That's the spirit

That's the spirit
Bring Me the Horizon studio album
Publication (s)	September 11, 2015 (worldwide)
admission	Summer 2015
Label (s)	RCA Records , Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, download
Genre (s)	Pop-Rock , Nu Metal , Alternative Metal
Title (number)	11
running time	44:59
occupation	• Singing: Oliver Sykes • Lead guitar: Lee Malia • Bass: Matt Kean • Keyboard / Synth: Jordan Fish • Drums: Matt Nicholls
production	Oliver Sykes • Jordan Fish
Studio (s)	Black Rock Studios, Santorini , Greece
chronology Sempiternal (2013) That's the spirit amo (2019)
Single releases December 7, 2014 Drown 23rd July 2015 Thrones

That's the Spirit is the fifth studio album of the British metalcore - band Bring Me the Horizon from Sheffield , Yorkshire . It was released on September 11, 2015 via RCA Records ( Sony Music ) in Europe and Columbia Records in North America .

It contains eleven pieces with a total playing time of 44 minutes and 59 seconds. With the release of the album, the group continues the musical change that the musicians had already made on the predecessor Sempiternal towards an alternative rock -like sound with influences from electronic music , nu metal , indie and pop. Rock .

Keyboardist Jordan Fish and singer Oliver Sykes acted as producers of the album . That's the Spirit has received mostly positive reviews from the trade press and has been awarded gold records in the UK and Australia .

Creation and publication

Emergence

The musicians worked on the album for a total of two months in Black Rock Studios on the Greek island of Santorini . The group became aware of the studio on the Internet when they searched for the “most unique studio in the world”. Previously, the band spent three months writing the new album, starting in January.

Jordan Fish , the band's keyboardist, was announced as the unofficial producer . Oliver Sykes told the New Musical Express that "producers are good", but they "too often want to emphasize the importance of their profession."

"Producers are fine. But they want to justify the importance of their jobs sometimes, so they say things to you like: 'Oh I know - why can't you do it in the swimming pool?' "

- Oliver Sykes to NME

A part of the money that the group saved for the engagement was invested in a personal trainer , who looked after the musicians during the recording.

publication

Title list That's the Spirit
Doomed 4:34 Happy song 3:59 Thrones 3:11 True Friends 3:52 Follow You 3:51 What You Need 4:11 Avalanche 4:22 Run 3:42 Drown 3:42 Blasphemy 4:35 Oh No 5:00

As early as October 21, 2014, a music video for the song Drown was accidentally released through a mistake by her former label , which is her first new material after the release of Sempiternal in 2013. The official release was on December 7th, 2014. The group stated in a later interview that this song should not originally be on the album. However, the group re-recorded the piece for the album. It was the band's last release on Epitaph Records . The band switched to Columbia Records .

On July 12th, 2015, the first track from the album, Happy Song, was released. However, this song is not an official single release, but was released for advertising purposes. With Throne eleven days was, however, brought a single on the market later. On the same day the band announced the track list. With True Friends , another track from the album was released as a stream on August 24, 2015. A week later, both the streaming and the release of the songs Avalanche and What You Need via BBC Radio 1 , as well as the release of the piece Oh No via Apple Music 's Beats 1, none of which are singles.

The album itself was released on September 11, 2015 via Columbia Records in North America and via RCA Records ( Sony Music ) worldwide.

Content, name and music style

According to Sykes, That's the Spirit can be seen as a loose concept album that celebrates the “dark mood of human life.” He literally called the album “a celebration of depression .” Sykes chose the name of the album because, in his opinion, that phrase was also used can be understood negatively. Happy Song described Sykes as the "unofficial title track" of the album.

According to Gavin Haynes, the group continues their musical change. Although the pieces are still more Metal- heavy, he attests that the group has a wide range of musical influences. In this way, comparisons can be made with artists like Panic! at the Disco , Interpol , Jane's Addiction and the late Radiohead pull. Jon Wiederhorn from the US American Rolling Stone describes that the musicians pursued their musical careers, whereby the sound of the group, which initially "was inevitably metal", developed into a "dynamic sound construct of alternative - and indie rock and pop " have. He describes that the group “evolved from metalcore to cinematic pop rock ” that is more reminiscent of Muse and Linkin Park than Metallica and Lamb of God . Daniel Furnari of the Australian Blunt Magazine also writes that the band's music has developed further. He describes that the music is now more suitable for the Glastonbury Festival than for the Warped Tour . He emphasizes that the group does not fall back into the sound of the past.

