Bring Me The Horizon

Sheffield, 2004

Bring Me The Horizon formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in March 2004, when the members were between fifteen and seventeen years old. The founding core of Oli Sykes on vocals, Lee Malia on guitar, Matt Kean on bass and Matt Nicholls on drums is still the band today, with John Jones playing rhythm guitar on tour. Curtis Ward left in 2009, Jona Weinhofen followed in 2013, and keyboardist and producer Jordan Fish, a central figure in the band's sound for a decade, departed in December 2023.

Their debut, Count Your Blessings, arrived in 2006 on Visible Noise and put them at the loud end of the deathcore scene. Sykes has since said the band were never happy with how it sounded. Speaking on the Nik Nocturnal podcast in May 2026, he explained they had come out of the studio unimpressed, blaming a tight budget, a producer with little metal experience and his own voice giving out partway through the sessions. Suicide Season followed in 2008, then There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret in 2010, which reached number thirteen on the UK album chart.

The records that changed the room

Sempiternal in 2013 is generally the point at which the band stopped being a metalcore act with big ideas and became something broader, with Fish's electronics folded into songs like Shadow Moses and Can You Feel My Heart that still close their sets. That's the Spirit in 2015 reached number two in the UK, and amo in 2019 gave them their first UK number one.

The awards followed. The band have won seven Kerrang! Awards, beginning with Best British Newcomer in 2006. They picked up Grammy nominations for Best Rock Song in 2019 and Best Rock Album in 2020, and in 2024 they won the BRIT Award for Best Rock/Alternative Act. Over the same period their label home moved from Epitaph and Visible Noise to RCA, with Columbia handling the United States.

Post Human: NeX GEn and the cost of it

Post Human: NeX GEn, released on 24 May 2024, was the first full album since amo and the last to feature Fish. It had been trickling out as singles for almost three years, from Die4U in September 2021 through Strangers, Lost, Amen! with Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo, Darkside and Kool-Aid. It entered the UK chart at number two and the Billboard 200 at thirty-six, and holds a Metacritic score of 84 from six reviews.

The record took a visible toll. In an NME interview reported by Louder on 11 December 2024, Sykes said the band were considering a hiatus. He described himself as fried from NeX GEn and said they needed a proper cut-off point to recharge, having not stopped properly since lockdown. What followed instead was a run of smaller releases rather than silence: a Spotify Singles cover of Wonderwall in January 2025, a lo-fi rework collection called Lo-files announced in July 2025, a concert film titled L.I.V.E. In São Paulo released on 10 April 2026, and a collaboration with Illenium. Sykes also launched a production company, Patient Zero, and became a father to twins.

Repenting the debut

On 13 April 2026 the band announced Count Your Blessings | Repented, a twentieth-anniversary re-recording of the debut, for release on 10 July 2026. They framed it as a reactivation rather than a nostalgia exercise, mixed by Buster Odeholm, with one track restored to its original working title, Dragon Slaying. A reworked version of Black & Blue was released ahead of the album. Sykes told Nik Nocturnal the aim was not to modernise it: the record could not sound like bands sound today, it needed to be the best version of what it sounded like in 2006.

The release was tied to a one-off show. Under the banner Outbreak Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented, the band played the album in full for the first time at the BEC Arena in Manchester on the evening it came out, 10 July 2026, with Static Dress and Dying Wish on the bill and a wider undercard that Rock Sound listed as including Rolo Tomassi, Heriot, Car Underwater, Showing Teeth and Still In Love. NME's account of the night has Pray For Plagues opening and Diamonds Aren't Forever closing, with the world premiere of a new song, Dehumanized, sitting between the debut and a run of era rarities. Slow Dance had not been played since 2006; Black & Blue, Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick and A Lot Like Vegas had not been aired since 2009; the title track of Suicide Season returned for the first time since 2011.

Rock Sound's review, published 13 July, described a barrier-free floor, a pre-show gallery of early photographs and memorabilia, the band's mascot M8 giving mock lessons in hardcore dancing, and a sold-out crowd of eight thousand stage-diving through the set. From the stage Sykes admitted the band had expected the reissue to be a side note this year and said the reaction had blown their minds. He also confessed it had taken him a minute to work out how to do some of the old screaming again.

Where they stand in September 2026

The North American spring tour, billed as N. American Ascension Program 2, ran through April and May 2026 and included a sold-out Madison Square Garden on 2 May, a night Consequence wrote up as the band's rise from fledgling deathcore band to arena headliner made visible. The run finished on 15 May in Rosemont, Illinois, with a Sonic Temple festival slot in Columbus the following day. European festival dates followed over the summer, including Sweden Rock on 6 June, Hellfest in June and a headline slot at Sziget in Budapest in August.

On 27 April 2026, with a social media tease reading did you really think it was over, the band announced a third leg. POST HUMAN: NeX GEn – The Third Ascension Program opens at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on 20 September and runs through Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Quebec City, Ottawa, Hamilton and London, Ontario, before a single United States date at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on 8 October. Motionless In White and The Plot In You support throughout. Sykes has said in interviews that leftover material from the NeX GEn sessions exists, but no new original album has been announced.

The show as it stands

The current arena production is built around the NeX GEn world, and reviewers keep returning to the screens. Consequence's review of Madison Square Garden, published 4 May 2026, described live cameras tracking Sykes constantly and feeding his image, distorted and manipulated by AI-driven visuals, onto huge screens, so that the line between the physical performance and its digital reflection blurred on purpose. The same reviewer thought the constant camera presence occasionally got in the way during the more emotional moments, even while praising the ambition and scale of the thing.

The set itself is career-spanning and tightly run. At Grand Casino Arena in St Paul on 13 May 2026, Amira Elfeky opened at six, The Plot In You followed, Motionless In White played at half seven, and the headliners went on at quarter to nine for a sixteen-song set that finished at twenty past ten. It opened with Darkside and The House of Wolves, moved through Mantra, Happy Song, Teardrops, Amen!, Kool-Aid and Shadow Moses, and closed the main set with Can You Feel My Heart before an encore of Doomed, Drown and Throne. Madison Square Garden got seventeen songs. Sykes told SiriusXM in May 2026 that he keeps pulling fans up to sing because Funeral For A Friend did the same for him as a teenager.