Bring Me The Horizon have shared their long awaited new album ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ – listen to it below.
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The Sheffield band surprise released their first LP in five years at midnight (May 24) after sharing the news with a minute-long teaser yesterday (May 23).
While no official release date had been shared up until yesterday, the long-delayed album was expected to drop at some point this summer.
It marks the follow-up to 2020’s ‘POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR’, and was scheduled to arrive last September after being announced during the band’s headline debut at Download Festival. However, the record was later delayed due to “unforeseen circumstances”.
The 16-song album marks BMTH’s first official full-length LP since ‘amo’ in 2019, although the band did release the nine track EP ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ in 2020. Listen to the new album below.
POST HUMAN: NeX GEn [out now]https://t.co/UfT7aumsd8 pic.twitter.com/evPpDnEtiF
— Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) May 23, 2024
It is their first album since the sudden departure of longtime bandmate Jordan Fish, who had been a part of the line-up since 2012.
The release comes weeks after Oli Sykes and co. dropped a surprise teaser for the project online in April.
The album has faced countless delays over the past months, with the group citing “unforeseen circumstances” that left them feeling “unable to complete the record to the standard we’d be happy with”.
Sykes further spoke about the record in a chat with NME last June, calling it “unhinged”: “I wouldn’t say it’s a hyper-pop album, but I’ve definitely been inspired by that world. I admire how obnoxious, trashy and in your face that music feels, which is what I was drawn to when I got into emo, hardcore and screamo.
“It’s not that we’ve lost that in our music, but as you become a bigger band, things do get more polished. I want to go the opposite way. Let’s be unhinged, let’s stop trying to make all the edges smooth.”
The frontman provided a further update in March at the BRITs. “It’s nearly finished, but it’s not finished,” Sykes told NME.
“Every time we think we’ve got it, we get another song,” he added. “It’s going to be right good though, it’s our best album ever… Worth the wait.”
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