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Bring Me The Horizon
• Suicide Season
• Epitaph

So i am just an effing sucker for UK music. Some of my favorite releases of this decade have been from the Albans, England Trancecore pioneers Enter Shikari, I thought Funeral for Friend’s Hours was unfuckwithable ( Need i even mention Gallows), and Have been pumping the Grimey Limeys in Hadouken and the Streets since nearly both of their inceptions. I Feel that i have a head start on whats going on across the pond usually, i spend a good portion of an hour everyday scouring the all encompassing world wide web for whats got that catch that i am looking for. The Uk doesn’t have the volume of kids that wild America has, so they are handicapped with sheer populace, But they seem to be able to keep up with trend setting genre benders and taking an already established genre and putting that old fish and chips HP brown sauce loving spin on it.

Warped tour 08 was my favorite warped tour of all time. (04 is a close second with Alk3, Underoath, TBS, Coheed, Yellowcard, and Senses fail all in their fucking prime) I don’t think i spent even a second at one of the two main stages. Once i got there and got my backstage press pass i took to the opposite way then the rest of the journalists who started to creep the buses and stake out key spots on the two stages where the big names were making their name heard by the mass of kids who just planted their bodies for a Paramore spotting or a Cobra Starship sighting, I instead booked it for the Smartpunk stage, put on my shades and got fucked up to A Day to Remember, Sky Eats Airplane, Four Year Strong, Set Your Goals, Evergreen Terrace, and this little English Metal outfit called Bring Me The Horizon. I remember being slumped in the corner during a load out/load in and these kids bomb onto the stage and just fucking explode into spastic little party machines. These kids tore shit up, The second they got done playing i made a run for their merch tent and picked up as much BMTH shit as i could fit into my already brimming bag full of free shirts and cds. Let me say this, the couple of Bring Me The Horizon Shirts that i got that day are some of the only shirts i have paid money for in quite some time, usually i just get the shit for free from labels or bands as thank yous but these kids got even my money, a rare feat to pull these days.

So i haven’t Heard past Bring Me The Horizon efforts but this one brings some fucking avalanche type landslides to your body in the form of brutal riffing and breakdowns. This could easily be a rehashing of their old material and i would never know it but if you are picking up this as your first BMTH release than rest assured you will have some damn fine catchy British metal to explode to. They suffer from the one crippling fact of metal which is every song is played in the same drop tuned power chords so of course all of their songs are going to sound the same, but the energy and aggressiveness they put behind each song picks up any slack left buy common signatures or progressions. Songs like “The Comedown” and “No Need For Introductions, Ive Read About Girls Like You On The Back Of Toilet Doors” show just how fucking brutal metal can still be. If you are into metal than get into these kids cause they can get you to that point where you smash your windows out on accident. They arnt nearly as technical as most of their peers are these days but they can fucking trench their way through the beats just as well and put some heavy ass lows into what they do and how they do it.

Young metal is taking over all sorts of games these days with bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Arsonists Get All Of The Girls, and I Wrestled A Bear Once, the only question is do you listen to this sort of Armageddon Operatic Noodling shit or do you rock some David Bazan? My question is, can’t you do both?