Post Human: Nex Gen
studio
ArtistBring Me the Horizon
CoverPost Human NeX GEn.png
Released24 May 2024
Recorded2021–2024
Studio
  • Rhythmic Genocide (Sheffield)
  • Casa Do Syko (Brazil)
Genre
Length55:19
Label
Producer
Prev year2020
Next year2025

Post Human: Nex Gen (stylised as POST HUMAN: NeX GEn) is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. It was surprise released on 24 May 2024, originally planned for 15 September 2023, as the second installment of the Post Human series, following Post Human: Survival Horror (2020). It is the band's first studio album since Amo in 2019, marking the longest gap between studio albums in the band's career. It is also the last album to feature band keyboardist and supporting producer Jordan Fish, as he departed from the group in late 2023. The album features guest contributions from Aurora, Underoath, Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo. The album received mostly positive reviews from critics upon release.

Release

On 16 September 2021, the band released the album's lead single, "Die4U".[1] The second single, "Strangers" was released on 6 July 2022.[2][3] On 4 May 2023, the third single, "Lost", was released.[4][5] On 1 June 2023, the fourth single, "Amen!" featuring Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw and Lil Uzi Vert, was released.[6] In June 2023, the band announced Post Human: Nex Gen, with 15 September 2023 as the original release date.[7] However, on 24 August, Sykes announced that the release was being delayed due to "unforeseen circumstances" which had left the band "unable to complete the record to the standard we'd be happy with".[8] The fifth single, "Darkside", was released on 13 October 2023.[9] On 22 December 2023, the band announced that keyboardist Jordan Fish was leaving the band.[10] On 5 January 2024, the band released the record's sixth single, "Kool-Aid".[11] On 23 May 2024, the band announced the album's release date, 24 May 2024.[12][13] The band released a music video for the album's seventh single "Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" on 5 June.[14]

Composition

Critics have described Post Human: Nex Gen as post-hardcore,[15][16][17] pop-punk,[15][18][19] hyperpop,[15][18][20] alternative metal,[21] metalcore,[19] electronica,[19] emo,[18] nu metal,[18] and easycore.[18] Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic has noted the band combining many genres in the album, "tossing in hyperpop flourish, pop-punk energy, glitchy electronic chaos, hardcore aggression, death growls, pop choruses, and anything else the band could think of, channeling everyone from Sum 41 and KMFDM to Charli XCX and Poppy."[15] Other comparisons made included the Used, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Deftones.[15]

Critical reception

Post Human: Nex Gen received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 84 out of 100, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[22] Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic, called the album, "one of the most rewarding and indulgent releases in Bring Me the Horizon's post-Sempiternal era."[15] According to Tom Kingsley of Clash, "[the] experimentation doesn't always work, but it's successful often enough to make 'Nex Gen' an album worthy of deep and repeated listens."[23] Ed Walton of Distorted Sound felt the album "was absolutely worth the wait", and called it a "perfect continuation from what Survival Horror gave us."[24] According to Ali Shutler of Dork, "the whole record flows on the right side of chaos...It's urgent, but never oppressive."[18] Ben Beaumont-Thomas writing for The Guardian, called it "a defining album of our digitally overloaded era."[20] According to Nick Ruskell of Kerrang!, "BMTH have proven themselves equal to matching the creative demands it's placed on them."[16]

Writing for Metal Hammer, Emily Swingle called the album "Chaotic, confusing and nonsensical", and "feels like it shouldn't work – but, surprisingly, that's also why it does."[25] Rishi Shah of NME described it as "an album that is such a bombardment of sound and colour", and considered it to be worth the four-year wait.[26] Nick Reilly of Rolling Stone, called it "an endlessly creative rock epic that shows the Bring Me juggernaut is in no danger of slowing down".[27] Sputnikmusic was less positive stating, "How does one band manage to rip off Deaf Havana, Deftones, Boston Manor, Enter Shikari, Porter [Robinson], Green Day, Radiohead, MGK, Iggy Pop and DreamWeaver, feature Underoath, Aurora, Lil Uzi Vert, Daryl Palumbo...and be this goddamn boring?"[28] According to Tyler Rubke of Wall of Sound, "Post Human: Nex Gen is a quintessential Bring Me the Horizon experience and undoubtedly one of their most inventive and diverse records to date."[29]

