Bring Me the Horizon's founding members came from diverse musical backgrounds within metal and rock. Matt Nicholls and Oliver Sykes had a common interest in American metalcore such as Norma Jean and Skycamefalling, and used to attend local hardcore punk shows. They later met Lee Malia, who spoke with them about thrash metal and melodic death metal bands like Metallica and At the Gates; Malia had also been part of a Metallica tribute band before meeting the pair. Bring Me the Horizon officially formed in March 2004, when the members were aged 15 to 17. Curtis Ward, who also lived in the Rotherham area, joined Sykes, Malia and Nicholls. Bassist Matt Kean, who was in other local bands, completed the line-up. Their name was taken from the line in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, where Captain Jack Sparrow says "Now, bring me that horizon."
In the months following their formation, Bring Me the Horizon created a demo album titled Bedroom Sessions. They followed this by releasing their first EP, This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For in September 2004 through local UK label Thirty Days of Night Records. Bring Me the Horizon were the label's first signing. It was recorded at Pristine Studios in Nottingham over the course of two weekends, with drums and bass guitar laid down over the first weekend, and guitars and vocals completed a week later.
UK label Visible Noise noticed the band after the release of their EP, and signed them for a four-album deal, in addition to re-releasing the EP in January 2005. The re-release gained the band significant attention, eventually peaking at No. 41 on the UK album charts. The band was later awarded Best British Newcomer at the 2006 Kerrang! Awards ceremony.
The band's first tour was supporting The Red Chord across the United Kingdom. As with other early tours, they were able to get this slot by tricking venue promoters. Kean and Oliver's mother were the de facto managers of the band at this time, a role they continued to occupy until 2008. For The Red Chord support, Kean emailed promoters and pretended they were opening on all the dates, when they were supposed to play only at their local show. This led them to being booked for the whole tour. In another case, Sykes created an e-mail account in the name of Johnny Truant vocalist Oliver Mitchell, which he used to contact a promoter requesting Bring Me the Horizon on their tour. Alcohol consumption fuelled their live performances in their early history when the band would get so drunk they vomited on stage and damaged their equipment.
The band released their debut album Count Your Blessings in October 2006 in the United Kingdom and in August 2007 in the United States. They rented a house in the country to write songs, but easily became distracted. They then recorded the album in inner-city Birmingham, a process which was infamous for their excessive and dangerous drinking. During this period drummer Nicholls summarised it saying "we were out every night, just being regular 18-year-olds". Critics panned the album adding to the strongly polarised responses the band were already seeing from the public.
Bring Me the Horizon recorded their second studio album, Suicide Season, in Sweden with producer Fredrik Nordström. He was unimpressed with their first album and was initially absent from the recording sessions unless he needed to be there. Nordström later heard the new sound they were experimenting with during a recording session and became very involved in the record. It was promoted virally in the weeks before its release with the promotional tag line "September is Suicide Season."
During the Taste of Chaos tour in March of that year, guitarist Curtis Ward left the band. His relationship with the band had deteriorated as his stage performances were poor. He was abusive to audiences during the Taste of Chaos tour, and had contributed little to the writing of Suicide Season. Another reason for his departure was the worsening tinnitus in his one functioning ear. Ward was born deaf in one ear and admitted playing in the band worsened the ringing in his other ear to such a degree that he was unable to sleep at night. Ward offered to perform the rest of the tour dates, which the band rejected and instead asked their guitar technician, Dean Rowbotham, to substitute for him for the remaining performances. Lee Malia noted that Ward's departure helped improve everyone's mood as he had been very negative. Within a week of the tour finishing, Sykes began talking to Jona Weinhofen, at the time the guitarist of Bleeding Through. The band knew of him from his work with his former band I Killed the Prom Queen, and he was asked to join them. Ward has since worked on the TV show Top Gear, and has occasionally performed on stage with Bring Me The Horizon, playing "Pray For Plagues", most notably at Wembley Arena in 2015. In 2016, it was announced that Ward had joined the band Counting Days.
In November 2009, Bring Me the Horizon released a remixed version of Suicide Season, titled Suicide Season: Cut Up! Musicians and producers featured on the album include: Ben Weinman, Skrillex, L’Amour La Morgue, Utah Saints and Shawn Crahan. Musically, the album incorporates many genres including: electronica, drum and bass, hip-hop and dubstep. The dubstep style of the record has been acknowledged in tracks by Tek-One and Skrillex while the hip-hop elements are found in Travis McCoy's remix of "Chelsea Smile".
