I'm 54 and I've been a fan of Metal since the 80's. I admit that I have a hard time getting down with the younger bands and their sound. But these guys are amazing! I've been a fan for a while, they started in 2004 and immediately drew me in. They're from Sheffield, England and they helped kick start a whole new wave of British Metal bands. Oliver Sykes is a powerful singer and I've seen them at Wacken Open Air and Hellfest Festival and it was two of the best concerts that I've ever attended. Please keep going down their rabbit hole.
BMTH is such an amazing band. They have evolved over time from a smaller DeathCore band into a massive band that can move between regular Hard Rock to MetalCore to EMO to Punk to Pop and back again. They cannot be contained in a genre label. Try things like Ludens, Happy Song, Parasite Eve, Drown (Live at Albert Hall), Shadow Moses, Kingslayer (with Baby Metal), Die4U, N/A, Teardrops, and so much more.
The most important context to the lyrics of Can You Feel My Heart as well as the entire Sempiternal album is that it was the first BMTH album written, recorded & released after Oli got treatment for a ketamine addiction that he had been struggling with for many years & had progressively taken over his life, ruined (nearly ended) all of his relationships & was a barrier to him being the person in his personal life & professional life that he wanted to be. Oli has said as he got more clear headed, that he realized how badly he had hurt people while in his addiction, and that he was determined to walk out of treatment and prove that it was worth it for those people to not give up on him, as well as prove he took the band seriously by actually learning proper singing techniques (he had no formal vocal training up to that point), being more intentional with the music/lyrics he wrote & by getting involved in the production process & in music video directing.
This Sempiternal album is my favorite BMTH album ever!!! It’s the perfect blend of music. Please please please do Shadow Moses next????!!!! The video is trippy as well. Sleepwalking is an awesome song too! The live version is incredible cuz he Gives a backstory of the meaning of the song
You're 100% right in saying this song is for a whole generation. The album this is off (Sempiternal) is thee greatest album BMTH has done, imo. If you were to do full album reactions, leave that one till last. It's one of those albums that 20/30 years from now will still absaloutly slap from start to finish.
Please go down the bmth rabbit hole. Drown still makes me cry. It got me through so many dark times..in general BMTH helped me get through alot. They are brilliant. Great reaction
Its funny to say theyre a new sound... theyre actually jsut insanely revolutionary. Ina way, theyre like the metal version of Linkin Park, always pushing limits and boundaries. BMTH is actually a OG "Myspace Metal" for all of us old heads. Thats where they got their start. Suicide Season was INCREDIBLE and always good to listen to, and their music vids are always incredible. I hope you do more from them, and check out their different phases. Diamonds are Forever is a classic fav of mine. "We will never sleep.... sleep is for the weak!" Let's GO!!!
This whole album is a staple of modern metal, you should defo check out more. The band have been around for a minute and their sound has changed drastically over the years, theirs a lot of gold to dig into in every album. Also Bmth are probably the biggest band in modern metal right now. Selling out arenas left right and centre.
Last year, I listened to every album they've put and out and also listened to this one on release. Early on they leaned too much into all the screaming where later albums leaned to into synth-core. This album found the perfect balance, I gave the album 10/10. Out of all their songs, I recommend you check out a classic "Throne" and a new song "n/A"
When I saw Ollie sing this live it made me so emotional because he started crying during the bridge because it was the first time he was performing it since getting sober and you could tell that it was an important moment for him
if you come back to this band, please check out the video for their song Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood silly name but the budget went POOF $$$ on that music video it just came out today and its incredible !
About time you got to this band welcome to BMTH!!!! You need to check out basically everything. No one screams sings like Oli! And too it's funny you said it's amazing this song came out 10 years ago, one amazing thing with Bring Me the Horizon is always ahead of the curve, they normally do something about 2+ years ahead of the trend which it's amazing they always are!
dude. get on this catalog. people hate on BMTH for moving on from deathcore/metalcore roots but if you listen to each album individually and not as a BMTH album they're pure gold.
I second this.. They've got some absolute GOLDEN songs, people give them stick for genre jumping but I will say one thing.... The genre jumps have kept them highly relevant, not only that but it's helped mold them into the band they are today Can't get enough BMTH
Why did I not get a notification for this??!! BMTH is one of my favorite bands, they’ve been around for a long time. You definitely should check out their new album it’s 🔥 Oli has openly spoken about his addiction to ketamine and his newer music reflects it
Saw them live back in January, they are absolutely fantastic live. This and Sleepwalking are two of my favourites from them but their more recent stuff is incredible too (they just dropped a new album a few weeks ago actually)
Bring me is definately worth a depp dive into! I have been a follower/lover since their 2nd album. Their music is so powerful, Sempiternal is my favourite album so far it just hit me personally so much. They helped me through my teen years. I finally Saw them live in 2002, Can you feel my heart had me in tears at the show ❤
Id really like to see you collab with The Charismatic Voice and Will Ramos from Lorna shore and have them teach you what some of the vocal screams, growls, vocal fry, Distortion...etc. that would be awesome!
