Bring Me The Horizon Rise Up To Claim A Haunting Throne

Goosebumps are guaranteed to percolate to the surface during a listen to Bring Me The Horizon's "Throne". It clocks in at a hair over 3 minutes but these guys make their time in the extra bright spotlight count. Want drumming that shakes you down to your nether reaches? Look no further than Matt Nicholls who batters his kit as if he was holding some sort of long standing personal grudge with it. The beats land at one, and only one level of existence...flat out relentless. The overall backdrop seeks to leave you on edge for as long as you can stand the pressure. Don't turn your back on the blistering bass either. Matt Kean roars like the lions you'd find at your local zoo. Pedal very definitely appears to be focused on the metal. Meanwhile lead guitarist Lee Malia epitomizes confidence throughout. Then you throw Jordan Fish's keyboards into the equation. Therein lies the not for the faint of heart queasiness sound "Throne" delivers in spades. Oliver Sykes doesn't vocalize so much as he submerges into the icy grip of white knuckle fear landscape. Oliver jumps right into what's troubling him. His lady friend abandoned him. How very adrift in the gaping ocean of despair was he. The change up in formula lies with how "Throne" stakes out its turf as a male empowerment rock romp instead of the many distaff slanted numbers we've been treated to in previous junctures. The wounds make him stronger. The black and blue marks for him are marks of character. Ollie fashions himself leader of the wolf pack rather than one of the beat down supplicants. Visually, both in the case of Ollie's biting words and the ghoulish accompanying video, Ollie isn't fooling around. His goal is to leave her choking on every word she left unspoken. As a unit Bring Me The Horizon meshes marvelously. The rage reaches saturation level, than spreads its reach far and wide so there isn't a single zone of your ears that doesn't ignite under Oliver's consistent wrath. So this brings me to my blogger in the moment opinion. "Throne" does prove itself capable of keeping rock enthusiasts on their toes stumbling for solid ground. The bitch I have with it leans towards how the shock value can only take this outfit so far. The boys don't flag in the intensity department. Au contraire they're reloading regularly. Always back to the arsenal. Always firing off fresh rounds of psychotic instrumental interchange. I have no problem with staying on one chord either. That helps their case immensely. They lift the battering ram, slam it into your eardrums, then continue with the aural assault. As would be true with any rock show or single you want both your money's worth and the reassurance the chills won't subside when the lights come back up. Can't say for sure the chills are bound to linger but at least they're on the table begging for you to try and ignore them. "Throne" isn't bringing a royal flush to the cosmic card deck of sonic pleasures but it does put the complacent on notice that an uprising or three at a future place and time is highly possible.