Line #70 Music/BringMeTheHorizon


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: You call this a connection?[[note]]L to R: Matt Kean, Oli Sykes, Jordan Fish, Matt Nicholls, Lee Malia[[/note]]]]
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4	[floatboxright:Influences:
5	+Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/{{Carcass}}, Music/AtTheGates, Music/{{Linkin Park}}, Music/{{Pantera}}
6	]
7	[floatboxright:
8	Related Acts:
9	+ I Killed the Prom Queen
10	+ Music/{{Lights}}
11	+ Bleeding Through
12	+ Music/{{Skrillex}}
13	+ Jon Courtney
14	+ Immanu El
15	]
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17	-> ''This is sempiternal!\
18	Will we ever see the end?\
19	This - is - sempiternal!\
20	Over and over, '''AGAIN AND AGAIN!'''''
21	-->-- "Shadow Moses"
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23	Bring Me the Horizon (often abbreviated as BMTH and occasionally shortened to Bring Me) is a British rock band from Sheffield, Yorkshire that formed in 2004. The band's name is paraphrased from a line of dialogue spoken by Jack Sparrow in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' ("Now... bring me that horizon").
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25	BMTH started out as a {{deathcore}} band with a reliance on breakdowns, false-chord screaming, and riffs influenced by bands such as Music/AtTheGates. This sound is represented on their debut EP ''This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For'' and their debut album ''Count Your Blessings'', the latter of which brought them their first taste of popularity with the viral success of the music video for lead single "Pray for Plagues".
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27	Their next album, ''Suicide Season'', marked a switch to pure {{metalcore}}. This was inspired by the band's experience with extremely negative reactions to ''Count Your Blessings'' from "proper metalheads", and their subsequent decision that their follow-up would have to be their make-or-break moment. The album incorporated {{electronic\|Music}} and {{ambient}} elements alongside more melodic vocals and mature songwriting, making for a relatively more accessible sound overall. Immediate reactions to the shift in sound were polarized, but the album ultimately gained the band more popularity, as well as their first {{signature song}} in the track "Chelsea Smile".
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29	Entering [[TheNewTens the 2010s]], BMTH's releases would lean more into atmospherics and electronics, transitioning fully from their heavy roots into more alternative styles. Starting with the introduction of symphonic arrangements and futuristic sound design on ''There Is a Hell...'', they embraced elements from genres like [[PostHardcore post-hardcore]] and [[PostRock post-rock]] on ''Sempiternal'', eventually consolidating their influences into a combination of [[AlternativeRock alternative rock]], [[AlternativeMetal alternative metal]] and pop rock with ''That's the Spirit''. While this trajectory was not without recurring controversy, it resulted in unprecedented levels of success for the band.
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31	However, with their sixth album ''amo'', released at the start of 2019, BMTH made their most unexpected move yet: releasing an album that more closely resembled ''straightforward pop music'' than anything they had released before, taking inspiration from genres as diverse as {{trance}} and [[HipHop hip-hop]]. Although this continued the band's commercial success (to the tune of their first two MediaNotes/GrammyAward nominations), it was predictably quite divisive, outright alienating sections of their fanbase. To the band's credit, they welcomed the reception with open arms; frontman Oli Sykes likened it to the reception ''Suicide Season'' had upon release, and the album contained multiple tracks preemptively (and in somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner) [[DearNegativeReader addressing fans who would be mad at them]].
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33	Around the turn of [[TheNewTwenties the 2020s]], BMTH continued experimenting with more types of electronica in the long-form release ''Music to Listen To...'', and took the music world by surprise once again by utilizing their modern production styles to throw back to the heavier sounds of their early material with the ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' EP. The EP is intended to be the first of four projects under the ''POST HUMAN'' name; the second project, ''[=NeX=] [=GEn=]'', will reportedly release in summer 2024.[[note]]It was originally scheduled for September 15, 2023, but Oli Sykes announced on August 23 that it would be delayed due to "unforeseen circumstances".[[/note]]
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35	Despite the fact that they've received a fair amount of backlash from many metal fans, each release has seen BMTH grow to new heights of popularity even with [[NewSoundAlbum their routine stylistic shifts]], and they are currently regarded as one of the biggest and most influential modern rock acts around.
