Bring Me The Horizon has been teasing heavier new material over the past year, and then dropped a new single called "LosT" earlier this month. Which was very noticeably influenced by bands like My Chemical Romance and A Day To Remember, with a touch of hyperpop – hardly the metalcore throwback fans expected.
So what gives? According to Bring Me The Horizon keyboardist and vocalist Jordan Fish in an interview with Kerrang!, the band is currently working on four new Post Human records, the last of which will be the metal one. In the meantime, fans can expect some interesting variations on the usual Bring Me The Horizon sound. Though when has the band really subscribed to one consistent sound in the past decade or so?
"We're on a journey of doing different types of records, which we set ourselves up to do thinking we'd get through it really quickly, and it hasn't panned out that way for a number of reasons," said Fish. "We're working on four Post Human records and we've been working on them all at the same time; one of the reasons why it's taken longer is that we've done stuff for the third and fourth ones as well.
"The fourth one is where we want to explore the more heavy stuff, so in a way it limits how much we want to go heavy on this one. You don't want them all to sound the same and you want to be confident in your conviction of going all-in on a style. It's been a bit challenging working out how to do heavy-ish stuff on the record that doesn't feel necessarily 'metal' heavy. I can imagine 'LosT' being a popular song in a rock club. It's a rock-y, emo-y pop song."
On "LosT", Fish readily admits the My Chemical Romance influence: "You hear a band do a song that sounds exactly like Deftones and they’ll say they were listening to a lot of Glassjaw or something else – just say Deftones [laughs] So this song is influenced by My Chem. I feel the verse is a bit different, it’s kind of indie-sounding to me, like The Strokes or some pop-indie vibe. I don’t know why you make what you make, it just comes out."