promotion

On September 6, 2015, the group gave a release party at the Rose Theater in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames , a borough in London . Just about a week earlier, the group played on the main stage of the Reading and Leeds Festival on August 27-28, 2015 , along with Metallica , Pierce the Veil , Royal Blood and Marmozets . At the time of That's the Spirit's release , September 11th, Bring Me The Horizon were playing a concert to celebrate the album's release at the House of Vans in Waterloo, London . From October 1st to 25th, 2015, the group played a concert tour through the United States and Canada with tour stops at the Aftershock Festival and Knotfest . From November 2nd to 28th, Bring Me the Horizon will tour Europe. Across the world, this tour was accompanied by PVRIS as the opening act ; in the States through Issues , in Europe - except the United Kingdom - through Beartooth , and in Great Britain through Neck Deep . In December the band will also play concerts in Ukraine , Russia and Belarus .

success

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

That's the spirit   DE 6th 09/18/2015 (5 weeks)   AT 4th 09/25/2015 (7 weeks)   CH 8th 09/20/2015 (4 weeks)   UK 2 09/24/2015 (51 weeks)   US 2 09/23/2015 (11 weeks)

Singles

Drown   DE 90 12/22/2014 (1 week)   AT 63 December 19, 2014 (1 week)   UK 17th December 20, 2014 (3 weeks) Happy song   UK 55 07/23/2015 (4 weeks) Thrones   UK 51 08/06/2015 (9 weeks) Doomed   UK 87 09/24/2015 (1 week) True Friends   UK 91 09/24/2015 (1 week) Follow you   UK 95 09/24/2015 (1 week) Avalanche   UK 97 09/24/2015 (1 week)

Commercially

Both her singles Drown and Throne and Happy Song reached a listing in the UK singles charts . Drown placed 17th and stayed there for a total of three weeks. It is also the group’s first song to appear in the charts in Germany and Austria . It rose to 90 in the German charts and 63 in the Austrian single charts and stayed there for a week. Throne and Happy Song rose to 51 and 53 respectively in the UK charts.

In both Germany and the United Kingdom, the album entered the top ten of the domestic album charts on September 18, 2015. That's the Spirit landed in sixth place in the Media Control Charts . The album landed at number two in the UK charts . The first number one album was narrowly missed: The group had to give way to Stereophonics with their album Keep the Village Alive . According to the British Official Charts Company , the difference between the two records was only 1,300 records sold. On September 20, 2015 it was announced that the group had once again entered Australia as number one . With that, the band reached their third number one album in a row. A day later it was announced that the band had sold 62,000 records in the United States in their first week of sales . As a result, the album climbed to number two in the US album charts , just like in the UK . The Weeknd stayed at number 1 with its album Beauty Behind the Madness . The album climbed to number 8 in the Swiss charts and number 4 in Austria . In Canada , the album reached the top spot for the first time. All in all, That's the Spirit , after Sempiternal and There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret , is the third album that entered the Canadian album charts.

That's the Spirit also achieved chart listings in Sweden (3), France (30), Italy (17), New Zealand (2), Finland (9), Belgium (5 in Flanders , 21 in Wallonia ), Norway (8), in the Netherlands (5), Japan and Denmark (31).

Reviews

English speaking

Tom Bryant of the US American Alternative Press gave full marks for That's the Spirit . He describes how the group left deathcore with the release of Sempiternal . The Kerrang and Rock Sound also gave top marks. Lanre Bakare from the Guardian gave 3 out of 5 points and describes how the group has grown from a Metalcore band to a supplier of a screaming “I'm-mad-at-your-mothers” Nu-Metal band. He describes the group as a Nu-Metal reanimator. At Metacritic the album received a rating of 88 points based on ten album reviews.

German speaking

Eike Cramer from the German Metal Hammer describes that after eleven years of band history the band has finally finished with the deathcore of the first few years. He writes that the album consists entirely of "brilliantly produced and polished, modern rock numbers". The lyrics are still "wonderfully emotional" and "fit perfectly with the desperate vocal melodies." He awarded six out of seven possible evaluation points. Pascal Staub from the Austrian Stormbringer is of the opinion that from an artistic point of view, the band have grown up and compose at a level that one would not have expected at their debut times. ”He describes the album as a high point in the band's discography.

