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Espers co-founder Greg Weeks debuts his new project Magus shortly after the release of his solo LP, If The Sun Dies. This song Through Darkened Glass is an ode to the Bergman film Through a Glass Darkly and continues the gothic themes the preliminary single Exodus set forth. Following the biological and philosophical struggles of […]

Japanese ‘Harajuku-core’ act HANABIE. came to the City of Brotherly Love over the weekend and they did so with Nekrogoblikon and Enterprise Earth in tow. Having photographed HANABIE. before, we figured now would be a great time to get some updated shots and catch a sick show at the same time.

Hence why we sent out photographer-extraordinaire Jess Ripper out to the Theater of Living Arts out in Philly this past Saturday. And naturally what we got was a killer spread of shots from all three bands on the ticket.

So whether you were there and want to relive it or you’d like to get a feel for their shows, you can do so with the galleries below. As always, a big thanks is in order for Jess Ripper, who was at the show to take these great photos. Comment on how good her work is down below. Oh and feel free to follow her on Instagram at @jess1ripper.

If you’d like to catch this tour live, you can do so at any of the shows listed below. Just make sure to get your tickets today.

HANABIE. 2026 North American Headliner
w/ Nekrogoblikon + Enterprise Earth

Mon Mar 23 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
Tue Mar 24 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
Wed Mar 25 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues Orlando*
Fri Mar 27 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues Cleveland
Sun Mar 29 – Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall
Mon Mar 30 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues Chicago
Wed Apr 01 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis
Fri Apr 03 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas
Sat Apr 04 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
Mon Apr 06 – Austin, TX – Emo’s Austin
Tue Apr 07 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Thu Apr 09 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues San Diego
Fri Apr 10 – San Francisco, CA – August Hall
Sat Apr 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco

*No Nekrogoblikon

HANABIE.

Nekrogoblikon

Enterprise Earth

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The first full length album from Duncan and The Dragonslayers, Revolution carries the raw energy of this unlikely three-piece from Southern California: lead electric banjo shredder/singer Sir Duncan (who also plays guitar on this album), the dynamic and creative bass player Sir Corey, and the explosive and mind-blowing prowess of Sir Tristan on the drums. […]

What Is The Best Bring Me The Horizon Album?

Sempiternal still stands as the strongest overall album because it changed the band’s future without sacrificing their identity.

TL;DR:

Bring Me The Horizon’s discography is one of the hardest in modern heavy music to rank because every era speaks to a different kind of fan. Count Your Blessings gave them their violent starting point, There Is A Hell sharpened the chaos into something bigger, Sempiternal changed everything, and later albums kept pushing farther into melody, electronics, and arena-sized songwriting. This ranking puts Sempiternal at number one, but the deeper story is how each album represents a different version of the band entirely.

This Ranking Is Really About Seven Different Versions Of The Same Band

I have followed Bring Me The Horizon long enough to know that no matter how you rank these albums, somebody is going to be furious by the time they hit number three.

That is not a flaw in the band’s catalog. That is the whole point of it.

Bring Me The Horizon are not one of those bands whose discography just gets slightly better or slightly worse from album to album. They mutate. They shed skin. They provoke their own audience on purpose. That is why one fan hears Count Your Blessings as the only real answer, while another hears That’s The Spirit or Amo as the moment the band actually became great.

That kind of split is rare. It is also why this catalog still matters.

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Where Bring Me The Horizon Stands Right Now

There are very few heavy bands from the 2000s that successfully crossed from extreme music into a bigger mainstream space without becoming completely irrelevant to heavy listeners.

Bring Me The Horizon somehow pulled it off.

They started in chaos, survived the backlash that comes with changing your sound, and ended up becoming one of the defining heavy acts of their era anyway. That makes this ranking more than a nostalgia exercise. It is really about tracking one of the most dramatic evolutions any modern band has ever pulled off.

How This Ranking Was Determined

This Is Not Just A Heaviness Contest

This ranking is based on four things: songwriting, impact, replay value, and how fully each album commits to its vision.

That matters here because Bring Me The Horizon have never been a band you can judge with one rule. The heaviest album is not automatically the best one. The most accessible album is not automatically a sellout. The album that changed the band is not always the one that aged the best.

So this list is not about rewarding one era over another. It is about which albums feel the most complete, the most replayable, and the most important when you sit with the whole catalog front to back.

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#7 – Count Your Blessings

Best Song: “Pray For Plagues”

Why It Lands Here

This album deserves respect, but it does not deserve a free pass just because it is heavy.

