Bring Me the Horizon coming back to their roots with some brand new heavy music titled "Dehumanized" is literally the best excuse for me to start reviewing music again. Seriously, this track just hits way too close to home and relates to the exact thoughts bouncing around my head every single day.

Musically, bruh... I literally can’t. 😭🤘

Here's for Dehumanized MV


The moment it drops, it instantly reminds me of the late, legendary Mitch Lucker (the former frontman of Suicide Silence), who we all know was Oliver’s close friend. For a split second, looking at the vibes, the Dehumanized music video feels almost identical to "You Only Live Once". The camera work, the aesthetic, the raw energy—it’s all there.

Here's for You Only Live Once MV 

And don't even get me started on the actual sound. The distortion is incredibly thick, the drum beats are absolutely crushing, and that guitar riff? 😍 Absolute perfection. But the real star here is the vocal delivery. The growl is super lit. 🔥 Seriously, for anyone out there who genuinely loves deathcore or heavy music, this track is a must-try. BMTH proved they haven't lost their heavy edge at all.

Now for the lyrics which is easily my fav part because I really want to encode the meaning based on my own perspective.

Broadly speaking, "Dehumanized" is a brutal social critique about how we are losing our humanity and how human morality is rotting away under a cruel global system. Let's break down the main points:

1. Humans as System Commodities

The song portrays a dark reality where modern humans lose their freedom the second they are born. We are basically birthed just to become "fuel" or "meat" to keep the gears of the system turning whether that's capitalism, soul-crushing industries, or geopolitical wars. We are completely brainwashed and lulled to sleep by a "gilded lie" (fake comfort, consumerism, cheap entertainment). We get so comfortable in our little bubbles that we don't even realize we are being completely dehumanized.

2. The Death of Empathy

Oli Sykes shines a light on a dystopian world where basic human decency has been completely flipped upside down. In this current society, actually showing compassion or feeling empathy for someone else is treated like a mistake, a weakness, or literally a sin ("For empathy is heresy"). It forces humanity into two messed-up categories: the butchers (the oppressors/exploiters) and the lambs (the victims blindly led to the slaughter).

3. Moral Rot into Global Trash

The final, ultra-aggressive breakdown of the song ("Kill each other") shows the absolute rock bottom of human civilization. When people reject common sense and stop listening to their conscience just to chase their shallow, primitive impulses (disciples of desire), they turn into a plague. We stop being caretakers of the planet and just become a virus destroying the earth and tearing each other apart.

To sum it all up, this song is a massive, well-deserved slap to the face regarding the current state of our world. Oli Sykes is trying to tell us that the ultimate villain we should fear isn't some external monster or alien threat—it’s human beings ourselves. We are the ones rotting from the inside out morally, throwing empathy out the window, and turning into creatures that no longer possess a shred of humanity (Dehumanized).

Songs like this are so incredibly relatable to me because this is literally what I think about daily about empathy which is so rare to find as it's always getting beaten down by ego. 💔

Overall, "Dehumanized" is a mirror held up to our faces, asking us a simple question: Are we still human, or have we already let the machine take our souls? :)