Bring Me The Horizon parted ways with their longtime keyboardist Jordan Fish late last year, but at the time offered little explanation as to why. Vocalist Oli Sykes recently addressed the split in an interview with NME. Sykes said he could see the break coming. “It was all a part of not stopping, and that fear of, ‘If we stop, we’re going to drop off, the band’s not going to be big any more, someone’s going to take over, someone’s going to be bigger and better than us,” Sykes said.
“At some point, you’ve got to accept that this is how big your band are. You’ve also got to ask yourself how much do you want to do to earn that extra popularity. Do you really want to go on TikTok and do all the dances? Do you want to be killing yourself in the studio every day when you don’t even want to write music just out of that fear?”
Sykes went on to say that writing for the band’s latest record was a “miserable” process. “What I realized after Jordan left was that the atmosphere got better. I asked myself how I could have got to the point of f*cking hating the record when I love making music, creating and art. I do it for fun. If I’m not making music, I’ll write a story, I’ll draw, I’ll make a t-shirt for Drop Dead or whatever. I love that. How did it get so bad that I said I want it over with? I realized after that without Jordan it was going way slower.”
The singer continued: “I’m not going to sit here and go, ‘Oh, it was just creative differences and we wish him the best and we’re all on good terms, and blah, blah, blah’. It’s never like that. Just like all breakups – they never end. Even the most amicable ones. There’s a split. It’s also very boring. There’s no headline there.”
“He served our band really well, and the band wouldn’t be where we are without him. I don’t think I’d be able to sing. He was an agent in that and helped me do that. I’ve learned so much from him. I think he’s learned a lot from me. I’m sure one day we’ll see each other again and we’ll talk. Nothing’s happened where it couldn’t be sorted out over a drink. That’s that. We just got to a point where we weren’t happy as a unit anymore.”