Count Your Blessings is important because it planted the flag. It introduced Bring Me The Horizon as a chaotic young deathcore band with zero interest in subtlety and even less interest in pleasing anyone outside that scene. There is a reason older fans still defend it so hard. At the time, it sounded vicious, reckless, and completely alive.

But importance and quality are not always the same thing.

When you go back to it now, the songwriting is still the weakest in the catalog. There is energy everywhere, but not enough shape. The band had intensity, attitude, and the ability to make an entrance, but they had not yet figured out how to channel all of that into a consistently strong full-length. There are moments that hit, and “Pray For Plagues” still carries its own ugly charm, but compared to what came later, this feels more like a starting gun than a fully realized statement.

That does not make it bad. It makes it foundational. And foundational albums often get romanticized more than they get honestly judged.

#6 – Amo

Best Song: “Mantra”

Why It Lands Here

This is the album that proved Bring Me The Horizon could do almost anything they wanted. It is also the album that most clearly shows the risk of having too many options.

I understand why Amo has defenders. In some ways, it is the purest example of the band refusing to let fans box them in. It swerves into pop, electronics, industrial textures, moody alt-rock, and big clean hooks with total confidence. There is ambition all over this record, and some of it absolutely works. “Mantra” is massive. “Nihilist Blues” is still one of the strangest and most interesting songs in their catalog. There is no fear here, and that deserves credit.

But as a full album, it does not hold together as tightly as the records above it.

It feels more like a showcase of what the band could try than a locked-in statement of who they were at that exact moment. Some songs hit hard, some drift, and the pacing is less consistent than fans like to admit. There is a version of Amo that might have ranked much higher if it were trimmed slightly and sharpened. Instead, what you get is a fascinating, often bold, occasionally frustrating record that deserves more credit than the “sellout” label it got, but not quite enough credit to rank near the top.

#5 – Suicide Season

Best Song: “Diamonds Aren’t Forever”

Why It Lands Here

This is where Bring Me The Horizon stopped being just a messy deathcore band and started becoming something more dangerous.

Suicide Season still has dirt under its nails. It still sounds nasty, still hits hard, and still carries a lot of the volatility that made the early band so compelling. But what changed here is the sense of control. The chaos is no longer just spilling everywhere. The band is starting to steer it. The riffs have more purpose. The songs feel more distinct. The emotional side of the band begins to show itself more clearly.

That transition is what makes the album so important.

It is not as fully realized as the top four, but it is the record where you can hear Bring Me The Horizon becoming a band with a future instead of just a scene phenomenon with hype and violence on their side. “Diamonds Aren’t Forever” still rips, and “Chelsea Smile” remains one of the defining tracks of that era for a reason. Even so, the album still feels like a bridge rather than a peak. It gets a lot right, but it also sounds like a band straining toward a bigger identity they had not completely arrived at yet.

That tension makes it exciting. It is also why it lands here.

#4 – Post Human: Nex Gen

Best Song: “DArkSide”

Why It Lands Here

This album feels like the sound of Bring Me The Horizon finally becoming comfortable with being a band that can pull from everywhere.

By the time Post Human: Nex Gen arrived, the shock value of their stylistic shifts was gone. At that point, nobody should have been surprised by electronics, pop instincts, heavy guitars, or genre-mashing left turns. The question was no longer whether they could do those things. The question was whether they could still make it feel urgent.

For the most part, they do.

What makes Nex Gen work is that it sounds modern without feeling desperate. There is polish, but there is also energy. There is melody, but not at the expense of tension. It feels like a band that has spent years stretching its identity finally learning how to move between those extremes more naturally. The songwriting is stronger than a lot of people gave it credit for at first, and the album plays with more confidence than some of the band’s earlier transition records.

The reason it does not go higher is simple: it does not feel as seismic as the three albums above it. It is very good. At points, it is excellent. But it does not carry the same sense of rupture or reinvention that defines the upper tier of this catalog. It sounds like a mature Bring Me The Horizon album, not necessarily a transformative one.

#3 – That’s The Spirit

Best Song: “Drown”

Why It Lands Here

This is the moment where Bring Me The Horizon stopped asking permission.

There had already been signs that the band wanted more melody, more space, and more emotional reach, but That’s The Spirit was the record where they fully committed to writing huge songs instead of merely heavy ones. That choice split listeners at the time, and honestly, it still does. For fans who wanted another There Is A Hell or even another Sempiternal, this felt like a betrayal. For everyone else, it was the sound of a band leveling up in public.

And the truth is, the songwriting here is too strong to dismiss.

“Happy Song,” “Throne,” “Follow You,” and “Drown” are not just accessible tracks. They are expertly built songs that understand scale, momentum, and emotional release. The band did lose some of their earlier feral edge here, but they replaced it with focus. There is very little wasted motion on this album. It knows exactly what it wants to do and executes it with conviction.

