Rock’s gone soft, it’s gone miserable and boring, there’s not really much exciting about it. So it’s important that we cross over, because we feel like we belong more in a place where people just like music and it’s not about how heavy it is. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don’t grieve. Sometimes we’re just too scared to face our emotions. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
I found myself reading about this 16-year-old kid inventing a micro-organism to save the ocean. It made me realise that we can do anything if we put our minds to it. Even with all the damage and destruction, things can heal if we let them. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
I just love to sit and go, ‘Let’s just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be’. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
Happy Song’ is a sarcastic open letter to the world about how we use superficial and trivial things to ignore the real problems. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
When I was 17, death metal and extreme hardcore was the best music in the world to me. But as I got older, my palette changed and my thirst for melody and emotion just got bigger and bigger. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy – they all have influences from both. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
The guitar shouldn’t be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn’t be important whether it’s there or not. If it’s important to you whether a guitar is there or not, you’re weird. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don’t fit in. Oliver Sykes Read Quote
