Why does Oli Sykes have a credit on the new A Day To Remember album?

Jeremy McKinnon has revealed that Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes has a credit on the band’s surprise new LP, A Day To Remember’s Big Ole Album Vol. 1.

Announced yesterday (February 18) with physical editions already available, the vocalist told Kerrang! in an exclusive Q&A to accompany the news that Oli had a hand in the album song Die For Me.

“We show up to the studio one day with coffee, and Zakk [Cervini, producer] says, ‘Hey, we’ve got this little idea that we’ve been messing around with,’” Jeremy reveals. “He’s obviously worked with Bring Me a lot in recent years, and he’d told Oli that he was working with us.

“Oli had sent Zakk a voice memo of this melody with some lyrics, a few of them mumbled here and there, and Zakk put some music to it. We hear this idea and were immediately like, ‘Well, it’s obvious what we’re working on today – this is badass!’ We worked up the story to speak to what was going on in our life, and that became Die For Me.”

As such, you can also see Oli tucked away there on the National Lampoon-inspired album artwork:

Last night, ADTR dropped two new singles, Make It Make Sense and LeBron, which you can stream now:

Big Ole Album Vol. 1 is out now in physical formats via Fueled By Ramen / Parlophone, and receives a digital release on March 21.

ADTR headline Slam Dunk Festival on May 24 – 25, and play London’s O2 Academy Brixton on June 24 – 25. Get your Slam Dunk tickets now.

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