Metal Anarchy

During last year’s Reading and Leeds festivals in the UK, Bring Me The Horizon decided to show support for Palestine by waving the country’s flag onstage. The band were warned that the move could carry “career ending consequences,” but they refused to back down. Notably, the noble gesture has since gone on to inspire their latest single “Dehumanized.”

Frontman Oli Sykes commented:

“This video was actually inspired by this book I’m reading rn called ‘Tender Is The Flesh.’ It’s fucked, have a read if you can…

[‘Dehumanized‘] was born from an event that happened last year. I was told that peacefully raising a flag on stage in recognition of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding where children were being killed would most likely carry career ending consequences.

It made me realise how we are silently we’re conditioned to suppress our humanity. We think were are free, conscious beings, when in truth we are driven by forces we barely understand.

‘Some of us are butchers, some of us are lambs, sennd me to the abbatoir, let’s find out which I am,’ is the crux of this song.

The abbatoir is a metphor for being put in a place where my very livelihood is facing execution.

When empathy becomes an act [of] anarchy, then u discover whether your values are real.

I want this video to take that central theme to the worst imaginable conclusion.

A fully operational human slaughterhouse.

Let’s ask the viewer at what point does suffering become unacceptable to u?

At what point do you draw the line?

Every time we’re taught to look away or stay quiet, we live a little bit more of who we are.

So the slaughter house is analogy for modern civ.

On top of that many of the lyrics reference this kind of setting…”

“Dehumanized“ will appear on the 20th anniversary re-recorded version of “Count Your Blessings.“ That effort is titled “Count Your Blessings | Repented” and it will be released on July 10.

[via The PRP]