The mighty Bring Me The Horizon will headline the mainstage at Reading & Leeds Festival on August 23rd (Saturday) & 24th (Sunday) 2025.
Frontman Oli adds “We are beyond excited to be returning to Reading & Leeds for our first fully fledged headline slot. We are going to bring hands down the greatest show of our careers. It’s going to be our only UK performance next year and the final European show of the NEX GEN campaign before the band take time away, so if you want to see BMTH next year, this truly is your only chance. Can’t wait.’
The news follows a monumental year of achievements for the band, who kicked off 2024 by playing to over 140,000 fans in the UK & Ireland on their biggest UK arena tour to date and winning a prestigious BRIT Award for Best Alternative/Rock Act.
Bring Me The Horizon released their critically acclaimed seventh studio album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn via Sony/RCA, which has now streamed over a billion times to date. It was the latest chapter in the series to be revealed and saw the band expanding both musically and conceptually.
Last week saw them play their biggest headline show to date in São Paulo, selling out the 45k capacity Allianz Parque stadium. They wowed fans with a groundbreaking performance which incorporated the latest techniques in both live AI and AR, as well as a new hybrid paradigm that could be termed as “Generative Augmented Reality” (GAR) plus drones and pyro – WATCH HERE They will end the year headlining arenas in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
Bring Me The Horizon are a band unafraid to challenge both themselves and the musical world in which they have become leaders.
It is just the beginning…
About Bring Me The Horizon
BRIT award winning, Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling group Bring Me The Horizon are one of the most successful rock bands on the planet, with a career accumulating 10B streams under their belts to date. They have toured the world multiple times, playing sold-out shows in over 50 countries and in 2024 alone, played to over 300k fans to date. They are revered festival headliners across the globe, in 2023 they played Download Festival to over 100k fans, hosted and headlined NEX FEST in Japan, Good Things in Australia and When We Were Young and Sick New World in Las Vegas. They kicked off their POST HUMAN era in 2020 with the release of the first of four EPs aptly titled ‘POST HUMAN: Survival Horror’. The critically acclaimed release debuted at Number 1 on the UK Album chart. 2022 saw them appear at the BRIT Awards where they joined Grammy award winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran for an electrifying performance of ‘Bad Habits’ and they released their gold-certified sixth studio album, ‘amo’, in 2019, which debuted at Number 1 in 17 markets and was named “one of the most anticipated albums of 2019” by Billboard, it also garnered the band their second Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album, after the LP’s first single ‘MANTRA’ earned them a nod for Best Rock Song in 2018. They also received their first BRIT Award nomination for Best Group in 2021 and a BRIT win in 2024 for ‘Best Alt/Rock Act’, beating the Rolling Stones and Blur. They have now also amassed over 1 billion video views on YouTube and are in the top 500 most streamed artists globally. With POST HUMAN: NeX GEn‘s release, singles from the POST HUMAN series have been streamed over a massive 2.5 billion times. Bring Me The Horizon are vocalist Oli Sykes, guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean and drummer Mat Nicholls.
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