Bring Me The Horizon

Released: September 11, 2015

Songwriter: Oliver Sykes

Producer: Spotify

Five: "Follow You." This is the song that me and Jordan actually wrote while we were writing "Drown" years ago, and I'd kinda forgot about it until we were sifting through old stuff, and I listened to it again and I kinda just loved how it starts, I guess. There's one thing that got me, like, it doesn't sound like a Bring Me The Horizon song. It doesn't sound like it, like when you listen to it, it's like, "what the hell's about to happen?" It's just gonna transform into a Bring Me The Horizon song. I guess even though it's not like any song you've heard from us before, it all makes sense when it does kick in, and lyrically, lyrically I guess it comes from when me and my other half were going through a particular rough patch. I thought things weren't looking too good, and I guess it gets to a certain point, and I guess when it got to that certain point, like, this fucking sucks and I don't really wanna do this anymore, at least it's when you have that realization it's a bit of [?]. I guess I realized how bad being together can sometimes get. The alternative was just so much worse, and again, it's one of those beautiful realizations that can only come from something that's really ugly.

Bring Me The Horizon are a British alternative rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire—often stylised as simply “BMTH” or shortened to “Bring Me.” Formed in 2003, the group currently consists of lead vocalist Oliver “Oli” Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls, and keyboardist Jordan Fish.

The name of the band was taken from Captain Jack Sparrow’s line in the first Pirates of the Caribbean which he “Bring me that horizon.” Oli stated in an interview with Spin how the name connects with his vision of the

Right at the end of the film—it might even be the very last line—Johnny Depp says, “Bring me that horizon.” That was really inspiring. I was still living with my parents in Sheffield, England, when the movie came out [in 2003]. For me and the band, playing music was always wrapped up with the idea of touring and traveling and seeing the rest of England and the rest of the world. We never thought doing that was possible, but that’s what we wanted to do. So that quote sort of stands in for our feeling of wanting to see what the planet had to offer.

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