Welcome to BMTH!!! Those masks, were the medieval version of the covid mask, only with a real purpose as those long beaks were stuffed with medicinal herbs and acted as filters for doctors during the Black Plague pandemic that struck Europe in the 14Th Century. BMTH lyrics can go extremely deep or dark so thread carefully. "Darkside" and "Kingslayer" are my favs.
One of my favourite bands, listen to bring me the horizon - sleepwalking it's my favourite song and yeah they just dropped a new album, you can hear the emotion in Oli's voice.
Screaming is just the word for “distorted vocals” so if u scream ur voice is getting distorted meaning it’s not staying fully in pitch. There’s different ways of screaming using different techniques. Growling is the low, deep, animalistic sounds which u usually would call a “false cord scream” cus it uses ur false vocal folds more to create the distorted sound instead of using ur normal vocal cords. A fry scream is usually a higher pitch scream, it uses a mix of vocal fry (which is the same base as if u push a tiny bit of air out without making a pitch and ur voice only does this slight popping noise) and just kinda manipulating that and pushing that while singing in pitch. Growl/guttural/false chord = Low screams (Alex Terrible is a master of growling) Fry = another technique of usually high pitch screams (Chester Bennington was a master at fry screaming like the long scream in “given up”)
this is old school BMTH you should also check out the house of wolves, throne, honestly you should listen to any song from their sempeternal and that's the spirit albums before checking their more recent stuff
Saw these guys at Reading festival back in the day (i'd like to say 2008?). Slipknot and avenged sevenfold pulled out, so they were bought in to open the day. No one really knew them, but they asked if people could start a mosh pit to limber up for the other acts and he really endeared himself to the crowd. Amazing to see how far they went from substitute opening Sunday act to headliners.
I think it's great that you are open to give all types a music a try. Personally, I'm not feelin this one other than a comical memory about my mom who recently passed. As a young adult I went out to a club with my mom (girls night out sorta thing) not knowing what kind of music was scheduled that night. The house band sounded similar. The look on Mom's face was priceless! 🤣
It was about time to enter to the rabbit hole, each one of their albums is a different trip 5:15 it's like dubstep but dubbed (no pun intended) in metal
This is the song that got me into the band. Becayof thw lyrics. He always brings is with the lyrics. But non of their albums sound the same. The new album is kinda, pop punk, hyperpop and metal bits here and there. Very different sound to this. But they always change it up. Og fans arnt generally keen. But i love their mixture of sounds. Never get boring put it that way. Oli sykes has cime on in leaps and bounds vocally since this album. Theyve been going 20 uears,so not all that new. But neebto us oldies, and imnolder than you.🤪 But i love this stuff. They did a song with a rapper too. Dayam what was that rapper called. The song was called fallout. Rapper was Something wolf. Damit!
You need to check out Drown, True friends, Strangers and definitely the newest album. For the newest album I’d say start with N/A such a banger or!!!! 10 statues that cried blood. Haayyyyuuuuuggggeeeee hit. Big ole banger
Hey BP these guys are my jam.. Listen to these since they came out 2004. Please, please, please go back in time and check out their "count your blessings" album.... I'd say pray for plagues. Honestly, they're a genuine down to earth band Throne, shadow moses, and then I'd say parasite eve (those are my top songs) They've changed style Soooo many times its unreal but they've gotten so far doing it Keep up the awesome work
You said those masks freak you out. I believe they were used by ‘doctors’ during the era of the Black Plague. There are a lot of songs I like from BMTH, though I’m sure you might not like some of the lyrics(to be honest, I’m not either sometimes but willing to look past it). I think you can’t go wrong with these songs ‘N/A’, ‘Drown’, ‘Die 4 U’, ‘Follow You’. There are so many great songs, but these are probably the most accessible for your taste.
Oli Sykes is the lead singer of the band. He’s a genuine human.
Are there fake humans?
He is so down to earth.
I'm 54 and I've been a fan of Metal since the 80's. I admit that I have a hard time getting down with the younger bands and their sound. But these guys are amazing! I've been a fan for a while, they started in 2004 and immediately drew me in. They're from Sheffield, England and they helped kick start a whole new wave of British Metal bands. Oliver Sykes is a powerful singer and I've seen them at Wacken Open Air and Hellfest Festival and it was two of the best concerts that I've ever attended. Please keep going down their rabbit hole.
