Without change you can’t grow and without growth fans get bored. It’s a vicious cycle, but it has worked in this bands favor. Bring Me The Horizon have perfected the art of transitioning to a new sound. Their first record could be what some could consider a “hot mess”. There was no sign of a melody, the vocals were excessively stressed out, and every song was just a repetition of its predecessor. What this record did have was potential and energy.
Once their 2006 record Count Your Blessings was released it solidified their deathcore sound and 2008’s Suicide Season brought their career another step further. Bring Me The Horizon didn’t just alter their sound overnight. It was a gradual change. As they grew from their teenage years into their early twenties their music reached a coming of age as well. There’s A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There’s A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret was the first record where the band began to experiment and even the lyricism, which could now be understood, had grown. This album was a perfect stepping stone for what was to come.
When Sempiternal was released it breathed new life into the band. There was a flood of new fans supporting the album and it was their first record with Jordan Fish on board. His presence and influence on the record was evident and necessary. A small handful resented this record, but overall it was well received. The way Bring Me The Horizon had cleaned up their sound and made it new and exciting was risky, but phenomenal and proved to be worth it.
Bring Me The Horizon certainly don’t have the deathcore sound they broke into the scene with anymore, but they are also not the same kids they were back in 2006. That’s The Spirit is going to be an entirely new side of Bring Me The Horizon. Their latest singles already have millions of plays on Spotify. As their fans grew up so did the band. Bring Me The Horizon are more than ready to present their new work to the eager world.