British alternative/metalcore quintet Bring Me The Horizon have released a music video alongside the release of their brand-new single “Strangers”. You can watch and listen at the link below.
Speaking on the themes of the song, singer Oli Sykes said, according to NME: “The song came out of a long writing trip in LA…“and as soon as the lyric ‘we’re just a room full of strangers’ came it took on such a deeper double meaning – how it would feel to be performing it live as that’s what it is.. all strangers connecting on this mad level.. and that it was like rehab…Coming out of lockdown and the pandemic, everyone is recovering from something and I’m so aware that so many people struggle daily with differing traumas, and just wanted to stress that they’re not in this alone… and we’re a community here to help each other.”
The tune is the band’s first non-collaborative single since “DiE4u” which was released in September of last year, and spawned the “DiE6u” hyperpop remix by the online music collective six impala. Both “DiE4u” and “Strangers” will likely appear on the upcoming instalment of Bring Me The Horizon’s Post Human EP series, which commenced in 2020 with Post Human: Survival Horror, a release that saw the band collaborating with the likes of Yungblud, Japanese metal outfit Babymetal, London duo Nova Twins and Evanescence singer Amy Lee. You can find the release on all available streaming services, and you can listen to “Kingslayer” down below.
The group have revealed a few details about the continuation of the Post Human series, with Oli Sykes saying in a 2021 interview that they were planning on releasing four instalments: “We’ve got a clear direction that the third one will take, and also the fourth one. All I’ll say is that it’s quite asymmetrical and the fourth one is going to be quite a curveball.”
The singer also stated that the band had been working on the new instalment in the series for around a year in a more recent interview: “We’ve been working on it for about a year now, we’ve got lots of music we’re just being quite picky about what we want to release. We must have about 45 songs.”