It ranks third because the albums above it carry more total impact within the broader BMTH story. But this record deserves more than the lazy “this is where they went soft” line. This is where they proved they could write songs big enough to survive outside the heavy scene without losing their identity completely. That is harder than a lot of heavy bands ever figure out.

#2 – There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven Let’s Keep It A Secret.

Best Song: “It Never Ends”

Why It Lands Here

This is the album that turned Bring Me The Horizon from a band with potential into a band people had to start taking seriously.

There is still heaviness here, still breakdowns, still anger, still that unmistakable BMTH darkness, but There Is A Hell is where the scope widened. The songs became more layered. The emotion became more textured. The band sounded less like they were just trying to bludgeon you and more like they were trying to drag you into a full emotional collapse with them.

That shift matters.

This album is where they learned how to make heaviness feel cinematic. “It Never Ends” still feels enormous. “Blessed With A Curse” gave the band a different kind of gravity. Even the chaos here feels deliberate in a way it never fully did on the first two records. It is the sound of a young band growing in real time, but unlike some transition records, it does not feel caught between versions of itself. It feels hungry, unstable, wounded, and ambitious all at once.

The only reason it is not number one is because the album above it did everything There Is A Hell hinted at and pushed it even further. Still, there are absolutely fans who will die on the hill that this is their masterpiece, and I get it. This record is where the band’s ambition really became impossible to ignore.

#1 – Sempiternal

Best Song: “Can You Feel My Heart”

Why It Lands Here

This is the album.

Not because it is the heaviest. Not because it is the most emotional. Not even because it is the most adventurous. It lands at number one because it is the album where Bring Me The Horizon finally locked all of their strengths into one complete, undeniable statement.

Sempiternal has the aggression earlier fans wanted, but it also has melody, atmosphere, structure, and hooks at a level the band had never hit before. It sounds like a breakthrough because it was one. This is the record where Bring Me The Horizon stopped being a polarizing scene band and became one of the defining heavy acts of their era. It changed their ceiling permanently.

And more importantly, it still holds up.

“Shadow Moses” became a monster for a reason. “Sleepwalking” and “Can You Feel My Heart” still hit with real emotional force. “Hospital For Souls” remains one of the most devastating things they ever recorded. There is no filler mentality here. Even the album’s quieter or moodier moments feel essential to the whole thing. It flows like a band discovering the exact version of itself it had been trying to become.

That is why it is number one.

You can make arguments for There Is A Hell if you want the darker record, or That’s The Spirit if you want the biggest songwriting leap into accessibility, but Sempiternal is the point where vision, execution, timing, and legacy all line up. That is what the best album usually looks like.

So Why Does This Ranking Always Start Fights?

Because Bring Me The Horizon built a discography that rewards different entry points.

If you grew up on the early deathcore years, you are hearing rawness and danger that later records intentionally leave behind. If you came in during the arena-sized hook era, you are hearing growth and songwriting that the older material simply did not have yet. If you like the modern genre-blending version of the band, you probably think the middle of this list is too harsh or not harsh enough.

That is why this ranking never settles.

You are not just choosing albums. You are choosing which version of Bring Me The Horizon matters most to you.

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FAQ

What Is The Best Bring Me The Horizon Album?

For overall impact, songwriting, and replay value, Sempiternal is still the strongest full Bring Me The Horizon album.

What Is Bring Me The Horizon’s Heaviest Album?

Count Your Blessings is generally seen as the band’s heaviest studio album.

Why Is Amo So Divisive?

Because it leans furthest into pop, electronics, and genre experimentation, which made some fans feel like the band had moved too far from its roots.

Is That’s The Spirit A Metal Album?

It sits closer to hard rock and alternative metal than the band’s earlier material, but it still carries enough weight and darkness to stay in the heavy conversation.

Which Bring Me The Horizon Album Changed The Band The Most?

Sempiternal changed everything. It expanded their audience, sharpened their songwriting, and created the blueprint for the next stage of their career.

Band Bio: Bring Me The Horizon

Bring Me The Horizon formed in Sheffield, England in 2004 and became one of the most polarizing and successful heavy bands of the modern era by refusing to stay in one lane. Starting in deathcore before moving through metalcore, alternative metal, electronic textures, and arena-sized songwriting, the band built a discography defined by reinvention rather than repetition. That constant evolution is exactly why they remain one of the most argued-over bands in heavy music.

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“Ever since Citizens United and the where basically corporations are given personhood legally as far as donating to political campaigns, our electoral process has just been corrupted.”

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