Loudwire ranked it as the 6th best rock album of 2024.[30]

Track listing

Notes

  • signifies an additional producer
  • signifies an assistant producer
  • "(OST) Dreamseeker", "(OST) (Spi)ritual", and "(OST) P.U.S.S.-E" are stylised in all lowercase with "OST" between square brackets.
  • "Youtopia" is stylised as "YOUtopia".
  • All other tracks are stylised in text notation similar to alternating caps; for example, "Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" is stylised as "Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd".
  • "Dig It" ends at 5:12. A hidden track starts at 6:42, where a character named "M8" begins speaking to the listener before being interrupted by a distorted screech. When the audio is played through a spectrogram, it reveals a QR code which leads to a website based around the album.[31][32]

Sample credits

  • "N/A" features a crowd chorus from Bring Me the Horizon's 2024 NX_GN tour.[33]
  • "R.I.P. (Duskcore Remix)" features a sound effect from the video game Undertale.

Personnel

Bring Me the Horizon

  • Oli Sykes – lead vocals (all tracks), programming (1, 2, 4, 5, 7–9, 12, 14, 16), keyboards (8)
  • Matt Nicholls – drums (2–7, 9–13, 15, 16)
  • Lee Malia – guitar (2–7, 9–13, 15, 16), background vocals (3)
  • Matt Kean – bass guitar (2–7, 9–13, 15, 16)
  • Jordan Fish – programming (6, 7, 9–11, 13, 15), keyboards (7, 9), background vocals (10, 11, 13, 15)

Additional musicians

  • Cynthoni – programming (1, 14), production (1, 14)
  • Dan Lancaster – programming (2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16), keyboards (2, 4, 7, 9, 16), background vocals (2, 4)
  • Mark Kouznetsov – strings (2)
  • Zakk Cervini – programming (3, 6, 9, 10, 13), background vocals (7)
  • Lucy Landry – background vocals (3)
  • RJ Pasin – guitar (4)
  • Aurora – vocals (5)
  • Gianni Taylor – background vocals (6)
  • Spencer Chamberlain – vocals (7)
  • Aaron Gillespie – vocals (7)
  • Alexander Nosenko – keyboards, programming (8)
  • Choir Noir – choir vocals (11)
  • Daryl Palumbo – vocals (13)
  • Lil Uzi Vert – vocals (13)
  • BloodPop – programming (15)

Additional personnel

  • Zakk Cervini – mixing (all tracks), mastering (3, 6, 10, 13, 15)
  • Ted Jensen – mastering (1, 2, 4, 5, 7–9, 11, 12, 14, 16)
  • Julian Gargiulo – mixing (1–9, 12, 14, 16), engineering (all tracks)
  • Nik Trekov – mixing (15), engineering assistance (13)
  • Vyacheslav Rychkov – mixing (8), engineering assistance (12, 14)
  • Dan Lancaster – engineering (5)
  • Guillermo Rodriguez – engineering (13)
  • Ben Thomas – engineering (13)
  • Phil Gornell – engineering assistance (3)
  • Jason Inguagiato – engineering assistance (5)
  • Alissic – artwork

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Post Human: Nex Gen
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU)[34]25
French Rock & Metal Albums (SNEP)[35]7
Greek Albums (IFPI Greece)[36]29
Japanese Combined Albums (Oricon)[37]32
Japanese Rock Albums (Oricon)[38]4
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[39]23
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[40]53
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[41]11
Swedish Hard Rock Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[42]1
US Top Rock & Alternative Albums (Billboard)[43]10

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Post Human: Nex Gen
Chart (2024)Position
UK Cassette Albums (OCC)[44]4
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[45]33

Release history

Release history and formats for Post Human: Nex Gen
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Various24 May 2024Digital download · streamingSony · RCA[46]
27 September 2024CD · vinyl · cassette[47]
United StatesColumbia[48][49]

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