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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Niall Doherty

“When we first playing Reading, we got everything thrown at us. The whole crowd hated us.” Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes on the hurdles the metal giants overcame to become one of Britain’s biggest bands

Oli Sykes live in 2022.

Bring Me The Horizon are long-established as one of the UK’s biggest and most-loved heavy rock bands, sonic outliers who have constantly mixed up their sound the deeper they’ve got into their career, infusing electro drops, anthemic rock and spiky pop into their initial metalcore sound. But it has not been all smooth sailing for the Sheffield quartet.

Later this month, it's 20 years since the release of their debut EP This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For and in an interview with this writer a few years ago, frontman Oli Sykes looked back at the challenges they faced in their early days, namely realising after their first flush of success that they was also a contingency who strongly disliked them.

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