Bring Me The Horizon's very own frontman; Oli Skyes appeared on the Nik Nocturnal Podcast. They talked the decision to Re-Record Count Your Blessings, the "Can You Feel My Heart" piano riff, and some "old controversial lyrics"
First, Balancing parenting or performing music now that Oli is a caretaker with responsibilities. (around 1:00-4:00)
Oli Sykes is currently living in Brazil with a wife and children. Speaking from what his friends who are dads have said,
"Oh my life is now different, my priorities are completely shifted". - Nik
This tour's been really difficult, I didn't realize it was a month. I thought we broke up this tour into a couple of sections when I found out I was having kids. I was like "I can't go on tour that month," like I don't want to be away for that long. - Oli
Oli continued on splitting up the tours they are on currently:
That was tough still, cause I think they were young still, cuz they were basically little amoebas... now they're kinda, like interacting, we're playing and laughing, It's just like they're aware of ya... that was so much harder to leave.
Nik had asked about writing music and influencing your children. Readers, there may be hope for the children of Oli Skyes (4:29):
My boy screams a lot; screams all the time, so that's pretty cool... We'll see.
Now for the moment you dear readers have been screaming at your device over: will Bring Me The Horizon change the lyrics to this remixed album of Count Your Blessings.
The answer is... a big NO. There's definitely nuisance to it, according to the singer. Oli infers that some of the songs come from places like that we're more of "let's say the stupidest messed up horror things," but censoring those songs would dilute the ones on personal trauma.
On the subject of the song "Black and Blue" (6:00):
I could take censor and could this horror out cuz this is not cool, Do you know what I mean? but then like we've got a song that's about like about me helping..assisting the suicide of my partner's father who I knew abused her and stuff like that. So its kinda like how long is a piece of string situation of where do you stop?
For a long time the mixing on Count Your Blessings has been hit or miss for certain people. The band themselves are not high on the recording quality of the original. While they don't necessarily hate the record outside of that, this has been a sore spot for Sykes for many years. (16:00)
I think a lot of people think that we hate that record or are embarrassed about it, 'cause we don't play it and stuff, but really we were just always disappointed with how it sounded. It was we just that we had no idea what we were doing, we didnt know anything. We didnt know anything about click tracks, you know we didn't know anything about panning guitars left and right we had no idea about anything.
Later, the singer talked about feeling awful after the recording session:
I remember putting the CD on in the car, and I had this huge subwoofer in the back of the car. We used to listen to, I remember we used to listen to All Shall Perish, "Wage Slaves." I remember it sounded like insane on that...but Count Your Blessings, it was like "it just doesn't sound good."
Moving forward from their early years, the final version of "Can You Feel My Heart?" was almost not the one we heard. For one, the chorus wasn't even finished by the time the song was about to be shipped. If anything, it was really a "screwing around in the studio" miracle song, reintroducing the band to million of teens in August 2013. (around 39:30)
"Can You Feel My Heart?" started out cuz I was just pissing around. Just like, I was singing about pork pies. [The band], we're like "can you just take it seriously", Just say something. and I went like this? Can you feel my heart? and then they went yes. and I was like the lyrics "oh but the lyrics are mad cheesy. We're going to change that. And then like again so close, so close all these little things just fall into place randomly.
The now-infamous piano riff was made before shipping the song out, as Sykes revealed:
It was finished and it didn't have the duh duh dih duh, It was just kind of like this gothic huge like half time thing. I was like "it's missing something, it's sick but its missing something." Jordan literally did that in five seconds and I went that's it, that's it.
As for Oli's current mindset (around 1 hour, 14 minutes):
I never think about it (bands getting bigger than BMTH), I don't care if a band gets bigger than us... as long as we're making music that buzzes out, we're happy, you know?
Watch the full interview below:
Bring Me The Horizon will be touring Europe soon, making several festival appearances along the way. Those dates are as follows:
06/03 to 06/06 Sölvesborg, SE @ Sweden Rock Festival
06/09 Kraków, PL @ Tauron Arena
06/12 Hradec Králové, CZ @ Rock for People
06/14 Nickelsdorf, AT @ Nova Rock
06/18 Clisson, FR @ Hellfest (France)
06/20 Dessel, BE @ Graspop
06/24 & 06/27 Oslo, NO @ Tons of Rock
06/25 Copenhagen, DE @ Copenhell
06/25 & 06/27 Seinäjoki, FI @ Provinssi
06/26 & 28 Helsinki, FI @ Tuska
07/02 Ferrara, Italy @ Ferrara Summer Festival
07/10 & 07/11 Manchester, United Kingdom @ Outbreak Presents Count Your Blessings Repented
08/14 Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival
09/05 Rio De Janeiro, BR @ Rock in Rio
The band will also be on tour in North America this fall:
09/20 Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
09/23 Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
09/24 Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
09/26 Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
09/30 Quebec City, QC @ Videotron Centre
10/02 Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre
10/03 Hamilton, ON @ TD Coliseum
10/06 London, ON @ Canada Life Place
10/08 Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena
10/11 Birmingham, AL @ Furnace Fest 26
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