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Bring Me The Horizon recently returned with a brand new, furiously screaming, yet heavenly pop-tinged track ‘DiE4u’. It dropped ahead of the Sheffield five piece’s mammoth UK tour in support of 2020 EP POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR this week. 

Here, we delve into some of Bring Me The Horizon’s best deep cuts below the surface of their career definers ‘Can You Feel My Heart’, ‘Drown’ and ‘Throne’ for something a little more underrated. 

‘Rawwwrr!’ 

A rarity from the early archives of Bring Me The Horizon’s quickly-growing back catalogue, ‘Rawwwrr!’ is a brutal one. Featuring on the band's first ever EP effort This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For, this track is bound to do exactly that. Hair raising, in your face and shocking to the senses, ‘Rawwwrr!’ is frenzied, unrelenting and set the tone for Bring Me The Horizon coming up the ranks of the heavy music scene in the early noughties.

‘Black & Blue’ 

Whilst ‘Pray For Plagues’ and ‘For Stevie Wonder’s Eyes Only (Braille)’ boasted the first snippets of songs from Bring Me The Horizon's brutal debut album Count Your Blessings back in 2006, delving beyond the singles' surface, tracks like ‘Black & Blue’ get to the crux of early Bring Me. Metal guitar riffs, guttural screams and lyrics that address a painful relationship (“I feel the malice in my veins/My heart swells with hatred in your name”), ‘Count Your Blessings’ announced Bring Me The Horizon to the scene with varying degrees of success.

‘Death Breath’ 

Sprawling metalcore-centric singles such as ‘Chelsea Smile’, ‘Diamonds Aren’t Forever’ and ‘The Sadness Will Never End’—featuring Architects’ very own Sam Carter—Bring Me’s second studio album Suicide Season saw a departure from the band's widely talked about deathcore sound, and 'Death Breath' is a great example of that musical step up. 

‘Sleep With One Eye Open’ 

‘Sleep With One Eye Open’ continued along metalcore lines. Setting the tone for the experimental, boundary-pushing sounds Bring Me The Horizon are known for now, the ‘Cut Up’ follow up edition incorporated influences of electronic and dance music. ‘Sleep With One Eye Open’ however, harked back to a heavier Bring Me found on Suicide Season.   

‘Blacklist’ 

Dirty, grimy, sludgy sounds infiltrate this banger of a track, alongside a technical guitar solo and an almighty breakdown. ‘Blacklist’, whilst shrinking in the shadows of the likes of heavy hitters 'Alligator Blood’ and ‘The Fox And The Wolf’, is ten times more explosive than ‘Don’t Go’ and ‘Memorial’.  

‘The House Of Wolves’

Arguably one of the fan favorites from Bring Me The Horizon’s mainstream breakthrough album Sempiternal, ‘The House of Wolves’ is a rock anthem that combines brutally beautiful post-hardcore and hard rock heaviness with euphoric and heavenly atmospheres. The Sheffield five-piece pull off perfectly here. 

‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’

‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’ incorporates gang vocals, battering drums and gut-wrenching emotion: it's clear to see why Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth full length was this band's breakthrough.   

‘Hospital For Souls’ 

‘Hospital For Souls’ serves as the last and longest track on Sempiternal. Exploring new found atmospherics, ‘Souls’ starts off calmly, but by the mid-way point it bursts into an explosion of earth-shattering and heart-shaking metalcore — BMTH at their very best.     

‘Doomed’ 

One of the first non-singles to be heard from Bring Me The Horizon’s 2015 album That’s The Spirit, 'Doomed’ epitomises the album's themes: attempting to find the light in dark situations. A display of dynamics and boundless characteristics, That’s The Spirit felt like a full-length that was years in the making for Bring Me The Horizon.

‘why you gotta kick me when i’m down’

Underrated amo number ‘why you gotta kick me when i’m down’ dabbles massively in futuristic hip-hop beats, electronic, EDM and pop-leaning sounds—all have become a more warmly-received and welcomed mainstay in Bring Me’s armoury. 

‘Dear Diary,’

The thundering thrash metal number ‘Dear Diary,’ opens Bring Me The Horizon’s most recent EP release POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR. Making a staggering resurgence, frontman Oli Sykes is back to screaming fury-filled lyrics like “God is a shithead and we’re his rejects/Traumatised for breakfast, I can’t stomach anymore”. Whilst this EP contains colossal singles including ‘Ludens’, ‘Parasite Eve’, ‘Obey’ and ‘Teardrops’, ‘Dear Diary’ is a stellar opener. 

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