Watch Bring Me The Horizon wear corpse paint for Finland festival performance
nme.comBring Me The Horizon donned corpse paint for a performance at a festival in Finland – check out the footage below.The Sheffield rockers played at the Tuska festival in Helsinki, Finland, on Saturday (June 29), one of the biggest metal festivals in the Nordic region.
Attendees could sit in a chair and let professional make-up artists give them a look fit for the festival, and the same team worked on Bring Me The Horizon’s corpse paint, too.“In the festival area you can refresh your own corpse masks too at the Tuska Expo’s loft in Kattilahalli by Ulottuvuusmatkat Oy,” Tuska said while the festival was on. “The same team also created the stage make-up of Bring Me The Horizon, so the merits are in order.”Frontman Oli Sykes posted a few photos of himself and his bandmates with their make-up look on Instagram.A post shared by Oli Sykes (@olobersykes)Corpse paint is a style of body paint most often used by black metal bands, as well as bands who play other extreme forms of metal, while similar paint styles have also been worn by shock rock artists like Alice Cooper and KISS.
It embodies the darkness and rebellion that’s so present in the music.Black metal had its origins in Norway, but is popular all over the Nordic countries, including in Finland, as are other metal subgenres.
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