The
album starts with a song that sounds like a warning or even a threat:
Breaking
Point is
a message to everybody who pisses you off until you can barely take
it anymore and all you'd like to tell them is: “do
not scratch the surface and wake the beast cause he's ready to bite“.
The screaming and screetching guitars only support this aggressive atmosphere and create the kind of tension you feel when you're really mad.
Truth Hurts, the second song, picks up the pace of Breaking Point and deals with addictions and what they do to you. “One more drink, one more pill just one more lie to make me feel like I have something left to give 'cause without it I'm just giving in.“ Whoever struggled, or still struggles, with addictions perfectly understands the feeling of being in a circle that takes you down and controls you, the feeling of never being able to make it out, the thought that nobody could possibly help you. For literally one second there's a spark of hope inside of you (“No more lies, no more games, is it too late to make a change?“) but as fast as this spark appears it's gone again and everything starts from scratch.
You keep all the rage, the unsaid words and thoughts inside of you until you can't hold them back anymore and you just explode. Temper Temper the song which names the whole album, describes this moment in a very detailed way. Sometimes it's just necessary to stop pretending and we all know that it “feels good when we lose control“.
My favourite song on the record is number four: P.O.W., it's one of these songs I'd print on a card and whenever somebody asks me how I'm doing I'd give them this card because songs do a better job at describing my feelings than I do.
After all the fast, angry songs you can take a deep breath now because Dead To The World is a rather calm song and you can almost feel the resignation and hopelessness. However, your break won't take too long; with Riot the typical style of Bullet For My Valentine continues to the end of the album.
I have to admit that the rest of the songs didn't leave that big impression on me. They're all very good (Bullet For My Valentine have never disappointed me and don't disappoint me now) but there's nothing new coming anymore. If you like the last three albums, you'll also dig this one, that's for sure.
The screaming and screetching guitars only support this aggressive atmosphere and create the kind of tension you feel when you're really mad.
Truth Hurts, the second song, picks up the pace of Breaking Point and deals with addictions and what they do to you. “One more drink, one more pill just one more lie to make me feel like I have something left to give 'cause without it I'm just giving in.“ Whoever struggled, or still struggles, with addictions perfectly understands the feeling of being in a circle that takes you down and controls you, the feeling of never being able to make it out, the thought that nobody could possibly help you. For literally one second there's a spark of hope inside of you (“No more lies, no more games, is it too late to make a change?“) but as fast as this spark appears it's gone again and everything starts from scratch.
You keep all the rage, the unsaid words and thoughts inside of you until you can't hold them back anymore and you just explode. Temper Temper the song which names the whole album, describes this moment in a very detailed way. Sometimes it's just necessary to stop pretending and we all know that it “feels good when we lose control“.
My favourite song on the record is number four: P.O.W., it's one of these songs I'd print on a card and whenever somebody asks me how I'm doing I'd give them this card because songs do a better job at describing my feelings than I do.
After all the fast, angry songs you can take a deep breath now because Dead To The World is a rather calm song and you can almost feel the resignation and hopelessness. However, your break won't take too long; with Riot the typical style of Bullet For My Valentine continues to the end of the album.
I have to admit that the rest of the songs didn't leave that big impression on me. They're all very good (Bullet For My Valentine have never disappointed me and don't disappoint me now) but there's nothing new coming anymore. If you like the last three albums, you'll also dig this one, that's for sure.
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