Oli Sykes discussed Bring Me the Horizon’s 2023 split with keyboardist Jordan Fish in a new interview.

Bring Me the Horizon just released their newest album Post Human: NeX GEn final Friday (May 24). Fish is credited on lots of of the album’s songs, regardless of it getting their initially complete-length release considering the fact that the musician split with the band in December.

During a new conversation with Revolver, Sykes opened up on the keyboardist’s departure from the group and confirmed that it was component of the explanation it took so lengthy for the record to come out.

“The main reason it was delayed is because of personal reasons within the band, and it was directly connected to Jordan leaving. Things weren’t good last year, as a unit, and the writing suffered because of that. It slowed down to a halt,” the vocalist reasoned.

Sykes noted that with Fish in the band, Bring Me the Horizon moved away from employing actual instruments though writing music for a though mainly because of his pc and production experience. Thus, when functioning on “Kool-Aid,” their initially single considering the fact that he left the band, they returned to writing riffs on guitars.

“Me and Jordan were like a force. We turned into the ‘Oli and Jordan Show’ without really realizing it,” he continued.

“Ever since I got out of rehab, just before Sempiternal, I really had to throw myself into something, and I guess that was music. I became addicted to writing, and learning how to sing and produce. And Jordan was my partner in that kind of pursuit. We wrote all the time. I didn’t realize how much we pushed the other guys out.”

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The frontman mentioned he hasn’t heard from Fish at all considering the fact that the record came out, at least straight.

“I’m not going to bullshit and say, ‘Oh, it was amicable and we all ended on good terms and stuff.’ End of day, it’s like any breakup… but there’s no juicy story or anything. There’s no headline there. At the same time, there’ll be some wounds on both sides that are going to take a bit longer to heal before [getting back] on communicating terms again.”

However, he does not rule out the possibility of possessing a partnership with Fish once more, and praised the musician for his contributions to Bring Me the Horizon’s physique of operate.

Fish has considering the fact that worked on other projects, like an Architects song, which he made, and has been functioning with Spiritbox on their subsequent release.