Anton Kostudis from Metal.de writes that the album turned out to be a good, atmospheric rock record despite “several minutes of idle time”, “which the band's numerous critics should also acknowledge.” He gave a total of 7 points. On Whiskey-soda.de it is said that “the band has not completely reinvented itself”, that the album “is nevertheless dense, emotionally exhausting and littered with musical brilliance.” According to Jan Hassenpflug from Laut.de, “a lot writhes Melancholy and even more melody through the synthetic-soaked sound thread on the album. "

Criticism in fan circles

Although the album was received extremely positively in the media, it received severe criticism from its own fan circles. Many fans from the very beginning expressed their displeasure with the musical change in the group. In some circles it is said that these fans blame keyboardist Jordan Fish, who was officially accepted into the band shortly after guitarist Jona Weinhofen left the band in 2013.

Awards and nominations

• Alternative Press Music Awards
  • 2015 : Best Music Video for Drown ( won )
• Kerrang! Awards
  • 2015 : Best Single for Drown (nominated)
• NME's Albums of the Year 2015
  • 49th place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Gavin Haynes: New Musical Express : Bring Me The Horizon On New Album 'That's The Spirit' - And Riding Around Greek Islands On Quad Bikes
2. ↑ Blabbermouth.net : BRING ME THE HORIZON: Video For New Single 'Drown' Released
3. ↑ Terry Bezer: Metal Hammer : First Listen: Drown
4. ↑ Emily Carter: Kerrang : Bring Me The Horizon Unveil That's The Spirit Tracklisting
5. ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Bring Me The Horizon sign to Columbia Records
6. ^ Tillmann Rohlf: Metal Hammer : Bring Me The Horizon: New Song
7. ↑ Chad Bowar: Loudwire : Bring Me the Horizon Unveil 'Throne' Video, Reveal 'That's the Spirit' Track Listing
8. ↑ Laut.de : BRING ME THE HORIZON: Third single in the video
9. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Bring Me The Horizon preview two new songs, "Avalanche," "What You Need"
10. ↑ Blabbermouth.net : BRING ME THE HORIZON To Release 'That's The Spirit' Album In September
11. ↑ Jon Wiederhorn: Rolling Stone : "Bring Me the Horizon on Ditching Metalcore for Poppy, Positive New LP"
12. ^ Daniel Furnari: Blunt Magazine : Bring Me the Horizon - That's The Spirit
13. ↑ David Renshaw: New Musical Express : Bring Me The Horizon announce tiny album launch gig
14. ^ Alan Davies: Welwyn Hatfield Times : Reading & Leeds Festivals 2015 line-up and stage splits revealed
15. ↑ MTV : BMTH Announce Tiny Secret Show For 'That's The Spirit' Release
16. ↑ ^{a b} Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Bring Me The Horizon announce headlining tour with Issues
17. ↑ Neale McGeever: Ramzine : PVRIS and Neck Deep to support Bring Me The Horizon on UK tour
18. ↑ Scott Munro: Metal Hammer : Bring Me The Horizon Announce Euro Tour ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart tracking albums: US - UK - AU - CA AT - CH - DE ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Singles: DE ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - AT - UK - AU  
20. ↑ GfK Entertainment : METALLIC AND HIPHOPPER STORM THE OFFICIAL GERMAN CHARTS
21. ↑ Liv Moss: Official Charts Company : Stereophonics bag sixth Number 1 album with Keep The Village Alive: “Thank you all”
22. ↑ ARIA : ARIA Charts Preview ( memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ↑ Keith Caulfield: Billboard : The Weeknd Earns Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
24. ↑ Further charts: SE - NO - FI - DK - BE (Wa) - BE (Fl) - FR - IT - NL - NZ - JP
25. ↑ Tom Bryant: Alternative Press : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
26. ↑ Bring Me The Horizon That's The Spirit , Kerrang !. Retrieved September 9, 2015. 
27. ↑ Bring Me the Horizon - Thats The Spirit (Review). In: Rock Sound , Rocksound, September 2015, p. 77. Retrieved August 19, 2015. 
28. ↑ Lanre Bakare: The Guardian : Bring Me the Horizon: That's the Spirit review - nu-metal reanimators
29. ^ Metacritic : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
30. ^ Eike Cramer: Metal Hammer : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
31. ↑ Pascal Staub: Stormbringer.at : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
32. ^ Anton Kostudis: Metal.de : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
33. ↑ Jack_D: Whiskey-soda.de : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
34. ^ Jan Hassenpflug: Laut.de : Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit
35. ↑ Kai Butterweck: Laut.de : Bring Me The Horizon: "We're working on an orchestral project"
36. ↑ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Here are the winners of the 2015 APMAs! ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
37. ↑ Emily Carter: Kerrang : And the Relentless Kerrang! Awards 2015 nominees are ...
38. ↑ New Musical Express : NME's Albums Of The Year 2015