Bring Me The Horizon have announced a second ‘Count Your Blessings’ 20th anniversary gig for Outbreak due to phenomenal demand. Find all the details below.
The Sheffield band confirmed Monday (April 13), that they’d be playing their 2006 debut album in full at Manchester’s BEC Arena on Friday July 10.
Billed as ‘Outbreak Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented’, the gig is designed to “reactivate” the record rather than just lean on nostalgia. It’ll be “a defining moment for a generation of fans – both those who were there at the beginning and those discovering it now”.
As well as playing the album in full for the first time, Bring Me are set to break out some other material from the era. Oli Sykes and co. will be joined by support acts Static Dress, Dying Wish, Rolo Tomassi, Heriot, Car Underwater and Still In Love.
Following a pre-sale for tickets, BMTH have now added a second Outbreak show on Saturday July 11. Writing on social media today (Wednesday April 15), the group said that early tickets for night one had sold out.
A new fan pre-sale will begin at 10am BST tomorrow (Thursday April 16), as will Outbreak’s pre-sale. Tickets for both dates go on general sale at the same time on Friday (April 17) – you’ll be able to buy yours here (July 10) and here (July 11).
Bring Me The Horizon are also releasing a “reactivated” re-recording of ‘Count Your Blessings’ on July 10 to coincide with the two special concerts. Described as a “recontextualisation” of the original LP, the project will make the band’s first full-length effort “sharper, heavier, and more vital than ever”.
The ‘Count Your Blessings | Repented’ tracklist is reimagined with a new sense of intensity, with the band leaning into the raw edges seen in the initial release – revisiting them with 20 years more experience under their belt as well as more expansive, modern production. ‘Liquor & Lost Love’ also appears under its original working title ‘Dragon Slaying’.
NME noted in 2019 that ‘Count Your Blessings’ “attracted as much derision as it did celebration” following its release in ’06. Sykes later told us that Bring Me “were a very divisive band at that time”, and remembered the “scary” and “insane” experience of being bottled at Reading 2008.
Following this week’s announcement, frontman Sykes shared a video of himself recording some deathcore screaming in the studio for the re-imagined album. “Took me a minute to work out how to do some of this shit again,” he said.
“Very excited to share CYB repented with u. I think we did you all proud. It’s so nice to see all the love and nostalgia too thank you so much.”
BMTH recently brought their new L.I.V.E. In São Paulo concert film to cinemas worldwide for two days only. They held a 48-hour digital broadcast, too, ahead of the movie arriving on streaming platforms last Friday (April 10). The film, co-directed by Sykes, is described as an “immersive, multi-angle experience”.