“Even I think that song’s ****”: Oli Sykes trashes controversial Bring Me The Horizon single onstage

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has lambasted one of the band’s most controversial tracks at a recent live show.

Footage uploaded to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday (June 24), shows the vocalist onstage responding to a request from an audience member for the UK pop-metal stars to play their 2019 track Medicine .

“Alright, what are we gonna do? What would you like to hear?” Sykes asks in the clip (embedded below).

After a pause, he continues: “ Medicine ? Are you guys alright? You good, you good, right?

“You guys would like to hear Medicine ? Even I think that song’s shit!”

Bring Me The Horizon released Medicine in January 2019 as a single from their then-upcoming sixth album, Amo .

The song proved instantly controversial, as it showed the band ditching much of their heavy metal roots and fully pursuing a clean-cut pop sound.

Sykes wrote the song’s lyrics about his divorce from his ex-wife, tattoo artist Hannah Snowden.

The singer said of Medicine to NME in 2018: “I don’t want it to seem like I care, and I didn’t want to dredge up the past.

“I didn’t want to give the person the ‘glory’ of writing stuff about them and shit like that.

“After a while it just became apparent that I needed to. I needed to get it out of my system.”

According to setlist wiki setlist.fm , Bring Me The Horizon haven’t performed Medicine live since July 2022.

The band are currently touring to promote their surprise-released new album, Post Human: Nex Gen , with dates in Europe, Asia and South America scheduled for this year.

See the full list of upcoming Bring Me The Horizon shows and book tickets via their website .

Metal Hammer gave Post Human: Nex Gen a 3.5-star review upon its release last month.