“Everything boils down to love in the end,” Oli Sykes told Kerrang! several months before the release of amo. As anyone familiar with the Portuguese language (the tongue of Oli Sykes’ wife) will tell you, it’s a title that means ‘I love’. Interestingly, it translates as ‘master’ too, which is also appropriate, given that Bring Me The Horizon’s sixth album examines that most complicated of emotions from all sides, including its ability to enslave us. Or, as Oli put it at the time, “[covering] every aspect of love, the good and the bad and everything in between, and how it changes your whole life”. While amo’s predecessor, 2015’s That’s The Spirit, had changed Bring Me The Horizon’s lives, putting them in arenas, it’s safe to say love had done a number on them as well. Oli had got divor...