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37	!!Members:
38	!!!Current
39	* Oliver "Oli" Sykes - lead vocals
40	* Lee Malia - lead guitar
41	* Matt Kean - bass guitar
42	* Matt Nicholls - drums, percussion
43	!!!Past
44	* Curtis Ward - guitar (2004-2009)
45	* Jona Weinhofen - rhythm guitar, keyboards, programming, vocals (2009-2013)
46	* Jordan Fish - keyboards, programming, vocals (2012-2023)
47	!!Discography:
48	* 2004 - ''This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For'' (EP)
49	* 2006 - ''Count Your Blessings''
50	* 2008 - ''Suicide Season''
51	* 2009 - ''Suicide Season: Cut Up!'' (remix album)
52	* 2010 - ''There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.''
53	* 2013 - ''Sempiternal''
54	* 2015 - ''That's the Spirit''
55	* 2019 - ''amo''
56	* 2019 - ''Music to Listen to~Dance to~Blaze to~Pray to~Feed to~Sleep to~Talk to~Grind to~Trip to~Breathe to~Help to~Hurt to~Scroll to~Roll to~Love to~Hate to~Learn Too~Plot to~Play to~Be to~Feel to~Breed to~Sweat to~Dream to~Hide to~Live to~Die to~Go To'' (commercial release[[note]]has been referred to as an EP and an album by various sources[[/note]])
57	* 2020 - ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' (EP)
58	* Upcoming - ''POST HUMAN: [=NeX=] [=GEn=]'' (EP)
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61	!!''Every scar will build my tropes'':
62	%%* AlbumTitleDrop: [[OncePerEpisode Once Per Album]].
63	* AllLowercaseLetters: The title of their sixth album ''amo'' is stylized this way, and the same goes for nearly every song comprising it. [[note]]The keyword is ''nearly'' as "Mantra" is the sole exception, being rendered in CapsLock.[[/note]]
64	* AntiLoveSong: "Traitors Never Play Hangman" and "Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick".
65	* ArchEnemy: Music/{{Bullet for My Valentine}}, according to the magazine ''Rock Sound''.
66	* AtomicFBomb: "[[IntercourseWithYou Fuck]]" begins with, well, a loud shout of "let's ''FUCK''!!!"
67	* AudienceParticipationSong: "Diamonds Aren't Forever" and "Anthem".
68	* BiblicalMotifs: The Ten Plagues of Egypt on "Pray for Plagues".
69	%%* BreakupSong: Lots of 'em.
70	* CallBack: "ouch", from ''amo'', references "Follow You" (off ''That's the Spirit'') in its [[SingleStanzaSong one verse]]. It also may count as a DarkReprise, as a [[SillyLoveSongs fairly sweet song]] turns into a ''vicious'' BreakUpSong.
71	-->"Follow You": '''So you can drag me through hell''' if it meant I could hold your hand
72	-->I will follow you''' 'cause I'm under your spell''' and you can throw me to the flames
73	-->"ouch": I know I said '''I was under your spell''', but this hex is on another level
74	-->And I know I said '''you could drag me through Hell''', but I hoped you wouldn’t fuck the Devil
75	* CanonDiscontinuity: Oli Sykes once disowned ''This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For'', although he later claimed that he was too drunk to think straight at the time.
76	* CarefulWithThatAxe: The beginning of "Pray for Plagues". Also, "Chelsea Smile".
77	* ChewingTheScenery: Oli Sykes did this a lot on ''Count Your Blessings''; he'd hold screams for so long that his growl would eventually diminish and revert back to his normal voice.
78	* ClusterFBomb: "(I Used to Make Out With) Medusa" has the line "why don't you just ''fuck'' yourself, you ''fucking'' whore?"
79	** "Fuck"... naturally...
80	* ContinuityNod:
81	** "Diamonds Aren't Forever" references older song "Rawwwrrr" and "Chelsea Smile" references "Pray for Plagues".
82	** "Crucify Me" also references "The Sadness Will Never End":
83	--->TSWNE: So don't give up on me/It's not too late for us/And I'll save you from yourself/And I'll save you from yourself....Is there hope for us?/Can we make it out alive?
84	--->CM: If we make it through the night, if I make it out alive/Lord have mercy and pray for the dead/And you say that you can save me...
85	** The outro to "Dear Diary," references "Pray for Plagues" with Sykes erupting into a MetalScream. The bout of {{Corpsing}} that breaks the scream might also count as them laughing at the darkly ironic connection between that song's title and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, one of the major inspirations for ''POST HUMAN''.
86	* CoversAlwaysLie: The covers for ''The Edge of Your Seat...'' and ''Count Your Blessings'' are intentional examples.
87	* CoverVersion: The band has covered "Eyeless" by Slipknot.
88	* DeadMansHand: "Alligator Blood" contains a reference to it.
89	* {{Deathcore}}: Up until ''Suicide Season''.
90	* DespairEventHorizon: "Suicide Season" and "Blessed with a Curse" cross it.
