Kingpins of modern British rock, Bring Me The Horizon‘s success is a tale of perseverance and redemption, while their evolution from scrappy, deathcore-peddling teens to the boundary-smashing behemoths they are today is integral to the wider success of modern British metal.

With the follow-up to mainstream breakthrough LP ‘That’s The Spirit’ fast-approaching, all eyes are on their next moves – below, we unpick everything we know about the record that’s sure to cement BMTH’s position as arena-fillers. 

When will the new Bring Me The Horizon album be released?

A release date for Bring Me The Horizon’s new album is not yet known, but we do have an inkling we’ll be getting new music very soon indeed.

A billboard featuring iconography previously used by the band appeared in Central London recently appeared in London. Thought to be the start of a teaser campaign for new BMTH material, it features a website which promises “Salvation will return” on August 21st. It seems pretty likely that’s when we’ll hear new music.

When can we hear new music?

As above, it seems that a new single will be coming on August 21st, though this is currently unconfirmed.

What’s all this about  ‘Mantra’?

Right then, so let’s talk about that mysterious billboard. “Do you wanna start a cult with me?” it reads, alongside a phone number that connects callers to a woman called Samantha who hurriedly tells you: “They’re making me do this. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into.”

After a distorted clip of music plays, the line goes dead. Fans have slowed down the clip, which you can hear below, and it appears to be a clip of new material, with Oli Sykes singing: “Do you wanna start a cult with me? / I’m not [unclear] like I oughta be / I need a purpose, I can’t keep surfing / Through this existential misery.”

As touched on above, a website, Joinmantra.org,– also offers “an invitation to salvation” and says “man can save his soul.”

The site reads: “There are those who will say that only after a lifetime of sacrifice and good doing can the soul be free – that God demands conditions in the freedom and that some have the power of making mankind slaves.”

Mantra appears to be the name of a mysterious cult or organization, which will seemingly be a core theme upon the album.

What will the new album sound like?

The above teaser of new material appears to suggest that Oli Sykes will continue his run of clean singing on the record, with the heavier screams of Bring Me The Horizon’s past material being left behind.

In 2016, Oli Sykes told NME that their new album is set to be ‘weirder and darker’.

“Sometimes we talk about it, but it’s ‘in the moment’ when you’re inspired by something and I don’t know,” he said. “I think there’s an element of what we’re doing now that will stay in the music, but at the same time it’s like people thought ‘That’s The Spirit’ was a very polished pop rock album – it’s not. I think it’s inventive and unique, but it’s still safe in a way; we knew the songs we’re gonna connect well with people. Next time I think we wanna push it a bit weirder. Who knows?”

When asked if their new material might take a more dance-oriented edge, Sykes replied: “Potentially, yeah. That’s my favorite part – it’s something we do that comes across really well live you know when the song to us has a breakdown or like a heavy dance kind of vibe to it. You know there’s not many acts like that. If there was some bridge between what we’re doing, somewhere between artists like Prodigy or Massive Attack and stuff like that.”

Back in 2017, keyboardist/singer Jordan Fish spoke to the Radio 1 Rock Show, confirming that it “won’t be a pop record”.

“There are a few things I know it won’t be. It’s not going to be a pop record,” said Fish. “I don’t think we’d ever do a straight, boring pop record. It’s not going to be a super, super heavy record either … We’ll probably take bits from what we did on ‘Sempiternal’, bits from what we did on ‘That’s The Spirit’ and take it off in a different direction. As long as it’s interesting and exciting, that’s all I really care about.”

He added: “I understand there’s probably a load of people who want us to be super heavy and a load of people who only like the last album, who don’t like the heavier stuff. That’s just the nature of a band that’s changed styles so much across the course of their career. For us, I just want to write something good. Where it sits genre-wise is something someone else can worry about.”

Will Bring Me The Horizon tour in 2018?

While no tour dates are yet announced, Bring Me The Horizon are heavily rumored to perform as a ‘secret set’ at this year’s Reading & Leeds festivals.

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