Bring Me The Horizon headlined Download Festival last night (June 9) with a brand new live show to announce new album ‘Post Human: Nex Gen’.Following on from their “triumphant, hard-won victory lap” at Reading & Leeds Festivals last year, Bring Me The Horizon returned to Download for the first time since 2014 yesterday and were joined onstage by Nova Twins and Evanescence‘s Amy Lee.Before the band took to the stage, the band teased the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ before a two-minute video introduced the band’s evolved stage show and a new, ambitious narrative involving murderous A.I.
and a mysterious cult, The Church Of Genxsis. It was a cinematic, flamboyant start to a gig that was constantly high on drama.The band then took to the stage and launched straight into aggressive new single ‘AmEN!’ as fire erupted from the stage. “What the fuck are you pussios doing?
Pit! Push it back,” demanded vocalist Oli Sykes, before he added, “Pull the fucking tampon out,” with a knowing grin.Sykes then marched down the runway and introduced ‘Teardrop’ by saying “if I don’t see this whole fucking place bouncing, I’m going to be upset.” After rating the most pits (“still a bit dog shit but better than I’ve seen all day”) Sykes asked for circle pits during the monstrous ‘House Of Wolves’, and the crowd obliged whole-heartedly.
It was just as chaotic for the triumphant ‘MANTRA’.The curtains covering Bring Me The Horizon’s wall of onstage video screens then came down to reveal a realistic three headed monster as the band launched into a furious ‘Dear Diary’ and fire erupted from the sides of the stage.
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