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The Poison (2005—2007)
Bullet for My Valentine's debut album, The
Poison,
was released on 3 October 2005 in the UK and on Valentine's Day, 2006 in
the US. It entered the Billboard 200 at
number 128, and
attained number 11 on the Independent
Albums chart. On
30 January 2009, the album was certified gold by the RIAA after
500,000 copies were sold in the US. Four
singles were released from The
Poison: "4
Words (To Choke Upon)",
"Suffocating
Under Words of Sorrow (What Can I Do)",
"All
These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)",
and "Tears
Don't Fall". Bullet
for My Valentine promoted the album by touring across the world. In
2005, with increased popularity, they played on the larger Download
Festival Snickers
stage; in
2006, the band were moved to near the top of the main stage bill. Other
tours included opening for Metallica and Guns
N' Roses in
the summer of 2006, the Vans
Warped Tour and
Earthday Birthday. The band's headline performance at Kerrang XXV, a
one-off gig at Brixton
Academy in
London on 28 January 2006, was filmed for their first DVD, The
Poison: Live at Brixton. During
June 2007, Tuck suffered from laryngitis,
which let to an emergency tonsillectomy in
July. Bullet
for My Valentine were forced to cancel several shows, including
supporting Metallica for
three dates on their Sick of the Studio '07 tour on 29 June in Bilbao,
5 July in Vienna, and 8 July at the recently completed Wembley
Stadium in
London. Unable
to speak, Tuck wrote that as soon as doctors cleared him he would be in
the studio working on the band's next album.
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