The band's third album, and first with their new rhythm guitarist Jona Weinhofen, titled There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret., was released on 4 October 2010 and debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, number 13 on the UK Album Chart, and number one on the Australian Albums Chart, the UK Rock Chart and the UK Indie Chart. Despite reaching number one in Australia, the album's sales were the lowest for a number one album in the history of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) charts.
Matt Nicholls describes the lyrical themes of There Is a Hell as being "repercussions of everything we were singing about on our last CD [Suicide Season]," calling the music and lyrics a lot moodier and darker. Five singles were released from the album including: "It Never Ends", "Anthem", "Blessed with a Curse", "Visions", and "Alligator Blood", with music videos produced for each of the songs.
2011 ended with an announcement by the band on 29 December of a new extended play titled The Chill Out Sessions, a collaborative effort with British DJ Draper. Draper first released an "officially sanctioned" remix of the song "Blessed with a Curse" in May 2011. The EP was originally supposed to be released in time for New Year's Day, and made available for download and purchase though Bring Me the Horizon's website, but the EP's release was cancelled due to the band's "current management and label situation".
After an intense touring schedule, Bring Me the Horizon finally completed their third album's promotion at the end of 2011. They returned to the UK for an extended break and eventually starting work on their next album. Much like their previous two albums, they wrote their fourth album in seclusion and isolation to stay focused. This time, they retreated to a house in the Lake District. In July, the band started to publish images of themselves recording at a 'Top Secret Studio Location,' and revealed they were working with producer Terry Date for the recording and production of the album. On 30 July, the band announced they had left their label and signed with RCA, who would release their fourth album in 2013. In late October it was announced that the fourth album would be called Sempiternal with a tentative release in early 2013. On 22 November the band released the Draper collaborative album The Chill Out Sessions free of charge.
On 4 January 2013, Bring Me the Horizon released the first single from Sempiternal, "Shadow Moses". It was first played by radio presenter Daniel P. Carter on BBC's Radio 1. Due to popular demand, Epitaph released the music video for the song a week earlier than planned. In January, the band also saw a change in their line up. This began early in the month when Jordan Fish, Worship keyboardist and session musician for the band during the writing of Sempiternal, was announced as a full member. Then later in the month, Jona Weinhofen left the band. Despite the band denying speculation that Fish replaced Weinhofen, reviewers said that replacing a guitarist with a keyboardist better fit their style. The album was released the 1st of march, 2013. The album was supported by multiple music videos including "Go To Hell, For Heaven's Sake", "Sleepwalking" and "Can You Feel My Heart". The lyrics on Sempiternal mainly deal with Sykes' journey through rehabilitation from ketamine.
Later in 2014, the band released two new tracks titled "Drown" on 21 October, as a stand-alone single, and "Don't Look Down" on 29 October, as part of the re-score of Drive.
In late June, the band began to promote pictures of an umbrella symbol being used as a tattoo, and on stickers, and posters across England, the United States, Australia, and Europe; it was later used for a promotional cover for the band's first single. The band released a short video in early July where the words "that's the spirit" could be heard in reverse. On 13 July 2015, the promotional single "Happy Song" was released on the band's Vevo page, and on 21 July 2015, Sykes revealed the album's name was That's the Spirit. The band released the single and music video for "Throne" on 23 July 2015, and another promotional track from the album, titled "True Friends", was released on 24 August 2015. The album was released on 11 September 2015 to critical acclaim. It has led to several music videos including "Drown", "Throne", "True Friends", "Follow You", "Avalanche", and "Oh No".
On 22 April 2016, the band performed a live concert with an orchestra conducted by Simon Dobson at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The concert marked the first time the band had performed with a live orchestra. It was recorded, and the live album, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released on 2 December 2016 through the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic on CD, DVD, and vinyl, with all proceeds donated to Teenage Cancer Trust.
