Track Review: sTraNgeRs // Bring Me The Horizon

After previewing it live in front of thousands of alt fans at their very own Malta Weekender festival last May, Bring Me The Horizon shared their new official single ‘sTraNgeRs’ on July 6. Since the start of the pandemic, the critically acclaimed metalcore band has been keeping their promise to produce a series of multiple records and singles under the Post Human name. This ambitious project saw Bring Me The Horizon hitting No.1 in the UK album charts in 2021 following the release of POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR as the first act of four EPs which are going to cancel the old defying barriers between hardcore and pop music.

The new track from Bring Me The Horizon is opened by Sykes’s almost ailing voice and Lee Malia’s low-key guitar rising into even more desperate lyrics, where tense electronic drums serve as a background for an unmasked call for help. ‘sTraNgeRs’ speaks to those dealing with all kinds of traumas or feeling stuck in looking back to simpler times addressing the emo culture, not as a childish fashionable social trend but rather as a medium to bring people together and let go of stifling feelings. 

Like Nova Twins and Yungblud, Bring Me The Horizon are shaping the international alternative rock industry and speaking up for the ascending 21st-century generation that is now teaming up to work their way during the buckling of the contemporary economic system and all that follows. Perhaps emo was really never a phase.

Words by Martina Bovetta

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