Bring Me The Horizon Premiere “In The Dark” Music Video Starring Forest Whitaker
Bring Me The Horizon have premiered their new music video for their track “In The Dark“. The clip notably stars Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, whom the band met back in 2017 when his daughter Sonnet brought him to one of their shows in Atlanta, GA.
The video serves as the directorial debut for the band’s frontman Oli Sykes, who shot the clip with assistance from Brian Cox (Hollywood Undead, Butcher Babies). Sykes discussed the video and more in a new interview running over at NME. Speaking of the band’s connection to Whitaker, Sykes explained:
“We met Forest a couple of years back. His daughter is a fan of the band and he came to a show with her. Any time that we’re in the same town, he usually comes down to a show. He was at All Points East and he’s just a really good dude.
This is something that we’ve been trying to do for ages. He was actually going to be the main guy in ‘Mantra‘, but it just didn’t work out in the end because of timing and scheduling, so it ended up being me.”
As for the concept of the video itself, Sykes offered:
“I guess it’s meant to be a representation of the grieving process. It’s a visual metaphor for what the song is talking about. When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling – but it’s important to grieve.
Even if something’s happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something. 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.”
When asked if the song has taken on a new meaning since he first wrote it, Sykes replied:
“I don’t want to focus too much on what the song is about, because it feels so insignificant now. It’s not something that I’ve really been thinking about.
Basically, Forest is the protagonist and a lot of people are counting on him to be able to recall these memories and process them. The spectrum of his emotions is impacting on all of these different experiments. I wanted it to have a message for what’s going on in the world right now.
A lot of people are refusing to accept what’s happening, because they’ll have to take action and make some physical changes to their lives.”
“It’s a mirror to how we don’t want to face up to things. A lot of people are refusing to accept what’s happening, because they know that in accepting it, they’ll have to take action and make some physical changes to their lives.
It’s about something bigger than my emotions and my breakup, this is about what’s happening on the planet right now.”
You can catch the band out in North America now on the following tour with Sleeping With Sirens and Poppy opening (tickets):
10/21 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
10/22 Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre are The Midland
10/25 San Antonio, TX – Sunken Garden Theater
10/27 New Orleans, LA – Voodoo Festival
10/28 Tampa, FL – The Cuban Club
10/29 Miami, FL – The Fillmore
