That's the Spirit
by Bring Me the Horizon
  • Record Label: RCA
  • Release Date: Sep 11, 2015
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 381 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 271 out of 381
  2. Mixed: 46 out of 381
  3. Negative: 64 out of 381
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  1. utahman1971
    Sep 12, 2015
    2
    Went from hardcore to very soft music. Like Linkin Park did and Linkin Park did not make it better. So it is going the same way with Bring Me The Horizon latest album. Sounds as soft as Linkin Park. I was happy with Linkin Parks first few albums. Not Bring Me The Horizon went off to softcore. How is adding kids singing to the f-word great. This is a bad album. Music is getting as bad asWent from hardcore to very soft music. Like Linkin Park did and Linkin Park did not make it better. So it is going the same way with Bring Me The Horizon latest album. Sounds as soft as Linkin Park. I was happy with Linkin Parks first few albums. Not Bring Me The Horizon went off to softcore. How is adding kids singing to the f-word great. This is a bad album. Music is getting as bad as the horror genre on movies. They take rated R and start making PG-13 horror and now we got hardcore going to softcore. What do they think its going to make the world better with the kids? It is too late for this clean up now. They are all bad and doing this isn't going to stop the end of the world. It is coming and this move does not do a thing except just make them sound mellow.… Expand
  2. Toondude10
    Sep 12, 2015
    2
    The problem with this band isn't their ambition, it's the execution. Many of the electronic elements are forced down our throats so much that the rest of the music ultimately suffers. Not only that, but the lyrics are immature and cringe-worthy, the vocals are awful, and the instrumentation is boring. Only one song, 'Avalanche', stands out as the somewhat decent track on here and even thenThe problem with this band isn't their ambition, it's the execution. Many of the electronic elements are forced down our throats so much that the rest of the music ultimately suffers. Not only that, but the lyrics are immature and cringe-worthy, the vocals are awful, and the instrumentation is boring. Only one song, 'Avalanche', stands out as the somewhat decent track on here and even then it isn't as good as it should've been. Bring Me the Horizon needs to grow up and learn that this direction they're taking is the wrong one.… Expand
  3. goldsink99
    Sep 15, 2015
    0
    Awful. Just Awful. This change in sound is terrible. It's muted and with electronic flourishes that do nothing for the sound. The guitars are almost completely lost and there is just no drive there anymore. They are no longer a metal band this is flat, boring, electro pop rock.
  4. protestor78
    Sep 13, 2015
    3
    R.I.P. BMTH

    I like BMTH. Seen them play, bought the albums and stood up them for when others sought to tear them down. This album though, their fifth outing to date is an utter disgrace and well below the high standard set by their previous efforts. It is a one-trick pony and that trick didn't impress me in the first place. Every track will make old school BMTH fans want to weep with    R.I.P. BMTH

    I like BMTH. Seen them play, bought the albums and stood up them for when others sought to tear them down. This album though, their fifth outing to date is an utter disgrace and well below the high standard set by their previous efforts.
    It is a one-trick pony and that trick didn't impress me in the first place. Every track will make old school BMTH fans want to weep with sorrow at how a band that was once so unashamedly brutal could produce and entire album of meaningless, soul-less and consequently pointless music the likes of which offends me enough to make listening to each track on the album a chore which couldn't end soon enough.
    Tragic effort fellas, what were you all thinking?    … Expand
  5. altusv
    Sep 23, 2015
    0
    I wasn't a big fan before but thought I'd give it a listen seeing that artists/bands
    evolve/mature etc...clearly not the case here. The lyrics still sound like they were written by a misunderstood teenage boy dealing with his first heartbreak.
    Their newest album sounds like a mix between NickelbackLinkin Park so if that's your thing you'd enjoy this album. If I had to choose their    I wasn't a big fan before but thought I'd give it a listen seeing that artists/bands
    evolve/mature etc...clearly not the case here. The lyrics still sound like they were written by a misunderstood teenage boy dealing with his first heartbreak.

