There’s nothing like friendship.
12.06.2023 - 13:15 / nme.com
Oli Sykes has spoken to NME about Bring Me Horizon’s “unhinged” new album ‘Post Human: NeX GEn’, finally headlining Download Festival, the band’s constantly evolving sci-fi rock opera live show and political single ‘AmEN!’.The follow-up to 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ is due September 15, and was announced shortly after Bring Me The Horizon’s mammoth headline set at Download Festival on Friday night (June 10).‘NeX GEn’ is the second chapter in Bring Me’s planned four-part ‘Post Human’ series, with the album taking influence from emo and hardcore. “Linkin Park were the first band that I got into, but when I found Glassjaw is when I became obsessed with music and knew I wanted to be a singer, so the album pays homage to that,” Sykes told NME backstage at Download.He continued: “I wouldn’t say it’s a hyper-pop album, but I’ve definitely been inspired by that world.
I admire how obnoxious, trashy and in your face that music feels, which is what I was drawn to when I got into emo, hardcore and screamo.“It’s not that we’ve lost that in our music, but as you become a bigger band, things do get more polished. I want to go the opposite way.
Let’s be unhinged, let’s stop trying to make all the edges smooth.”The frontman went on to explain how “the hope is that this record is pure fun” with “no limits on how or what we want to express”.“There’s no, ‘That song could be played on the radio if we don’t scream’,” he revealed. “It’s almost like we’re connecting to that time before Bring Me The Horizon had any prospects of being a big band.
There’s nothing like friendship.
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