Oli Sykes: Last News

Bring Me The Horizon have shared a music video for their new single ‘Strangers’, inspired by the mental health experiences of the band and their fans.The track was first revealed during a DJ set the band performed on the first night of their own Malta Weekender festival. Now the band have shared ‘Strangers’ as their new single, accompanied by a surreal music video.“The song came out of a long writing trip in LA,” singer Oli Sykes explained, “and as soon as the lyric ‘we’re just a room full of strangers’ came it took on such a deeper double meaning – how it would feel to be performing it live as that’s what it is..

Oli Sykes and Alice Longyu Gao have dropped their new collaborative track, ‘Believe The Hype’ – watch the twisted video below.The Bring Me The Horizon frontman and Chinese electro-pop artist first teased the release last week, with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the song’s silver-themed video.“Our new song ‘Believe The Hype’ is about to come out,” Longyu Gao said in the clip. “You should pre-save the song now! Do it! If you don’t, Oli is going to go into your dreams.

Oli Sykes has launched a new alt club night called ‘GREEBO’ at his Sheffield venue, Church, Temple of Fun.The night will launch on July 9 and will feature a line up curated by Sykes. A press release explained: “With a line up completely curated by him showcasing some amazing artists, you can expect a night full of live music and DJ sets, including himself and Mat Nicholls, returning to the decks following their night in Malta last month.”Sykes said of the night: “The first of many moshtastic ragers I plan to take around UK and the rest of the world.

Oli Sykes and Alice Longyu Gao have announced the release of a new collaborative track, ‘Believe The Hype’.In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday (June 21), the Bring Me The Horizon frontman and Chinese electro-pop artist teased the release of their upcoming collaboration while covered in silver paint on what looks like a video set.“Hi guys it’s bad gal Alice… and I’m Oliver from Bring Me The Horizon,” the pair begin the clip. Longyu Gao continues: “Our new song ‘Believe The Hype’ is about to come out.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced a release date for their next original single, ‘Strangers’, after they previewed it live last month.The song was first revealed during a DJ set the band performed on the first night of their own Malta Weekender festival. Similar to much of the band’s recent studio material, the version of the song they played featured loud electric guitars and thrashing drums.That may not be the version they officially release, however: in a new teaser video, the song has seemingly been converted into a much more restrained ballad.

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes and Mat Nicholls have announced that they’ve signed up for a charity triathlon to raise money for UKRAINEPRIDE.In August, the singer and drummer will take part in the Allerthorpe Sprint Triathlon, which is described as “one of the fastest-sprint distance triathlon courses” in York.Raising money for the LGBTQ+ charity, Sykes pointed out in an Instagram post today (June 20) that UKRAINEPRIDE “needs all the help it get get right now”.“yooo so me & @mickypickles r doing a triathlon this august,” Sykes wrote alongside a photo of the two bandmates. “We wanted to raise money for 2 causes that r at the forefront of our mind right now so with the help of my good Ukrainian friend @yavashadasha we settled on @ukraine.pride an amazing organisation that supports the LGBT+ movement in Ukraine which as you can imagine needs all the help it can get right now.”He added: “We have never done any kind of marathon/sports event like this so we are pooping our pants just a little, so the more money we raise the more you’ll spur us on to smash it! Let’s gooo.”A post shared by Oli Sykes (@olobersykes)Sykes added on the Just Giving page that they’ve set a goal of £3,000 but that they would “love to f**king smash that”, adding that “anything you can give will be much apprciated [sic]”.UKRAINEPRIDE is “a propatriotic queer movement”, according to the charity’s website.

Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ in the style of Bring Me The Horizon – watch him perform the track below.Vincent has previously shared covers of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in the style of Deftones and a cover of Eminem‘s ‘Lose Yourself’ in the style of Linkin Park.“Honestly, the most impressive thing about Anthony is how he nails so many vocalists, often completely different voices and styles”, one fan commented under the video of Vincent taking on frontman Oli Sykes‘ vocals while singing the Styles’ track.Another commented on how the YouTuber transformed the pop song into one that could feature on Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth studio album. “This is so incredibly similar to ‘Sempiternal’ it’s almost creepy, very well done!” they said.‘As It Was’ is the lead single of Styles’ global hit album ‘Harry’s House‘.The record has garnered a series of chart accolades and broken numerous records across the world.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the UK’s Music Managers Forum new report on the topic of digital burnout and the wider debate around pressures being placed by the music industry on artists – particularly female artists – to be heavily active on TikTok, plus the petition calling on UK song rights collecting society PRS to reconsider its decision to reduce the funding it provides to the PRS Foundation.

