“All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around You)” by Bullet for My Valentine

Bullet for My Valentine let their guard down on "All These Things I Hate", the third single from their debut album The Poison. It went out in Europe through Sony BMG on 3 February 2006 and reached the UK on Visible Noise four days later. Matt Tuck wrote it on a battered Spanish guitar after his girlfriend left for university, and it's a song about love stretched across the miles, with the Welsh band's usual fury dialed right down: acoustic guitar out front, hardly any screaming, and Tuck's harmony vocals woven through the intro.

The song first appeared on the band's 2003 Jeff Killed John EP, and as a single it became their highest-charting UK hit, peaking at 29. Opinion split: Stylus reckoned its quiet/loud shifts didn't go far enough, while Music Emissions called it the highlight of an album it otherwise found gimmicky.

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