Following multiple delays and the departure of Jordan Fish, the surprise release of this much-teased album delivers in breathtaking fashion What on earth is still left for Bring Me The Horizon to achieve? Two Number One albums under their belt. Their first BRIT Award arrived earlier this year. They’ve headlined Reading & Leeds , Download and continuously sold out arena tours.
How about breaking the internet? Social media was sent into a frenzy when BMTH confirmed, on twelve hours’ notice, that their long-anticipated new album – and that’s being generous – would finally be with us, stealing a sizeable chunk of Twenty One Pilots’ release day thunder in the process. Initially promised for release in late 2020 , eventually confirmed for September 2023 and then delayed into the void for what felt like aeons, ‘Post Human: Nex Gen’ is the second instalment in their futuristic ‘Post Human’ series, following on from 2020’s cyber-punk behemoth ‘Survival Horror’ . With it comes the weight of their first project since the sudden departure of producer-slash-keyboardist Jordan Fish last December.
Heralded as the figure who helped encouraged their evolution from scrawny deathcore teens into pop-metal titans, this album comes with a mild drift of uncertainty (though he has songwriting credits on seven of the 16 tracks). Their most laborious project to date – where tensions presumably reached boiling point upon Fish’s exit – had kept fans waiting patiently for .