Bring Me The Horizon hosted their own festival in Malta this weekend, and Saturday night (May 28) saw them play a special “throwback” set – see footage, setlist, reaction and more below.Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender also hosted Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others, and earlier in the festival, the band debuted a new song called ‘Strangers’ during a DJ set.During their Saturday night throwback set, the band were joined by a host of special guests and performed rare old tracks that they haven’t played live in over a decade.After the set began with the first live performance of ‘Liquor & Love Lost’ since 2008, the band were then joined by Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante for ‘Chelsea Smile’, Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo for ‘Antivist’, Malevolence’s Alex Taylor for ‘Pray For Plagues’, While She Sleeps‘ Loz Taylor for ‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’ and more.Watch footage of the performances and see the full setlist below.alligator blood.@bmthofficial x @staticdress pic.twitter.com/ltlk6VLox6— Static Dress (@staticdress) May 28, 2022Chelsea Smile with Courtney of Spiritbox Bring me the horizon Throwback Set in Malta 2022 pic.twitter.com/Ai6uNGFmph— bring me the horizon stan for lyfe (@bmthstan4lyfe) May 28, 2022Can’t believe I met Oli Sykes in the day and then saw him performing Pray For fucking Plagues & Diamonds Aren’t Forever in the evening, what a genuinely unreal dayActually speechless (probably cos my voice is now fucked) #BMTHMalta pic.twitter.com/2NUjNSmdOS— ss (@SamwhereNow) May 29, 2022EMPIRE.@bmthofficial @LOZWSS @whileshesleeps // BMTH MALTA WEEKENDER // 28.05.2022 pic.twitter.com/VuLYgoSCFq— josh //

Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes has spoken about how the band were received by the media during their earlier days.Over the past decade, the Sheffield metal titans have gone on to become one of the most popular bands in British rock. However, according to frontman Sykes, it wasn’t always like that.Speaking in a recent interview with Kerrang!, Sykes recalled how BMTH were portrayed by the media when they were first gaining popularity.“Our band was kind of branded as a Mötley Crüe-esque bunch of fucking dickheads,” Sykes said.

Bring Me The Horizon debuted a new song ‘Strangers’ in a DJ set at their festival in Malta. Listen below.In a clip posted to Twitter today (May 27), the British quintet can be seen performing the unreleased track to the audience at the ‘Bring Me The Horizon & Friends’ event, which kicked off yesterday and will run for four days at Malta’s Gianpula Village.In the videos below, see the band play ‘Strangers’ and teach the crowd its lyrics, which go: “We’re just a room full of strangers / Looking for something to save us / Alone together“.BRING ME THE HORIZONS NEW SONG STRANGERS!!!! First heard in Malta!!!! #bmth #bmthmalta #bringmethehorizon pic.twitter.com/2iJWGd4xAB— True_SCHU in MALTA for BMTH (@True_Schu) May 26, 2022Curated by the band themselves, the Malta weekender will also host Bullet For My Valentine, Nova Twins and Beartooth among others.Bring Me The Horizon’s last solo release was their 2021 song, ‘DiE4u.’ That single was the first to be lifted from BMTH’s forthcoming album, a follow-up to their multi-part 2020 EP,  ‘Post Human: Survival Horror.’In an interview with NME in 2021, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes said the band was “working on parts two, three and four” of ‘Post Human,’ before assuring that they’d “get songs out as soon as [they] can”.The unreleased track arrives after a more recent album tease in May, when Sykes revealed that “we’ve been working on [‘Post Human Part Two’] for about a year now.”“We’ve got lots of music, we’re just being quite picky about what we want to release.

