It would be easy to see modern Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) play festivals, stadiums and arenas to sold out crowds and forget where they came from. Their current music is a frantic mix of metal, rock, pop and electronic elements that has rewritten the heavy metal template, but as teenagers in Sheffield in 2006 they were a different beast altogether. Their debut ‘Count Your Blessings’ was one of the earliest and heaviest deathcore releases, and paved the way for the group’s wild future successes.

Back in April, BMTH announced a special 20th anniversary re-recording of their debut, titled ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’, produced by frontman Oli Sykes and guitarist Lee Malia, and mixed by Buster Odeholm. The 10 original tracks are brought to life with modern engineering quality, in a way the band describe as it being “reborn, sharper, heavier and more vital than ever” – adding a new level of intensity to songs like ‘Pray For Plagues, ‘Black & Blue’ and ‘(I Used to Make Out With) Medusa’. Speaking of the choice to remix it in a way that was both true to the original while still fresh and novel, Skyes remarked “We can’t have this record sounding like what bands sound like today. It needs to be the best version of what it sounded like in 2006.”

After dropping the new and improved ‘Black & Blue’ as the lead single from ‘Repented’ 2 weeks ago, fans have been desperate for more tracks before the album releases on the 10th of July. As luck would have it, BMTH announced a new single and music video named ‘Dehumanized’ at the start of the week, and teased it with short clips of the band covered in blood ahead of its release yesterday. ‘Dehumanized’ is the only new, original composition for the record, added as an 11th track for the reissue – here’s the track listing for ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’:

1. Pray for Plagues – 2026 Repented
2. Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick – 2026 Repented
3. For Stevie Wonder’s Eyes Only – 2026 Repented
4. A Lot Like Vegas – 2026 Repented
5. Black & Blue – 2026 Repented
6. Slow Dance – 2026 Repented
7. Dragon Slaying – 2026 Repented
8. (I Used to Make Out With) Medusa – 2026 Repented
9. Fifteen Fathoms, Counting – 2026 Repented
10. Off The Heezay – 2026 Repented
11. Dehumanized

‘Dehumanized’ carries the feel of the classic material despite being written 20 years later, and stands on its own as a crushingly heavy deathcore track. Sykes’ screeches and growls which made him famous sound phenomenal in 2026, the breakdowns hit in all the right ways, and the video is a violent, visceral tribute to early music videos from the genre. The song serves as a big closing statement at the end of the record, celebrating both old and new eras of the band’s catalogue. Check the song and video out below:

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To celebrate 20 years of ‘Count Your Blessings’ and the release of the reissue, Bring Me The Horizon are set to play several one-off headline shows where they will play the album in its entirety for the first time ever, alongside some bonus performances from the same era of the band. The two UK July shows on the 10th and 11th will be at Manchester’s B.E.C. Arena in partnership with the city’s alternative gathering Outbreak Fest, with a stacked bill featuring Static Dress, Dying Wish, Heriot, Rolo Tomassi, Car Underwater and Still In Love. Then after completing their North American tour with their contemporary music dubbed ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn – The Third Ascension Program’, they’re ending the year with another ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’ show at Birmingham, Alabama’s Furnace Fest on the 11th of October.

‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’ releases on the 10th of July on streaming, CD and vinyl. The singles ‘Black & Blue’ and ‘Dehumanized’ are out now.

Hot off the launch of their recent concert movie and album ‘L.I.V.E. In São Paolo’, a recording of their biggest-ever live show which they released in cinemas in March and as a live album last week, BMTH have never been as prolific as they are right now. Since fourth album ‘Sempiternal’ rewrote the template for the metalcore sub-genre, the group have developed into an innovative alternative metal juggernaut, with their most-recent ‘Post Human’ releases combining metal, hardcore punk, pop, and electronic elements in a uniquely accessible form.

But at the time ‘Count Your Blessings’ released in 2006, they were just a group of teenagers from South Yorkshire creating a savage, disorganised breed of early deathcore. Bring Me The Horizon formed in Sheffield in 2004 before releasing their first EP ‘This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For’, which although marred by a harsh DIY mix, was a promising first attempt. Their chaotic live performances and the buzz from new label Visible Noise re-releasing the EP led to them gaining a significant underground following, with Kerrang recognising them as their Best British Newcomer at their 2006 award ceremony.

