Oli Sykes Is Proud Of Bring Me The Horizon Winning Over Fans Despite Heavy Songs

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes recently appeared on 101 WRIF to chat about their tour with Fall Out Boy, the upcoming album, the process of writing, and such. Sykes shared that the band was able to impress fans despite their heavier songs from the band’s earlier days.

The frontman was asked how their tour with Fall Out Boy has been going, to which he replied:

“It’s been good. It’s been long, but it’s been a really cool tour. It’s been our first support tour in, like, a minute. So it’s been just nice to have a shorter set and much less pressure. But the fans have been really receptive and really cool to us. Definitely been a few people like, ‘What the hell is this band?’ but yeah, it’s been sick.”

The host asked Sykes if the band’s goal was to win over the ‘what the hell’ fans. The frontman affirmed and said:

“Exactly, yeah, which has been nice because I think we have been doing a good job, I think. Our set starts off quite heavy, and you can just see some people like, ‘What is this, Mayhem?’ and by the end, we always tell everyone to sit down at the end and kind of jump up for the last moment. It can always get a pretty good gauge. If they listen to you and actually do it, then we take that as a win. Most people, well, everyone does, so yeah. It’s been good.”

Although the band seems to achieve a great audience even with their heaviest songs, the band, especially Sykes, received a significant amount of criticism due to their changing sound. Sykes addressed the situation in a recent interview by stating that though at the beginning they didn’t want to water their sound down, writing songs only for the fans’ liking would mean not staying true to themselves.

The band started out their career as a deathcore band with their first album, ‘Count Your Blessings,’ and gradually changed their sound to the point of becoming unexpectedly famous on both social media platforms and famous enough to be performing as headliners in festivals such as Reading Festival and Download Festival.

Bring Me The Horizon’s upcoming album ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ is set to be released on September 15.

See the interview below.