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Bring Me The Horizon albums ranked is a harder list than it looks, because no two of these seven records were made by the same band. The Sheffield deathcore kids of 2006 share a name and four members with the arena act that went to number one in 2024, and not much else. Oli Sykes has spent twenty years changing what Bring Me The Horizon is, and every change lost some fans and found more. What follows is all seven studio albums, counted down from 7 to 1, with the case for each, and the top two are the only ones we’d call untouchable.

Two things before the countdown. Post Human: Survival Horror (2020) is an EP by the band’s own description, so it isn’t ranked, and Music To Listen To… (2019) is an experiment, not an album. And in July 2026 the band re-recorded their debut as Count Your Blessings | Repented; it’s covered in the number seven entry, but it isn’t a new album and doesn’t get its own slot. The criteria are the ones that always apply here: songwriting, impact, replay value, and how completely the record commits to what it’s trying to be.

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7. Count Your Blessings (2006)

The debut is where Bring Me The Horizon learned to be a band in public, and it’s the only album in the catalogue the band themselves have gone back and redone.

Released on Visible Noise in October 2006, Count Your Blessings is deathcore before the word meant anything to most people: pig squeals, breakdowns stacked on breakdowns, a teenage Oli Sykes screaming over riffs that owed as much to At The Gates as to the Myspace scene around them. ‘Pray For Plagues’ is still the one, and if you want to understand where deathcore came from, it’s one of the records that drew the map.

It’s also the album the band spent two decades apologising for, mostly for how it sounds. Sykes told Nik Nocturnal in 2026 that fans assume they’re embarrassed by it, when really they ‘were just always disappointed with how it sounded’; he remembers hearing it in the car and thinking, ‘This does not sound good.’ So they fixed it. Count Your Blessings | Repented, re-recorded with Lee Malia and mixed by Buster Odeholm, arrived on July 10, 2026, the same night they played it front to back at Outbreak in Manchester.

The re-record doesn’t change the ranking. The songs are the songs: important, raw, and the weakest writing on this list, which is what debuts usually are. It belongs on any list of essential deathcore records for what it started, not for what it is.

6. Amo (2019)

Amo is the album that got Bring Me The Horizon a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album and a UK number one, and it’s the one most of their old fans still refuse to play.

The reach is the point. ‘Mantra’ is a proper rock single, ‘Medicine’ is a pop song with teeth, ‘Wonderful Life’ has Dani Filth on it, and ‘Nihilist Blues’ with Grimes is a six-minute techno track that a metalcore band put on a major-label album in 2019 and dared people to skip. Jordan Fish’s fingerprints are everywhere, and this is the record where his production voice and Sykes’s melodic instincts fully took over.

The problem is pacing. The highs are real and the middle sags, and the sequencing never lets the album build the way Sempiternal or That’s The Spirit do. It’s fearless and it’s uneven, and both of those things are true at once. Amo ranks sixth not because it’s a pop album but because it’s a pop album that’s twenty minutes too long.

5. Suicide Season (2008)

Suicide Season is the sound of the chaos getting a steering wheel: the first Bring Me The Horizon album with a producer who made them play in time, and the first one with songs people could sing.

Recorded in Sweden with Fredrik Nordström, it dropped the pig squeals and most of the deathcore and replaced them with groove, gang vocals and the first real choruses. ‘Diamonds Aren’t Forever’ is the one every crowd still screams, ‘Chelsea Smile’ is the breakdown, and the title track is the first time Sykes wrote about something that hurt rather than something that sounded cool. If you’re building a list of the most brutal breakdowns in metal, ‘Chelsea Smile’ is on it.

It’s a bridge record, and bridges don’t win. Suicide Season points at the band they’d become without arriving there, and the remix album that followed (Cut Up!) was the first sign that the electronics were going to matter. Important, loud, and the best place to start if you want to hear why the scene cared about them before the world did.

4. Post Human: NeX GEn (2024)

Post Human: NeX GEn went to number one in the UK, was the first Bring Me The Horizon album made after Jordan Fish’s exit, and is the most confident the band has sounded this decade. It’s also the record that nearly broke them.

It took four years and arrived with no warning in May 2024, a scrapbook of everything the band had absorbed since Amo: nu-metal, hyperpop, emo, drum and bass, screamo. ‘Kool-Aid’ is a Sempiternal-grade single, ‘DArkSide’ is the best song on it, and ‘AmEN!’ with Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo is the kind of collision only this band attempts. Fish left in December 2023 with the album mostly done; the band finished it without him and it still sounds like them.