Alissic has shared her new single ‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’ – you can listen to the lively track below.The song was co-written and produced by the Brazilian-born, Sheffield-based artist along with her husband Oli Sykes and his Bring Me The Horizon bandmate Jordan Fish.‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’, which follows on from Alissic’s March single ‘Superstitious’, has now been released via Ministry of Sound.You can listen to Alissic’s ‘Everybody’s Dead Inside’ below.Having made her live debut at last week’s The Great Escape festival in Brighton, Alissic – real name Alissa Salls – will perform at Reading & Leeds Festival on the BBC Introducing Stage in August.Speaking to NME back in October, Alissic said that while it was unlikely that she and Sykes will record a full project together soon, she did say that such a record could emerge “maybe one day”.In the meantime, Alissic told NME that she is focused on releasing standalone singles and shared some of her key inspirations.“I’m very inspired by 2000s’ pop, but I also like to make it sound a bit more unusual,” she told NME. “I like things that are spooky, but also very pop.

Bring Me The Horizon have revealed that they’ve recorded “about 45 songs” for their next release.The band’s last project was their ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’ EP, released back in October 2020.The first of several releases, frontman Oli Sykes told NME last year they were “working on parts two, three and four simultaneously” and that they were hoping to “get songs out as soon as we can”.The Sheffield rock giants then gave fans a taste of what they can expect from ‘Post Human 2’, sharing new single ‘DiE4u’ in September 2021.Speaking in a new interview, Sykes has now shared an update on the record as well as their forthcoming schedule.“We’re doing lots of gigs hopefully, if the world goes alright,” he told BANG Showbiz (via Contact Music). “Lots of European festivals and we’re going to the States in September.

Sigrid and Bring Me The Horizon have released a new collaboration together – listen to  ‘Bad Life’ below.Sigrid had teased the collaboration on TikTok last week (April 14), sharing a behind the scenes montage between BMTH frontman Oli Sykes and herself. The video was set to an audio clip of the forthcoming single, with the lyrics “It’s just a bad day/ Not a bad life” sung by the pair. It’s the first time the hardcore outfit have collaborated with the Norwegian singer-songwriter.Speaking about the track, Sigrid said: “I’m so excited about ‘Bad Life’ being out in the world with the Bring Me boys! We’re really proud of this one, and we hope it can bring some comfort.“It might not be the most likely collab, but we’ve been fans of each other for a while and we’re so happy we could collaborate on this song.

Bring Me The Horizon and Sigrid are set to drop a new single, ‘Bad Life’, the latter revealing the collaboration with a TikTok video today (April 14).Sharing a behind the scenes montage between BMTH frontman Oli Sykes and Sigrid, the video is set to an audio clip of the forthcoming single, with the lyrics “It’s just a bad day/ Not a bad life” sung by the pair.‘Bad Life’ will drop on April 21, marking the first time the hardcore outfit have collaborated with the Norwegian singer-songwriter.It also marks the latest in a strong of collaborations released by BMTH.

their proposed eviction.It comes after the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.The current bosses of The Leadmill then responded to the owners, denying their intentions to close the venue. Leaders of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site in March 2017, argued that they’d be removing the current management but keeping the building as a music venue after renovations.Arctic Monkeys, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker and Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes are among the Sheffield artists to have spoken out in support of the venue.Announcing the new online petition today (April 12), which you can gain access to here, the current operators said in a press release: “The Leadmill have organised an official E-Petition and are now reaching out to the citizens of Sheffield and beyond, as well as friends and colleagues in the music industry, to show their support in any way they can.“This E-Petition is fighting to prevent landlords unfairly and unjustly evicting long standing tenants for their own financial gain.

NME about the local reaction to the proposed eviction of the current operators of The Leadmill.Last week, the iconic Sheffield venue and club told music fans of the “devastating news that in one year’s time, our Landlord is trying to evict us, forcing us to close” – leading to an outpouring of upset and support from the music world.The current bosses of The Leadmill then responded to the owners, denying their intentions to close the venue. Leaders of Electric Group, the company who bought the freehold for the site in March 2017, argued that they’d be removing the current management but keeping the building as a music venue after renovations.Electric Group CEO Dominic Madden – whose company also own London’s Electric Brixton, the SWX nightclub in Bristol, and NX Newcastle – told his Twitter followers that “the management may change but the song stays the same”.

