Bring Me The Horizon Return With Belting New Single ‘Kool-Aid’

Bring Me The Horizon have kicked the year off on a high note (after ending 2023 with quite a bombshell), coming in hot with their belting new single Kool-Aid.

The track was co-produced by longtime favourites Zakk Cervini (who also worked on the band’s last record, 2020’s POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR, as well as their Sigrid collab Bad Life) and Dan Lancaster (who also worked on SURVIVAL HORROR, plus 2015’s That’s The Spirit and 2019’s Amo). Musically it’s a celebration of everything the band have done thus far, pairing guttural screams and walloping breakdowns with pristine production and colourful sound design – not to mention, one of the catchiest hooks we’ve heard in a long while.

Lyrically too, frontman Oli Sykes brings his absolute A-game, launching into Kool-Aid with this gem of a stanza: “We are the children of the devolution / The infamous martyrs, the scars on the sun / Asphyxiating with a smile on your face / While they pull your teeth out one by one.”

Have a listen to Kool-Aid below:

Kool-Aid comes as our sixth taste of Bring Me The Horizon’s upcoming eighth album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn, which is slated to arrive sometime in the coming months – it was initially locked in for release on September 15, 2023, but ended up being postponed indefinitely just a few weeks out.

The first single from NeX GEn, an anthemic rager called DiE4u, was released all the way back in September 2021. sTraNgeRs came next in July 2022, followed by LosT last May, then AmEN! (featuring Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw) in June, and lastly DArkSide in October.

The band also contributed to the Gran Turismo 7 soundtrack with a track called Moon Over The Castle (which arrived in January 2022), then linked up with Masked Wolf for the joint single Fallout that March, and with SLANDER and blackbear for Wish I Could Forget in May. Another collab with CORPSE, titled CODE MISTAKE, followed in June 2023.

Throughout this era, Sykes has also released collaborative songs with IC3PEAK (VAMPIR), Machine Gun Kelly (Maybe), Alice Longyu Gao (Believe The Hype), Yungblud (Happier) and Lil Uzi Vert (Werewolf).

Bring Me The Horizon ended 2023 with the shock news that core member Jordan Fish – one of the band’s lead songwriters, who also played keyboards and percussion, sung backing vocals and did a lot of in-house production – was parting ways with Sykes and co. NeX GEn will be their last record to feature Fish’s contributions; at the time of writing, they’re yet to say anything about who might replace him.

It comes as Bring Me The Horizon gear up for an enormous arena tour of Australia, tickets for which have been flying out the gates (with new shows being added to meet the insane demand).