Speaking to Kerrang! last year about the follow-up to Post Human: Survival Horror, frontman Oli Sykes said of how things were shaping up, and the pressure that Bring Me were putting on themselves: “It’s not healthy to always be like, ‘We’ve got to raise the bar!’ But at the same time we have to, especially when it feels like there’s more eyes on us than ever. Sometimes we think, ‘Oh, the best thing to do now is to put out a big, stock rock song,’ when all eyes are on you, something digestible that anyone can listen to, but it’s not in our hearts.
“We want to be progressive; we want to be weird; we don’t want to be a regular band.”
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