91	** Pretty much every song on ''Sempiternal'' crosses it.
92	* TheDogBitesBack: The premise of "Throne".
93	-->So you can throw me to the wolves \
94	Tomorrow I will come back \
95	Leader of the whole pack
96	* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''amo'' has a ''triple'' meaning title - as Portuguese for "I love", as European Portuguese for "master", and as a homophone for "ammo" (as in ammunition).
97	* DrugsAreBad: Oliver revealed at the Alternative Press Music Awards of 2014 that he had faced an addiction to ketamine. This later became the main thematic in some songs in ''That's the Spirit'', especially "Avalanche", although the band subtly talked about it earlier on in songs such as "It Never Ends" or "Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake".
98	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The band's gradual {{Genre Shift}} from abrasive {{Deathcore}} to polished {{Metalcore}} and finally AlternativeRock (increasingly taking on an eclectic range of secondary influences during the latter two stages) has become so drastic that listening to the band's raw, decidedly sloppy debut Deathcore EP in light of [[SurprisinglyGentleSong their recent output]] essentially invokes this.
99	* EmoTeen: The band's lyrics (and hair) used to invoke this.
100	* EpicRocking: "Suicide Season".
101	** Their second EP consists mainly of this. Only one track lasts less than 5 minutes, while three are over 10 minutes. It's eight songs that comprise a 75-minute recording.
102	* GenreRoulette: And how! Can you name another artist that has played deathcore, only to later start performing electropop? There's a laundry list of genres they've covered over the years, especially on ''That's the Spirit'' and ''amo''. Even during their deathcore days, they would have a randomly-placed PostRock song.
103	** As an example, ''amo'' includes DreamPop-esque electronic compositions ("i apologise if you feel something"), industrial-style rock ("MANTRA"), {{trance}} ("nihilist blues"), nu metal ("wonderful life"), IDM ("fresh bruises") and even plunderphonics of all styles ("ouch")! As Oli put it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpSAsnybuD0 during a KROQ show around the album's release]]:
104	--->"You like R&B? (''small cheers'') You like pop music? (''slightly bigger cheers'') Do you like rock & roll? (''louder cheers'') Do you like metal? (''even louder cheers'') See...we're in a bit of a predicament. We made an album that's ''all''...and ''none'' of them. And all our fans fucking hate us."
105	* GenreShift: From {{Deathcore}} to {{Metalcore}}, then from metalcore to AlternativeRock.
106	* {{Gorn}}:
107	** The artwork for ''Suicide Season'', which depicts a blank-faced woman holding her own intestines.
108	** The videos for "Follow You" and "[=LosT=]" take this up to eleven.
109	* GratuitousFrench: "ouch" opens with the line "Tu as tué mon bébé" ("you killed my baby"). The song is about Oli's divorce from his now-ex-wife, who cheated on him with a French tattoo artist.
110	* HatePlague: The aforementioned video for "Follow You", where almost everyone the boy comes across is gleefully trying to kill each other.
111	* IHateSong:
112	** "True Friends" rants about a friend's betrayal.
113	** "Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake" is an angry song about someone the singer dislikes.
114	* ImportantHaircut: Oli cut his hair short in 2018, following his divorce and signifying the band's switch to a more pop-driven sound that started with ''That's the Spirit'' and continued in ''amo''.
115	* {{Improv}}: "Off the Heezay" begins with Oli [[CarefulWithThatAxe screaming]] "AWESOME FOURSOME!"
116	* IndustrialMetal: ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' is a foray into the genre, particularly in songs like "Obey", "Parasite Eve", "Kingslayer" and "Ludens". The EP's sound direction was largely inspired by Sykes playing through ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', which led to the band getting Music/MickGordon on board for production.
117	* IntercourseWithYou: "Fuck", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of course]].
118	%%* LargeHam: Oli, all the time.
119	* LastNoteNightmare: The ending of "heavy metal" garnered attention for being the heaviest the band had been in years since going alternative, featuring Oli [[CarefulWithThatAxe screaming]] "NO, THIS AIN'T HEAVY METAL!" followed by a guttural growl.
120	* LighterAndSofter: ''That's the Spirit'' is notably much lighter in sound than their previous material, due to them abandoning metalcore and incorporating alternative elements. Even the heaviest songs ("Happy Song" and "True Friends") aren't as heavy as their music from before.
121	* LoudnessWar: ''Suicide Season'' and ''There Is a Hell...''. Just listen to the drum intro of "Anthem".
122	* LyricalDissonance:
123	** Whenever the band does "romantic" subject matter, like on "Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick" and "Off the Heezay". Both are punishing deathcore songs, but the former is about genuinely missing your loved one while away while the latter is about an admittedly brutal breakup.
