Bring Me The Horizon
Jan 23, 2019
Bring Me the Horizon made a transition from death metal-inspired grind core and later matured into a pop-savvy act at the end of their first decade together. In each release, from 2006’s Count Your Blessings to 2013’s mainstream Sempiternal, they changed their sound from screams to more of an alternative-metal balance in their 2015 international chart album, That’s the Spirit.
The group was originally formed in 2004, and was inspired by the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean for the band’s name. Oliver Sykes, lead singer and guitarists Lee Malia and Curtis, bassist Matt Kean, and drummer Matt Nicholls established their own label. By 2005, EP This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made for was released. Since the band signed with a high-profile label, Visible Noise, that included Bullet for My Valentine and Lostprophets, which decided to reissue the EP to a wider audience. The full-length album debuted in October 2006, with an American release following one year later from Epitaph Records.
Then in their second album, Suicide Season, the band moved to a new sound that not all approved and Ward left the band in early 2009. There was a temporary replacement Jona Weinhofen, who ended up staying with the band as a permanent member. The group also returned to the studio with Fredrik Nordstrom in 2010 to start on the third album. Through the studio work, the band released There is a Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It, There is a Heaven, Let’s Keep It a Secret at the end of 2010.
When the fourth album, Sempiternal, arrived in 2013, it peaked at number three on the U.K. albums Chart. When That’s the Spirit was released in 2015 the group dropped some of its metal tendencies and added an alt-metal approach that caught the mainstream ears through the singles “Happy Song,” “True Friends,” and “Avalanche.”
Summer of 2018, Bring Me the Horizon returned to the mainstream-ready single “Mantra,” which followed with the poppy “Medicine.” Both singles landed on their sixth full-length, Amo, that was released this year, 2019.