Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes says the band has an archive of 12 songs that almost dropped this year, but it looks like they’re still coming.
Bring Me The Horizon almost released a whole bunch of new music this year, with at least twelve tracks from the Nex Gen album archive sitting in the tank. Speaking to NME at Reading & Leeds recently, frontman Oli Sykes revealed he has planned to have two singles released over the European summer of 2025, timed around their festival appearances at Rock Am Ring and Reading & Leeds.
Plans changed when Sykes and his wife Alissic welcomed twins in July, though – so it looks like fans will be waiting a little longer for new Bring me The Horizon material.
In the interview, Sykes said:
“I wanted new music out this year. I’ve got so much from the Nex Gen archive that I want the world to hear. I literally phoned my label and management and said, ‘It’s nearly here, I’ve got 12 songs and they’re all bangers. They’re so close, we’re going to get the first single out before Rock Am Ring and the second before Reading & Leeds.’”
However, those grand plans for new Bring Me The Horizon music between June and August didn’t eventuate. Sykes says “the music will come” still, but his priorities have shifted: “its just not the be-all and end-all.”
“We’re realising that we don’t have to put another record out; we just put one out. Most bands would go away for two years, have an actual break,” he says. “You don’t have to do this, but I want to and I enjoy it. If it doesn’t happen, then it doesn’t happen.”
Sykes added that he did feel he owed it to Bring Me The Horizon fans to share new music – likely heightened by the raft of clues littered through Nex Gen that led fans on a clue hunt online to a site that featured snippets of what appear to be BMTH tracks. However, he says he began to realise “there are other things that are important in my life now and I’ve got to make sure that they come first.”
Holding onto unreleased tracks a bit longer isn’t bad news for Bring Me The Horizon or the fans though, Sykes says.
“Ultimately, that’s going to help the process and help us make some really good music…I can already feel that. I feel comfortable that the band is fine and we’re doing alright. We don’t need to do better. That will help with the output.”
Previously, Sykes hinted that Bring Me The Horizon was thinking of releasing a ‘Director’s Cut’ of Nex Gen. During the interview he was asked whether the new tracks would form part of this Director’s Cut, and said: “Yes. I’m already craving a fresh sound and making stuff like, ‘Oh, that’s sick but not now – that needs to be honed and crafted’.”
“There are songs I’m sitting on that are so sick, but it’s not Nex Gen, it’s something else. I still don’t know what that’s going to be.”
“I know for a fact that I can’t write that now,” he added. “I have to write that in a year when I’ve been away, and let my mind decompress and go, ‘What is the theme? What is the world? What is the sound?’ We need that, definitely, but in terms of a strategic play, I just can’t see it happening because I just love it too much. Just accepting that it is what it is feels really good.”
While Bring Me The Horizon might not be dropped new tracks just yet, it seems that fans can prepare themselves for new music some time in the future – it’s just not clear just yet when that might be.
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