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They’ve conquered Reading & Leeds. They’re dominating the airwaves. With their latest album, Bring Me The Horizon are ready to rule rock once and for all.

An interview with Upset Magazine

The former site of Samuel Osborn & Co steelmakers is now home to the Drop Dead warehouse – the hub and flagship store of its impossibly popular namesake clothing line, and a second abode for each of the members of Bring Me The Horizon. Sheffield’s Steel City nickname may be long-since made redundant, but with Bring Me’s new album ‘That’s The Spirit’ looming large, it seems metal will always have a place within these walls.

Indeed, while the warehouse below churns out clothing orders from across the globe, the upper corridors are shaking as pre-production for the band’s massive Reading and Leeds sub-headlining slot hits full swing, each of newest member Jordan Fish’s sub-drops and samples echoing around the building. “He’s the last piece of the puzzle,” smiles the band’s iconic frontman Oli Sykes.

“He just unlocks so many possibilities for us, that weren’t possible before,” Oli continues. “I think it’s been apparent really since our second album that electronica is stuff that we’re into and wanted to mix in, but we’ve had to rely on other people to interpret what we want. It weren’t ever someone who could bring something to it, just like another band member who can bring it as an instrument and be like, ‘this is what I’m gonna do’. It just used to be more saying, ‘right, this is what we want; can you do it?’ So we’ve been limited in what we could do.”

‘That’s The Spirit’ is the sound of Bring Me The Horizon finally becoming limitless. Recorded and produced entirely by the band themselves, it’s a bold, melodic new step for a band who started out swathed in nails-on-blackboard deathcore extremity.

“I think it’s every record label and management’s worst nightmare when a band turn around and go, ‘We’re gonna self-produce!’ because it’s always shit,” jokes Oli, “but we were confident that we knew what we were doing and we knew what we wanted.”

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Metal Hammer Exclusive: BMTH frontman likes to feel “silly and fun” at times - but he’s got to keep taking the pills [x]

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes admits he takes breaks from his ADHD medication so he can be “silly and fun” – but he’s far from ready to stop taking them for good. He’s been receiving medical care after developing a ketamine problem, which he revealed to fans last year. He’s since returned to work with the band and they’ve just released fifth album That’s The Spirit.

Sykes tells Metal Hammer: “It’s funny that I’ve got to take a drug to stop doing other drugs. I have cut down on my medications – I’m trying harder. If I’m off it for just a day it’s like the old me times a million, like I’m just stupid. But as soon as that hits I’m just working and have no time for fun. I always make sure I come off it every so often and have a few days of being silly and fun.“

But he continues: “Quitting is out of the question right now. It’s something I wouldn’t dare toy with – it’s done me too much good.” And while he’s convinced he wouldn’t return to ketamine if he did stop, he adds: “It’s just great for working. The album wouldn’t have been written without the medication.”

The full interview appears in the next edition of Metal Hammer, out next week – stay tuned for more details.

Bring Me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes on Depression and Inspiration from Louis C.K. [x]

For the full story, pick up the October/November issue of Revolver. It hits newsstands September 15.

Oli Sykes has grappled with more than a few obstacles in his life, including school bullies, loneliness, depression, and drug addiction. But for a few months in 2014, a bad case of writer’s block seemed like his most daunting foe yet.

It was back in 2012 that the heavily-tattooed frontman of Bring Me the Horizon had successfully completed rehab for his addiction to the drug Ketamine. The experience was an arduous one, but it had ultimately helped to fuel his cathartic songwriting for 2013’s ‘Sempiternal,’ an album that became a breakthrough commercial hit on both sides of the Atlantic for the British metalcore band. But as the time to make the follow-up to ‘Sempitenal’ approached, Sykes grew increasingly concerned that he might not have anything left in the tank. “I’ll be honest,” Sykes tells Revolver, “I was like, ‘What the fuck do I sing about now?’”

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BRING ME THE HORIZON: THE FUTURE IS NOW

“To a lot of people, we were a new band,” Bring Me The Horizon’s frontman begins. Back in 2013, the Sheffield-bred five-piece were at something of a crossroads. Having lost their former guitarist Jona Weinhofen, keyboardist Jordan Fish soon entered the picture for sessions on their fourth album ‘Sempiternal’. It was with that album that the band began to paint themselves in a new light. “It was as though our old albums didn’t even exist,” Oli Sykes continues, “but we were almost cool with that. It felt like the start of something new.”

For the British metal band, it really was something new. By the time that their fourth effort landed on shelves, their image had shifted. No longer were they considered the underdogs of the screamo scene; they were changing perceptions. Jordan encouraged Oli to move away from his previous intense bouts of screaming and veer further towards singing. Electronics began to play a bigger role. They became one of the heaviest bands featured on the radio and the mainstream was finally beginning to accept them.

“I guess with ‘Sempiternal’ we really stepped it up a notch in general,” Oli reflects. “It had been overwhelmingly positive; there are usually lots of ups and downs. It kinda pushed us out of our scene a bit more and into something new. I think we got a bit of a taste for it, to be honest. With Jordan coming into the band as well, we were able to develop so much during the time we were touring ‘Sempiternal’. It just naturally progressed, and we had just gotten better and better so by the time that the label were asking for a fifth single, we felt like we could do something so much better than what’s on ‘Sempiternal’.“

Ahead of their sold out show at Wembley Arena last December they released a standalone single, which would prove a more dramatic change than perhaps anticipated. “‘Drown’ was really received well, and then there was Wembley and stuff, so that left us with this taste to do something more. It was the first time everyone was paying attention to us; we’re not having to fight to get on the radio, we’re not having to fight to convince people that we can do something good. It’s like everyone was waiting to hear what we do next and everyone was ready for it, so it felt like too good an opportunity to pass up and wait. We decided at the start of this year we were just gonna work non-stop; get in and get it out and work harder than we’ve ever done before.”

Bring Me The Horizon on the cover of Rock Sound, October 2015

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