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5 out of 5 stars

Another Great U.K. Import September 12, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

This debut e.p. is just a taste of the great things to come from this band. I try not to get overly excited about bands anymore since so many these days suck you in with a great first album then quickly become a steaming pile of crap, but these guys seem more promising than most.

The songs are very technical and melodic which is what drew me into this in the first place. Its heavy and easily moshable. Good screaming mixed with excellent clean singing vocals. There are even a few honest to goodness guitar solos! Thats something that is sorely missing in music these days.

Cries In Vain and Just Another Star are easily the best 2 tracks on this cd, but the others are great too. Definetly worth checking out. Nice anime style cover art too.

5 out of 5 stars

Drop everything you are doing and buy this album now! October 18, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

For the past three years I lived in England and dicscovered Bullet. This Mini album is truly amazing and shows true potential for this young group, although two songs on this made it to thier full length album, the others are hidden jems (especially Hand of Blood) and are well worth the purchase. From teh amazing guitar riffs, to the overpowering drum fills and double bass pedal, and even to the singing, this mini-album will blow you away! I would gladly pay tripple the price they're asking for. Buy now, or never find out what your missing.

5 out of 5 stars

Wow! Do believe the hype ! March 2, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Everything you've ever heard about these guys is true. Their music is extremely hard, but the melodies are uncrompehensibly beautiful. Bullet For My Valentine rock much harder, much louder, and are far less likely to be on Top Of The Pops than much of their genremates of whom nobody could charm me more than one or two songs. This, I listen to over and over again.
This album is the same as their selftitled debut with another great track as a bonus: 4 Words (To Choke Upon).

I haven't had this feeling about an album since Rage Against the Machine's debut-album release.

4 out of 5 stars

Very Impressive Debut From Bullet December 21, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

To start off with, I need to address the ridiculous comparisons between Bullet For My Valentine and Funeral For A Friend. Yes, they are both UK post-grunge bands, but within the genre there styles are very different. Bullet are very fast paced whilst Funeral For A Friend generally keep to a slower tempo. Funeral For A Friend have been around a good sight longer than Bullet, so Bullet have drawn influences from them, but have then built on that and made into their own. Bullet For My Valentine are a very unique band, and this shines through on their debut EP "Hand Of Blood". They're starting to become very popular in the emo/hardcore circuit in the UK, their brash, thumping music seeming to surpass that of bands such as Alexisonfire - a band that would be a sensible comparison.

To put it bluntly, there's not a bad song on this six track EP. Fans of bands such as Silverstein and UnderOath should find Bullet For My Valentine's music to be very enjoyable, as it's got the hard guitar riffs, excellent screaming/singing, hard drumming and bring it all together very well. The lyrics are all very well thought out and are delivered with a lot of passion. Standout tracks include "4 Words (To Choke Upon)", "Hand Of Blood" and "Cries In Vain", which all happened to end up on their 2005 full length album - coming just months after this EP - "The Poison". The fact the CD is so short gives it a lot of replay value and will certainly leave you wanting more if your a fan of this style of music. If you've yet to try anything from Bullet For My Valentine this would be the perfect place to start. Definetley reccommended.

2 out of 5 stars

Bleh August 24, 2005
3 out of 13 found this review helpful

I'll give it two stars for technicality, which is about all this band has going for them. Their songs missed the boat (literally, since their from the UK) by about 5 yrs. when this actually sounded original. Unfortunetly for them, everything passed their own technical abilities is entirely cliched and beyond trendy. Their name, Bullet For My Valentine? Song titles...Hand Of Blood? What does that mean? Cries In Vain? If you dig the likes of Atreyu, old Avenged Sevenfold, and old Funeral For A Friend minus the creativity and substance you'll love this because its chocked full of breakdowns, pinch harmonics, screaming, clean singing, solos, etc.

I'd venture to guess however the two reasons were seeing this band imported into the USA is due to Ferret's bringing over of Funeral For A Friend (now signed to major label Atlantic) which proved to be tremendously successful and the biggest reason of course (if my memory serves me correct) Sony was/is Bullet For My Valentine's UK label/distributor who owns Red Distribution which just so happens to be Trustkill's distributor and it never hurts to break a band through in the US then by putting them on a label that'll give them some "scene credit," does it? You'll sell more records that way. Who pulled those strings? This one's for the scenesters. Eat it up.

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