Bring Me The Horizon (BMTH) New Album

Sempiternal (album)
Sempiternal
Studio album by Bring Me the
Horizon
Released
2013
Recorded
July – September 2012 at the
Angelic Studio in Banbury,
Oxfordshire
Label
RCA
Producer
Terry Date

Sempiternal is the upcoming
fourth studio album by British
metalcore band Bring Me the
Horizon . It is planned to be
released in "early 2013" Through
Sony Music Entertainment
subsidiary label RCA. Written and
recorded throughout 2012,
Sempiternal showed the band
pool diverse influences from
ambient music , electronic music
and pop. Sempiternal is an old
english word for 'everlasting'. [1]
Background
In 2011, Bring Me the Horizon
were finishing up their aggressive
touring that was in support of
their acclaimed third album There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.

After this they wished to issue a
remix extended play consisting of electronica remixes of tracks off the album, all done by British
electronic producer Draper, in the attempt to release it by January 2012. However because of the band's label situation with Visible Noise it was cancelled. Later in in the year in July it
became announced that the band
would release their fourth album
on RCA Records . Although the band's split from Visible Noise
wasn't strictly aggressive the
band wanted to join a major
record label due the lack of
resources and support a
independent label can offer during the album's development and promotion.

RCA Records have given the band a lot of support in
their signing, describing the deal
by saying "signing you is as
important as signing Metallica".

Writing and recording
In 2012 the band decided to stop
their touring and their media
appearances, instead to focus on
the writing of their fourth album,
with rhythm guitarist Jona
Weinhofen saying "we're not very
good at getting motivated to write on tour". The band initially
wanted to start recording the
album in May, however Sykes
believed it was too soon and that
the band should just demo for a
few months instead. The band
posted several images of them
recording at a ‘Top Secret Studio
Location'  which was later
revealed to be the Angelic Studio in Banbury, Oxfordshire . The band announced that by
September they would be
entering the studio for the pre-
production for the album.
Vocalist Oliver Sykes revealed in
an interview with Kerrang! that
Jordan Fish of Worship had been
working closely with Bring Me The Horizon in the studio, helping write the album and contribute electronics. his role developedof the course of writing the album as he was initially was there to be instructed by the band in what to
do but he slowly started to have
more say in the album's writing.
Further adding that he is
currently not an "official member" of the band but he will be touring with the band in support of Sempiternal. By the middle of September it was announced that Terry Date, who is known for his work with bands like Deftones, Limp Bizkit and Pantera would be the album's producer. Sykes said he admires Date's production
work shown on White Pony and
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot
Dog Flavoured Water. Sykes believes that some of
the work Date has done on the
band's production makes Bring
Me the Horizon sound like a
completely different band. [7]
On 3 November 2012, the band
invited fans and the Drop Dead
Clothing team to enter the Angelic
Studio to record the gang vocals
for Sempiternal. [12] Jordan Fish
acted as a conductor for the
crowd.

Composition
Musical style
Despite Sykes doubts with joining a major record label in terms of the bands musical output, believing they would try to convince Bring Me the Horizon to release something more radio friendly, instead RCA and Sony have pushed the band to write the heaviest album they can. Bring Me the Horizon pooled more
diverse influences in preparation
for the writing of Sempiternal.
Jona Weinhofen spoke out about
how both he and Lee Malia
developed affection for post-rock bands such as Explosions in the Sky and This Will Destroy You. Weinhofen also once commented on how he would like to combine the heaviness of Bring Me the Horizon's typical work with the laid-back atmospherics of post- rock. During the development
of the album Sykes said he, along side Jordan Fish was inspired by all the music they heard and thought about how it applied to their style. Taking influence from hip hop , reggae, pop, dance and both the soundscapes and "weird pianos" from film soundtracks. Describing the album as blending pieces of their previous three albums and then creating "a whole new sound" Sykessummarises the album as having a "massively" influenced
electronic sound. Sykes also
sees the feeling behind the album as very euphoric, like "happy sad". Lyrical themes
Lyrically, the album which is still
penned by Sykes is much more
tongue-in-cheek in comparison to the dark lyricisms of the previous album, There Is A Hell. Release and Promotion On 5 November 2012 the band
announced that they had hosted a website domain for the album
'sempiternal.info' in which they
release a audio clip of 'Shadow
Moses', also revealing the album
artwork in the process. [14] On 9
November the band played a free gig in their home town of
Sheffield before co-headlining the UK Warped Tour Festival in
London with Lostprophets.

Recording personnel
Bring Me the Horizon
Oliver Sykes – lead vocals
Lee Malia – lead guitar
Jona Weinhofen – rhythm
guitar, vocals
Matt Kean – bass guitar
Matt Nicholls – drums ,
percussion
Jordan Fish – keyboard ,
programming

Additional personnel
Terry Date – production,
mixing