Bring Me The Horizon

Steel City, UK
http://www.myspace.com/bmth

2/14 Los Angeles, CA - Palladium
2/15 San Jose, CA - San Jose Civic Auditorium
2/16 Chico, CA - Senator Theatre
2/17 Bakersfield, CA - The Dome
2/18 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
2/19 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
2/20 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
2/21 Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
2/22 Denver, CO - Fillmore

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Bring Me the Horizon are five young British lads with a penchant for the heavy. Their astonishingly good debut mini album, This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For, is essentially an 18 minute breakdown; four tracks of intense raging chugging and squealing, stop/starting and severe ‘core riffing. Nary a second hand euro thrash riff to be found, nary a melodic sung chorus, all things about this genre that irritate are devoid (well save for ball splittingly tight pants and backwards hair-cuts). Then they played shows……and kids moshed……and they kept playing shows……and kids kept moshing……

2006 became the year of the Horizon. First they became one of the top 100 played acts on MySpace (them and Coldplay were the only UK acts in the top 100!), followed by a blistering Radio One Rock Show Session. They won BEST BRITISH NEWCOMERS at the Kerrang! awards (beating the likes of Enter Shikari and The Automatic…), toured with Lostprophets, Killswitch Engage, Aiden and Bleeding Through, performed a brutal and much talked about set at Download (biggest pit of the weekend) and have been bombarded with tours for Europe and the USA too.  And all this from a band that had only recently released their debut album!

The debut, Count Your Blessings, released through Visible Noise in October 2006, is full of what people have already come to expect from Bring me the Horizon: massive riffs, erratic time signatures, tempo changes, immense vocals, shredding solos, blistering percussion, etc. BUT, the experience of working with producer Dan Sprigg (Lostprophets, Cradle of Filth) brought a new found maturity out of the band, a more solid direction and focus in song writing and structure. Count Your Blessings set Bring me the Horizon as a benchmark band for the genre and beyond.

The band have grown again in popularity and profile throughout 2007 and 2008 with a North American release from Epitaph Records and extensive touring, plus a number dates on Gigantour with Megadeth in Australia, a huge sold out tour in the UK (culminating in a blistering sold out show at Londons’ Astoria theatre which holds 2000 people), and being flown over to Russia to perform twice, all leading them to another tour of Australia and multiple European Summer festivals and most importantly a much sought after tour on the Warped tour for Summer 2008, where they have quickly established themselves as THE band that everyone wants to watch with their incendiary live show.

The band were writing and demoing new material since late 2007 and went into the Studio Fredman in an isolated area of Sweden in April 2008 with acclaimed producer Fredrik Nordstrom (Dimmu Borgir, At the Gates). They left with an album yet another step up from their previous work, entitled Suicide Season - A title very close to their hearts.