    Their newest album sounds like a mix between NickelbackLinkin Park so if that's your thing you'd enjoy this album.

    If I had to choose their best album I'd say Suicide Season.

    ...sadly for me it's 45 minutes of my life I can never get back    … Expand
  6. kregstrong
    Sep 16, 2015
    0
    Man this new album is pretty pathetic, im okay with small sound changes but not genre changes. Very dissapointed. Been looking forward to this album for a long time, bummer
  7. Frankie158
    Sep 15, 2015
    0
    Goodbye BMTH.
    It's basically just "can you feel my heart pt2" "can you still feel my heart", and so on, so fourth.
    Once they cashed in on the success of that song, they sold out big time.
  8. CST530
    Sep 11, 2015
    1
    I don't know which is worse: how these "critics" get away with blatantly being bought out by Columbia, or how being Linkin Park-esque is considered a good thing. Also, going from **** deathcore to **** modern rock radio-core is a lateral move, not a progressive move.

    Let this be a warning: do not let Revolver's crotchety, turn of the century taste fool you into listening to this    I don't know which is worse: how these "critics" get away with blatantly being bought out by Columbia, or how being Linkin Park-esque is considered a good thing. Also, going from **** deathcore to **** modern rock radio-core is a lateral move, not a progressive move.

    Let this be a warning: do not let Revolver's crotchety, turn of the century taste fool you into listening to this garbage. **** musicians are ****.    … Expand
  9. BenHawkes113
    Nov 4, 2015
    3
    This is not Bring Me The Horizon. There were lofty expectations after the masterpiece that was Sempiternal, however, they have now abandoned any semblance of the band that they once were. While Throne and Drown are not terrible, they are the only two tracks on the album that are worth listening to. For fans of BMTH, at least we can take comfort in the fact that we still have albums such asThis is not Bring Me The Horizon. There were lofty expectations after the masterpiece that was Sempiternal, however, they have now abandoned any semblance of the band that they once were. While Throne and Drown are not terrible, they are the only two tracks on the album that are worth listening to. For fans of BMTH, at least we can take comfort in the fact that we still have albums such as Sempiternal, Count Your Blessings and Suicide Season to listen to.… Expand
  10. lucyvnakumara
    Oct 12, 2015
    3
    Oh no. I mean it.

    I'll start with the good things. Which there were three of, thus the score I gave this album. Happy Song made me think that the album was going to be experimental alt metal, which I wouldn't have had a problem with. Throne was cool. Not much else though. Blasphemy was a breath of... well, air, I guess. I'd be lying if I said it was in any way fresh, or creative for    Oh no. I mean it.

    I'll start with the good things. Which there were three of, thus the score I gave this album. Happy Song made me think that the album was going to be experimental alt metal, which I wouldn't have had a problem with. Throne was cool. Not much else though. Blasphemy was a breath of... well, air, I guess. I'd be lying if I said it was in any way fresh, or creative for this band.

    Now for the bad. There is a lot of bad, so much that I'll split it up for each song.

    Doomed - The chorus is fine, whatever. Don't really care. It was a baaaad sign though. I was really excited when I pressed play and thirty seconds in I was wondering if I pressed a Justin Beiber song on accident. So that didn't exactly have me going into the album with the highest hopes.

    Follow You: I don't... I don't know what to say. You know when something awful happens to you and you can't even speak, or think? You're just sort of standing in shock? That's me, right now, when I first heard the song, and every time I had to acknowledge its existence in between. Let's just pretend this song didn't happen shall we? Next song.

    What You Need: I had to relisten to this one to remember literally anything about it. Because it's BORING. It's not bad, it's not too light or too heavy, it's just nothing. What's going on? I already forget. I think every time I listen to this song my short-term memory is immediately wiped. What the hell is this song?

    Avalanche: It's not bad. That's all I can really say, the drums at the beginning are cool but they make me think Lonely Girl by Tonight Alive is playing at first, which is a much better song anyway. The lyrics are fine. On the fence of going above passable. Oli's singing isn't bad, although I'm pretty sure everyone knows he can't... well, actually sing. Good job on the making it sound like he can though.

