And we try to only really look at us, because that’s really the only thing that we can worry about.”ģ. “I don’t know what the answer is, but for us, we’re on our own path I think. Mostly people turn up for, like, Skepta and the urban music, hip-hop and grime. And you can see that at festivals now - like, you go to Reading Festival which was traditionally kind of like a Soundwave-style rock festival, nowadays when the rock bands go and play there not many of them go down well. Because if there’s not a bunch of bands pushing things forward for young people to get into then they’re gonna stop coming to shows. And I don’t know if that’s a good thing for us - that no one else is really doing it - or whether it’s a really bad thing for us. “Whereas, I think, where we are, I don’t think there are many other bands who are trying to push themselves into a new type of rock music, at least not yet. Cole or whatever - there’s like a whole big world of music for people to get into. They can get into Drake and then they can move into J. There’s a load of artists to get into, there’s not just one. “And I think that’s what you see now with people who listen to, like, Travis Scott and Post Malone. “I think a ‘scene’ is quite important for young music fans to get into,” Fish continues. And I don’t think it’s necessarily going to happen again because there were a huge wave of bands at that time. If you look at, like, the early to mid 2000’s, I would say that was the last time that rock music was last in the mainstream - it was nu-metal, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit - all these bands that were in the charts and going to the VMA’s and were just huge bands at that time… and I feel like that hasn’t really happened since. “I don’t feel like there’s many other bands really trying to do. “We are aware that we do come from that rock/metal background, but we do kind of feel a little bit out on our own,” he reflects. has partly been born from us feeling like we don’t really relate to that.”
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“Like on the last touring cycle, we were playing these festivals where we would, like, look weird? Do you know what I mean? We’d be the only band not wearing, like, leather jackets and skinny jeans looking like a band from, like, a movie about a rock band. “In reality we don’t really care what rock music is or isn’t… I don’t think it’s shite, I just think it’s not been willing to move outside of its, so it’s become a bit of a niche, retro-y kind of genre.”įish says that Bring Me The Horizon are more interested in taking “what we’ve done before and moving to a place where we don’t feel restricted, and we don’t feel like we have to play festivals where we’re playing with a bunch of bands that we don’t relate to.
That’s the main goal anyway.”īut, he adds, they’re not really that hung up on the whole “rock” tag.
So we’ve been trying to find some new gaps in between genres that feel like they work with what they’ve done before and try to create a sound that’s new, basically. “Because we don’t feel like there’s that much stuff that’s fresh and exciting. “For us, we don’t listen to rock music often,” Fish admits. But they are trying to find a way to make rock music “feel fresh” again “As a band, we definitely wanted to push ourselves and kind of show more of our influences and prove that we can be bolder and take more risks than we’ve done before.”Ģ. “It’s an album that has depth to it and rewards repeat listens, at least for me,” he explains. “And one that has an emotional connection that people enjoy and people find to be interesting and deep.”įish adds that BMTH didn’t want to make the kind of album that you throw on once and go “yeah, that was decent” and then forget about. We’ll have to take it when it comes I guess? I don’t know.”Īccording to Fish, the band’s goal with this record is “the same as it’s been every time”, which is actually to “make an album that people like,” he chuckles. They’re not intentionally trying to piss fans off by changing up their sound But first, to celebrate this absolute blockbuster of a release, we caught up with Bring Me’s resident keyboard wrangler / secret weapon and all around songwriting genius-in-chief Jordan Fish to brief us on some important FYI’s about the trailblazing rockers’ sixth LP.Ĭheck out 7 things you need to know about amo below, and remember you can also catch BMTH live when they return to Australia this April to perform a trio of headlining dates across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne!ġ.
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