Bring Me The Horizon talk album six: “We wanna push it a bit weirder”

After a summer of huge festival appearances, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has opened up on the band’s plans for future material.

In a new interview with NME, the frontman describes “a darker dance-y kind of sound” that could mark the direction of album six.

“Sometimes we talk about it, but it’s ‘in the moment’ when you’re inspired by something and I don’t know,” Sykes says of post-‘That’s The Spirit’ plans. “I think there’s an element of what we’re doing now that will stay in the music, but at the same time it’s like people thought ‘That’s The Spirit’ was a very polished pop rock album – it’s not. I think it’s inventive and unique, but it’s still safe in a way; we knew the songs we’re gonna connect well with people. Next time I think we wanna push it a bit weirder. Who knows?”

“That’s my favourite part,” he continues when quizzed on their darker, more electronic tendencies. “It’s something we do that comes across really well live you know when the song to us has a breakdown or like a heavy dance kind of vibe to it. You know there’s not many acts like that. If there was some bridge between what we’re doing, somewhere between artists like Prodigy or Massive Attack and stuff like that.”

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