Fresh from their Download Festival headline stunner and announcement of next album POST HUMAN: NeX GEn, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has teased a bit about what’s to come from the band’s new music.
Speaking to NME about the long-awaited follow-up to Post Human: Survival Horror, the vocalist shares that he’s aiming for a more “unhinged” approach on this record, taking influence from his heroes in Glassjaw as well as the “obnoxious, trashy and in-your-face” feel of hyperpop.
“It’s not that we’ve lost that in our music, but as you become a bigger band, things do get more polished,” Oli explains. “I want to go the opposite way. Let’s be unhinged, let’s stop trying to make all the edges smooth.”
He adds: “There’s no, ‘That song could be played on the radio if we don’t scream.’ It’s almost like we’re connecting to that time before Bring Me The Horizon had any prospects of being a big band. Back then, there was never anything but, ‘What do you want to make?’ So we’re trying to tap back into that.”
POST HUMAN: NeX GEn will be released on September 15 via Sony/RCA, with the band then following things up a few months later with a massive UK arena tour.
Listen to recent surprise single AmEN! with Lil Uzi Vert and Glassjaw’s Daryl Palumbo:
