Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season [Eco Vinyl]

Suicide Season is where Bring Me The Horizon started to sound like a band with a plan, and this reissue comes pressed on eco vinyl.

Released in 2008, their second album moved away from the deathcore of Count Your Blessings towards sharper, more direct metalcore, and Oli Sykes described it as completely different from the debut. The band wrote and recorded it in Sweden with producer Fredrik Nordström, a name synonymous with Swedish metal, alongside Henrik Udd.

"The Comedown" opens in a blur of riffs and screams, and "Chelsea Smile" became a live staple thanks to its gang vocals and a hook built for the pit. "Diamonds Aren't Forever" swaggers with a heavy groove, and the title track closes things by stretching past eight minutes.

Sykes's lyrics are bitter and frequently funny, and one song title runs to a full sentence about toilet doors, a reminder of the scene-kid humour that ran through this era. Nordström's production gives the guitars a thick, crushing weight, and Matt Nicholls's drums hit like a wrecking ball.

It is the bridge between their early chaos and the huge choruses that followed, the moment the songwriting started catching up with the noise, and it still hits hard.