Babymetal/ Bring me the horizon, ❤kingslayer live in Tokyo 😊
Next in jakarta❤
Their concert at royal albert hall is still on my workout playlist. Amazing listen.
That whole concert was masterpiece
BMTH is such an amazing band. They have evolved over time from a smaller DeathCore band into a massive band that can move between regular Hard Rock to MetalCore to EMO to Punk to Pop and back again. They cannot be contained in a genre label. Try things like Ludens, Happy Song, Parasite Eve, Drown (Live at Albert Hall), Shadow Moses, Kingslayer (with Baby Metal), Die4U, N/A, Teardrops, and so much more.
GREAT comment
Also to get Olis vocals 'Follow You' is a great listen
The most important context to the lyrics of Can You Feel My Heart as well as the entire Sempiternal album is that it was the first BMTH album written, recorded & released after Oli got treatment for a ketamine addiction that he had been struggling with for many years & had progressively taken over his life, ruined (nearly ended) all of his relationships & was a barrier to him being the person in his personal life & professional life that he wanted to be.
Oli has said as he got more clear headed, that he realized how badly he had hurt people while in his addiction, and that he was determined to walk out of treatment and prove that it was worth it for those people to not give up on him, as well as prove he took the band seriously by actually learning proper singing techniques (he had no formal vocal training up to that point), being more intentional with the music/lyrics he wrote & by getting involved in the production process & in music video directing.
This Sempiternal album is my favorite BMTH album ever!!! It’s the perfect blend of music. Please please please do Shadow Moses next????!!!! The video is trippy as well. Sleepwalking is an awesome song too! The live version is incredible cuz he Gives a backstory of the meaning of the song
You're 100% right in saying this song is for a whole generation. The album this is off (Sempiternal) is thee greatest album BMTH has done, imo. If you were to do full album reactions, leave that one till last. It's one of those albums that 20/30 years from now will still absaloutly slap from start to finish.
Bring me the Horizon's "Semperternal" album is one of the BEST albums EVER written. Nothing but absolute bangers
You have to react to their Royal Albert Hall concert. It’s impeccable. Incredible bad and so versatile
BMTH is well worth the deep dive ❤🎉❤🎉
They have a song with BabyMetal as well! Drown is an amazing song as well!
The live version is absolutely amazing💕 I’m so glad you checked this out!
Please go down the bmth rabbit hole. Drown still makes me cry. It got me through so many dark times..in general BMTH helped me get through alot. They are brilliant. Great reaction
BMTH - And the Snakes Start to Sing is one of my favorites
Its funny to say theyre a new sound... theyre actually jsut insanely revolutionary. Ina way, theyre like the metal version of Linkin Park, always pushing limits and boundaries. BMTH is actually a OG "Myspace Metal" for all of us old heads. Thats where they got their start. Suicide Season was INCREDIBLE and always good to listen to, and their music vids are always incredible. I hope you do more from them, and check out their different phases. Diamonds are Forever is a classic fav of mine. "We will never sleep.... sleep is for the weak!" Let's GO!!!
Definitely need to do the collaboration with Babymetal “ Kingslayer” but do the official live Tokyo version 😀.. Hope your family doing well
PLEASE go down the BMTH rabbit hole. Amazing band. Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a definite must
I think you need to do "Parasite Eve" I think the lyrics will interest you.. plus its one of their bangers.
Dude!!! Love that you listened to BMTH. Please give us more reactions to this band. They have a long history. Please dive deeper!!
This whole album is a staple of modern metal, you should defo check out more. The band have been around for a minute and their sound has changed drastically over the years, theirs a lot of gold to dig into in every album.
Also Bmth are probably the biggest band in modern metal right now. Selling out arenas left right and centre.
So many reactions you can do with this band. Lotta bangers
The band has only improved over time. Do check out more of their stuff, it's awesome.
Their new album is fire! 🔥
Last year, I listened to every album they've put and out and also listened to this one on release. Early on they leaned too much into all the screaming where later albums leaned to into synth-core. This album found the perfect balance, I gave the album 10/10. Out of all their songs, I recommend you check out a classic "Throne" and a new song "n/A"
Yes finally! 🔥 Rabbit hole, please!!
This is the greatest band alive now and your the best guy to react to it to because your smart af pls do this album and the rest
BMTH is so freaking good, react to Throne, Drown, Lost, Kool Aid
BMTH has nonstop bangers! GOATS of metalcore!
