Bands Like Bring Me the Horizon: Pick Your Era

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"Bands like Bring Me the Horizon" is really three different questions wearing one search term. The Sheffield band, formed in March 2004, released a deathcore debut, Count Your Blessings, in October 2006, rebuilt itself into one of metalcore's defining acts by Sempiternal (2013), and then took amo to number one on the UK Albums Chart on 25 January 2019 as an arena pop-metal band. A fan of any one of those records can be left cold by the other two. So this page does not rank a single list; it sorts the recommendations by era. Find the version of Bring Me the Horizon that hooked you, and take that section's bands. The full before-and-after history of how they made those turns belongs to our British metalcore before-and-after guide; this page is only about who else scratches each itch. And the era question just got newly relevant: in 2026 the band re-recorded its debut as Count Your Blessings | Repented and released a brand-new deathcore track, "Dehumanized", which Consequence heard as mirroring the innovations of Fit for an Autopsy and END.

One disclosure before the lists: this site is run by the team behind Daemon Grey, a Canadian industrial goth metal artist on Berlin's Out Of Line Music. None of his records appear on this page, so judge the picks purely on their own.

The Era Map

Era	BMTH records	Closest bands	Start with
Deathcore (2006 to 2008)	Count Your Blessings	Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex	The Cleansing
Metalcore peak (2008 to 2013)	Suicide Season, There Is a Hell..., Sempiternal	Architects, While She Sleeps, Beartooth, Of Mice & Men	Hollow Crown
Arena era (2019 to now)	amo onward	Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Spiritbox	The Death of Peace of Mind

The Deathcore Era: Count Your Blessings (2006 to 2008)

Count Your Blessings is breakdown-stacked deathcore made by teenagers in love with Swedish death metal; drummer Matt Nicholls has said the record leaned heavily on At the Gates. If that album is your Bring Me the Horizon, your best listening is the American and Australian scene that grew up right beside it. It is also the era the band itself just revisited with Repented and "Dehumanized", so you are in newly fashionable company.

Suicide Silence made the definitive record of that moment. The Cleansing (Century Media, 2007) hit number 94 on the Billboard 200 and became one of the best-selling debuts in the label's history, which for an unapologetic deathcore album was a genuine shock. It has everything early BMTH fans came for: low growls against shrieks, riffs that exist mainly to set up the next breakdown, and total commitment to the bit. Start with The Cleansing; it is still the genre's reference point.

Whitechapel, from Knoxville, Tennessee, are the heavier, more disciplined cousin. This Is Exile (Metal Blade, 2008) charted at 118 on the Billboard 200 and traded the chaos of early deathcore for a colder, more precise brutality built around three guitarists. Where Count Your Blessings sounds like a basement, This Is Exile sounds like a machine room. Start there and work forward; the band's later material adds groove without losing weight.

Thy Art Is Murder carried this sound into the next decade from Australia. Hate (2012, reissued by Nuclear Blast in 2013) reached number 35 on the ARIA chart, remarkable reach for an extreme metal record, and its "Reign of Darkness" remains a rite-of-passage track for anyone who misses BMTH's ugliest era. Carnifex deserve the fourth slot: Dead in My Arms (2007) later made Metal Hammer's list of ten essential deathcore albums, and its blackened misery is the closest cousin to the debut's nastier corners.

The Metalcore Peak: Suicide Season to Sempiternal (2008 to 2013)

Between Suicide Season (29 September 2008) and Sempiternal (1 April 2013, the first album with keyboardist Jordan Fish as a full member), Bring Me the Horizon became the band most people mean by the search: huge choruses over metalcore weight, electronics moving from garnish to architecture, and 2010's There Is a Hell... in between as the ambitious hinge. These four bands live in that same territory.

Architects are the era's other British giant. Formed in Brighton in 2004 around twin brothers Dan and Tom Searle, they broke through with the technical Hollow Crown (2009) and, after guitarist Tom Searle's death in 2016, grew into an arena act with 2021's UK number one For Those That Wish to Exist. Theirs is the career most often compared to BMTH's, and the comparison holds: same country, same timeline, same scale, different temperament. Start with Hollow Crown; the full arc is told in our British metalcore guide.

