Bring Me The Horizon’s rise since There Is A Hell… has been nothing short of monolithic. Now, the band is continuing their transition from death-core poster boys to pop-rock stadium fillers with a new single and video.
The next taste of the band’s critically acclaimed #1 6th LP amo chases even greater heights of accessibility.
Bring Me The Horizon have just dropped the single and the video for ‘mother tongue’, which comes fresh off the back of a sold out tour in South America and Australia.
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“Vocal-wise it’s quite a big song,” keyboardist Jordan Fish told Kerrang! last year. “There’s a little bit of Portuguese in there, which is quite unusual. It’s kind of a big, anthemic song. It’s probably as close as we get to something like Drown on this album. It’s a love song, so it’s an emotional one.”
The video was shot whilst the band were on tour in Sao Paulo, and it’s a wild ride of zero gravity and passionate connection.
The track itself is inspired by when frontman Oli Sykes met his wife. Speaking with Zane Lowe earlier this year, Oli Sykes said:
“It’s probably the most gushing, out there, just straight-up love song we’ve ever written. This was one of the easier ones to write because it was positive. It’s about when I first met my new wife, and she’s from Brazil.
“She didn’t speak so much English,” he added. “She talked a lot better than my Portuguese, but from the very start, we had a really, really strong connection, and it was just a crazy time. And this song’s just talking about those experiences, which they just stick in my head. So, that was really one of the easier ones to write about.”
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Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s clip for ‘mother tongue’:
Having been nominated for a Grammy, having performed to over 4 million fans worldwide and having sold over 4 million albums to date, Bring Me The Horizon are one of the few British guitar bands to break America.