124	** "Oh No" is a very cheerful and danceable pop rock song ... that happens to be about Oli's struggles with drug abuse.
125	* {{Metalcore}}: Was one of the leading players until they transitioned out of it with ''That's the Spirit''.
126	* MetalScream: Oliver used to do Type 3's and 1's in the early days, however, due to damage to his vocal chords, he dialed down the unclean vocals exponentially.
127	* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''That's the Spirit'', which is just the album name in grey on a black cover; the cover art for the digital/streaming version, which shows the outline of an umbrella with raindrops, also counts. ''amo'' took it a step further in a similar fashion to ''Music/{{Yeezus}}'' with ''no'' cover aside from a yellow strip with the album name on the left, covering half of the CD and painted hearts on the case.
128	* MoodWhiplash: "No Need for Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Back of Toilet Doors" starts as a classy jazz-esque tune, only to abruptly transform into one of the heaviest songs they've ever made, complete with a ScareChord.
129	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake" sounds like a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on paper, but Sykes himself said that the lyrics were aimed at himself and how he foolishly almost destroyed his life piece by piece thanks to his drug abuse.
130	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Suicide Season'' and ''Sempiternal''.
131	** Up to eleven with ''That's the Spirit'', which completely abandons the {{Metalcore}} elements and goes full blown indie/alternative/ and even some PostRock and ''NuMetal''.
132	** ''amo'' looks like it was made on a dare on ''how many'' new sounds you can put into a single album, displaying everything you can imagine from hard rock and nu metal to electropop and symphonic compositions.
133	** ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' is less eclectic than ''amo'', with most of the songs being a mix of IndustrialMetal and NuMetal.
134	* NonAppearingTitle: Half of their song titles, at least.
135	* NuMetal: They've been experimental with this genre on some songs since ''That's the Spirit''. Notable examples include "Happy Song," "Wonderful Life" and "Teardrops".
136	* OhCrap: In the "Alligator Blood" video, when Oli [[spoiler: [[YouAreAlreadyDead gets the "Death" card]].]]
137	* OopNorth: Considering they hail from Sheffield, they definitely count.
138	* OurProductSucks:
139	** The late 2015 internet advertising for one of their tours specified that it was not an announcement, but "a warning".
140	** The advertising for their 2016 Australian tour [[https://www.facebook.com/bmthofficial/photos/a.152403978657.117120.51545473657/10153939725223658/?type=3&theater wasn't any better]].
141	* PerishingAltRockVoice: Oli switches to this style on ''That's the Spirit''.
142	* PrecisionFStrike: "Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick", "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only", "Chelsea Smile" and "Sleep with One Eye Open".
143	* RatedGForGangsta: They've lightened up their originally vulgar and hedonistic public image since their GenreShift to {{Metalcore}}.
144	* RearrangeTheSong: A majority of ''Music to Listen To...'' was conceived of during the sessions for ''amo''. As a result, several of its songs reference or sample songs from ''amo'' -- "Steal Something." contains elements of "i apologise if you feel something", "¿" interpolates lyrics from "in the dark", and "why you gotta kick me when i'm down?" samples portions of "A Devastating Liberation".
145	* RefugeInAudacity: They were pretty much fueled by this in their early years.
146	** Singing "[[ClusterFBomb Antivist]]" with a choir and an orchestra in a royal theater was considered an act of tremendous audacity.
147	* ReligionRantSong: "The House of Wolves", "Crooked Young" and "MANTRA" are all Type 2's; "Blasphemy" is more of a Type 3.
148	* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: {{Inverted\|Trope}}.
149	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: "Football Season Is Over" and "A Lot Like Vegas".
150	* SirSwearsALot: Oliver is fond of saying the word "fuck" in about every other sentence.
151	* ShoutOut:
152	** The band's name was derived from a line in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''.
153	** The song title "Who Wants Flowers When You're Dead? Nobody." is a reference to ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye''.
154	** The song title "Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick" comes from sickanimation.com's ''The Secret League of Legionaires Pt. 2''.
155	** A song from their album ''Count Your Blessings'' is called "For Music/StevieWonder's Eyes Only".
156	** The song "It Was Written in Blood" contains almost direct quotes from the suicide note left by the famous Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, who wrote the note in his own blood.
157	** The song "Football Season Is Over" might be named after the suicide note left by the famous Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
158	** The song title "The Sadness Will Never End" paraphrases Creator/VincentVanGogh's last words, "The sadness will last forever."
