Count Your Blessings: Repented
Smashes Into the UK Top 10 💀🔥
Well, this is absolutely ridiculous.
And by ridiculous, we mean gloriously, beautifully, blast-beat-powered ridiculous.
Bring Me The Horizon’s re-recorded anniversary edition of their infamous 2006 debut, Count Your Blessings: Repented, has reportedly crashed into the UK Official Albums Chart at No. 6, making it the highest-charting deathcore album in UK history.
Yes, mun.
A deathcore album.
Inside the UK Top 10.
The same genre that spent years being dismissed as a noisy internet phase has just kicked the doors off the mainstream, dragged a circle pit into the room and sat itself proudly at the grown-ups’ table.
Somewhere, a metal gatekeeper has dropped his pint.
💀 From Teenage Chaos to Chart History
When the original Count Your Blessings landed in 2006, Bring Me The Horizon were not the enormous arena-filling, festival-headlining machine we know today.
They were a gang of young Sheffield musicians armed with breakdowns, blast beats, questionable haircuts and the sort of chaotic energy normally associated with somebody releasing a badger into a Greggs.
The album was raw, aggressive and completely uninterested in behaving itself.
Tracks such as “Pray for Plagues,” “Medusa,” “Braille,” “A Lot Like Vegas” and “Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick” became instant favourites among the growing MySpace generation.
Critics were divided.
Traditional metal fans often dismissed the band.
Mainstream radio was hardly queueing up to play guttural vocals between Coldplay and Snow Patrol.
But the fans understood exactly what was happening.
Count Your Blessings became a cult classic — passed around on burned CDs, downloaded onto battered MP3 players and blasted through bedroom speakers while parents downstairs wondered where they had gone wrong.
It may not have conquered the charts in 2006, but it created something arguably even more powerful.
A loyal audience that never forgot it.
🔥 The Album Bring Me The Horizon Could Never Truly Escape
Bring Me The Horizon’s musical journey since then has been nothing short of wild.
The band moved from deathcore into metalcore with Suicide Season, expanded their sound dramatically on There Is a Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let’s Keep It a Secret., and reached a whole new level with Sempiternal.
Then came arena rock, electronics, pop hooks, industrial noise, nu-metal influences and increasingly ambitious experimentation.
Albums such as That’s the Spirit and amo proved that Bring Me The Horizon were never going to stay inside one genre long enough for anybody to build a fence around them.
Every time fans thought they had the band figured out, Oli Sykes and company threw another sonic grenade into the room.
Yet the shadow of Count Your Blessings never disappeared.
For longtime fans, it remained the record that started everything.
It was the sound of a band before the arena tours, giant festival stages, elaborate visuals and global success.
It was reckless, messy and completely unfiltered.
And that was precisely why people loved it.
🎤 Oli Sykes and the Album He Once Struggled to Embrace
Oli Sykes has previously spoken critically about Bring Me The Horizon’s earliest material, expressing embarrassment over elements of the band’s debut and the people they were when it was recorded.
That is hardly unusual.
Most people cringe when they discover an old Facebook status from 2009.
Imagine having your teenage years preserved forever through guttural vocals and breakdowns.
Yet while the band may have had a complicated relationship with Count Your Blessings, the fans never stopped celebrating it.
To an entire generation, the album was not an embarrassing relic.
It was a gateway.
It introduced listeners to deathcore, extreme metal and a whole underground scene that often felt far more exciting than anything happening in the mainstream.
The artwork, the lyrics, the enormous fringes and the sheer brutality of the music all became part of the era.
It was more than an album.
It was a cultural timestamp.
🎸 The Re-Recording Nobody Saw Coming
When plans for a full re-recording were announced, fans immediately began debating what it might sound like.
Would the band preserve the filthy, chaotic spirit of the original?
Would modern production remove the rough edges that made it special?
Would Oli still be able to unleash those old-school deathcore vocals?
Would it simply become another expensive anniversary release covered in coloured vinyl variants?
Instead, Count Your Blessings: Repented reportedly became a major event in its own right.
The project gave Bring Me The Horizon the chance to revisit their beginnings with two decades of additional experience behind them.
It also allowed a new generation of fans to discover the band’s earliest songs through a modern recording rather than compressed audio files recovered from the darkest corners of the internet.
For older fans, however, it was pure nostalgia delivered with the force of a wrecking ball.
The songs that soundtracked their teenage years had returned.
Only this time, they were bigger, heavier and capable of troubling the UK charts.
📈 Number Six in the UK
Reaching No. 6 on the UK Official Albums Chart would be an impressive achievement for any rock release.
For a deathcore record, it is absolutely bonkers.
Deathcore was never designed to be comfortable mainstream listening.
It is built around extreme vocals, punishing riffs and breakdowns capable of turning an ordinary venue floor into an insurance claim.
This is music created for sweaty clubs, festival pits and audiences who consider neck pain a souvenir.
Yet here it is.
Sitting inside the national Top 10 alongside polished pop releases and major-label chart favourites.
The achievement reportedly puts Count Your Blessings: Repented ahead of every other deathcore release in UK chart history, including albums by modern heavyweights such as Lorna Shore and Whitechapel.