While She Sleeps are the home-town option, formed in the same Sheffield scene that produced BMTH. This Is the Six (2012) is gang-vocal metalcore with punk blood in it, rawer and angrier than anything BMTH released after 2008, and the band has stayed closer to that sound than any of its peers. If you wish Suicide Season had a scrappier sibling, this is it.

Beartooth distilled the era's catharsis into its most direct form. Caleb Shomo's project released Disgusting (Red Bull Records, 2014), a debut that welds hardcore-punk urgency to choruses as big as anything on Sempiternal, with lyrics that treat the microphone as a pressure valve. It is the easiest entry point in this section and one of the most rewound.

Of Mice & Men round the section out. Restoring Force (Rise Records, 2014) marked the moment the American band moved from straight metalcore toward a groove-heavy, nu-metal-tinted weight, a parallel move to what BMTH were doing at the same time: keeping the heaviness while widening the doorway. Start there, then decide which direction of their catalogue suits you.

The Arena Era: amo Forward (2019 to Now)

From amo onward, Bring Me the Horizon operate as an arena act that treats genre as a palette rather than an address. The bands below are not imitators; they are the acts now running the same experiment, each with one foot in metal and the other wherever it likes.

Bad Omens drew constant comparisons to Bring Me the Horizon in their early years, and instead of running from it they outgrew it. Formed in Richmond, Virginia in 2015 around vocalist and producer Noah Sebastian, they arrived properly with The Death of Peace of Mind (2022): moody, R&B-inflected metalcore with production as its lead instrument. For a listener whose favourite BMTH records are the recent ones, this is the first stop.

Sleep Token are the era's biggest phenomenon. Take Me Back to Eden (2023) built the cult; Even in Arcadia (2025) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 127,000 units and the largest streaming week ever recorded for a hard rock album. Their mix of metal weight, falsetto pop and ambient electronics maps almost exactly onto the ambitions of late-period BMTH, delivered with more restraint and more mystery. Start with Take Me Back to Eden.

Spiritbox supply the era's Canadian wing, formed in Victoria, British Columbia in 2017 by vocalist Courtney LaPlante and guitarist Mike Stringer. Eternal Blue (2021) swings between crushing djent-adjacent riffing and weightless pop melody, often inside one song, which is precisely the trick modern BMTH built a career on. LaPlante's range, from feral scream to glassy clean, is the single most impressive vocal instrument on this page.

If the heaviest end of this list is what you actually came for, our Slipknot guide runs that family tree; the wider genre history, wave by wave, lives at the metalcore and hardcore hub.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Bring Me the Horizon deathcore or metalcore?

Both, at different times. Count Your Blessings (2006) is deathcore; from Suicide Season (2008) through Sempiternal (2013) the band defined modern metalcore; and from amo (2019) onward they operate as an arena act that borrows from pop and electronic music. In 2026 they revisited deathcore with the re-recording Count Your Blessings | Repented.

What bands sound like early Bring Me the Horizon?

Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder, and Carnifex are the closest matches for the Count Your Blessings era. Suicide Silence’s The Cleansing (2007) is the definitive record of that deathcore moment, while Whitechapel’s This Is Exile (2008) delivers the same weight with colder precision.

What bands sound like Sempiternal-era Bring Me the Horizon?

Architects and While She Sleeps are the closest British peers, and Beartooth and Of Mice & Men cover the American side. All four pair metalcore heaviness with big choruses. Architects’ Hollow Crown (2009) and Beartooth’s Disgusting (2014) are the strongest starting records in that lane.

Who is the closest modern band to Bring Me the Horizon?

Bad Omens, whose The Death of Peace of Mind (2022) drew constant comparisons to the band’s recent work. Sleep Token, whose Even in Arcadia topped the Billboard 200 in 2025, and Canada’s Spiritbox run the same metal-to-pop experiment at arena scale.

Sources

• Ben Welch, Bring Me the Horizon: Heavy Sounds from the Steel City (John Blake Publishing, 2016). Waterstones
• Eric Smialek, “Contempt-of-Core: A Reception History of Metalcore Subgenres as Abject Genres”, in The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (Cambridge University Press, 2023). DOI
• “Bring Me the Horizon Return to Deathcore Roots on New Song ‘Dehumanized’”, Consequence (2026).
• “Sleep Token’s ‘Even in Arcadia’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200”, Billboard (2025).
• “15 Essential Deathcore Albums”, Revolver.