159	** The lyrics to "Suicide Season" are heavily influenced by the funeral poem ''If Tears Could Build a Sentence''.
160	** Franchise/{{Predator}} and Chewbacca from ''Franchise/StarWars'' appear in the video for "The Comedown".
161	** The video for "The Sadness Will Never End" is based on the movie ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn''.
162	** The title of the song "Shadow Moses" is a reference to ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', and it even samples the song "The Best Is Yet to Come" from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.
163	** BEXEY's feature verse on "Underground Big" contains the lines "Kick the door off the bitch like I'm [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]" and "Arguin' in the mirror like [[Creator/RobertDeNiro De Niro]], [[YouTalkinToMe you talkin' to me?]] / [[Film/TaxiDriver I'm the only one here.]]"
164	** ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' is filled to the brim with these. For several examples, one of the songs is titled "VideoGame/ParasiteEve", the lyrics of "Dear Diary," paraphrase the Keeper's Diary from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'', and "Ludens" is named after the logo of Creator/KojimaProductions.
165	* SingerNamedrop:
166	** The band's name is dropped in "RE: They Have No Reflections".
167	---> Do not change the subject
168	---> Let's go change the subject
169	---> '''Bring me the horizon'''
170	---> '''Bring me the horizon'''
171	---> Now
172	** BEXEY, a British rapper featured on "Underground Big", drops the band's name in the song's intro and again during his verse.
173	---> Somebody '''bring me the horizon''', this view is boring me
174	* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: While their music tends to be quite serious, their music videos do have a certain amount of silliness.
175	* {{Soprano and Gravel}}:
176	** Oli and Lights when they sing together on "Don't Go" and "Crucify Me".
177	** Despite mostly switching to clean vocals for ''That's the Spirit'', Oli still lets a scream slip on a few songs.
178	%%* SpokenWordInMusic
179	* SubduedSection:
180	** ''Suicide Season'' has ambient sections in "Chelsea Smile" and the TitleTrack.
181	** ''There Is a Hell...'' has these on almost every song.
182	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Fifteen Fathoms, Counting" (if instrumentals count), "Deathbeds", and “like seeing spiders running riot around your lover’s grave”.
183	* StudioChatter: At the end of "Rawwwrrr" and "Football Season Is Over".
184	* TakeThat:
185	** "No Need for Introductions..." was written about at a girl who claimed to have been assaulted and urinated on by the band, getting the band into legal trouble and putting a black mark on their reputation. Judging by the song's lyrics, it does not seem like the band were too happy about the situation.
186	--->''AND AFTER EVERYTHING YOU PUT ME THROUGH, I SHOULD'VE FUCKING PISSED ON YOU!''
187	** "heavy metal" is one towards the part of the fandom that never ceased pissing and moaning about how BMTH moved away from their aggressive roots.
188	** "MANTRA" seems to be a rant towards organized religions, if the chorus is any indicator.
189	* TextlessAlbumCover: ''There Is a Hell...'', ''Sempiternal'', the digital version of ''That's the Spirit'', ''Music to Listen to...'', and ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'' all qualify.
190	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "True Friends", which also doubles as a BreakupSong. The pre-chorus verse is particularly scathing.
191	-->You got a lot of ''nerve'', but not a lot of ''spine!''\
192	You made your bed when you ''worried about mine!''\
193	[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THIS!]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis ENDS!]]'' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NOW!]]'''''
194	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only".
195	* ThisIsASong: "Anthem".
196	-->''This is an anthem, so fucking sing\
197	A dedication, to the end of everything''
198	* TropeCodifier: for {{Emo}}-looking guys playing {{Deathcore}}. Before Bring Me the Horizon, the asymmetric-fringed crowd were only ever seen in emo bands, and skinny, well-groomed teens playing brutal metalcore was quite a shock to the system back in 2005-2006, when their EP started making the rounds, especially since this was before metalcore was paid attention to outside of metal crowds in their native Britain.
199	** More recently, they have become this for bands playing {{Metalcore}} with ambient electronica and symphonic influences.
200	* AWildRapperAppears: Rahzel (ex[=-=]Music/TheRoots) has a guest spot on "heavy metal". Complete with beatboxing!
201	* WordSaladLyrics: "Pray for Plagues", if going from talking about a HardDrinkingPartyGirl to the Ten Plagues of Egypt is anything to write home about. Sykes himself came forward saying that the song's lyrics don't have a particular meaning.
202	* ZombieApocalypse: "Dear Diary," describes this happening. The writer in question is complaining about a dog constantly barking at him and becoming itchy and fading in and out, revealing hints of him becoming a zombie after somebody bit him earlier.

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