THE SLAYLIST
MATT TUCK
Bullet For My Valentine’s frontman cranks up the 10 songs that put him on the path to metal greatness
WORDS: RICH HOBSON
PICTURES: JAKE OWENS
Matt Tuck: full of love for 90s metal, and rightly so
“I WAS INTO metal bands when I was a teenager, but when I discovered PANTERA there was nothing else like it. A New Level was like a kick in the nuts. Vulgar Display Of Power is my favourite record by Pantera by a mile; the production, the songwriting, the aggression, Dimebag’s shredding… what’s not to love?
“SEPULTURA were one of the first proper metal bands I saw live – Ihave a real affinity and attachment to that band. I’d seen bands before them like Metallica and hard rock stuff, but this was my first no-holds-barred metal show in Newport Centre in Wales. Roots was a real discovery album for me – the production is so dirty you want to wash your ears out after it. They were coming off the back of a lot more thrash metal-oriented stuff, but stuff like Cut-Throat is pure downtuned nastiness and nothing compared to it.