Bring Me The Horizon have spoken to NME about why they chose to cover Oasis’ iconic ‘Wonderwall’ , and recalled how they were caught off-guard by Liam Gallagher’s approval. Watch our video interview above.
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The Sheffield rock pioneers caught up with NME while on the red carpet for the BRITs 2025, and opened up about putting their own unique spin on the Britpop classic. Made for Spotify Singles earlier this year, the release saw Oli Sykes and co. reimagine the hit as a metal anthem, and even earn the approval of Liam Gallagher.
“It’s a good song, it’s actually one of my favourites. Top five,” Sykes explained. “We always usually cover stuff that no one has ever heard of, so we were like ‘Now let’s try to reimagine something that everyone knows. Make it easy for ourselves’. It came out alright I think! It was crazy that Liam didn’t slag it off to the high heavens…”
Drummer Mat Nicholls continued: “[We grew up] listening to them, definitely. It’s hard to ignore them, especially being our age, because Oasis are a British staple.
“We were expecting [Liam] to absolutely rinse us, but he said some actually nice things! It was cool and I think it went down as good as we wished it could.”
The band looked responded to the recent comments made by Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix, who credited Bring Me The Horizon as one of the main sources of inspiration for their latest single, ‘Even If It Kills Me’.
Talking to NME last month, the nu-metal icon credited BMTH as being one of the artists carrying the torch for metal and added that, although he has been told Papa Roach were an early favourite for the band, he is now finding himself drawing inspiration from them.
“We love that band so much,” Sykes told NME of Papa Roach. “We grew up on that band and we drove to London to see them around 10 years ago. They’re just sick! The fact that bands like that, which we grew up on, are even talking about our band is wild — let alone to say that we influenced them in any way.”
As for their plans for the future, the frontman reflected on his recent claims that Bring Me will be headed into some time off later this year. Here, he explained that while the members are still looking for some downtime, they have found it difficult to say new to new opportunities.
“We do need [to take proper time off] at some point, it’s just about finding that time,” he said. “I think we need to go away for a bit, but it’s hard because there is always so much we want to do and so many places we want to tour.
“I think it’ll be good for us because it feels like we’ve been around since the first ‘Post Human’ [2020’s EP ‘Survival Horror’]… We’ve not gone away.”
The band went viral after taking home the trophy in the Best Alternative/Rock Act category in 2024. This year, they were up for Group Of The Year, but ultimately lost out to Ezra Collective. Find a full list of winners here.
Going into festival season, Bring Me have been confirmed to be headlining Reading & Leeds 2025 alongside Chappell Roan, Travis Scott, and Hozier. Although they have played at the twin-site festival several times in the past, their only headline appearance to date was for their epic set back in 2022, when they shared top-billing with but played before fellow Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys.
Last year, the group spoke to NME about the huge positive response they received for ‘Nex Gen’ – which was named as one of NME‘s Best Albums Of 2024 – as well as the R&L slot. Check that interview out here.
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