BRING ME THE HORIZON - There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret

There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search There Is a Hell, Believe Me, I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. Studio album by Bring Me the Horizon Released 4 October 2010 (see release history) Recorded March–June 2010 at IF Studios in Frölunda, Gothenburg Sweden; June 2010 at Sunset Lodge Studios, Los Angeles, California Genre Metalcore Length 52:50 Label Visible Noise Producer Fredrik Nordström Bring Me the Horizon chronology Suicide Season (2008) There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret (2010) Singles from There Is a Hell, Believe Me, I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Lets Keep It a Secret. "It Never Ends" Released: 20 August 2010 "Anthem" Released: 30 November 2010 "Blessed with a Curse" Released: 22 March 2011 "Visions" Released: 23 August 2011 "Alligator Blood" Released: 31 October 2011 There Is a Hell, Believe Me, I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. is the third full-length studio album by British metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon, released on 4 October 2010 in the United Kingdom and majority of Europe, and 5 October 2010 in the United States.[1] The album's title is an exact lyric from the first track "Crucify Me". It had mixed success in Australia, where it debuted at number one but registered the smallest ever sale for a week at number one with 3,600 units. The album sold 20,200 in the US in its debut week, making it the fastest-selling album released by the band. Contents [hide] 1 Writing and recording 2 Musical style 3 Release and promotion 4 Reception 4.1 Commercial performance 4.2 Critical reception 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Release history 8 Chart performance 9 References [edit] Writing and recording On 26 November 2009, Bring Me the Horizon confirmed that they would start the writing of their third studio album in the early part of 2010,[2] scheduled for a summer release.[3] The album would be the first with the band for guitarist Jona Weinhofen, who stated that he was "…excited to be working on something new and so different than [his] previous works".[4] After spending the majority of their writing time in rural Scotland,[5] the band entered IF Studios in Sweden with producer Fredrik Nordström in March, completing the majority of the recording process by June.[6] Due to unforeseen delays, the band ended up behind their recording schedule at IF Studios. Six of the vocal tracks were therefore recorded over three days in Los Angeles, just before embarking on Warped Tour.[7] [edit] Musical style This album represents a significant shift in musical direction from the band's previous releases, moving further away from the original deathcore sound of Count Your Blessings and featuring a wide variety of experimentation, including notable post-hardcore influences, melodic interludes and extended ambient sections, electronic and symphonic keyboard samples, clean vocal segments with guest vocalists Lights and Josh Franceschi of You Me at Six and an unconventional use of choir-vocal samples in several songs. This album also features an increase in the complexity and structure of the band's songwriting, in stark contrast to the more standard metalcore featured on Suicide Season.[8][9][10] Lyrically, the album has been described as almost conceptual for Sykes, in the albums announcement from Epitaph it was stated that the album "vividly explores humanity's collective good nature".[1] The band has often looked at the lyrical themes of There is a hell as being repurcussions of what was sung about on the band second album. Matt Nicholls described Oliver Sykes lyrics as being more darker and moodier than the music on previous albums.[11] This change in style was well received by critics, but reception amongst the band's fanbase was mixed.[12] [edit] Release and promotion On 12 August, a press release revealing the album's title, artwork and track listing was released.[13] It was accompanied by a preview trailer for the album, which was published through the Epitaph Records YouTube channel. A 30-second sample of the first single "It Never Ends", released on 20 August, was published on Amazon.com the same day.[14] Their song "Fuck" was released through the band's MySpace, PureVolume and Facebook pages, as well as the Visible Noise YouTube channel and Epitaph Records SoundCloud page, on 14 September.[15] The entire album began streaming on their Myspace on 28 September 2010.[16] [edit] Reception [edit] Commercial performance [icon] This section requires expansion. It had mixed success in Australia, where it debuted at number one but registered the smallest ever sale for a week at number one with 3,600 units.[17] It later registered the second largest single weekly decline for a number one album in ARIA chart history dropping 1-20, behind Psycho Circus by Kiss, which dropped 1-32.[18] The album sold 20,200 in the US in its debut week, making it the fastest-selling album released by the band. [19] [edit] Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating Metacritic (80/100)[20] Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[21] AbsolutePunk (91%)[22] BBC Music (positive)[10] Kerrang! 5/5 stars[23] The New Review (5/5)[24] Rockfreaks (8.5/10)[25] Rock Sound (9/10)[26] Spin (6/10)[27] Under The Gun Review (9/10)[28] [icon] This section requires expansion. There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret. received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 9 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[20] The album was well received from different musicians as well. Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro chose the album as his choice in an article on the The best sounds of 2010. Saying "it is one of the best metal records I have heard in years: jam-packed with ideas and energy, and, most importantly for a metal record, the vocals don't make you cringe."[29] Rob Halford of Judas Priest praised the album in an interview with Metal Hammer by considering it pushing the limits saying: "And it seems to be the norm that if you attack something for this or that reason, the band are generally on to some really good idea. It could be setting a new standard. You have to be open minded in that way."[30] [edit] Track listing All lyrics written by Oliver Sykes and composed by Bring Me the Horizon No. Title Length 1. "Crucify Me" (featuring Lights) 6:20 2. "Anthem" 4:50 3. "It Never Ends" 4:34 4. "Fuck" (featuring Josh Franceschi of You Me at Six) 4:55 5. "Don't Go" (featuring Lights) 5:00 6. "Home Sweet Hole" 4:38 7. "Alligator Blood" 4:32 8. "Visions" 4:09 9. "Blacklist" 4:00 10. "Memorial" (instrumental) 3:10 11. "Blessed with a Curse" 5:08 12. "The Fox and the Wolf" (featuring Josh Scogin of The Chariot) 1:43 Total length: 52:50 [show]United Kingdom iTunes Store bonus track[31] [show]United States iTunes Store deluxe version bonus tracks[32] [show]Sony Music Entertainment Japan bonus tracks[33] [edit] Personnel Bring Me the Horizon[34] Oliver Sykes - lead vocals Lee Malia - lead guitar Jona Weinhofen - rhythm guitar, keyboard, vocals Matt Kean - bass guitar Matt Nicholls - drums, percussion Studio personnel at Studio Fredman[34] Fredrik Nordström - production, mixing, mastering Henrik Udd - production, mixing, mastering Andy Hayball - assistant engineer Studio personnel at Sunset Lodge Studios[34] Chris Rakestraw - additional vocal recording and production Additional personnel[34] Skrillex- programming, vocals Jamie Kossoff & Jon Courtney - additional vocals and production Matt 'O Grady - vocal recording of Josh Franceschi Lights - additional vocals on tracks 1 and 5 Anna Maria Engberg - additional vocals on track 1 Elin Engberg - additional vocals on track 1 The Fredman Choristers - additional vocals on tracks 1 and 3 Josh Franceschi - additional vocals on track 4 Josh Scogin - additional vocals on track 12 Jakob Printzlau (aka Plastic Kid) - artwork design and concept Michael Falgren - artwork photography [edit] Release history Country Date Label Format Catalog number Source Europe (excl. Austria, Germany and Switzerland) 4 October 2010 Visible Noise CD TORMENT159 [1][35] United States 5 October 2010 Epitaph 87065 [36] Japan 6 October 2010 Sony SICP-2840 [33] Australia 8 October 2010 Shock CTX594CD [37] Austria Plastic Head TORMENT159 [38] Germany Switzerland New Zealand 18 October 2010 Shock CTX594CD [39] [edit] Chart performance Chart (2010) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[40] 1 Canadian Albums Chart[41] 22 German Newcomer Chart[42] 4 UK Albums Chart[43] 13 UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart[44] 1 UK Indie Albums Chart[45] 1 US Billboard 200[41] 17 US Rock Albums[41] 2 US Hard Rock Albums[41] 2 US Independent Albums[41] 2 [edit] References ^ a b c "BLABBERMOUTH.NET - BRING ME THE HORIZON: New Album Details Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2010. ^ "Metal Hammer » Blog Archive » Bring Me The Horizon New Album Details Surface". Metal Hammer. 26 November 2009. 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