Bring Me The Horizon have shared a new song, 'Dehumanized', taken from their upcoming re-recording of their debut album, Count Your Blessings. The Sheffield band have revisited and “reactivated” their 2006 debut by making it “sharper, heavier, and more vital than ever.”
Titled Count Your Blessings: Repented, the 20th-anniversary project is described as a “recontextualisation” of the original material rather than a simple retrospective release. The collection is scheduled for release on July 10. Following the recent release of a reimagined version of 'Black & Blue', frontman Oli Sykes and his bandmates have now dropped a brand-new original track written specifically for this project.
The vicious 'Dehumanized' serves as the collection's sole new composition, written two decades after the original album's release. According to the band, the single acts as a bridge between their past and present, blending the “unrelenting aggression and chaos” of their earliest material with the “scope, ambition and sonic precision” of their later years.
The track was produced by Sykes and guitarist Lee Malia, with mixing handled by Buster Odeholm. It will appear as the final track on Count Your Blessings: Repented, serving as a closing statement to the LP. “We can’t have this record sounding like what bands sound like today. It needs to be the best version of what it sounded like in 2006,” Sykes explained.
In addition to the new music, the band is set to play two special Count Your Blessings shows as part of Outbreak Fest in Manchester next month. These performances are expected to be a defining moment for fans, bridging the gap between those who were there at the beginning and those discovering the band's roots for the first time.