Bring Me The Horizon (Modern Metal)
Everyone has their own tastes in music, and I refuse to be bias against a particular music genre simply because I prefer one over the other (I still have a soft spot for emo or screamo, hard rock like Escape the Fate, Jacks Mannequin, Something Corporate, or Senses Fail) but I'm open to all music like Adele, Justin Bieber (yes, I know), Ariana Grande or Bruno Mars and a whole slew of pop culture and old music, and I think music has a way of bringing us together.
Bring Me The Horizon, "Down" - Live at Wimbley (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkV5709EG5M
This blog is for the rockers out there. The metal rockers. The ones that head bang in their car or rock-out at the gym or walking through the grocery store. One band who has caught my attention a few years ago, but never really focused on is a band called Bring Me The Horizon. They're a British rock band from Sheffield, UK. I first started listening to them on their 2013 Album Release, Sempiternal which blew my mind and I've been a fan ever since. Admittedly, I didn't catch their days of "There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret" (2010).
You can see from 2006 to 2016 that the band has matured musically. The above song, "Down" off their latest album, "That's The Spirit", the music is much more toned-down on the metal-core side that they used to be. Even their prior release, Sempiternal (2013), which had the song that introduced me to this awesome band, "Sleepwalking". Sleepwalking was their second biggest hit, so below I'm going to cut to the chase and introduce you to the Album wit the biggest hit off of that album, .
Bring Me The Horizon, "Can You Feel My Heart" - Sempiternal (2013)
Just in case the last song, "Can You Feel My Heart" scared you off with the screaming (and I'd consider that a very soft song), compared to the entire album of sensational metal and grinding guitars and screaming into a musical masterpiece. Their newest album, "That's The Spirit" (2015) is a testament to their ability to merge metal with electronica and in order to bring-in the pop-rock music genre, but also enjoy hard rock. The screaming is toned down into only when necessary, rather than throughout the entire songs. Their newer releases, "Throne" is an excellent example of merging genres into more of an alternative rock feel.
Bring Me The Horizon, "Throne" - That's The Spirit (2015)
If you'd like to see some of their music off of their older albums that birthed the beginnings of Bring Me The Horizon, you might want to check out their website here. I mentioned before that the band musically matured. Some would call them a sellout, but I think they developed themselves artistically to appeased their target audience of metal and screaming, with a subtle mix of electronica to open the gates to other musical interests (namely, reducing the amount of cussing a bit).
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Christopher J. Rosario, Writer, Entertainer, Freethinker, San Antonio, TX
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I've been protecting you. Their old stuff is very loud and very hardcore metal. In case you were curious on what BMTH started out as, before they got radio-air-time. Check out their song, Prayer for Plagues (parental discretion advised).
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