Oli Sykes says one of Bring Me The Horizon’s new songs is “a critique of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”

nme.com:

Oli Sykes has revealed that one of the songs on Bring Me The Horizon‘s new album ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’ is “a critique of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”.The track in question is the album’s seventh track, ‘a bulleT w/my namE On’, which is a collaboration with Underoath.

One line in particular stuck out to fans – “And if Jesus Christ returns/We’ll just kill the fucker twice,” which was sung by Underoath’s Spencer Chamberlain, who was Christian for much of the band’s career.Sykes replied to a comment on YouTube which had ended up leading to a debate among several commenters about religion.

In it, he revealed what the track had been referring to and his own shifting thoughts on religion, despite having written rather strongly atheistic lyrics throughout his career.“While I do not believe in a personified god, and have lyrics that reflect this perspective, I also have friends who are believers and whose faith has profoundly helped and transformed them for the better, and believe if organised religion brings out the good in a person, then it is a great thing,” he began. “I consider myself spiritual and believe in a higher power, and actually think ‘deist’ would describe me better than atheist.