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2006 studio anthology by Bring Me the Horizon

Count Your Blessings
BMTH Count Your Blessings.png
Studio album by

Bring Me the Horizon
Released 30 October 2006
Studio DEP International Studios
(Birmingham, Westward Midlands)
Genre
  • Deathcore
  • melodic death metal
  • metalcore
Length 36:19
Label
  • Visible Noise (UK)
  • Earache (US)
Producer
  • Dan Sprigg
  • Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon chronology
This Is What the Border of Your Seat Was Made For
(2004) 		Count Your Blessings
(2006) 		Suicide Season
(2008)
Singles from Count Your Blessings
  1. "Pray for Plagues"
    Released: four June 2007
  2. "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only (Braille)"
    Released: vi March 2008

Count Your Blessings is the debut studio album by British stone band Bring Me the Horizon. Recorded at DEP International Studios in Birmingham with producer Dan Sprigg, it was originally released in the United kingdom on xxx October 2006 by Visible Dissonance. The album was after issued past Earache Records in the Usa on 14 August 2007. Count Your Blessings was supported by the release of music videos for two of the album's tracks: "Pray for Plagues" on four June 2007 and "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only (Braille)" on 6 March 2008.

Named after a lyric in the album's opening vocal "Pray for Plagues", Count Your Blessings is representative of the ring'due south early deathcore sound, which was phased out on after releases and eventually abandoned in favour of other, less aggressive styles. The band members were immature when they recorded the album, and both the ring and its fans accept largely overlooked it later in their career; it began as early as 2008, when guitarist Lee Malia was already criticising the album's quality. Nearly of the songs on the record speedily faded from the ring's live setlists. Most band members recorded their parts individually, rather than the group doing then as a whole, with the central location of the studio blamed for distracting the immature musicians. The anthology received some negative reviews, with the main complaints revolving around musical originality, although it still reached number 93 on the United kingdom Albums Nautical chart.

Groundwork and recording [edit]

Following the release of their first extended play This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For in October 2004, Bring Me the Horizon toured extensively while writing new textile for their full-length debut album.[1] Due to the number of shows the band were playing at the fourth dimension, much of the fabric was written quickly before recording was due to begin – drummer Matt Nicholls claimed that 3 songs were written in the space of two days due to the upcoming deadline.[2] A number of songs are re-recordings of early on demos that the ring had taped for a projection titled The Bedroom Sessions and in a circulate session for the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland station Radio 1, namely "(I Used to Make Out With) Medusa", "Off the Heezay" and "Liquor & Love Lost" (and so known as "Dragon Slaying").[3]

Recording took place at DEP International Studios in Birmingham with producer Dan Sprigg, who had previously worked with bands including Cradle of Filth, Napalm Death and, more recently, Lostprophets. Frontman Oliver Sykes described the recording process as "an intense experience" due to the group'southward want to make the all-time debut album they could, with biographer Ben Welch challenge that they "were starting to experience the pressure level of all of the hype that was edifice effectually them" at the fourth dimension.[1] Due to the studio's location in the centre of the metropolis, the immature band members (all under 20 years old at the time) were often distracted and would non spend much fourth dimension in the studio; this meant that each individual member concluded up recording the majority of their contributions to the album alone, rather than the full unit of measurement performing together.[4]

Limerick [edit]

Influences, way and themes [edit]

When recording Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon intended to make an album which sounded "as heavy and cruel as they possibly could"; Welch claims that the band scrapped whatever song ideas that "didn't fit that criterion".[ane] Speaking in 2014 about the band'south intentions when writing and recording music during their early years, Sykes claimed the group "just wanted to brand noisy music".[5] Similarly, when asked about the band'southward beginnings in a 2014 interview, guitarist Lee Malia explained, "When you're immature, you just desire to practice everything to extremes. That's what the get-go EP and the album were like: too over-excited sounding".[half dozen] Matt Nicholls said that on Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon "were influenced a lot by Swedish metal – At The Gates and stuff like that."[7] Nicholls too said that on Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon's members "were 18 or 19 years old and wanted to be as metal as possible."[7] Specifically, the band'south members were influenced past Norma Jean, Skycamefalling, Metallica, Pantera, At the Gates, Curvation Enemy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and In Flames at the band'south beginning.[viii]

The musical style of Count Your Blessings is nigh often categorised as deathcore,[9] [10] [11] [12] but has also been labeled as metalcore[ix] and melodic death metal.[xiii] Count Your Blessings uses elements of genres like melodic death metal, decease metallic and black metal,[9] [13] drawing comparisons to bands like The Blackness Dahlia Murder,[xiv] Cannibal Corpse,[10] At the Gates,[15] and Obituary.[16] Last Rites noted that the album's black metal-reminiscent vocals (which consist of death growls and high-pitched shrieks) were placed over a musical base of melodic expiry metal.[13] Co-ordinate to Drowned in Sound columnist Raziq Rauf, the songs on the anthology "generally consist of The Black Dahlia Murder-style thunderous riffs mixed with some dastardly sludgy doom moments and more breakdowns than your dad's quondam Nissan Sunny".[fourteen] The lyrical content is admittedly elementary, which according to Sykes is due to the fact that his life had "never been that bad" at the time he wrote them; the singer has noted that most songs on the album are "well-nigh girls or just growing up", which he claims contributes to the grouping's brand of "political party music".[14]

Promotion and release [edit]

Count Your Blessings was originally released in the U.k. on 30 Oct 2006 past Visible Racket.[1] It was not released in the United States until 14 August 2007, when it was issued by Earache Records.[17] The version released by retailer Hot Topic featured a cover version of Slipknot's "Eyeless" as a bonus track,[eighteen] which had originally been recorded for Higher Voltage: Another Brief History of Rock, a CD released for costless with an issue of Kerrang! magazine in June 2007.[19] A first music video for "Pray for Plagues", was directed by Kenny Lindström and released on 4 June 2007.[xx] [21] A 2d music video, directed past Perrone Salvatore, "For Stevie Wonder's Eyes Only (Braille)" was issued on vi March 2008.[22]

Following the release of Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon toured extensively in support of the anthology. Throughout Oct and November the group toured the UK with American black metal band Abigail Williams,[23] although the Phoenix, Arizona-based band left the bout early on subsequently drummer Zach Gibson suffered a wrist injury.[24] Centurion replaced Abigail Williams for the rest of the tour, and Bring Me the Horizon spent the residuum of the twelvemonth supporting labelmates Lostprophets.[25] The band after replaced Bury Your Expressionless supporting Killswitch Engage on their European bout in January 2007,[26] then continued to tour the UK through March and April.[27] During the summer, the band played a number of festivals (including Download Festival).[28]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Professional person ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Almost.com [ix]
AllMusic [29]
Chronicles of Chaos 8.5/10[16]
Exclaim! Favourable[10]
MetalSucks [eleven]

Upon its release, Count Your Blessings debuted at number 93 on the U.k. Albums Chart.[30] It besides peaked at number ix on the U.k. Stone & Metal Albums Chart[31] and remained there for two farther weeks, first dropping to number 14[32] and so to number 26.[33]

Overall, Count Your Blessings received mixed critical reception. Exclaim! writer Bill Whish wrote positively near the release, praising the "vitriolic lyrics and brutally heavy guitar work" and welcoming the band as "a niggling more interesting" than some other metalcore artists.[ten] DIY mag's Tom Connick dubbed "(I Used to Make Out With) Medusa" the "crowning precious stone" of Count Your Blessings in a 2014 feature, challenge that information technology "Perfectly [captures] that youthful, drunken recklessness that defined [the band's] most controversial years" with its "razor sharp" guitar work and "thunderous breakdowns".[34] Aaron McKay, a author for Chronicles of Chaos, praised Sykes' vocal commitment, likening it to Obituary frontman John Tardy.[xvi]

However, many commentators criticised the lack of invention on the album. While AllMusic's Stewart Mason praised the album for existence "vaguely interesting musically" as well as claiming that there is "a greater sense of dynamic than usual" in the genre on the release, he also commented on the "generally unimaginative songwriting", challenge it adds "trivial to the existing knowledge base" of the genre. Furthermore, he likewise criticised Sykes'southward vocal style on the record, which he described as an "immediately irritating" and a "high-pitched gibber".[29] Chad Bowar for About.com highlighted the ring within their scene, praising their "catchy melodies" and "decent riffs and solos", and on Count Your Blessings welcomed the variety in styles of vocal commitment beyond the collection.[9] Withal, similarly to Mason, Bowar dubbed the anthology "way too generic and repetitive", claiming that it features "too many breakdowns" and a majority of "extremely forgettable" songs.[ix] Axl Rosenberg of MetalSucks complained that the band displayed "nothing to distinguish them from the pack" on the album, although he did praise the presence of "some decent breakdowns" and claim that the songs would make "practiced background noise".[xi]

Touch [edit]

