Fronted by a tattooed clothing designer and influenced by
death metal, grindcore, and emo, Bring Me the Horizon ( BMTH) aren't the average
deathcore band. The group was formed in 2004 from the ashes of several
Sheffield-based outfits, with the 2003 Disney film Pirates
of the Caribbean serving as the inspiration for the band's name.
Singer Oliver Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia and Curtis Ward, bassist Matt Kean,
and drummer Matt Nicholls initially established their own label, Thirty Days of
Night, to release their debut EP, 2005's This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was
Made For. Upon signing to the higher-profile label Visible Noise (whose roster
also included Bullet for My Valentine and Lostprophets), they reissued the EP
to a wider audience. Bring Me the Horizon's full-length debut, Count Your
Blessings, appeared in October 2006, with an American release following one
year later courtesy of Epitaph Records.
With their second album, Suicide Season, Bring Me the
Horizon moved in a more accessible direction and wound up cracking the U.K.
album charts. Not everyone approved of the new sound, though, and Ward left the
band in early 2009. His temporary replacement was Jona Weinhofen, formerly a
member of I Killed the Prom Queen. Weinhofen ended up staying with the band as
a permanent member, and the group returned to the studio with producer Fredrik
Nordström in March 2010 to begin work on a third album. The resulting There Is
a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret was
released during the latter half of 2010, several months after the band wrapped
up its engagement with the Warped Tour. A fourth album, the more atmospheric Sempiternal,
arrived on Epitaph in 2013.
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