Bring Me The Horizon guitarist Lee Malia has spoken about the band’s evolution from their deathcore/metalcore roots to their current state in a new interview with Musicradar.com. The band’s continued strides in bringing their sound to new fronts has resulted in what is perhaps their most commercially accessible and simultaneously divisive release yet, “Amo“. When asked if the band’s evolution was a conscious decision, Malia replied:
“Even when we were in the MySpace scene, and on the Warped Tour, and that whole metalcore scene, we knew for the next CD we didn’t want to do [the same thing again]. Even when we did ‘There Is A Hell…‘ we knew we wanted to go a bit more experimental. We have never been too attached to the scene that we are in. As we got older, we realized that songs don’t have to have 100 parts, with every single sound you could make. You learn more. It’s aging. We grew up, but we were doing it through albums.”
Speaking further on the band’s creative outlook and how they approach their songwriting, Malia stated:
“I think we’ve been ahead of some of the other bands. To Oli’s credit, he’s quite good at that. He has ideas before anyone else; he’ll come up with something and you’ll think that sounds like it’s just going to be mental, like having a choir all chopped up on a CD, but then we did that and then everyone started having choirs on their CDs, the whole metalcore scene – but a year later than us. Do you know what I mean? Or having strings. Even though, of course, Metallica did it years before, we modernized it.
I always think we have been a year ahead of bands who are kind of just seeing what’s cool and then copying it. I think we always thought ahead, and thought about what we were doing, rather than just doing the same thing again. We’ve always thought what we could do next to make it better.”