Due to the immature age of the band when they recorded the album and the desperate stylistic changes which followed its release, Count Your Blessings has largely been neglected in contempo years, both by the band and past their fans. As early as 2008, guitarist Lee Malia was criticising the album's quality and noting that the band quickly wanted "to exercise something amend" after its release.[35] Following the release of "Drown" in 2014, described by Digital Spy 's Adam Silverstein as "a universe abroad from the ... full-on mayhem" of Count Your Blessings, Sykes reflected that the single would have "offended" the band members when they were younger, adding that the group were "never gonna sound similar that again".[5]

Keyboardist Jordan Fish (who joined Bring Me the Horizon about 6 years after the album's release) has explained the drastic development in way betwixt Count Your Blessings and afterwards releases every bit merely being due to the fact that the band members "don't listen to deathcore anymore", challenge that to attempt that blazon of music again would be dishonest due to the members' change in tastes and feelings.[36] Alternative Press author Tyler Precipitous has added that "The members of Bring Me the Horizon have evolved from teenage metalheads to a group of mature, progressed songwriters" in response to criticism of their change in way.[37] Near of the album'south songs were dropped from live performances in the years post-obit the release of Suicide Flavor and At that place Is a Hell..., although "Pray for Plagues" returned to set lists briefly in late 2014 when the band performed with original guitarist Curtis Ward at a few shows.[38] [39] The song is featured on the video anthology Live at Wembley, recorded in December 2014.[40]

Despite the radical evolution of the band since Count Your Blessings, the album has still received some retrospective praise. In a feature published in 2015, Kerrang! writer Emily Carter credited the album for increasing the popularity of the band during their determinative years, equally well as praising its guitar riffs and the song "Pray for Plagues".[41] AXS contributor Rey Harris described the album equally "a classic among deathcore fans", highlighting "Blackness & Bluish" in particular.[12] Sarai C. of Loudwire named "Pray for Plagues" the quaternary all-time Bring Me the Horizon song to date (equally of May 2014), praising information technology as "one of Bring Me the Horizon's most timeless tracks".[42] Dan Slessor for Alternative Press included "Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick" equally the alternative tenth selection in his feature of "The 10 best Bring Me the Horizon songs", praising its "exuberant energy and rich melody".[43]

Track listing [edit]

All lyrics written by Oliver Sykes; all songs produced past Bring Me the Horizon and Dan Sprigg.

No. Title Length
one. "Pray for Plagues" 4:21
ii. "Tell Slater Not to Launder His Dick" 3:thirty
3. "For Stevie Wonders Eyes But" four:29
4. "A Lot Like Vegas" ii:09
v. "Blackness & Blue" 4:33
6. "Dull Dance" one:16
7. "Liquor & Love Lost" 2:39
8. "(I Used to Make Out With) Medusa" 5:39
9. "Fifteen Fathoms, Counting" 1:56
x. "Off the Heezay" 5:39
Total length: 36:19
Hot Topic edition bonus track
No. Title Writer(s) Length
eleven. "Eyeless" (Slipknot cover)
  • Corey Taylor
  • Paul Gray
  • Joey Jordison
  • Shawn Crahan
  • Mick Thomson
  • Chris Fehn
  • Sid Wilson
  • Craig Jones
 iv:04
Total length: 40:13

Notes

  • Track 2 is censored on the tracklist as "D**chiliad", but without censoring in the booklet.
  • Rail 3 is written in wrong braille on the tracklist, and in correct braille (every bit ⠋⠕⠗ ⠎⠞⠑⠧⠊⠑ ⠺⠕⠝⠙⠑⠗⠎ ⠑⠽⠑⠎ ⠕⠝⠇⠽) in the booklet. It is usually known equally "For Stevie Wonder'south Optics Only (Braille)" or but as "Braille".
  • Rails 4 is written equally "Alot Similar Vegas" on the tracklist. This was corrected on later versions.
  • Track xi is written as "Eyeless (Slipknot)" on the tracklist.

Personnel [edit]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Count Your Blessings, Visible Noise[44]

Bring Me the Horizon

  • Oliver Sykes – lead vocals, keyboards, programming
  • Lee Malia – lead guitar
  • Curtis Ward – rhythm guitar
  • Matt Kean – bass
  • Matt Nicholls – drums

Additional personnel

  • Bring Me the Horizon – product, music
  • Dan Sprigg – product, mixing, mastering
  • Tom Barnes – photography

Charts [edit]

Release history [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Count Your Blessings at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
  • Count Your Blessings at Discogs (listing of releases)

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