Bring Me The Horizon

English rock band Bring Me the Horizon evolved steadily from the death metal-inspired grindcore of their first album toward melodic metalcore, becoming a pop-savvy headline act by the close of their initial decade. Successive releases saw them ease away from extreme vocals and emphasize melody, moving from the abrasive Count Your Blessings in 2006 through the mainstream breakthrough Sempiternal in 2013 before striking an alt-metal equilibrium on the globally successful 2015 album That's the Spirit. Electronic textures and hip-hop elements surfaced in their sharp, genre-blurring sound by the time of 2019's Amo. Post Human: Survival Horror followed in 2020 as the opening entry in a planned conceptual series, with its sequel, Post Human: NeX Gen, arriving in 2024.

The group formed in Sheffield in 2004 from the remnants of several local bands, taking its name from the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean. Vocalist Oliver Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia and Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean, and drummer Matt Nicholls launched their own imprint, Thirty Days of Night, to issue the 2005 EP This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For. After signing with Visible Noise, whose roster already featured Bullet for My Valentine and Lostprophets, they re-released the EP for broader reach. Their first full-length, Count Your Blessings, surfaced in October 2006, with an American edition arriving the following year through Epitaph Records.

Suicide Season, the second album, steered Bring Me the Horizon toward greater accessibility and earned them a place on the U.K. album charts. Not all fans embraced the shift, and Ward departed in early 2009; Jona Weinhofen, formerly of I Killed the Prom Queen, stepped in temporarily and ultimately remained. The band reconvened with producer Fredrik Nordström in March 2010 to record a third album, There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret, which appeared in the latter half of that year after they completed their Warped Tour dates.

Sempiternal, the critically praised fourth album, reached number three on the U.K. albums chart upon its 2013 release on Epitaph. Around the same period Weinhofen exited, and Jordan Fish joined for the next project, marking a clear break from the metalcore style established since the debut. Issued in 2015, the loosely conceptual That's the Spirit traded some of those tendencies for a more melodic alt-metal direction, propelled by the singles "Happy Song," "True Friends," and "Avalanche." The set became their strongest commercial performer, topping charts worldwide and landing in the Top Three in both their native England and the United States. Capitalizing on that momentum, the group organized a charity concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust, performing hits with orchestral backing from the Parallax Orchestra and Simon Dobson on the 2016 release Live at the Royal Albert Hall.

In summer 2018 Bring Me the Horizon advanced further into experimentation with the mainstream anthem "Mantra" and the unexpectedly poppy "Medicine," both of which appeared on their sixth album, Amo, issued in early 2019. Their first U.K. number-one, Amo folded in electronic dance and trap production while hosting contributions from Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth, art-pop singer Grimes, and rapper Rahzel. Amid global touring the band added the track "Ludens" to the soundtrack for the video game Death Stranding. At the end of 2019, alongside a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album for Amo, they surprise-released the experimental Music to Listen To..., which explored electronic atmospherics, ambient noise, and trip-hop while reworking material from Amo and featuring Halsey plus Theresa Jarvis of Yonaka.

Early in 2020 the band recorded their next project in home studios during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing heavily on surrounding events. They released "Parasite Eve" and the industrial-tinged collaboration "Obey" with English newcomer Yungblud that summer; both tracks featured on 2021's Post Human: Survival Horror, the debut installment of the announced multi-part EP series. The set also included "Kingslayer" with Babymetal, "1x1" with Nova Twins, and "One Day..." with Amy Lee of Evanescence. The first preview of the sequel arrived that September with the melodic, anthemic "DiE4u." A series of prominent collaborations followed in 2022, among them features alongside Ed Sheeran on "Bad Habits," Machine Gun Kelly on "Maybe," and Sigrid on "Bad Life."

As the band continued preparing the follow-up originally titled Post Human: Survival Horror sequel and later renamed Post Human: NeX Gen, they toured and issued further singles throughout 2023, including "Lost," "Darkside," and "Amen!" with Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw and Lil Uzi Vert. Longtime keyboardist Fish departed at year's end. Weeks afterward the remaining four-piece put out "Kool-Aid," the sixth single from NeX Gen. Following a short postponement, the expansive album appeared in May 2024, bringing in additional guests Aurora and Underoath. It confronted dark emotional subjects through genre-blurring hyperpop flourishes, pop-punk drive, glitchy electronic textures, hardcore intensity, death growls, and pop choruses.