The Welsh metal-core band Bullet For My Valentine has spent most of the past two years taking over the world with massive U.K., European, U.S. and worldwide tours, sharing the stage with Guns N Roses, Metallica and Iron Maiden, playing the Main Stage at just about every rock festival on the planet, and seeing their 2006 debut album The Poison - an album London's daily The Sun called "One of the finest debut albums in rock history" - sell more than one-million copies worldwide – 350,000 in the U.S. alone – a very rare achievement for an emerging band.

Back home, Bullet For My Valentine has graced the covers of the UK's Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer. They won Metal Hammer's 2006 "Golden God Award" for Best British Band, and the 2006 Kerrang! Award for "Best UK Single" for their track "Tears Don't Fall." Here in America, Revolver magazine heralded the band "British Import of the Year," and The Poison generated the hit singles "Tears Don't Fall" and "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)," with the video for "All These Things I Hate" going to the #1 spot on MTV2. The band has toured North America three times, and in early 2007, they sold out their first headline trek.

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As openers on the main stage this year Bullet For My Valentine did a fairly good job of amping up the crowd, who had already taken quite the beating from the bands that played on the second stages earlier in the day. To me their set probably could have had a bit more energy, but they did manage to blast through their hits such as "Scream, Aim, Fire" and "Tears Don't Fall"!

All photos copyright to David Kimmel and PopCultureMadness.com

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