Bring Me The Horizon have hit back at the state of current rock music, saying that it’s “mostly shite”.
Next January, Bring Me The Horizon are set to release their sixth album, amo, and if history has any bearing on the future, we might just see the group grab their fourth number one album on the Aussie charts.
However, any fan would be able to tell you that the band haven’t always been this successful. In fact, with every album they release, Bring Me The Horizon become even more popular, and they manage to bring in more and more fans.
But why? Some would say it’s because of their decision to gradually shift from their early deathcore sound to a more marketable metalcore sound, but if a new interview from the band is to be believed, it’s because they’re brilliant songwriters.
Speaking to Music Week recently, Bring Me The Horizon keyboardist Jordan Fish noted that today’s rock bands could be more popular if they wrote better songs.
Stating that rock music struggles on streaming platforms “because it’s bad, generally”, Fish explained that songwriters need to lift up their game to reach the same level of popularity as Post Malone.
“In my opinion, it’s mostly shite,” Jordan Fish explained. “The people who are writing the songs aren’t good enough songwriters. I don’t love the music on Hot Hits UK but they are well-written songs and that’s something a lot of rock bands don’t appreciate.”
“The craft of writing good songs is hard.”
“Any of these bands could write a big song but it means they’re just going to have to keep going and be so honest with themselves that it hurts,” added vocalist Oli Sykes. “The amount of times you have to turn around and go, ‘This is dogshit’ when you’ve been working on it for six days…”
“We could have half-written all these songs and then gone to see a producer, hoping he was going to sort them out. But one of the important things about being a rock band is that you do write your own music.”
“It’s not a very rock thing to have people writing your songs or your lyrics for you,” Sykes concluded. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having a little bit of help, or some outside perspective, but a lot of our contemporaries now just have people straight-up writing songs for them. I find that bonkers.”
Of course, on the subject of having other people writing songs for musicians, Oli Sykes recently revealed that Bring Me The Horizon’s latest single, ‘Wonderful Life’, was supposed to be a Limp Bizkit track.
“Last year, me and Jordan [Fish] went and worked with Fred Durst on a Limp Bizkit album,” he explained. It just didn’t work out, to be honest. He just didn’t show up most of the time.”
“Lovely guy, but I don’t think he was ready to make an album. I think he was pushed into it a bit, like, his managers and people said ‘These are the guys you want to work with.’ So we gave him all these ideas and I mean it was just bad from day one, to be honest.”
“One good thing came out of it: me and Jordan wrote this riff and I one day decided the tempo and key matched almost perfectly with the song,” he explained. “So we de-Bizkit‘d it a bit, and it ended up sounding pretty sick.”
Bring Me The Horizon are set to make their way down to Australia next April in support of their upcoming album, amo, check out tour details below.
Check out Bring Me The Horizon’s ‘Wonderful Life’:
Bring Me The Horizon First Love Australian Tour
Wednesday, April 10th
Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, QLD
Friday, April 12th
Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW
Saturday, April 13th
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets available through Live Nation