Originally from Brazil, now based in Sheffield, Alissic recently released her first single of 2022, ‘Superstitious’, extending her “Britney meets Tim Burton” sonic world.Like last year’s ‘Piano’ and ‘Like’, the song is co-written with her husband, Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon. It has the most overtly Latin influence of any of her music to date, and is the first track to include a portion of lyrics in her native Portuguese.“It makes me feel warm and like home with its Latin American influence”, she says of the song.

Bring Me The Horizon have teased a new collaboration with Masked Wolf.The band shared a snippet of the track ‘Fallout’, which is due out this Friday (April 1) on TikTok.The clip, which you can view below, sees frontman Oli Sykes singing along while the rest of the band jamming in the studio.Masked Wolf also shared his own separate short clip featuring the track on his Instagram page.☢️ THIS IS THE FALLOUT ☢️ #fyp #bmth #emo #bringmethehorizon #newmusic ♬ original sound – BRING ME THE HORIZON A post shared by Masked Wolf (@maskedwolf)Meanwhile, BMTH recently featured on Machine Gun Kelly‘s new album ‘Mainstream Sellout’ on the track ‘Maybe’, which they also debuted in LA earlier this month.The track was described as “a sleek chunk of nihilism that combines arena ambition with a curled-lip moodiness” in NME‘s review of the album which received four stars.The band also recently featured on a Gran Turismo 7 competition alongside Davido and T-Pain with fans being given the chance to race against the artists on the game.Meanwhile, Bring Me The Horizon recently paid tribute to Ukraine during their closing set at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 earlier this month. “I guess it’s better being here in a room full of influential people: they need to use their voice every single day until this crisis is over,” Sykes told the audience before the band’s final song ‘Throne’.

Alissic has shared her third single, a brand new track called ‘Superstitious’ – you can watch the song’s video below.The Brazilian-born, Sheffield-based avant-pop singer returns with her first new material since last October’s ‘Piano’, which itself followed her debut single ‘Like’.‘Superstitious’ is a hypnotic, alt-pop ode to the summer, and it’s the first track Alissic has released to feature some vocals in her native Brazilian tongue.“It makes me feel warm and like home with its Latin American influence,” Alissic said of the single. “The super spacey and lush sound in the pre-chorus gives it a really ethereal vibe.

Machine Gun Kelly has teamed up with Bring Me The Horizon for his latest release – listen to ‘maybe’ below.MGK and Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes first debuted the new song in LA on March 4 during an appearance at long-running club night, Emo Nite, at the Avalon in Hollywood.Fan-shot footage showed Kelly and Sykes on stage at the event as an unreleased song played over the PA. The pair sang along to parts of the song, which includes lines such as: “I think I’m broken, nothing can fix me” and “Made up my mind this evening, I’m taking the last, I’m taking the last.”You can listen to the new song below.The rapper-turned-pop-punk star will release his new album on March 25 and has already shared the collaborations ‘Ay’ with Lil Wayne and ‘Emo Girl’ with Willow Smith.Elsewhere on the album, SNL comedian Pete Davidson will appear on an interlude, while other guests include Blackbear, Gunna, iann dior and Young Thug.See the full list of features and tracklist for ‘Mainstream Sellout’ below.1. ‘born with horns’ 2. ‘god save me’ 3. ‘maybe’ feat. Bring Me The Horizon 4. ‘drug dealer’ feat. Lil Wayne 5. ‘wall of fame’ (Interlude) 6. ‘mainstream sellout’ 7. ‘make up sex’ feat. blackbear 8. ’emo girl’ feat. WILLOW 9. ‘5150’ 10. ‘paper cuts’ (album version) 11. ‘WW4’ 12. ‘ay!’ feat. Lil Wayne 13. ‘fake love don’t last’ feat. iann dior 14. ‘die in california’ feat. Gunna & Young Thug 15. ‘sid & nancy’ 16. ‘twin flame’‘Mainstream Sellout’ was originally due to be called ‘Born With Horns’, but had its name changed earlier this year.