Album: Post Human: Nex Gen (2023)
Charted: 31
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Songfacts®:

  • "Darkside" deals with Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes' battles with mental anguish.

    Hey, I'm begging you to stay
    My dark side won today
    My heart keeps breaking
    Over and over


    The "dark side" winning today implies a downward spiral to blacker depressive states, a recurring motif in Bring Me The Horizon's music. Examples include "Doomed," "Happy Song," "Teardrops" and "Lost."
  • Some Bring Me The Horizon fans believe that "Darkside" is a direct tribute to Papa Roach's 2000 song "Last Resort." Both are anthemic songs that are a cry for help with mental health issues. One "Darkside" lyric parallels a line from Papa Roach's hit song. Oli Sykes sings:

    Six feet in the dirt, still breathing
    Don't give a f--- if my heart stops beating


    The "Last Resort" lyric goes:

    Suffocation, no breathing
    Don't give a f--- if I cut my arm, bleeding
  • Sykes and his Bring Me The Horizon bandmates Lee Malia, Matt Nicholls and Jordan Fish wrote "Darkside" alongside Andrew Goldstein and Zakk Cervini.

    Los Angeles based producer and songwriter Andrew Goldstein has also worked with Blackbear ("Hot Girl Bummer"), Maroon 5 ("Beautiful Mistakes") and Papa Roach ("Kill The Noise").

    Rock producer Zakk Cervini previously collaborated with Bring Me The Horizon on "Strangers," "Lost" and their team-up with Sigrid, "Bad Life."

    Sykes and Cervini co-produced the track with Daisuke Ehara.
  • Bring Me The Horizon released "Darkside" on the notably superstitious date, Friday, October 13, 2023. They dropped it three days after World Mental Health Day (October 10).

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