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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2020 23:44:13 GMT
In July last year, BABYMETAL revealed that they wanted to collaborate one day with Bring Me The Horizon, and now, after bringing them on tour in Japan several months later, the two bands have finally collided on record.
Their hectic, heavy joining of forces happens on the track Kingslayer, taken from Bring Me’s new 4K-rated Post Human: Survival Horror EP (out today – October 30). Frontman Oli Sykes tells NME that the song is about someone who is “willing to do what’s right even if it’s illegal”, adding of the two bands’ work together: “We wanted to do something with them for ages.
“We’ve got a really special connection with them, even though we don’t speak the same language. We don’t hang out or have conversations, but when you see them, it makes you really happy. They work so well with the whole idea of this record being cyber-punk-y. It sounds like an anime TV trailer.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2020 20:38:57 GMT
Bring Me the Horizon's new EP, Post Human: Survival Horror is out now, meaning you can hear the guest-filled record, including one song which features Evanescence singer Amy Lee and another starring Babymetal.
The release of the nine-track EP has long been in the works as Bring Me the Horizon dropped the first single, "Ludens," in November of last year, taking fans on a ride that came up just one week shy of a full year of anticipation. "Parasite Eve" followed in June, and then came "Obey" featuring Yungblud and, most recently, "Teardrops."
"Kingslayer" finds BMTH diving head-first into beat-backed electronic music, a realm they're not entirely unfamiliar with, amid the pounding distortion that still retains aspects of their roots in extreme metal. A true testament to the spirit of collaboration, this track would fit just as comfortably on a Babymetal record as it does the Post Human: Survival Horror EP.
Closing out the release is "One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death" with a guest appearance from Amy Lee. It's a complete reversal from the beat-smattered intensity of "Kingslayer" and it's minimalist atmosphere and heavenly piano melodies offers the ideal foundation for Lee's tenderhearted vocal delivery.
"It was just a really fun escape from that little stuck moment that I was in, and it inspired me. It helped me feel, I don't know... beautiful. The song is beautiful," Lee told Loudwire in an exclusive interview. "That song is always gonna have a special place in my heart because I felt like, in a moment as an artist when I was stuck, another artist came along and helped me," added the Evanescence frontwoman.
Listen to "Kingslayer" and "One Day the Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest as You March Towards Your Death" below. Get your copy of Bring Me the Horizon's Post Human: Survival Horror here (as Amazon affiliates we earn on qualifying purchases).
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2020 22:16:03 GMT
Last month, Bring Me The Horizon finally unveiled their new EP POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR. Along with features from Nova Twins, Amy Lee and YUNGBLUD, BMTH teamed up with Japanese duo BABYMETAL for the heavy-hitting song “Kingslayer.”
Now, Bring Me The Horizon have revealed how their collab came to be and why it was years in the making.
Bring Me The Horizon and BABYMETAL may seem like they are from completely different worlds, but the acts actually having a few things in common. After meeting in 2015, they kept in touch and BMTH eventually opened for the duo on their 2019 Japanese arena tour.
Oli Sykes previously told NME that Bring Me The Horizon have wanted to do a collaboration with BABYMETAL for a very long time.
“We wanted to do something with them for ages,” he said. “We’ve got a really special connection with them, even though we don’t speak the same language. We don’t hang out or have conversations, but when you see them, it makes you really happy.”
Now, we finally know just how their collaboration on “Kingslayer” came to be. In a new behind-the-scenes video, Bring Me The Horizon reveal how their relationship with BABYMETAL over the years eventually led to them working together.
When it came time to record POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR, Sykes knew BMTH needed to do something different with “Kingslayer.”
“I didn’t want to just go super hard on it and it sound super old school,” he says. “It needed to sound fresh to me and I think when we got them on, it just elevated the song to sound like some kind of anime theme tune intro. It just kind of gave me the freedom to [just] go as fucking crazy as I want and the song’s still gonna sound like mental and like something no one’s heard before.”
Sykes also shares that working with BABYMETAL was incredible and they brought a lot to “Kingslayer.”
“Working with them was awesome,” he continues. “They’re so organized and so professional. I asked them, ‘I really want you guys to sing the verse in Japanese.’ So I told them the idea behind the song and the concept and they came back with like a table of option A,B,C and D of lyrics and little like all of it in Japanese and the translation and what it meant.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2020 4:45:26 GMT
Bring Me the Horizon continue to give fans a glimpse into the process of making their Post Human: Survival Horror LP. Among the healthy roster of collaborators on the album, one of the unique standouts includes the cut “Kingslayer” featuring Japanese sensation, BABYMETAL.
Throughout the process the band has shared a series of short videos documenting the creative evolution and just how the finished product came to be. For the latest insight, Bring Me the Horizon revisit how they met BABYMETAL back in 2015 and would eventually share the stage with the band in Japan, referring to their shows as the biggest ever.
The mutual enthusiasm both developed for one another would lead to the collaboration that ended up in “Kingslayer”. The vignette features interviews from both bands and includes footage from their 2019 Japanese tour dates that depict the colossal energy of both the bands and the crowds the filled the Saitama Super Arena and Osaka Jo Hall last November.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 14:11:35 GMT
Bring Me The Horizon - Hellfest 2022 - @arte Concert
Deathcore, nu metal, metalcore, ambient, radio rock, rap metal, electro, pop… In eighteen years of existence, the zicos of Bring Me The Horizon have tried almost every style (a composition for symphony orchestra plus a concept album dedicated to free jazz and the account is good). Over the course of its experiments, we have seen the group grow, out of adolescence to pass entirely into adulthood. A physical and artistic change.
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