When I saw Ollie sing this live it made me so emotional because he started crying during the bridge because it was the first time he was performing it since getting sober and you could tell that it was an important moment for him
This band has SO many amazing songs, 100% worth going down the rabbit hole
if you come back to this band, please check out the video for their song Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood silly name but the budget went POOF $$$ on that music video it just came out today and its incredible !
This is the best kind of music ever made. Such a banger from early 2010s
Sempiternal is the album that got me hooked on BMTH , highly recommend a full listen in a dark room
About time you got to this band welcome to BMTH!!!! You need to check out basically everything. No one screams sings like Oli! And too it's funny you said it's amazing this song came out 10 years ago, one amazing thing with Bring Me the Horizon is always ahead of the curve, they normally do something about 2+ years ahead of the trend which it's amazing they always are!
Hell yeh!!! Love this band
A friend of mine just turned me on to BMTH, now I'm going to see them live very soon. Cannot wait!
Yes go down the bring me rabbit hole
We need more BMTH! Im so glad you checked them out. They will definitely propel the channel too!
dude. get on this catalog. people hate on BMTH for moving on from deathcore/metalcore roots but if you listen to each album individually and not as a BMTH album they're pure gold.
I second this.. They've got some absolute GOLDEN songs, people give them stick for genre jumping but I will say one thing.... The genre jumps have kept them highly relevant, not only that but it's helped mold them into the band they are today
Can't get enough BMTH
It's beautiful
dude, you gotta check out their song
dig it, bmth
BMTH can offer everything from death metal to pop. Every album is completely different from each other.
They have so so many bangers. And Oli is a great lyricist
Why did I not get a notification for this??!!
BMTH is one of my favorite bands, they’ve been around for a long time. You definitely should check out their new album it’s 🔥
Oli has openly spoken about his addiction to ketamine and his newer music reflects it
Gotta do Shadow Moses. I know youll find the video interesting
Saw them live back in January, they are absolutely fantastic live. This and Sleepwalking are two of my favourites from them but their more recent stuff is incredible too (they just dropped a new album a few weeks ago actually)
BMTH truely doesnt have a bad song, should react to more
Bring me is definately worth a depp dive into! I have been a follower/lover since their 2nd album. Their music is so powerful, Sempiternal is my favourite album so far it just hit me personally so much. They helped me through my teen years. I finally Saw them live in 2002, Can you feel my heart had me in tears at the show ❤
Oli definitely has a knack for writing (and performing). Great band.
more BMTH pls and ty!
more BMTH !!! Cheers From BRasil.
Oh boy get ready to go down the BMTH rabbit hole. They don't miss
Best band of all time. Literally define the modern metal genre
YES! MOAR BMTH!
This band helped me through sobriety. Definitely a band for the masses
Saw them live in houston when I was 16, this was the song that made the night for me :)
Saw these live back in January and they were incredible.
Hope you do a deep dive into their back catalogue, you wont be disappointed!
Id really like to see you collab with The Charismatic Voice and Will Ramos from Lorna shore and have them teach you what some of the vocal screams, growls, vocal fry, Distortion...etc. that would be awesome!
That would be sick!
Welcome to BMTH!!! Those masks, were the medieval version of the covid mask, only with a real purpose as those long beaks were stuffed with medicinal herbs and acted as filters for doctors during the Black Plague pandemic that struck Europe in the 14Th Century. BMTH lyrics can go extremely deep or dark so thread carefully. "Darkside" and "Kingslayer" are my favs.
You're exactly correct as these guys would take the sick away , to island by boat .
Imagine kids seeing these scary things back then...if you weren't sick you'd be after riding with them on the boatride!
And also for a hip hop guy you're gonna love their production. They mix like nobody
Check out the album "that's the spirit" way good album.
Outstanding album 10/10
One of my favourite bands, listen to bring me the horizon - sleepwalking it's my favourite song and yeah they just dropped a new album, you can hear the emotion in Oli's voice.
Listening to one of the modern GOATs.
Screaming is just the word for “distorted vocals” so if u scream ur voice is getting distorted meaning it’s not staying fully in pitch. There’s different ways of screaming using different techniques. Growling is the low, deep, animalistic sounds which u usually would call a “false cord scream” cus it uses ur false vocal folds more to create the distorted sound instead of using ur normal vocal cords.
A fry scream is usually a higher pitch scream, it uses a mix of vocal fry (which is the same base as if u push a tiny bit of air out without making a pitch and ur voice only does this slight popping noise) and just kinda manipulating that and pushing that while singing in pitch.
