Bring Me The Horizon are a band that give zero fucks what you think. Shunned and abused by the metal community for the entirety of their career, Bring Me The Horizon’s latest release takes any opinion that you may have on what they should sound like and burns it right before your eyes. Releasing the music that they want to release, ‘Amo’ turns from the hard and uninviting glare of the metal community towards the warm and rewarding embrace of the world of pop.
Populated with poppy hooks, synthesizers, electronic elements and digitally processed vocals, ‘Amo’ is very much the spiritual successor to 2015’s ‘That’s The Spirit’ yet as pointed out by Oli himself, the band have different hopes the release. packed with solid tracks that are bound set the keyboards of internet warriors ablaze with fury, front man Oli Sykes said to BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac as part of their Future Sounds radio show that he would like for Bring Me The Horizon to be the reason that people get into rock music. Aiming to be the conduit to heavier sounds, Oli stated that,
‘I like the fact that we have a catalog where, you get a lot of people that get into maybe, “That’s The Spirit” or “Sempiternal“, or some of the new songs and then they go back; it’s almost like a little breadcrumb trail where people will maybe start off with “Medicine“, before they know it they like “Mantra“, “It’s A Wonderful Life” and then they go back and they start to really get into the vibe of the band and it’s not just about how poppy it is or how accessible it is.
They really feed into the lyrics and what we stand for and stuff like that. So, we’re not ashamed to be like… We want to be that band. We want to be that gateway band for people to get into rock music and stuff and keep it going.’
If your like us in that you miss the savagery of Bring Me’s older sounds be sure to still give ‘Amo’ a try. After all, there is nothing more metal that sticking a finger up to conformity and going at it in your own way.