When the album did come out that year, it was largely to mixed reviews, and was never considered a landmark release by critics, but it has since gone on to become one of the defining early records of the deathcore genre. Tracks like ‘Pray For Plagues’ and ‘(I Used To Make Out With) Medusa’ earned them a legion of fans, but the sound was never revisited on their sonic journey. After what was a disjointed, angsty teenage breakthrough, BMTH’s ferocity tempered following each release, with their immature early sound gradually replaced with an ultra-polished mix, integration of a multitude of diverse genres and clean vocals. In recent years however, the band’s most-veteran fans’ calls for a familiar, heavier release have only amplified – and the band have listened.

Last week, billboards went on display around Manchester with the message ‘PRAY FOR PLAGUES’, but social media detectives didn’t have to wait long for the answer to the mystery. Today, Bring Me The Horizon made two huge announcements – not only are they remaking and re-releasing ‘Count Your Blessings’ for its 20th anniversary, they will also be performing a special one-off rendition of it in partnership with Manchester’s premier hardcore gathering, Outbreak Fest. As for the reissue, which they have titled ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’, it is due to be recorded from scratch, retuned to be as they put it “reborn, sharper, heavier and more vital than ever.”

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The Manchester show will be the first time the album has been played in its entirety, and the setlist will also include other songs from that stage of their careers. BMTH want the night to be “a defining moment for a generation of fans — both those who were there at the beginning and those discovering it now.” Their earliest LPs ‘Count Your Blessings’ and its hugely-popular follow-ups ‘Suicide Season’ and ‘There Is A Hell…’ have effectively been erased from the band’s live rotation for over a decade now, give or take the odd cameo where frontman Oli Sykes is still more than capable of his then-trademark screams and growls.

The reissue ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’ releases on the 10th of July, with the live show taking place at Manchester’s B.E.C. Arena on the same day. Tickets for ‘Outbreak Festival Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented’ go on general sale on Friday the 17th of April at 10AM, with a pre-sale live now accessible with any pre-order of the album before 3PM on the 14th. Also playing are Static Dress, Dying Wish, Heriot, Rolo Tomassi, Car Underwater and Still In Love.

UK HEADLINING DATES

This is gonna be a heavy one.
get stoked

Tickets go on sale Friday 10/22! pic.twitter.com/ViJZshZdo7

— Lorna Shore (@LornaShore) October 20, 2021

Earlier this year, Lorna Shore released an E.P. entitled …And I Return to Nothingness to overwhelming praise by both fans and critics alike, with Wall Of Sound boldly proclaiming; “Welcome to your E.P. of the year”. The E.P. marks an important milestone for the band, as it is their first release with new vocalist Will Ramos, who showcases his fearsome, demonic vocalisations in full force on these three songs. Between the ominous melodic passages and down-tuned brutality that seamlessly blends deathcore, death metal and black metal, it is no hard feat to see why this exciting release is so popular amongst deathcore fans.

Rock Sound recently spoke with guitarist Adam Di Micco following the release of the E.P. The guitarist explained that there was a lot of doubt directed towards the band following Ramos’ appointment as their new vocalist, stating; “A lot of the conversation around the band at this time was that whatever we do wasn’t going to be Lorna Shore anymore, and it was going to suck” and “With people telling us that we couldn’t do it, I was going to make sure that they would eat their words…Those people are the reasons these songs sound like this. We took that anger and used it to our advantage.”

Di Micco also touched on the group’s writing process for …And I Return to Nothingness, saying; “We also wanted to touch on all different aspects of the band and cover all of our ground with Will. So you have ‘Of The Abyss’, which is more of a typical Lorna Shore song, the sort of thing we would normally do. But it’s also done better than any other Lorna Shore song we have done like that too. Then you have ‘…And I Return To Nothingness’, which is the riskiest song. It’s not heavy, but it’s very emotive, melodic, big, and the song I have wanted to write with the band for years. So that’s why so many avenues are touched on.”

…And I Return to Nothingness is available on all streaming services, and numerous physical pre-orders of the album are available here.

Lorna Shore’s UK tour dates are listed down below. Tickets can be found here.

23/01/2022- Flapper- Birmingham
24/01- Rebellion- Manchester
25/01- Key Club- Leeds
27/01- Exchange- Bristol
28/01- Cathouse- Glasgow
30/01- The Dome- London