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“Dehumanized” is a single by the British band Bring Me The Horizon, released on June 25, 2026. The track became one of the biggest and most unexpected events in heavy music this year, marking the band’s full return to their roots — pure deathcore.

The song was released as an exclusive 11th bonus track for the anniversary album “Count Your Blessings | Repented” (released on July 10, 2026). It is a fully re-recorded edition of their 2006 debut album, created to “fix” the raw, teenage sound of the original using modern production techniques.

“Dehumanized” is the only brand-new composition on the record. It serves as a bridge between the aggressive chaos of their youth and the technical precision of their current style. Mixing was handled by Buster Odeholm, known for his monumental work with modern deathcore bands like Humanity’s Last Breath and Vildhjarta.

Songwriter and frontman Oli Sykes admitted that the lyrics were inspired by events from late 2025. After raising Palestinian flags during performances at the Reading & Leeds festivals, management and industry insiders warned him that it would have “catastrophic consequences for his career.”

“It made me realize how silently we are conditioned to suppress our own humanity. We think we are free, conscious beings, when in reality we are driven by forces we barely understand,” Sykes explained.

The dystopian book “Tender Is the Flesh” by Agustina Bazterrica also had a significant visual and metaphorical influence on the text. Lines such as “Some of us are butchers, some of us are lambs / Send me to the abattoir, let’s find out which I am” explore how modern civilization dehumanizes people.

The music video, directed by Oli Sykes himself alongside director Eric Richter, turned out to be so disturbing and gory that fans immediately compared it to the Saw movie franchise.

Set in an “active human slaughterhouse,” the band — most of whose members are vegans and vegetarians — used terror, surgical intervention, and gore aesthetics to deliver a harsh critique of the factory farming and meatpacking industries. The video turned out extremely aggressive and received numerous age restrictions across streaming platforms.

The song debuted live on July 10, 2026, in Manchester at the Outbreak Festival, where the band performed the entire updated Repented release in full for the first time. The track instantly shot to number one on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart.ше повністю зіграв весь оновлений реліз Repented. Трек миттєво злетів на першу сходинку чарту Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs.