Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
People were left impressed by the uncompromising heaviness that Bring Me The Horizon were able to conjure with their first all-new deathcore single in ages last week, as per theprp. “Dehumanized,” which was revealed through a controversial music video, will be included as a bonus track on the re-recorded edition of their debut album, “Count Your Blessings | Repented,” which will be released on July 10th of next week. As it turns out, frontman Oli Sykes had more than just his own legacy to live up to when it came time to deliver this tribute to the band’s harsher past. In an Instagram story shared around the time of that song’s launch last week, Sykes went into detail explaining what prompted him to create the lyrics for that music.
In addition to being influenced by the dystopian horror book “Tender Is the Flesh,” “Dehumanized” was also influenced by the backlash Sykes has received for his prior humanitarian work. Sykes continued by saying that he and his bandmates were informed that their choice to have Palestinian flags waved onstage during their 2025 performances at the yearly “Reading” and “Leeds” festivals might put an end to their careers.
This video was actually inspired by this book I’m reading rn called Tender Is The Flesh. It’s fucked, have a read if you can…
“[‘Dehumanized‘] was born from an event that happened last year. I was told that peacefully raising a flag on stage in recognition of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding where children were being killed would most likely carry career ending consequences.
It made me realise how we are silently we’re conditioned to suppress our humanity. We think were are free, conscious beings, when in truth we are driven by forces we barely understand.
‘Some of us are butchers, some of us are lambs, sennd me to the abbatoir, let’s find out which I am,’ is the crux of this song.
The abbatoir is a metphor for being put in a place where my very livelihood is facing execution.
When empathy becomes an act [of] anarchy, then u discover whether your values are real.
I want this video to take that central theme to the worst imaginable conclusion.
A fully operational human slaughterhouse.
Let’s ask the viewer at what point does suffering become unacceptable to u?
At what point do you draw the line?
Every time we’re taught to look away or stay quiet, we live a little bit more of who we are.
So the slaughter house is analogy for modern civ.
On top of that many of the lyrics reference this kind of setting…
Bring Me The Horizon took a chance last year and had Palestinian flags waved onstage beside them at both the “Reading” and “Leeds” festivals, despite the possible damage to their career.
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The British rock group Bring Me the Horizon was founded in Sheffield, England, in 2004. Lead singer Oli Sykes, bassist Matt Kean, guitarist Lee Malia, and drummer Matt Nicholls make up the ensemble at the moment. They are signed to Columbia Records just in the US and RCA Records worldwide.
