Kicking off the show was SZA featuring Ty Dollaa $ign with ‘Hit Different’, and next came Aitch and AJ Tracey’s ‘Rain’, as well as music from Headie One, Laura Marling, Billie Eilish, Fontaines D.C., Arlo Parks, and more. Many listeners Tweeted in their thoughts as they awaited the end of the set to discover the Hottest Record of the Year.

Mac shared interviews with some acts throughout, speaking to Romy, who said of beginning her solo career apart from ‘The XX’ “It’s been great, it’s a new experience. It’s fun to make some decisions, and meet some new people, new collaborators, and just write a more personal story.”

Franky Wah, creator of ‘Come Together’, said, “I think if I were to sit in the studio and try and make the record for the time it was going in, it wouldn’t have come out like ‘Come Together’ did.”

Coming up in third place was IDLES for popular song ‘Model Village’ from their latest album ‘Ultra Mono’. The release was met in September with praise from fans and critics, while the single was the final track to be shared before the full album came out. The ‘Model Village’ music video currently stands at 523,000 views, projecting comical cartoon animations to match the wild rock sound.

The runner up of the evening was ‘Bad Friend‘ by Rina Sawayama from her debut album ‘Sawayama’. The singer commented, “It’s one of the most personal songs I’ve ever written, really. On the morning of the session that I wrote it, I checked in with an old friend that we’d actually fallen out with. When I say ‘checked in’ – I kind of stalked her on Facebook, and realised that she’d had a baby. I hadn’t known anything about, between the time we fell out to now, her having a baby. I just felt like a bad friend.”

Finally, the confirmed Hottest Record of the Year was ‘Obey‘, the collaboration between Bring Me The Horizon and Yungblud. One of the most popular tracks this year, the single has gained over 10 million views on YouTube and a whopping 25 million Spotify streams.

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Lead vocalist of Bring Me The Horizon Oli Sykes appeared live on the show in a full-length interview to discuss the win. He said, “The night we released it, and premiered it, the hype felt tangible and there was so much excitement around it.” Yungblud also spoke to Mac, saying, “Bring Me The Horizon were such a massive part of my soul, really, as an artist, and discovering who I was.”

Bring Me The Horizon spared no creative expenses when making the record, recruiting the likes of Yungblud, BABYMETAL, Nova Twins, and Amy Lee for the riotous new EP.

Bring Me The Horizons’ lead vocalist Oliver Sykes opened up each killer collaboration, singing the highest of praises for each talented artist. When talking about collaborating with Yungblud on Obey, Sykes maintained that the artist’s brazen authenticity makes them integral to the modern music scene. 

Sykes relayed that “He’s the kind of artist that rock needs – the kind of rockstar that changes a scene. I love him; he lights up a room. He’s the polar opposite to me. I wish I could have that confidence that he has. It’s infectious and that’s why a lot of kids look up to him.”

Sykes then went on to compare Yungblud to the late great David Bowie. Sykes said: “not since Bowie have we had people who are just so unashamedly and genuinely themselves and don’t give fuck or play by the rules.”

According to the Happy Song singer, another reason Bring Me the Horizon wanted to work with Yungblud was to strengthen their shared music scenes. Sykes stated that “Even Yungblud was like, ‘Doing a song together is so good for the scene’…It doesn’t matter if you’ve got the best band in the world, because if that’s the only one, then that scene dies… You can count on two hands the prominent rock bands that aren’t legacy acts or indie/pop bands like The 1975.”

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Sykes meditated on how the amount of living rock legends has sadly dwindled over the decades. The talented vocalist said: “For actually heavy rock, there aren’t really enough artists to coax people in. I get excited when I see Machine Gun Kelly doing a pop-punk album. That’s going to bring people into our world.”

When discussing BABYMETAL, whom the band enlisted for Kingslayer, Bring Me The Horizon revealed that they had been anxious to work with the duo for a long time. Sykes revealed that “We wanted to do something with them for ages…We’ve got a really special connection with them, even though we don’t speak the same language. We don’t hang out or have conversations, but when you see them, it makes you really happy.”

Sykes also said that BABYMETAL fit perfectly into the EP’s core message: “They work so well with the whole idea of this record being cyber punky. It sounds like an anime trailer.”

Meanwhile, Bring Me The Horizon have confirmed that they will embark on a UK tour next year. The band will hit the road in September 2021, beginning the POSTHUMAN tour in Glasgow and concluding the anticipated tour in London.

POSTHUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR is out now. The full tracklist can be found below:

1. Dear Diary,
2. Parasite Eve
3. Teardrops
4. Obey feat. Yungblud
5. Itch For The Cure (When Will We Be Free?)
6. Kingslayer feat. Nova Twins
7. 1×1
8. Ludens
9. One Day the Butterflies Will Be in Your Chest as You March to Your Death (feat. Amy Lee)

Poised for arrival on October 30th, the fastly approaching POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR will be a nine track EP. In preparation for the highly anticipated record, Bring Me The Horizon dropped the Yungblud collaboration, Obey, on September 2nd. 

Bring Me The Horizon took to social media to raise the alarm about some new music. Taking to Instagram, the band shared a psychedelic snap with the simple yet exciting caption: “POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR. 30/10/20.” The exciting post has received a whopping 152,000 likes, one fan writing excitedly “This is the moment we’ve been waiting for!”

Additionally, Bring Me The Horizon will go on tour in 2021, playing five shows across the UK. Bring Me The Horizon will start the POST HUMAN tour at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro on September 21st, 2021 and will close the tour on September 26th at the O2 in London. 

Tickets for the POST HUMAN tour will go on sale on Friday October 23rd at 10:00am. For the die-hard fans, Bring Me The Horizon announced on Instagram today that fans can preorder the EP to be granted with early access to tickets for the upcoming tour. 

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Bring Me The Horizon have placed some killer collaborations on POST HUMAN. The Happy Song rockers have confirmed that Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee, London duo Nova Twins, Japanese band BABYMETAL, and of course Yungblud, will make appearances on the EP.

Amy Lee will lend her entrancing vocals on the lengthy titled One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death. In a post on Twitter, the Bring Me To Life singer wrote “I cannot wait for this to come out. I love our collab SO much.”

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Bring Me The Horizon formed in Sheffield in 2004. The band consists of vocalist Oliver Sykes, guitarists Curtis Ward and Lee Malia on guitar, drummer Matt Nicholls and bassist Matt Kean. Since their conception, Bring Me The Horizon has shapeshifted between heavy rock, death metal and headlining giants. Their searing debut album, Count Your Blessings, was released on October 30th, 2006.

The tracklisting for POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR will go as follows:

1. Dear Diary
2. Parasite Eve
3. Teardrops
4. Obey with YUNGBLUD
5. Itch For The Cure (When Will We Be Free?)
6. Kingslayer feat. BABYMETAL
7. 1×1 feat. Nova Twins
8. Ludens
9. One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be In Your Chest As You March Towards Your Death feat. Amy Lee

In addition, the official dates for the POST HUMAN 2021 UK Tour will go as follows:
21/09/2021 – The SSE Hydro – Glasgow
22/09 – Motorpoint Arena – Cardiff
24/09 – Flydsa Arena – Sheffield
25/09 – Utilita Arena – Birmingham
26/09 – The O2 – London