Then Sykes told NME he was ‘so fried from NeX GEn’ that he needed ‘a proper cut-off point’, and that it was ‘important that we let Bring Me The Horizon go away for a bit’. The L.I.V.E. In São Paulo film, shot on that tour, came out in cinemas and on record in spring 2026. NeX GEn sits fourth because it’s very good rather than transformative: it refines the band’s modern sound instead of inventing a new one, and the two records above it did the inventing.

3. That’s The Spirit (2015)

That’s The Spirit is the big, melodic, radio-sized record Bring Me The Horizon had been threatening to make since Sempiternal, and it’s the one that finally put them in arenas.

Self-produced by Sykes and Fish, released in September 2015, it went to number two in both the UK and the US, and ‘Throne’, ‘Drown’, ‘Happy Song’ and ‘Follow You’ are four of the biggest songs they’ll ever write. There’s barely a scream on it. The heaviness moved into the choruses and the synths, and a lot of fans who’d come in with Suicide Season got off the bus here.

That split is why it ranks third rather than first. It’s a focused, disciplined, superbly crafted album that does one thing for 45 minutes, and the two above it did more than one thing. But if you want to know why the modern metalcore bands who fill arenas now sound the way they do, this is the record they studied. ‘Drown’ alone is a template.

2. There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret. (2010)

There Is A Hell is the album that made Bring Me The Horizon impossible to ignore: still heavy, suddenly cinematic, and the first time Oli Sykes sounded like a frontman rather than a kid screaming in a basement.

Released in October 2010, it took the Suicide Season groove and widened it with strings, choirs, electronics and Lights, and the band’s first real sense of scale. ‘It Never Ends’ opens like a film, ‘Blessed With A Curse’ is the first great Sykes ballad, and ‘Crucify Me’ with Lights is the moment you can hear the arena band of 2015 being drawn up. The screams are still there; they’re just surrounded by something bigger.

It’s the most complete heavy album they’ll ever make, and for a lot of fans it’s number one. The only reason it isn’t here is that the album after it did everything this one does and added a dimension. There Is A Hell perfected the band they’d been. The next one invented the band they’d become, and among the metalcore bands that defined the genre, that’s the rarer trick.

1. Sempiternal (2013)

Sempiternal is the best Bring Me The Horizon album because it’s the one where aggression, melody, atmosphere and structure all showed up at once, and because everything the band has done since, up to and including going to number one, has been built on it.

Produced by Terry Date, who’d made Deftones and Pantera records, and the first with Jordan Fish as a full member, it arrived in April 2013 and changed the band’s ceiling permanently. ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ is the biggest song in their catalogue and one of the biggest in modern metal; ‘Shadow Moses’, ‘Sleepwalking’, ‘Antivist’ and ‘Go To Hell, For Heaven’s Sake’ are the rest of a front half that doesn’t miss. Sykes wrote it coming out of rehab, and it’s the first album where you can hear exactly what it cost.

Thirteen years on, it’s still the set’s spine and still the record every band in the Sleep Token and Spiritbox generation points at when asked what opened the door. There Is A Hell is the better heavy record and That’s The Spirit is the better pop record. Sempiternal is both, and that’s why it’s the one.

What Happens Next

The questions hanging over the catalogue in 2026 aren’t about the past. Jordan Fish is gone, and NeX GEn proved they could make a great record without him; the open question is whether they can make a different one. Sykes has said the next album should be ‘a complete new era aesthetically, sonically, and in every respect’, and that the songs ‘don’t actually exist yet’. He’s also said there are ‘a lot of ideas and loose ends’ from NeX GEn that could still surface.

Meanwhile the band’s influence is everywhere. When Bad Omens’ Jolly Karlsson sat down with Loaded Radio, the shadow of Sempiternal and That’s The Spirit was all over the conversation, and it’s all over every arena metalcore bill of the last five years. Whatever album eight turns out to be, the seven above it already changed the genre twice.

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The Full Ranking

• 7. Count Your Blessings (2006)
• 6. Amo (2019)
• 5. Suicide Season (2008)
• 4. Post Human: NeX GEn (2024)
• 3. That’s The Spirit (2015)
• 2. There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret. (2010)
• 1. Sempiternal (2013)

TL;DR

• Bring Me The Horizon albums ranked covers all seven studio albums; the Post Human: Survival Horror EP and the 2026 Count Your Blessings re-record aren’t ranked separately.
• Count Your Blessings (2006) is last on songwriting, but it started deathcore for a generation, and the band re-recorded it as Count Your Blessings | Repented in July 2026 because Oli Sykes never liked how the original sounded.
• Amo (2019) earned a Grammy nomination and a UK number one but ranks sixth on pacing; Post Human: NeX GEn (2024) is the first album after Jordan Fish left and ranks fourth.
• The top two are the band at full power: one perfected their heavy era, the other invented everything since.
• Number one is the 2013 album produced by Terry Date.

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