Growl/guttural/false chord = Low screams (Alex Terrible is a master of growling)
Fry = another technique of usually high pitch screams (Chester Bennington was a master at fry screaming like the long scream in “given up”)
this is old school BMTH you should also check out the house of wolves, throne, honestly you should listen to any song from their sempeternal and that's the spirit albums before checking their more recent stuff
saw these live last year outstanding
Saw these guys at Reading festival back in the day (i'd like to say 2008?). Slipknot and avenged sevenfold pulled out, so they were bought in to open the day. No one really knew them, but they asked if people could start a mosh pit to limber up for the other acts and he really endeared himself to the crowd. Amazing to see how far they went from substitute opening Sunday act to headliners.
Check out their collab with Machine Gun Kelly "Maybe". Fantastic song!
I cant drown my demons they know how to swim. One of the best lines I've heard
My favorite Ren reactor reacting to my favorite band. HERE FOR THIS JOURNEY!!!!!!!!
Omgggg please react to more of their stuff!!!! their lyrics are awesome.
You need to do more Bring me they are the best.
I think it's great that you are open to give all types a music a try. Personally, I'm not feelin this one other than a comical memory about my mom who recently passed. As a young adult I went out to a club with my mom (girls night out sorta thing) not knowing what kind of music was scheduled that night. The house band sounded similar. The look on Mom's face was priceless! 🤣
It was about time to enter to the rabbit hole, each one of their albums is a different trip
5:15 it's like dubstep but dubbed (no pun intended) in metal
This band has a ridiculous amount of content you should react to and the new album is awesome
There new album is amazing and tree performance at riyal Albert hall is breathtaking
Pleeeease I am sure many have said it, but Doomed (live at the Albert hall) they perform with a full orchestra
i love this song so much 😩❤
You came to the right rabbit hole
YOOOO ARE W DOING THIISS OMGG FIREEE!!
As others have said...you need to check out their concert at Royal Albert Hall...must listens are Doomed...Happy Song...Shadow Moses
If you enjoyed the raspiness on the voice and the deep lyrics i'd recommend you to hear BMTH - Dont Go
please do a full album if you can! these guys are amazing at what they do
Yo, BP! You gotta listen to Jeris Johnson's Reimagined version and Battling My Demons.
This is the song that got me into the band. Becayof thw lyrics. He always brings is with the lyrics. But non of their albums sound the same. The new album is kinda, pop punk, hyperpop and metal bits here and there. Very different sound to this. But they always change it up. Og fans arnt generally keen. But i love their mixture of sounds. Never get boring put it that way. Oli sykes has cime on in leaps and bounds vocally since this album. Theyve been going 20 uears,so not all that new. But neebto us oldies, and imnolder than you.🤪 But i love this stuff. They did a song with a rapper too. Dayam what was that rapper called. The song was called fallout. Rapper was Something wolf. Damit!
Masked wolf. 😂😂 Finally popped into my head
You can also refer to the sound of his vocals as having "grain"
Wow I thought I was late discovering this band and I dont even pay my bills by discovering new bands and music that is huge on the internet.
Oli sykes can do it all. The melodic version of oli is in the new album and let me tell you he has a wonderful singing voice
A great song that can out in 2020 is from a nu metal band called From Ashes To New and the song is called Panic. You should really check it out
You need to check out Drown, True friends, Strangers and definitely the newest album. For the newest album I’d say start with N/A such a banger or!!!! 10 statues that cried blood. Haayyyyuuuuuggggeeeee hit. Big ole banger
Please Please Please go down the rabbit hole with them!!
Bro they have a lot of good songs. You should check out throne from them next
Bring Me The Horizon Doomed!!! 😊
Especially the royal albert hall version with the orchestra.
Hey BP these guys are my jam.. Listen to these since they came out 2004. Please, please, please go back in time and check out their "count your blessings" album.... I'd say pray for plagues.
Honestly, they're a genuine down to earth band
Throne, shadow moses, and then I'd say parasite eve (those are my top songs)
They've changed style Soooo many times its unreal but they've gotten so far doing it
Keep up the awesome work
The bad habits live at the Britt with ed is great
You should defo check the album out, very different to this but absolutely brilliant and very varied
You have to do „sleepwalking“ 😍
You said those masks freak you out. I believe they were used by ‘doctors’ during the era of the Black Plague. There are a lot of songs I like from BMTH, though I’m sure you might not like some of the lyrics(to be honest, I’m not either sometimes but willing to look past it). I think you can’t go wrong with these songs ‘N/A’, ‘Drown’, ‘Die 4 U’, ‘Follow You’. There are so many great songs, but these are probably the most accessible for your taste.
I really would enjoy a reaction to their "Throne". And I think you would too)
Sleep Walking is a great song from BMTH as well. 💯🤘🏻🤨