All bets were already off for what Bring Me The Horizon would do next when they dropped Post Human: Survival Horror a year ago. Having pointedly done pretty much everything but metal on amo – to largely great success, it should be added – a return to pastures heavier was a long-odds prospect. “I can write a fucking breakdown in my sleep,” Oli Sykes told Kerrang! in the wake of amo, stressing the importance of looking forward and not taking the easy road. Such a heavy EP, then, was something of a gotcha – with people moaning they’d ditched metal, it wasn’t giving in so much as firing the heavy corner of their sound up to an insane degree and saying: “Have ALL the heavy Bring Me The Horizon in the world!” But where next? Having done the obvious pendu...
