The Band
Bring Me the Horizon is a British rock band formed in 2004.
They have released seven studio albums. They transitioned from deathcore with their debut album, Count Your Blessings (2006), incorporating experimental and electronic elements, to pop with subsequent albums, before returning to metalcore with their latest release, Post Human: Nex Gen (2024).
Band Members
- Oli Sykes – vocals, keyboards, programming
- Matt Nicholls – drums, percussion
- Lee Malia – guitars
- Matt Kean – bass
- John Jones – rhythm guitar (tour member)
The Show
The movie is Bring Me The Horizon’s L.I.V.E. in São Paulo, which was filmed on November 28 and 30, 2024. These presentations were for the NX_GN WRLD TOUR and took place at the Allianz Park, São Paulo, Brazil, with 50.000 people in the audience, and the movies of these shows were projected in cinemas worldwide on March 25 and 28, 2026.
The tour was part of their album POST HUMAN: NEX GEN.
The movie was directed by the singer, Oliver Sykes, and CiRCUS HEaD. It is an immersive experience that showcases the live energy of the shows, featuring multi-camera, drone, and fan-submitted footage to make the viewer feel like they’re in the pit.
On April 10, this live recording will be available in different formats such as CD, DVD, and vinyl.
The setlist spans different BMTH albums, from Sempiternal and That’s the Spirit to their latest work, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn.
I went to the cinema Kinepolis, Madrid, on March 25 to see this film. I think it was great. The first part, like 20 minutes, was a tour documentary, with footage from their Latin America tour and short fans’ interviews, including Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Then, the complete São Paulo show, that was amazing. I liked the setlist and the emotion and craziness of the Brazilian fans; there was even a wedding proposal in the song Follow You, which is a beautiful ballad. The show started with DArkSide, and ended up with Throne.
The visuals were fantastic, and they were telling a dystopian story throughout the whole show. E.V.E. (the AI host) is an avatar that controls the post-apocalyptic digital world and warns the audience to enjoy the show because it’s gonna be their last. This is intertwined with the songs that narrate Oli Sykes’ inner struggles with addictions and mental health issues, and the order of the setlist suggests the progression from a bad place to finally surviving the digital turmoil with music, as the only way to achieve it.
The cinema I attended was packed. In the beggining they were very calm and silent, and around the middle of the movie, I could hear some shy voices in the choruses of the songs that more people joined to the end of the film, but they were pretty quiet, at least from where I could hear. I was seated in the last row, in the middle. There was no mosh as I saw in another theater on social media.
The image was spectacular, the only thing I didn’t like was that the volume was a little low. I would have liked it to be louder, but I heard that complaint from other theaters, too. I don’t know why, but it would have been a lot cooler if it were, with the full cinema speakers capacity.
In the past, I’ve seen other bands’s docus and live shows in cinemas like Rush: Clockwork Angels Tour, and it’s a great experience, with the giant screen and spectacular sound system that a venue like that has, so I would like more bands to do this. Many record DVD of their live shows and to be projected on cinemas would be incredible, so well done, Bring Me The Horizon, it was a nice thing to witness, and I hope that soon I will be able to see them live for the first time, this time, for real.
Setlist
1. (Interlude) Press Start
2. DArkSide
3. MANTRA
4. Happy Song
5. Teardrops
6. AmEN!
7. (Interlude) Project Angel Dust
8. Kool-Aid
9. Shadow Moses
10. [ost] (spi)ritual
11. n/A
12. Sleepwalking
13. Itch for the Cure (When Will We Be Free?)
14. Kingslayer
15. Parasite Eve
16. Follow You
17. LosT
18. Can You Feel My Heart
19. (Interlude) You People Are All Doomed
20. Doomed
21. (Interlude) Aura Gauger
22. Drown
23. Throne