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Bring Me The Horizon recall being branded a “Mötley Crüe-esque bunch of fucking dickheads”

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Bring Me The Horizon‘s Oli Sykes has spoken about how the band were received by the media during their earlier days.Over the past decade, the Sheffield metal titans have gone on to become one of the most popular bands in British rock.

However, according to frontman Sykes, it wasn’t always like that.Speaking in a recent interview with Kerrang!, Sykes recalled how BMTH were portrayed by the media when they were first gaining popularity.“Our band was kind of branded as a Mötley Crüe-esque bunch of fucking dickheads,” Sykes said. “One of the first interviews I did, the guy twisted every single word.

Things that were said as a joke were put like I was saying it angrily, and it was just a massive shock to me that we were portrayed as these people.He added: “I thought I was a nice guy, and there were all these magazines that said I wasn’t.

It was amazing just how your words could be twisted into something you didn’t mean, and I struggled with that.”Sykes went on to say that he felt like he became a polarising figure because of the reputation the media painted of him and the band.“People either painted me as an idol or I was fucking hated,” he said. “You’re the guy on the cover and it’s Photoshopped and put in the best light, but you can never look like that.

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