Bring Me The Horizon have gone all the way back to where it began.
The Sheffield heavy music giants have released Count Your Blessings | Repented, a fully re-recorded 20th anniversary edition of their landmark debut album, available now on vinyl, cassette and all streaming platforms.
Originally released in 2006, Count Your Blessings became one of the defining records of the MySpace-era heavy music explosion. Raw, chaotic and absolutely feral, it introduced a generation of fans to deathcore and helped lay the foundations for what would become one of the most influential heavy bands of the last two decades.
Twenty years later, Bring Me The Horizon are not just looking back. They are reclaiming the sound of that record from the ground up.
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This is far more than a remaster.
Count Your Blessings | Repented is a complete re-recording and reimagining of the album, rebuilt by frontman Oli Sykes and guitarist Lee Malia alongside acclaimed producer and mixer Buster Odeholm.
The goal was not to rewrite the past or clean away the chaos that made the original so important. It was about giving those songs the power, weight and clarity the band always felt they deserved.
Speaking about the record, Oli Sykes says:
“I think a lot of people think that we hate that record or are embarrassed by it because we don’t play it. Really, we were just always disappointed with how it sounded. It was never about rewriting history. It was about making the record we’d always heard in our heads.”
That quote really lands, because Count Your Blessings has always had a complicated place in the Bring Me The Horizon story.
For so many fans, it is sacred ground. It is the sound of a scene, a time, a movement and a generation discovering something heavier and more unhinged than anything they had heard before. But for the band, it also existed as a record that captured the energy without fully capturing the sound they imagined.
With Repented, those songs return with the benefit of two decades of growth, experience and production power behind them.
Fan favourites including “(I Used To Make Out With) Medusa”, “Pray For Plagues”, “Black & Blue”, “Slow Dance”, “A Lot Like Vegas” and “Dragon Slaying”, formerly known as “Liquor & Love Lost”, have all been rebuilt while keeping the brutality and identity of the originals intact.
The result is a version of Count Your Blessings that still feels vicious, but now hits with a level of force and precision that the original recording never had the chance to fully deliver.
There is also something powerful about hearing a band as massive as Bring Me The Horizon revisit their earliest material with this much intent.
This is not a band trying to pretend they are still teenagers in Sheffield uploading tracks into the early internet heavy music underground. It is a band looking at the roots honestly, recognising the importance of those songs, and giving them a new life without losing the filth, violence and emotional chaos that made them matter in the first place.
Alongside the re-recorded tracks, Count Your Blessings | Repented also includes “Dehumanized”, the first brand new song written specifically for the Count Your Blessings era.
Written twenty years after the original album, “Dehumanized” acts as both a tribute and a bridge. It connects the deathcore brutality that first announced Bring Me The Horizon to the world with the scale, confidence and creative ambition of the band they have become.
The track has already made serious noise, reaching number 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, while the video trended on Vevo at number 4.
To celebrate the release, Bring Me The Horizon will perform Count Your Blessings in full for the very first time at Outbreak Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented in Manchester, before taking the performance to Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama later this year.
For longtime fans, these shows are a landmark moment.
The chance to hear Count Your Blessings performed from start to finish, alongside bonus tracks from that era, is something many fans probably never expected to happen. For others who discovered Bring Me The Horizon through later albums, this is a chance to understand the brutal origin point behind one of modern heavy music’s biggest evolutions.
From their MySpace-era beginnings to selling more than 7.2 million albums worldwide, scoring multiple UK Number One albums and headlining arenas and festivals across the globe, Bring Me The Horizon have never stayed in one place for long.
That has always been part of their story.
They have moved through deathcore, metalcore, arena rock, electronic music, pop, industrial and beyond, challenging fans and the wider heavy scene with every shift. But Count Your Blessings | Repented shows that even after all that evolution, the roots still matter.
This release is not just a nostalgia trip.
It is a celebration of the chaos that started it all, a correction of unfinished business, and a reminder that those early songs still carry serious weight.
Count Your Blessings | Repented is out now.
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