In August 2018, cryptic posters appeared in major cities throughout the world with the message "do you wanna start a cult with me?". The posters were attributed by major media outlets to the band only by their use of the hexagram logo previously used by the band. During this time the band themselves have not acknowledged their involvement with the campaign publicly. Each poster provided a unique phone number and a website address. The website provided a brief message titled "An Invitation To Salvation" and shows the date of 21 August 2018. The phone lines placed fans on hold with lengthy, varied audio messages that changed frequently. Some of these messages reportedly end with a distorted audio clip of what was assumed to be new music from the band.
On 21 August, the band released the lead single "Mantra". The following day the band announced their new album Amo set for release on 11 January 2019 along with a new set of tour dates called the First Love World Tour. On 21 October, the band released their second single "Wonderful Life" featuring Dani Filth, along with the tracklist for Amo. That same day, the band announced that the album has been delayed and is now set for 25 January 2019. On 3 January 2019, the band released their third single "Medicine" and its corresponding music video.
sugar honey ice & tea
Bring Me the Horizon Lyrics
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I think we're too close for comfort
So now don't rock the boat, don't calm the storm
God already gave you his answer
Blink, I'm sorry, it's over
The whistle has been blown now
Think you got the wrong number
I'm breaking up
Can't get no reception
Leave a message after the tone
'Cause it's got my head running 24/7
I don't know if I can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Everybody's full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Don't move a muscle
No, we can't have a struggle
But the situation is in control
So play pretend that it's all good
You could tell the Messiah
His pants are on fire, I'll politely decline, ah
I gotta go, I gotta stick my head in the sand
Then block out all the sadness
La la la la la la
'Cause it's got my head running 24/7
I don't know if can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Yeah, everybody's full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
And it's got my head running 24/7
I don't reckon I can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so fucked
And we all march on like we know the way to Heaven
Who the hell died and made you the king
We don't know what we want, but we know that we want it
Yeah, we want it, yeah, we want it right now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
Fuck you
Everybody, everybody is full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Oh, and now everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Every, every, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Oh, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
The lyrics to Bring Me the Horizon's song "sugar honey ice & tea" describe the chaos and confusion that comes with trying to navigate through life and society's expectations. The first verse begins with a sense of impending danger, as the singer counts down to thunder and warns against rocking the boat. However, it quickly becomes clear that the real threat is the pressure to conform to others' ideas of success and happiness, represented by the metaphor of being full of "sugar, honey, ice, and tea." The chorus echoes this sentiment, as the singer struggles with the overwhelming nature of this pressure and expresses uncertainty about how to move forward. The second verse continues with the theme of pretending that everything is under control, even if it's not, and the frustration of not being able to escape these expectations. The bridge criticizes those who claim to have all the answers and asserts that no one truly knows what they want, but everyone wants it now. The repetition of the chorus at the end reinforces the idea that this pressure is pervasive and inescapable.
Overall, "sugar honey ice & tea" is a commentary on how societal pressures can lead to an overwhelming sense of confusion and disorientation. The lyrics suggest that people need to look beyond these expectations and focus on what truly matters to them. The use of the metaphor of "sugar, honey, ice, and tea" is particularly effective, as it conveys both the sweetness and artificial nature of these social expectations.
Line by Line Meaning
Count down to thunder
Bracing for a storm or conflict
I think we're too close for comfort
Feeling uneasy about the proximity or relationship
So now don't rock the boat, don't calm the storm
Striving for stability amidst a volatile situation
God already gave you his answer
Accepting the consequences of one's actions
Blink, I'm sorry, it's over
A sudden end to something, perhaps with regret
The whistle has been blown now
The game or opportunity is over
Think you got the wrong number
Feeling disconnected or misunderstood
I'm breaking up
Ending a relationship or connection
Wanna make a connection
Desiring intimacy or closeness
Can't get no reception
Unable to communicate effectively
Leave a message after the tone
Asking for a delayed or indirect form of communication
'Cause it's got my head running 24/7
Feeling overwhelmed by a problem or situation
I don't know if I can figure it out
Uncertainty about how to solve a problem
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
Awareness that things are not ideal or clear, but still definitive
We're so full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Being fake or insincere in one's expressions or behavior
Everybody's full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Claiming that inauthenticity is a universal problem
Don't move a muscle
Staying still or passive to avoid conflict
No, we can't have a struggle
Avoiding any kind of debate or challenge
But the situation is in control
Believing that everything is under control
So play pretend that it's all good
Putting up a facade of positivity or peace
You could tell the Messiah
Using a fictional or metaphorical setting to express sarcasm
His pants are on fire, I'll politely decline, ah
Refusing to believe or follow blindly
I gotta go, I gotta stick my head in the sand
Avoiding reality or problems
Then block out all the sadness
Suppressing emotions or trauma
We all march on like we know the way to Heaven
Assuming a sense of righteousness or superiority
Who the hell died and made you the king
Challenging an authority or leader
We don't know what we want, but we know that we want it
Being driven by uncertainty and impulsiveness
Fuck you
Expressing anger or resentment
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
Uttering sounds or words without much meaning
Oh, and now everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Reiterating the song's theme of insincerity
Every, every, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Repeating the idea of shallow or fake attitudes
Oh, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Emphasizing the extent of the problem
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Adding a rhythmical or emotional layer to the song
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Unison Rights S.L.
Written by: Jordan Fish, Lee Malia, Matthew Kean, Matthew Nicholls, Oliver Sykes
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@MireilleAntone
When you wanna insult someone but don't wanna be too offensive:
You taste like
Sugar
Honey
Ice &
Tea
EDIT: I know there are lots of comments regarding my weird choice of the word "taste" but I was overthinking at the time, since you can't actually smell sugar, honey, ice and tea (the actual items, not the initials), and I guess if you wanna be technical, some types of tea have a fragrance but that's beside the point. Oh well, it is what it is. May as well just tell people the actual lyrics, that they're full of sugar, honey, ice and tea.
@jokowo2236
Count down to thunder
I think we're too close for comfort
So now don't rock the boat, don't calm the storm
God already gave you his answer
Blink, I'm sorry, it's over
The whistle has been blown now
Think you got the wrong number
I'm breaking up
Wanna make a connection
Can't get no reception
Leave a message after the tone
'Cause it's got my head running 24/7
I don't know if I can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Everybody's full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Don't move a muscle
No, we can't have a struggle
But the situation is in control
So play pretend that it's all good
You could tell the Messiah
His pants are on fire, I'll politely decline, ah
I gotta go, I gotta stick my head in the sand
Then block out all the sadness
La la la la la la
'Cause it's got my head running 24/7
I don't know if can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Yeah, everybody's full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
And it's got my head running 24/7
I don't reckon I can figure it out
It's all messed up, only one thing I know for sure
We're so fucked
And we all march on like we know the way to Heaven
Who the hell died and made you the king
We don't know what we want, but we know that we want it
Yeah, we want it, yeah, we want it right now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
Fuck you
Everybody, everybody is full of
Sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Oh, and now everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Every, every, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Oh, everybody full of sugar, honey, ice, and tea
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
@maiadanesin102
Director: so, with the whole Area 51 thing going on, I was thinking-
BMTH: yes.
@sydneecantley7342
Awsten Loves Orange Juice hello fellow parx stan lol
@naufallin907
oli: i need backup dancer
also oli: but from another dimension...
kazuma: ok...
@MireilleAntone
When you wanna insult someone but don't wanna be too offensive:
You taste like
Sugar
Honey
Ice &
Tea
EDIT: I know there are lots of comments regarding my weird choice of the word "taste" but I was overthinking at the time, since you can't actually smell sugar, honey, ice and tea (the actual items, not the initials), and I guess if you wanna be technical, some types of tea have a fragrance but that's beside the point. Oh well, it is what it is. May as well just tell people the actual lyrics, that they're full of sugar, honey, ice and tea.
@MireilleAntone
@MB Yeah cause when you hate someone you want to just bite off their flesh and tear them apart, but we're polite psychopaths like Hannibal. Well I mean that's one way to look at it. I didn't want to say "smell" cause sugar and honey aren't really known for their smells. I guess to prevent further arguments just say "You look like Sugar, Honey, Ice & Tea".
@queenniemarelramosqmdr1360
Mireille Antone I got it -SHIT-for short
@atomicpunk2360
Mireille Antone maybe a better argument would’ve been to say that towards an ex. Like, if I were to imply a girl’s pussy tasted awful because she’s gross. Sounds more sensible than being a fucking cannibal
@SmileyDaSlvtGxd
Is it bad that tastss good?
@David-fd8hy
@Mireille Antone Nobody get close to this comment, might cut yourself on the edge.
@rosana6262
Billie Eilish: I make the weirdest videos
BMTH: hold my mushrooms