I just lost it and did this roundhouse kick on my sister and she actually landed on the cooker in the kitchen

Do you have any recurring dreams?

I used to get them a lot about my teeth breaking. I don't know what that means. Like my top teeth going behind my bottom teeth and then my jaw just pushing them out and them breaking and stuff.

*What's the strangest thing you have ever had in your mouth?

Probably bull semen.

*Probably? That needs some explaining.

We were at a traditional restaurant in Japan and it is like a delicacy to drink it watered down. Being guys touring Japan we drunk it. The old 'I was in a Japanese restaurant' story, huh? Everyone's got one.

*But yours sounds quite vile, to be honest.

We were pissed as well so we didn't give a fuck, and being Welsh we were just like, "What the fuck, get it down you!", you know? It was in a little teapot thing and you poured shots.

*Jesus Christ. You must've been plastered.

We were alright. We were a bit tipsy but as one does it then you have to follow or you get heckled until you die.

*Have you told many people about this?

Yeah, friends and family and that. They asked us what Japan was like and we were like, "Had a load of cool food... drunk cow spunk."  

The usual. If you're in Japan and they put it in front of you it's kind of disrespectful not to try it.  

What did it taste like?

It didn't taste bad, it was watered down. It wasn't like a milkshake or anything, not thick and warm. It was an off-white colour.

*Do they have a bull out the back that they wank to order?

Everything the Japanese do it fresh so they may have a bull nearby they wank off.

*What a life. Have you ever seen a UFO?

No. Not a UFO. I am very susceptible to the supernatural but not aliens. When I was younger I used to see ghosts a lot. As I've grown older it's died down a bit but I still get little weird experiences. I have a lot of video footage of me growing up and having orbs around me and saying to the camera that there is someone there. You can actually see orbs and stuff flying around me on camera, which you didn't see at the time of filming. 

*What do you mean by an orb?

They're like little light anomalies. People who are into the supernatural think it is the first sign of a ghost manifestation. Most ghosts don't actually appear, they just have this light. They are like shooting lights that you don't actually see when you're filming but when you play back tapes you see them a lot. I used to be able to tell when they were there even to the point that last year, when we were making the album... we have two video footages, one shot in Canada and one in a studio in Derby, where we went out with the camera, literally to look for ghosts, because they were really, really spooky places, and I just had a really good vibe. We went out and went into this corrugated-iron shed that was on an old farm and at one point I said, "OK, there is something around me now because I could feel my leg twitching," and when we watched it back there was an orb that was going in between my legs. It's a nice little thing to have, it doesn't freak me out at all. I embrace it, it's cool as fuck.

*What's the most violent thing you've done?

I don't know. I'm pretty chilled out to be honest. I got in a couple of fights when I was younger but nothing serious. I guess the harshest one was, me and my sister used to be into martial arts and we did it for many years and one time I was arguing with her - she was older than me, she was 17 or 18 - and we were arguing like brother and sister do and I just lost it and did this roundhouse kick on her and she actually landed on the cooker in the kitchen.

*So nothing that violent apart from kicking your teenage sister

onto a cooker?!

Yeah, but she pissed me off, man, she incited it. And I didn't realise that I had it in me. It was just a technique they teach you but I haven't used it since. I don't do it any more. I felt like shit afterwards because I hurt her bad, she was in pain. Plus my dad gave me a kicking for it as well, so it was all good. I got what I deserved. We were best buddies after it again. She used to kick my arse anyway, she was harder than me at the time. I just caught her sweet.  

*What's the biggest animal you've ever killed?

This is so gay but a baby rabbit... by accident. You could fit in the palm of your hand. It was horrible because it crunched and everything.

*Did you bury it?

Yeah, we did. And I am a total animal lover so it broke my heart. I was fucking devastated. That's the biggest thing I've killed. Some spiders get it if they piss me off. I went over a cat on the motorway but it was already dead, I just made sure it was really dead.

*How old were you when you killed the rabbit?  

Really young, 12 or 13. It was a horrible, horrible thing.

*Did its eyes bulge out?

Nah, it was even worse than that. Basically, at the time my cat had this habit of bringing rabbits home and one time it brought this little baby rabbit home and we thought, 'Fuck it, if we release it it's probably not going to find its mum and it's going to die.' We had it that one night and then the next morning we brought it into the living room just for it to run around and try and make it feel at home, I guess. But my cat snuck into the room and started chasing it around the room, and I got up to get my cat and as I got up the rabbit, like lightning, shot under my foot and I stood on it and it crunched. It stood still, then started kind of spazzing out and I picked it up and blood was spraying out of its nose and there was blood all up the wall. It was fucking horrific man, I was gutted.

*And not having a camcorder there you missed out on £250 from You've Been Framed. If you absolutely had to have sex with an animal, what would be the lucky beast?

It would have to be something to scale to fit it in... a sheep. Why not keep the tradition alive? A sheep is like a big dog, only furrier.

*Furry is good... so I have heard. OK, if you had to choose between necrophilia, coprophilia and bestiality, which would you chose?

Coprophilia.

*You're the first person to choose that. Why?

At least that could be with a loved one and wouldn't be harming an animal and you're not disrespecting a dead person. So getting your missus to shit on you is the one.

*There is an undeniable logic to that.

That did actually make sense, didn't it?

*Bullet For My Valentine's debut album The Poison has been reissued and is out now. It has B-sides, live tracks and other cool extras