Soundscapes, ambience, and energy create the beautiful accident we know as Sempiternal. Fans have seen this before, nevertheless, why should they care? Sempiternal granted a desperate group something so rare yet so essential – a purpose. They were a group who got lucky and accidentally released a good album. Bring Me the Horizon was just *potential* from that point on. Rejected by the deathcore and mainstream audience, Bring Me the Horizon squandered the bottom of the scene until There Is a Hell… showed potential. An album defined as a feat of strength put forth by a band that never should be capable of this. The metalcore underground’s loss is mainstream’s gain.Eternal, everlasting, and unchanging swell into Sempiternal. The fact this record leaked online forcing the band to stream it and bring forward the release date is not only a testament to their worth, but proof this band could very well stand at the pointy end of the charts once more. Lyrically, it’s Sykes most apologetic yet, Sempiternal brims with the stabbing pang of regret and self-reflection, understanding, and a promise to make good, all set to some of his most persuasive aural collages. BMTH deserve plaudits for taking as many risks as they have. His addition, and the different approach to recording – predecessors were helmed in isolated locations while Sempiternal was predominantly written on Syke’s laptop and recorded at Angelic Studio in Oxfordshire – stepped the band further into electro territory. BMTH gave a cutting farewell to Australian member Jona Weinhofen last year before re-recording his guitar parts and announcing Fish as a permanent member. The record may have been produced by Terry Date (Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Pantera), but the renewed sound is stamped with the fingerprints of keyboardist and ambience mastermind Jordan Fish (formerly of the band Worship). The sounds and piano-driven rhythms are beguiling enough to be satisfying in their own right, the addition of vocals and precursory monologues ( Hospital For Souls) only build on what is already a cascading soundtrack to your favourite art house film. Sempiternal is BMTH’s first on a major label, but RCA Records (flagship of Sony Music) have been gracious in their takeover from Visible Noise the back-step in creative control has been left to a faint whisper on tracks like video game salute Shadow Moses and the nihilistic Anti-vist. Elsewhere, second single Sleepwalking sounds like major label placation, it’s brilliant but also their most accessible. If you thought There Is A Hell… was risk-splattered and genre-crossing, then nothing will prepare you for this. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret.Now onto album number four, Sempiternal sees frontman Oli Sykes and his thick Sheffield grit harnessing past influences while recklessly taking on new ones.
Since bursting into emergence with 2006’s Count Your Blessings, the British quintet have shifted between invective deathcore and the kind of melodic hardcore best exemplified on career highlight – 2010’s verbosely titled ARIA #1 – There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It.
Bring Me The Horizon are a reliable bunch, never straying too far from their well-defined aesthetic.
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