Bring Me the Horizon Dig Deeper Into Their Deathcore Origins with “Dehumanized”

The second single from Bring Me the Horizon’s reimagined version of Count Your Blessings has arrived. “Dehumanized” follows the first offering from the project, and it confirms that the band is treating their divisive debut as legitimate territory to revisit, not just as an artifact to be smoothed over.

The original album, released in 2006, was a scrappy, breakdown-heavy document of early UK deathcore. At the time, it landed in a scene split between youthful fervor and critical dismissal. Nearly two decades later, Bring Me the Horizon are not the same band—their pivot into arena-sized alternative metal is well documented—but these re-recordings suggest curiosity rather than embarrassment about where they started.

On “Dehumanized,” the riffs are denser, the production cleaner, but the aggression remains intact. The track revives the blunt-force energy of the original while applying the kind of sonic clarity the band has earned over years of stadium-headlining experience. It’s not a rewrite; it’s a harder, sharper version of the same intent.

The decision to revisit Count Your Blessings in full raises questions about nostalgia and artistic ownership. For a band that has so thoroughly reinvented itself, returning to the sound that first fractured their audience feels less like retreat and more like a deliberate reengagement with an identity they once ran from. Whether the full album holds together under that revision will be worth hearing.