" The main objective on this album was to please ourselves rather than pleasing other people and critics. Guitar Edge had an interview with some members of the band where Matthew Tuck talked about Fever: We just tried to get that energy and excitement and vibe back into the band because the Scream Aim Fire sessions just ripped our hearts out of wanting to be in a band." It was brutal work, but I personally thought I had a huge point to prove so that's why I stuck at it. The vocals took longer than everything else on the album put together. We worked insanely hard to get the vocal lines different but still Bullet. We rewrote the lyrics and melodies up to five times on some songs because he didn't think they were strong enough. To get the performances out in the studio was hard, but Don was amazing. It's a weird thing singing in the studio you don't get the adrenaline, the energy, the buzz, it's you in front of a microphone looking at a guy staring at you. We didn't want him to change us as musicians, just help with the vocals and get the best possible performances out of us. Having Don Gilmore was a very conscious decision. "We wanted to do something fresh and exciting, but that was still us. In a 12 March 2010 interview with UK's Metal Hammer magazine, Matthew Tuck stated about the writing and recording process for the new album: Recording was completed in December 2009, and Gilmore began tracking the album shortly thereafter in Malibu, California. Following their tours, the band returned to studio to finish Fever. During the Mayhem Festival, Bullet for My Valentine included a new song to their live setlist.
The band took time off from recording in mid-2009 to perform on various tours including the 2009 Mayhem Festival. Bullet for My Valentine originally entered the studio in April 2009 with producer Don Gilmore (best known for his work with Linkin Park and Good Charlotte) at Monmouth, Wales, and cancelled tour dates in South Africa to continue recording. In a March 2009 interview with Metal Hammer, Matthew Tuck stated that on previous albums he had written lyrics for the songs after the band had completed writing instrumental parts but for Fever, Tuck had been writing both at the same time. In early 2009, about a year after Bullet for My Valentine released their second studio album, Scream Aim Fire, the band started writing new material.
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