Bring Me The Horizon: From Getting Bottled To Getting Love

It's all finally come together for Bring Me The Horizon, the British metalcore band that unwittingly became martyrs of the genre in the late-noughties. After a massive northern hemisphere festival season that saw them play in all corners of America and Europe, proof of their current standing was seen no better than during the Sheffield group's afternoon set at Reading Festival this year. On that same main stage in 2008, the band were pelted with objects after replacing Slipknot. This year, they commanded one of the festival's biggest pits and had punters screaming every word back at them.

“It's nuts man, it's one of them things where you just look back at where we were a couple of years before that, we were just getting bottled – a tremendous amount of shit was thrown at us,” Oli Sykes recalls with a laugh. “And in a couple of years to turn it around and have that many people going nuts to us, I dunno, it's pretty funny in a way.”

Not that Bring Me The Horizon had any indication they'd written the album of their career when they put Sempiternal, their fourth full-length, together last year. Consumed in the process, Sykes admits the band didn't even think about how people were going to react to a record that would become their second straight number one in this country and go on to be the group's highest charting release in the US, UK and Europe.

“My thought was we need to push ourselves and see what we could do as musicians more than just push what we could do with different sounds, which I think is what we worked for on our last two albums,” he says. “It's why I decided that I wanted to bring a bit more melody into my voice; that was something I'd never done before. I'd never tried to sing before and I was fucking awful at it, and I'm still learning now – I have to work on it every day – but we'd been a band ten years, I think it was time.

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