with teams like the Horizon, it crosses more and more pop. Last year, the former drummer and founding member of Bullet, Michael “Moose” Thomas, said that the music of the organization had become “too safe” before his departure in 2017. Tuck increases his shoulders, decreasing, as he did in the past, to explain why Thomas left. “If something happens on the radio, it’s great,” he said. “But we have never written for Radio-Main-on-Heart, never. Our organization has not been built [in this way]. ” Especially for bullets, reactions can be brutal when they check a new sound. “People speak shit,” says Tuck. “But just because anything does not meet your expectations that it is bad. “

Possibly it would be understandable that last year be locked inside, bullet for my valentine unenounce in a more reflective mental state. “At that time, I knew that something bad, however, to a extent before fainting myself on the other side,” he said about the tumult of his marriage.   “Now, I have lived with that, I understand it. And I’m no longer [in this place], which is great. “

Many words of the album have been written through pandemia and songs explore the emotions of being “lost and desperate,” explains Tuck. “It is an intense lyric album, but then it was done through intense moments. “

“Rainbow Veins” places it in an induced state through drugs, not below to face reality, while the mastodon “breaks” was trampled with a dark cloud over the head: “It will break me, but it doesn’t matter / some other crack, looking at me. ” Despite his appearance about to face the wall of his living room, he says that being in the house gave a feeling of calm, far from the chaos of the tour: “He forced, but enjoyed a little,” he admits.

It is involved on what will happen when the organization will spend the excursion next year, after Brexit. The new regulations mean that excursion managers and their organizations face mountains of documents and beloved licenses to make their movements at the EU borders. “Everything is so uncertain, it’s a disaster,” he said. “We will like all the potholes on the road [but] cannot continue, it is impossible. ” He predicts an “animated agitation” at some point in the future: “I think everyone is occupied licking their wounds in the negative effects of [Brexit]. Farmers, fishermen.

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He saw with his own eyes what is happening when small villages are neglected. Bridgend in Wales, where he grew, previously the pride of the space of a flourishing live music scene, where Tuck and his organization comrades opposed other local acts. Bullet component of a scene in the early 2000s, which included its other Bridgenders funeral for a friend, who recently gathered. But all this has replaced in the intermediate years. “It’s a ghost of the city now,” says Tuck.

Who is the parasite in the opening piece of the album? He smiles. “Several spiders . . . we have them all. I write about what is in my head, it is really personal, it is a wild assault. ” This attack is encapsulates through the vocal delivery of Tuck – Gross, Roar, fierce. I was in trouble in the past. “I was destroying me,” he said. Every few weeks, he descended to the serious tonsils: “I went to the doctors and gave me everything I put on stage, but in the end, he did nothing. ” He suffered a tonsillectomy in 2007 and was slightly in poor health since then. It was a lesson for the bad behavior he had collected over the years, without having had a professional education when his group began.

He is satisfied that his voice recovered on time for this album. “The voices needed this intensity,” he said, obviously very proud of what the organization has achieved. “I have lived with him for a while, listening to the words, how brave this attack is. ” I wonder if this planned reluctance is only that it discovers less difficult to speak their emotions through music. Because as regards the organization, he says: “There is no apprehension to be honest. “

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