20 Years Celebrating 'Count Your Blessings'

Published: Monday, July 13, 2026

by Jack Reed

Bring Me The Horizon is ever-evolving and changing their sound. From hyper-pop inspired post hardcore on Post Human: Nex Gen to the anthemic metalcore on Sempiternal to the 90s metal nostalgic feel given on Post Human: Survival Horror, they’ve always been known to move to the next thing without looking back. 

 

This is why it was shocking that they would dedicate the rest of 2026 to celebrating 20 years of their 2006 debut deathcore album Count Your Blessings. BMTH never really acknowledged CYB until now. They re-recorded the album, with a brand-new song closing it and two no barricade shows in Manchester.

 

But the real main event here was the rerecording of the album, which is an absolute treat for both newer fans of the band and older fans alike. The album has a fresh mix done by Buster Odeholm, making it a punchy mix, keeping sounds cleaner whilst keeping the original essence. Everything sounds great and that’s only further proven by the amazing vocal performance by Oli Sykes, who really gives it his all the entire record, showing that he still has those deathcore chops to flex. 

 

The band seems to have found a newfound love for making heavy music, which couldn’t be more apparent in the brand-new track that closes the album: Dehumanized. Throughout the manic screams and bludgeoning breakdowns still shows that the band can make heavy music, and good heavy music at that. 

 

Where I think this album hits hard for me though is, I honestly find it very easy to treat this album as a new thing. When a band does a rerecording obviously it’s very easy to compare it to the original, but where I find CYB Repented different is that it manages to form its own identity on top of everything else. 

 

Songs like Dragon Slaying and Medusa have small details changed about them that manage to help them to be their own songs rather than just remakes of old songs. CYB Repented doesn’t just get written off as a remake album because it has the chops and the identity to stand alone as its own separate thing. In the end, BMTH were able to make their 2006 even better than ever than before and expose it to a whole new generation of Bring Me fans.

 

For more information reach out to Jack Reed at jack.reed@student.shu.edu 

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