{"id":627660,"date":"2026-06-08T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:48:09","slug":"bring-me-the-horizon-cancelled-a-2006-festival-appearance-for-fear-of-being-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627660\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Me The Horizon cancelled a 2006 festival appearance for fear of being attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bring Me The Horizon<\/a> dropped out of a 2006 festival after being threatened by another artist on the lineup.<\/p>\n

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, singer Oli Sykes looks back on the controversy the Yorkshire metalcore icons attracted with their 2006 debut, Count Your Blessings, ahead of the release of a re-recorded version, Count Your Blessings Repented, on July 10.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe said we were sick [when we dropped out of the festival], because there were another band there that said when we got there, they were going to shave all our hair off and beat us up. It were mental at first,\u201d the frontman recalls.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt were that era, when people latched onto something, like, \u2018We hate this band, we hate My Chemical Romance<\/a>.\u2019 It were everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only were Bring Me one of the first metal bands to make a name for themselves through social media, fostering their early fanbase via MySpace, but their early deathcore sound and \u2018scene’ image \u2013 with hairsprayed fringes and studded belts \u2013 also rubbed purists the wrong way.<\/p>\n

In 2007, at a show supporting Killswitch Engage<\/a>, the audience turned their backs on the band out of protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very hostile. We didn\u2019t go looking for it whatsoever,\u201d Sykes remembers. \u201cWe just had to tread that line between getting on with the gig and looking like it didn\u2019t hurt us, but, you know, backstage after gigs, it did affect us a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bring Me are currently touring the European festival circuit, with the next show scheduled for Tuesday (June 9) at Tauron Arena in Krakow, Poland. On July 10, the same day that the Repented re-recording comes out, they\u2019ll play Count Your Blessings in full at B.E.C. Arena in Manchester. Static Dress, Rolo Tomassi, Heriot, Dying Wish, Car Underwater and Still In Love will support.<\/p>\n

Read the full interview with Sykes in an upcoming issue of Metal Hammer, on sale next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bring Me The Horizon dropped out of a 2006 festival after being threatened by another artist on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}