If you’d asked 20 years ago, the only people who could genuinely have seen Bring Me The Horizon someday headlining a major US festival would be the band themselves. Their cocksure swagger might’ve once been dismissed as arrogance, but two decades’ worth of continual escalation to the point they comfortably pack out arenas and effectively re-shaped modern metalcore with 2013’s Sempiternal has done a lot to prove their ambition wasn’t unwarranted.
Now they’re here: Temple Stage headliners at Sonic Temple, greeting a near-packed Historic Crew Stadium with a crowd that easily rivals that of My Chemical Romance’s sold-out Thursday performance. And they absolutely crush it. Bring Me’s brand of theatricality might be more coded to post-modernism and video game culture than My Chem’s, but its no less effective.
