OLI SYKES Opens Up About BRING ME THE HORIZON Splitting With JORDAN FISH

Bring Me The Horizon initially delayed their new album Post Human: NeX GEn in September 2023, saying on the time “unexpected circumstances rendered us unable to finish the report to the usual we might be pleased with.” Then in December 2023, Bring Me The Horizon parted ways with longtime keyboardist Jordan Fish with little or no clarification. Put up Human: NeX GEn ultimately got here out in Might 2023, however what occurred between Bring Me The Horizon and Fish?

In an interview with Revolver, Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes talked a bit concerning the cut up and the album delay. Sykes stated the delay was associated to “private causes throughout the band, and it was instantly related to Jordan leaving,” later noting that issues “weren’t good” within the Bring Me The Horizon camp final yr.

On the primary Fish-less single “Kool-Assist”, Sykes stated Bring Me The Horizon took a very new strategy and stopped being a self-proclaimed “Oli and Jordan present.”

“We approached the track very in a different way, [though it was also] much more old-school and much more the way in which we used to strategy music. Jordan was a whiz on the pc and a whiz at producing. We discovered ourselves primarily hunched over computer systems more often than not when writing albums. We even received to the purpose the place we had been hardly even placing any actual guitar in anymore once we had been [in the writing phase]. We had been [demoing] on synths and doing every part inside Professional Instruments and MIDI. ‘Kool-Assist’ was the primary time shortly the place we jammed the track [as a band], [and where] we wrote the riffs on guitars, which sounds loopy. That was new once more.

“And it was additionally the primary time the remainder of the band received a correct look into writing, [which] was an actual eye-opener for me. Me and Jordan had been like a pressure. We became the ‘Oli and Jordan Present’ with out actually realizing it. Ever since I received out of rehab, simply earlier than Sempiternal, I actually needed to throw myself into one thing, and I suppose that was music. I grew to become hooked on writing, and studying the right way to sing and produce. And Jordan was my accomplice in that form of pursuit. We wrote on a regular basis.

“I did not understand how a lot we pushed the opposite guys out. I am not saying they did not [ever] write, [but] ‘Kool-Assist’ opened it up a lot extra…

On the cut up, Sykes stated he hasn’t heard from Fish. “No, in a roundabout way. I am not going to bullshit and say, ‘Oh, it was amicable and all of us ended on good phrases and stuff.’ Finish of day, it is like several breakup… however there is not any juicy story or something. There isn’t any headline there. On the similar time, there will be some wounds on each side which are going to take a bit longer to heal earlier than [getting back] on speaking phrases once more. But it surely’s not one thing that I’ve dominated out.

“All of us assume Jordan‘s wonderful, and we’re stoked on the work he is finished since being within the band, and we’re excited to see what he does sooner or later.”