Bring Me The Horizon Discuss Metalcore

Bring Me The Horizon Discuss Metalcore Rebecca Brayton: You either love him or hate him. Hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to WatchMojo.com. Today, we’re speaking with Bring My The Horizon about how they standout from the rest of the bands in their genre. Tell me a bit more about the area that you grow up and the kind of the scene that was going in there and do you fit it into that scene or kind of standout? Oliver Sykes: We didn’t fit in whatsoever. We went to this show and we’re probably the youngest kids there. They're all kind of like straight edged and hardcore dudes you know. Lee Maila: They’re like seeing kiddo and we call it -- we didn’t catch on in anyone’s until like a few years after America like the whole -- and so we weren't really any other kids. Oliver Sykes: We looked like that. We've always look like this. We kind of stood out a bit. Because we only go to these shows and we've only been starting a band. We get a break like one of the guys were like, ‘Yeah you can play the show’ and we’re playing with all these hardcore bands and then like we kind of got a bit respect from that because we really like 16, 17 and 18 and we were like, ‘Yeah, these guys can play their instruments.’ Rebecca Brayton: You guys know what the big differences between European and North American audiences? Oliver Sykes: American always got what we did more than in England that I guess that’s why because we are inspired by little American accents and stuff like that. When we came out to America first time, kids are going crazy for us and like we’ve never been that, really even been noticed. That was cool. Rebecca Brayton: Tell me more about the visual elements of the band. Oliver Sykes: I’ve always been into like artwork that looks like very opposite to the kind of music we all like. If you look at our album covers, it didn’t really look like typically -- cover like I mean our first album had spirals on the front. The same with the lyrics I mean I’m screaming like really low and really brutal and stuff. If you read the lyrics, it would look like talking about killing people and stuff. I mean it's talking real stuff. Our first, when I was starting writing lyrics it was all just like kind of random and I look back and I don’t know what it all about. Sometimes I guess just the language, Ryan and stuff but then as the day has progressed, I put myself into more situations and comfortable stuff. It's all past now. The other thing is about personal experiences and stuff and the like. The latest albums has just completely personal, it's all about. I guess like Skid Row revises and just kind of like good and evil and stuff like that. Rebecca Brayton: Well thanks very much guys. Oliver Sykes: Cheers.