Bring Me The Horizon return to Italy: what to expect in Ferrara
Bring Me The Horizon will return to Italy on July 2nd for a date at Ferrara Summer Festivalin the evocative setting of Piazza Ariostea, two years after their last Italian triumph, when in July 2024 they staged the show of their most recent studio album in Milan, “Post Human:NeX GEn” (here is our review). In the meantime many things have changed and others have evolved, but the trajectory of the Sheffield band remains very clear, between an increasingly complex live narrative, the expansion of their visual universe and the idea, often hinted at, that new music may soon appear on the horizon. Before Ferrara, however, the Italian public will be able to get closer to the live dimension of the group through the cinemawith an event that promises to transform the concert into an immersive experience.
Bring Me The Horizon are back on tour – also in Italy
The new tour of Oli Sykes and his companions will begin on April 25 from Las Vegasbefore crossing Canada and the United States and returning to Europe on June 3rd. On July 2nd it will be Italy’s turn, with the stop at the Ferrara Summer Festival which will see Bring Me The Horizon protagonists in Piazza Ariostea, supported by Malevolence, Thornhill and Dying Wish.
If the scenic structure of the last tour were to be replicated, that three-storey construction designed to frame the interior of a digital Gothic cathedral could fit almost naturally into the Renaissance setting of Ferrara, creating a fascinating short circuit between historical architecture and futuristic dystopia. In 2024 in Milan the public was catapulted into an apocalyptic narrative guided by EVE, among stained glass windows, burning scenarios and a continuous dialogue between real and virtual. In Ferrara the expectation is that of an equally all-encompassing show, capable of transforming the square into one large emotional pit. The hopes are also to listen to new music soon, especially live. At the moment therefore the construction of the ladder it is impossible to predict, especially considering Bring Me The Horizon is a group fond of releasing singles and surprises. It can be hypothesized that the band will not fail to let Italian fans listen to some of theirs iconic songs“Can you feel my heart”, “Shadow moses”, “Drown”, “Throne” and “Mantra”. Some work most recent of the “Post Human” series is conceivable to expect some of the pieces that fans have now grown fond ofincluding “Teardrops”, “DiE4u”, “sTraNgeRs”, “Parasite eve”, “Darkside”, “Obey” (which two years ago in Milan featured the live participation of guest Yungblud) and “Kool-Aid”.
For the wait, “LIVE in São Paulo (Live Immersive Virtual Experiment)”
It will arrive in theaters around the world on March 25 and 28.”LIVE in São Paulo (Live Immersive Virtual Experiment)”, the concert film that documents the biggest headlining show of Bring Me The Horizon’s careerwhich took place on November 30, 2024 at the Allianz Parque Stadium in Sao Paulo in front of 50,000 fans. Presented by Trafalgar Releasing together with Sony Music Vision and RCA, the cinematic event brings to the big screen what the band has called their best concert ever, further expanding the visual universe of the “Post Human” seriesinaugurated in 2020 with “Post Human: Survival Horror” and continued with “Post Human:NeX GEn”.
Co-directed by CiRCUS HEaD, the film – available April 10th as a physical and digital disc – combines multi-camera footage, spectacular drone shots and fan-submitted content, intertwining the energy of the performance with appearances from figures central to the band’s mythology such as EVE, Selene and M8. The result promises an experience that goes beyond the boundaries of the traditional concert film and returns all the scale and narrative tension already experienced live in the 2024 tour, when also in Milan (here is our story) the scenography opened like one digital gothic cathedral and the audience was invited to enter into a sort of dystopian video game. The setlist traverses the entire evolution of the group, from “Sempiternal” to “That’s the spirit”, from “Amo” to the two works of “Post Human”, photographing a band that over the years has sold over 6.6 million albums and exceeded 9.4 billion global streams.
The wait for new music
Alongside the spectacular aspect of the show, there is another element that fuels fans’ expectations, namely the possibility that the tour becomes the right context to present new music. In recent months Oli Sykes revealed that the band has 12 songs left over from the “Post Human: Nex Gen” sessions. In an interview with NME the frontman, who became a father to twins for the first time last summer, explained that he wanted to release new material before headlining concerts at Rock Am Ring and Reading And Leeds, only to postpone the plans after the birth of little Gray and little Zélia.
“I wanted to release new music this year. I have so much material from the ‘Nex Gen’ archive that I want the world to hear,” Sykes said: “I literally called my label and management and said, ‘We’re almost there, I have 12 songs and they’re all bombs. They’re practically ready, we’ll release the first single before Rock Am Ring and the second before Reading And Leeds.'” He added: “The music will comebut that’s not everything in life. We’re realizing that we don’t have to put out another record: we just put one out. Most bands would stop for two years, take a real break. You don’t have to do it, but I want to do it and I love doing it. If it doesn’t happen, then it doesn’t happen.”
Expectations were then also fueled by Spotify Wrapped 2025when instead of the band’s usual thank you message to the fans, a video appeared with the avatar of EVE, in her guise of a female creature, a little mythological and a little science fiction, announcing:
“Well, well, well… it seems like you’ve been listening to Bring Me The Horizon in decidedly unhealthy amounts this year. Congratulations, you’re emotionally beyond repair. I’ve watched you meatbags loop the same songs through breakups and fallouts and ‘I’m fine’ phases, and I’ve been there collecting every drop of data from you poor fools. This year you haven’t just supported the band, you’ve fueled the machine. New music is mutating in the lab and on the table is plans that would worry a sane species. Luckily that’s not your case, so thank you for giving up your time, your mental space and your personal data.”
On the band’s official website, there has been an unequivocal writing for some time. By accessing the portal, in what seems like an invitation to listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s latest release, “Lo-files”, a lo-fi reinterpretation of the British band’s most famous songs, you are greeted by a message that reads: “Twilight in progress. Stream ‘Lo-Files.’” In the meantime, something new has already made itself felt with “Slave to the rhythm”, the collaboration with Illenium included in his album “Odyssey”, a song that fuses EDM and techno with the heavy soul of the band, between suspended piano, furious breakdowns and a finale with a rave and dubstep flavour.
All clues that make the Ferrara concert not only the Italian return of Bring Me The Horizon, but potentially a new chapter in their evolution. If the recent past has demonstrated anything, it is that with them history repeats itself only to be transformed.
