Bring Me The Horizon Give a Glimpse of Daily Routine in New Video for “Wonderful Life”

Bring Me The Horizon has announced the track list for their star-studded new album, amo today. Along with the announcement, which reveals artists like Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth and electro-indie star Grimes as some of the guests on the new album, the band released a video for their song “Wonderful Life.” The video, which is technically a lyric video, features a little more action than simply scrolling the song’s lyrics across the screen.

The video is a slice of life of the various members of the band, including a scene of one member playing with a toddler and pushing him in a swing, another walking his dog, while another rides a lawn mower back and forth. Comically spliced between the scenes of the tattooed-but-mostly-mainstream-looking members of Bring Me The Horizon is the very unconventional Dani Filth. His scenes show him in full corpse paint, eating cereal and walking down the grocery aisles completing his daily chores.

Musically, the song features an aggressive, groove-based riff and an anthemic chorus. According to lead singer Oli Sykes, the song actually came from some failed writing sessions for Limp Bizkit. “Last year, me and Jordan [Fish] went and worked with Fred Durst on a Limp Bizkit album,” said Sykes, according to Loudwire. “It just didn’t work out, to be honest. He just didn’t show up most of the time,” recalled the vocalist. “Lovely guy, but I don’t think he was ready to make an album. I think he was pushed into it a bit, like, his managers and people said ‘These are the guys you want to work with.’ So we gave him all these ideas and I mean it was just bad from day one, to be honest.” He adds that after the unsuccessful sessions, the BMTH members felt the riff could be translated into one of their own songs (after being “de-Bizkit‘d”). That story certainly checks out after hearing the quasi nu-metal riffage that is the backbone of “Wonderful Life.”

amo track list

1. “i apologise if you feel something”
2. “MANTRA”
3. “nihilist blues” feat. Grimes
4. “in the dark”
5. “wonderful life” feat. Dani Filth
6. “ouch”
7. “medicine”
8. “sugar honey ice & tea”
9. “why you gotta kick me when i’m down?”
10. “fresh bruises”
11. “mother tongue”
12. “heavy metal” feat. Rahzel
13. “i don’t know what to say”