Bring Me The Horizon have dropped a ‘2026 Repented’ version of their song ‘Black & Blue’, which will feature in the 20th anniversary edition of their seminal debut album ‘Count Your Blessings’.
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The Sheffield metal icons will be releasing a 20th anniversary “reactivated” re-recording of the LP on July 10, and have described it as “recontextualisation” of the original release. It will see them revisit and rework the original tracklist in a way that makes it “sharper, heavier, and more vital than ever”.
Set to incorporate a new sense of intensity, Oli Sykes and co are looking to both lean into the raw edges seen in the initial release, but also introduce the expansive, modern production seen in more recent material.
While the tracklist is mostly the same as the original, the ‘Liquor & Lost Love’ will now appear under its original working title ‘Dragon Slaying’.
Today (Friday June 12) with less than a month to go until the album release, BMTH have shared their new version of ‘Black & Blue’.
The reimagining of the classic track has been led by Sykes and guitarist Lee Malia, and mixed by Buster Odeholm. As expected, it sees the 2006 song pushed into new, epic horizons – keeping the same grit and intensity as seen on the original, but now with more stadium-friendly, grandiose production.
For the first time ever, Bring Me The Horizon will perform the album in full, alongside material from the same era, as they take to the stage at some UK shows this summer.
Shows will be held as part of Outbreak Festival 2026, and set to take place at Manchester’s BEC Arena on Friday July 10 and Saturday June 11. Both dates will also feature a limited edition run of merchandise, and support comes from Static Dress, Dying Wish, Rolo Tomassi, Heriot, Car Underwater and Still In Love.
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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.
The new 20th anniversary album and live shows come after Bring Me brought their new L.I.V.E. In São Paulo concert film to cinemas worldwide for two days only earlier this year.
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”. In a glowing, five-star review, NME hailed Bring Me’s big screen offering as “a love letter to their fans and statement of greatness”.
In April, Sykes and co. kicked off their ‘Ascension Program 2’ North American tour, and gave ‘Youtopia’ its live debut, as well as dusting off ‘The House Of Wolves’.
Since then, the singer has opened up about why BMTH invite fans to sing with them on stage – saying that the same experience happened to him when he was a teenager watching Funeral For A Friend – and he has also suffered a mild concussion after a fan threw a phone at his head during a show.