Oli Sykes has shared that he’s currently in the recording studio, causing a stir of excitement amongst the Bring Me The Horizon fanbase, hoping that new music is coming soon.
He shared two close-up selfies of himself in a room where you can faintly see a recording engineer at work in the glass reflection. He gave a simple caption: “In’t studio.” You can see the images below.
Bring Me The Horizon’s last album ‘Post Human: Nex Gen’ was released in May 2024. The album saw some more experimental genre-fusion from the band, combining their heavy sound with hyperpop, electronica and pop-punk. Most critics gave the project positive reviews, with The Guardian calling it “a defining album of our digitally overloaded era.”
In an interview with NME last December, Sykes said the Sheffield metal outfit have some new music ready for their headline sets at Reading & Leeds 2025. He also told Kerrang! that the band have a lot of material left over from their last album: “We wrote so much for NeX GEn, there’s so many cool songs that are kicking about, and I think the world would love to hear them.”
The hard rockers have a few performances planned for this year – they recently announced a North American arena tour starting in Autumn and will also appear at Kentucky’s Louder Than Life festival in September.
In Europe, they have a few festival slots scheduled – first, at Germany’s Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in June, before returning to the UK for the Reading and Leeds festivals in August. All their upcoming dates can be found on their website.
Sykes said in the same interview with NME that the band’s new songs were “not a new album or anything, but some new material for the set” at Reading and Leeds. He also said that these British shows will be an end to the band’s current era: “These will be our only shows in the UK next year, and our final shows before we go away for maybe quite some time. This is will be the conclusion of the ‘Nex Gen’ run for sure.”
Bring Me The Horizon have cemented their status and legacy as one of modern metal’s most important groups. While the music of their early days was firmly rooted in aggressive deathcore, their 2010 releases saw a refined sound with anthemic, accessible rock flavours and mixes of different genres. Their sixth album, ‘Amo’, grabbed Bring Me The Horizon their highest charting position, debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart.
Irish post-punk favourites Fontaines D.C. recently covered Bring Me The Horizon for Australia’s “triple j” radio station – combining the metal group’s hit ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ with elements of Nirvana’s ‘Heart Shaped Box’. You can see our write-up on that here.
