04-04-2013, 11:36
online listen
he screamed at me, a bunch of times
and I didn't do nothin'
1.0 from me and a converted 2.4 from allmusic
artist web site - http://www.bringmethehorizon.co.uk/
from the album - Shadow Moses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8IKbATZy0g
released Apr 2nd
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Bio - from allmusic
Fronted by a tattooed clothing designer and influenced by death metal, grindcore, and emo,
Bring Me the Horizon aren't the average deathcore band. The group was formed in 2004 from the
ashes of several Sheffield-based outfits, with the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean
serving as the inspiration for the band's name. Singer Oliver Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia and
Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean, and drummer Matt Nicholls initially established their own
label, Thirty Days of Night, to release their debut EP, 2005's This Is What the Edge of Your
Seat Was Made For. Upon signing to the higher-profile label Visible Noise (whose roster also
included Bullet for My Valentine and Lostprophets), they reissued the EP to a wider audience.
Bring Me the Horizon's full-length debut, Count Your Blessings, appeared in October 2006, with
an American release following one year later courtesy of Epitaph Records.
With their second album, Suicide Season, Bring Me the Horizon moved in a more accessible
direction and wound up cracking the U.K. album charts. Not everyone approved of the new sound,
though, and Ward left the band in early 2009. His temporary replacement was Jona Weinhofen,
formerly a member of I Killed the Prom Queen. Weinhofen ended up staying with the band as a
permanent member, and the group returned to the studio with producer Fredrik Nordström in March
2010 to begin work on a third album. The resulting There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It,
There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret was released during the latter half of 2010, several
months after the band wrapped up its engagement with the Warped Tour. A fourth album, the more
atmospheric Sempiternal, arrived on Epitaph in 2013.
Album Review - from allmusic
While many have tried, few bands have merged metalcore with electronic influences quite like
Bring Me the Horizon, who complete their transition from faceless deathcore band to something
altogether more interesting with their fourth album, Sempiternal. Produced by Terry Date, the
same producer who worked on the Deftones' 2000 art metal masterpiece, White Pony, the album
finds the band almost reinventing its style, diving headfirst into the kinds of atmospheric
flourishes that were only hinted at on There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is a
Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. What makes Bring Me the Horizon's evolution so interesting
isn't so much the change in their sound, but how they got there. Rather than adding and
subtracting elements wholesale, it feels as though the band has been tinkering little by
little, adjusting the ratios to achieve just the right balance of ambience and aggression.
Where other bands might have synths slapped on top of their sound, here they feel like they're
part of the foundation of the songs, creating a soundscape for the rest of the elements to
drift through instead of around. Though fans of the band's earlier works might see this kind of
change as an unwelcome invader, they certainly can't say it's one they didn't see coming. Bring
Me the Horizon have been working slowly but surely to refine their sound for years now, and
with Sempiternal, it feels like their patience and hard work are finally beginning to pay
dividends.
Track Listing
1. Can You Feel My Heart
2. The House Of Wolves
3. Empire
4. Sleepwalking
5. Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake
6. Shadow Moses
7. And The Snakes Start To Sing
8. Seen It All Before
9. Antivist
10. Crooked Young
11. Hospital For Souls
he screamed at me, a bunch of times
and I didn't do nothin'
1.0 from me and a converted 2.4 from allmusic
artist web site - http://www.bringmethehorizon.co.uk/
from the album - Shadow Moses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8IKbATZy0g
released Apr 2nd
Bio - from allmusic
Fronted by a tattooed clothing designer and influenced by death metal, grindcore, and emo,
Bring Me the Horizon aren't the average deathcore band. The group was formed in 2004 from the
ashes of several Sheffield-based outfits, with the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean
serving as the inspiration for the band's name. Singer Oliver Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia and
Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean, and drummer Matt Nicholls initially established their own
label, Thirty Days of Night, to release their debut EP, 2005's This Is What the Edge of Your
Seat Was Made For. Upon signing to the higher-profile label Visible Noise (whose roster also
included Bullet for My Valentine and Lostprophets), they reissued the EP to a wider audience.
Bring Me the Horizon's full-length debut, Count Your Blessings, appeared in October 2006, with
an American release following one year later courtesy of Epitaph Records.
With their second album, Suicide Season, Bring Me the Horizon moved in a more accessible
direction and wound up cracking the U.K. album charts. Not everyone approved of the new sound,
though, and Ward left the band in early 2009. His temporary replacement was Jona Weinhofen,
formerly a member of I Killed the Prom Queen. Weinhofen ended up staying with the band as a
permanent member, and the group returned to the studio with producer Fredrik Nordström in March
2010 to begin work on a third album. The resulting There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It,
There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret was released during the latter half of 2010, several
months after the band wrapped up its engagement with the Warped Tour. A fourth album, the more
atmospheric Sempiternal, arrived on Epitaph in 2013.
Album Review - from allmusic
While many have tried, few bands have merged metalcore with electronic influences quite like
Bring Me the Horizon, who complete their transition from faceless deathcore band to something
altogether more interesting with their fourth album, Sempiternal. Produced by Terry Date, the
same producer who worked on the Deftones' 2000 art metal masterpiece, White Pony, the album
finds the band almost reinventing its style, diving headfirst into the kinds of atmospheric
flourishes that were only hinted at on There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is a
Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. What makes Bring Me the Horizon's evolution so interesting
isn't so much the change in their sound, but how they got there. Rather than adding and
subtracting elements wholesale, it feels as though the band has been tinkering little by
little, adjusting the ratios to achieve just the right balance of ambience and aggression.
Where other bands might have synths slapped on top of their sound, here they feel like they're
part of the foundation of the songs, creating a soundscape for the rest of the elements to
drift through instead of around. Though fans of the band's earlier works might see this kind of
change as an unwelcome invader, they certainly can't say it's one they didn't see coming. Bring
Me the Horizon have been working slowly but surely to refine their sound for years now, and
with Sempiternal, it feels like their patience and hard work are finally beginning to pay
dividends.
Track Listing
1. Can You Feel My Heart
2. The House Of Wolves
3. Empire
4. Sleepwalking
5. Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake
6. Shadow Moses
7. And The Snakes Start To Sing
8. Seen It All Before
9. Antivist
10. Crooked Young
11. Hospital For Souls
