Review by Saxy S for Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings: Repented (2026)

Counting Nostalgia Points

I never liked the earliest Bring Me the Horizon albums. Not until There is a Hell... [et al.] did I ever start to notice anything of value in this bands music. Once they kicked the deathcore out of their sound, their songwriting dramatically improved. So twenty years after the release of their debut LP, Count Your Blessings, BMTH (Bring Me the Horizon) re-recorded it and published it to the world. For what reason I have no idea!

The deathcore days of BMTH are long behind them and this blatant display of nostalgia farming is disappointing. I get it; the online metal spaces cannot shut up about how "bRiNg mE tHe hOrIzOn wERe sO mUcH bEtTeR wHeN tHeY wERe dEaThCoRe". But if you wanted to make a deathcore album in 2026, why the fuck was your first thought to re-record the old albums instead of just making a new deathcore album? It would have been just as bad as the old stuff sure, but that would have least required effort.

This album is not just performed bad, with all of the same tired tropes I've complained about in modern metalcore for years, but it's also performed with the atrocious songwriting techniques that made Myspace deathcore (i.e. Job For a Cowboy, Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, etc.) so unbearable twenty years ago! The guitar mixing is sloppy, the percussion has been amplified, mostly in the bass drum, creating that terrible wave effect in my speakers. Oli's harsh screams might be the best part of the album since they haven't shown too much rust in two decades (I was expecting them to be much worse). As for the songwriting, you know the drill; songs that cannot figure out what they want to be as they modulate in-and-out of motifs and riffs like a kid in a candy store, whiplash tempo changes, irritating use of the pinch harmonics and shout out breakdowns that you can predict from three songs away. 

I guess to wrap up the review I should probably talk about the actual new song here. "Dehumanized" proves my point. It still not very good, but because BMTH actually had to write a new song, it does have some modern trends from the band, as they try to weave their way through both the past and present. It sounds like a song that Make Them Suffer would write if they were still a deathcore act.

I see no purpose as to why this album exists. If a band wants to fully embrace the nostalgia and revert back to a sound that initially made them popular that's fine, but at least prove to me you're going to put in some effort for it. My review of Survival Horror: Nex Gen stands when I said this band is playing catch-up to the rest of the metalcore world. Except now, BMTH aren't catching up, they're falling backwards.

Best Songs: A Lot Like Vegas, Dehumanized

For Fans Of: Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Despised Icon