Watch Bring Me The Horizon duet with Oli Sykes’ father on ‘Antivist’: “Make some noise for the coolest dad in the world!”
nme.comOli Sykes‘ dad Ian teamed up with the frontman on guest vocals on ‘Antivist’ during last night’s (June 23) Bring Me The Horizon show.Introducing his father onstage at Germany’s Hurricane Festival, Sykes playfully told the crowd: “Help him out – he’s a little nervous” before his dad stepped in to perform the fan favourite track from ‘Sempiternal’.
The frontman added: “Make some noise for the coolest dad in the world!”You can check out fan-shot footage below, together with the full setlist.antivist performed by ian sykes (dad) and oli pic.twitter.com/5v9OTgIdnL— -. .- –.. (@ANTIVISTSLAYER) June 23, 2024OLI SYKES DAD JOINED HIM ON STAGE TO SING ANTIVIST!?!!pic.twitter.com/N6bd7hC4Gp— State of the Scene (@SOTSPodcast) June 23, 2024‘DArkSide’‘Empire (Let Them Sing)’‘MANTRA’‘Teardrops’‘AmEN!’‘Kool-Aid’‘Shadow Moses’‘Obey’‘Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd’‘Itch for the Cure (When Will We Be Free?)’‘Kingslayer’‘Parasite Eve’‘Antivist’ (with Ian Sykes)‘Drown’‘Can You Feel My Heart‘Doomed’‘LosT’‘Throne’Ian is the latest guest vocalist on ‘Antivist’, with members of Bad Omens and Sleep Token having also previously provided support on the track while Bring Me The Horizon toured the UK and Australia.In yet another collaboration, Sykes also recently teamed up with Underoath‘s Spencer Chamberlain on ‘A Bullet w/ My Name On’, a track from their long awaited latest album, ‘Post Human: Next Gen’.The ‘Can You Feel My Heart’ singer previously opened up about it’s divisive lyric: “If Jesus Christ returns, we’ll just kill the fucker twice,” telling NME the lyric was intended to be “a critique of the conflict in Israel and Palestine”.“It’s spoken from the imagined perspective of a war victim, so it’s always coming from their mouthpiece, you.
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