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)

Bring Me The Horizon’s powerful collaboration with Yungblud ‘Obey‘ from September peaked at #37 while its predecessor ‘Parasite Eve‘ reached the band’s second best performance at #28. The slightly more radio friendly ‘Teardrops‘ has already become their third most commercial chart entry, with only ‘Drown‘ from That’s The Spirit from 2015 breaking to #17. All three of the recent singles are set to feature in Post Human, generating a lot of hype for its upcoming premiere and sure to give it a significant boost upon its release on Friday.

Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) heading for third consecutive Top 40 single with Teardrops https://t.co/Z38YFA9De2 pic.twitter.com/Wjy2mbJpP2

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) October 26, 2020

While slightly toned down and more timid, ‘Teardrop‘ shares similar approach to the other singles, with central focus on synths and melodic samples underlying the groovy bass and drums sections. More than ever Bring Me The Horizon seem to have drawn inspiration from nu metal veterans Linkin Park who coincidentally (or not?) also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the seminal Hybrid Theory last week. 

The track has already passed 3,5 million streams on Spotify and was premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show followed by a live interview with frontman Oli Sykes. The dark and personal video that accompanied the song’s premiere has already reached 3 million views on YouTube, all in a space of one week making it one of Bring Me The Horizon’s most popular release in their career.

 

 

 

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The band’s upcoming EP Post Human is the first part of an ambitious four-part project that would eventually form a diverse full studio record in the near future. It will feature nine tracks in total, highlighting the already huge hits ‘Parasite Eve‘, ‘Obey (ft. Yungblud)’ and ‘Teardrops‘, alongside ‘Ludens‘ that came out in late 2019. In addition, the EP is promising exciting collaborations with the likes of Babymetal (for ‘Kingslayer‘), Nova Twins (‘1×1‘) and Amy Lee of Evenescence (‘One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death‘)

Bring Me The Horizon’s successful third single premiere marks a particularly exciting month for the contemporary British metalcore scene which saw While She Sleeps release their smashing new track ‘Sleeps Society‘ and Architects drop the huge ‘Animals‘ announcing new album in early 2021. The three bands have been widely praised on social media channels for keeping the scene alive in what has been a particularly difficult year for musicians and fans alike.

Moreover, the recent commercial success of Bring Me The Horizon’s can be seen as another win for the metal and alternative rock community this year following Bury Tomorrow’s Cannibal peaking at #10 on the Albums Charts and Enter Shikari scoring a phenomenal second place with Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible. Watch the video for ‘Teardrops‘ below and get ready for the EP release on Friday that is shaping to be a significant milestone in the Sheffield five-piece’s career.