“It’s taken longer than we said it would, I know…” In another timeline, Bring Me The Horizon are all done and existing in a post-Post Human universe. In this one, what was originally conceived as a COVID lockdown plan to blast out a series of interlinked but individually charactered EPs in quick succession has taken almost four years to bear a second round of fruit. From his home in Brazil, Oli Sykes shrugs off the wait. Ironically, he admits, it was the end of pandemic restrictions that were partly to blame. “I thought we were gonna be locked inside for years,” he says with a what-can-you-do chuckle. “Suddenly we’re out of lockdown and we’re back on tour. The first EP [2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror] became more of a thing than we expected...
“It’s taken longer than we said it would, I know…” In another timeline, Bring Me The Horizon are all done and existing in a post-Post Human universe. In this one, what was originally conceived as a COVID lockdown plan to blast out a series of interlinked but individually charactered EPs in quick succession has taken almost four years to bear a second round of fruit. From his home in Brazil, Oli Sykes shrugs off the wait. Ironically, he admits, it was the end of pandemic restrictions that were partly to blame. “I thought we were gonna be locked inside for years,” he says with a what-can-you-do chuckle. “Suddenly we’re out of lockdown and we’re back on tour. The first EP [2020’s Post Human: Survival Horror] became more of a thing than we expected...