    Run: It's Runaways by All Time Low. It's the **** bad nu-metal version of Runaways by All Time Low. Please kill me now.

    Drown: It was good the first time I heard it. It stopped being good every time after that. If you're gonna write a song that's so obviously meant to be an anthem, write a god damn anthem instead of whatever the hell this is.

    Oh No: Saxophone. Saxophone trance music. That's it that's all. **** SAXOPHONE.

    There. That's Bring Me The Horizon's new album. We all knew something like this had to happen, we just didn't think so soon.    … Expand
  11. andyroo666
    Jan 5, 2016
    0
    The band completely abandoned it's old sound and old fans for that matter to make the most generic sounding alternative art to date; anyone who called this album of the year is clearly on a lot of drugs. The album is very mediocre at best, in my honest opinion the band should have created a new band called "That's the Spirit" and continued with their old sound on the name "Bring me theThe band completely abandoned it's old sound and old fans for that matter to make the most generic sounding alternative art to date; anyone who called this album of the year is clearly on a lot of drugs. The album is very mediocre at best, in my honest opinion the band should have created a new band called "That's the Spirit" and continued with their old sound on the name "Bring me the Horizon" this is simply just not the band we're used to. Olli Sykes apparently grew up and left the fans who made them in the dust.… Expand
  12. duffles
    Apr 17, 2016
    3
    I'd like to think that in a decade this will be an album BMTH just tries to forget. A lot of comparisons have been made to Linkin Park and I think that's apt when comparing it to their A Thousand Suns era of abandoning their sound for something else but not really making it work at all. Like Linkin Park I hope in a few years BMTH tries to go back to their roots and forgets this happened.I'd like to think that in a decade this will be an album BMTH just tries to forget. A lot of comparisons have been made to Linkin Park and I think that's apt when comparing it to their A Thousand Suns era of abandoning their sound for something else but not really making it work at all. Like Linkin Park I hope in a few years BMTH tries to go back to their roots and forgets this happened. That's The Spirit does have some Linkin Park sound to it, but while Linkin Park made it work for them for their early works with BMTH it just sounds like they forced it to be more radio friendly.

    There are a couple of songs that work (Throne is the best on the album, albeit overproduced), but for the most part this is an album for people who REALLY liked "Can You Feel My Heart" off Sempiternal. Pretty much all of their metalcore sound is gone, and what's left is some uninspired electronic pop rock. In some songs Oli Sykes sounds completely out of his element trying to emote in a softer voice which really shows the limits of his vocal abilities.

    I can deal with bands changing their sound, but this shift is so dramatic that it makes me wonder what the heck happened in the 2 years between Sempiternal and this to cause such a change. If you're a fan of older BMTH this album might not be for you unless you have very broad musical tastes.    … Expand
  13. Enforcer122
    Aug 12, 2016
    3
    Bring Me the Horizon had a fantastic opportunity to become one of the most iconic bands in British heavy metal. However, they threw it away to take a more mainstream, soft, politically correct approach. 2-3 of the songs are great, but most is unfortunately very generic music that you would hear on the radio. They've really thrown their original fans to the side on this album.
  14. Crashloxx
    Jan 6, 2020
    0
    Puta acá empezaron a decaer los culiaos, hay temas bknes como blasphemy pero lo otro es pura wea maricona como drown

Awards & Rankings

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#9 Best Album of 2015
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#23 Most Discussed Album of 2015
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#35 Most Shared Album of 2015

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Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Q Magazine
    Oct 6, 2015
    80
    That's The Spirit will make them mainstream stars, no question. [Nov 2015, p.104]
  2. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 6, 2015
    80
    With That’s The Spirit, they’ve hit a new direction and a creative peak that finally matches their thirst for fame and fortune.
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  3. AllMusic
    Sep 30, 2015
    80
    By entering the mainstream one limb (album) at a time, Bring Me the Horizon are merely reaping what they've sown, and longtime fans should already feel acclimated to the water.
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