That is not merely impressive.
It is a massive cultural moment for the entire heavy music community.
🤘 Deathcore Was Never Dead
For years, deathcore has been declared dead, irrelevant or unfashionable.
Apparently, nobody remembered to tell the fans.
The genre has enjoyed an enormous resurgence, with bands taking increasingly extreme music onto bigger stages and in front of larger audiences.
Lorna Shore have helped introduce symphonic deathcore to huge new crowds.
Whitechapel have continued evolving while remaining rooted in brutality.
Acts such as Suicide Silence, Thy Art Is Murder, Chelsea Grin and Carnifex have built loyal global followings.
The genre never disappeared.
It simply mutated.
It became more technical, more atmospheric, more ambitious and — somehow — even heavier.
Bring Me The Horizon returning to their deathcore beginnings and achieving a UK Top 10 position feels like the perfect symbol of that journey.
The music once mocked as a passing trend now has a place in British chart history.
Not bad for a load of “noise”, eh?
👑 From Underdogs to Festival Royalty
Bring Me The Horizon’s rise remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern British rock.
They began as divisive scene outsiders.
They became metalcore favourites.
Then they transformed into arena headliners capable of crossing genre boundaries without losing their appetite for chaos.
Their evolution has taken them from tiny venues to some of the largest stages in the world.
Along the way, they have collaborated with artists far beyond traditional metal, experimented with futuristic production and repeatedly challenged the idea of what a modern rock band is allowed to sound like.
Some fans left whenever the sound changed.
New fans arrived.
Others stayed for the entire journey, from “Pray for Plagues” to the band’s enormous modern anthems.
That constant evolution has become their greatest strength.
Bring Me The Horizon have never survived by looking backwards.
Yet when they finally did return to their earliest material, they somehow turned nostalgia into another major career milestone.
That takes some doing, butt.
😈 The Gatekeepers Are Having a Normal One
Naturally, this achievement will not please everybody.
There will be arguments about whether Bring Me The Horizon are “proper” deathcore.
There will be debates about vinyl sales, anniversary editions and chart methodology.
Someone, somewhere, is already typing a furious essay explaining why the band stopped being good in 2007.
Let them crack on.
The rest of us are busy celebrating.
Because this moment belongs to every fan who defended deathcore when it was treated like metal’s embarrassing younger cousin.
It belongs to everyone who discovered heavy music through MySpace.
It belongs to the people who still own an original copy of Count Your Blessings scratched beyond recognition.
It belongs to the fans who heard “Pray for Plagues” for the first time and immediately realised their musical taste was about to become much louder.
The gatekeepers can keep guarding the gate.
Bring Me The Horizon have already driven a tour bus straight through it.
💿 Nostalgia, Vinyl and the Power of the Original Fans
There is no denying that nostalgia has helped fuel the success of Count Your Blessings: Repented.
The teenagers who discovered the original album are now adults.
Some have children.
Some have mortgages.
Some need to stretch before entering a circle pit.
But the emotional connection to that record remains incredibly strong.
Modern physical music culture has also given anniversary editions a new life.
Fans want deluxe vinyl, alternate artwork, box sets and releases that feel like collectable pieces of history.
Albums are not simply streamed anymore.
They are displayed, photographed, unboxed and placed proudly on shelves.
For longtime BMTH fans, purchasing the new edition is not simply about hearing the songs again.
It is about reconnecting with a particular moment in their lives.
A time of oversized band shirts, dramatic fringes, packed local shows and online profiles that automatically played music loud enough to wake the street.
Every copy carries memories.
Every stream comes with history.
That sort of connection cannot be manufactured by a marketing department.
🖤 Why
Count Your Blessings
Still Matters
Count Your Blessings remains important because it captured Bring Me The Horizon before anybody knew what they might become.
It was not polished.
It was not built for radio.
It was not written with arenas in mind.
It sounded like young musicians trying to prove themselves by being louder, faster and more extreme than everybody else.
The result was chaotic.
It was occasionally ridiculous.
It was also hugely influential.
The album helped introduce a generation of British fans to a growing international deathcore scene.
It showed how online communities could turn an underground band into a phenomenon without relying entirely on traditional radio, magazines or industry approval.
Fans became promoters.
Message boards became meeting places.
MySpace pages became radio stations.
The scene spread through shared files, music videos and word of mouth.
Bring Me The Horizon were at the centre of that movement.
They looked like the future.
They sounded like trouble.
And twenty years later, the album still matters enough to make chart history.
🔥 The Riff Report Verdict
Whether Count Your Blessings: Repented improves upon the original will depend entirely on who you ask.
Some fans will prefer the cleaner production and modern performances.
Others will always choose the grimy, youthful chaos of the 2006 version.
Both opinions are valid.
What cannot be denied is the significance of this reported chart achievement.
A re-recorded deathcore album entering the UK Top 10 is the kind of sentence that would have sounded completely impossible when the original arrived.
Bring Me The Horizon have taken the record that introduced them to the world, rebuilt it and turned it into a celebration of everything they survived.
The criticism.
The genre debates.
The changing line-ups.
The musical reinventions.
The angry gatekeepers.
All of it has led here.
From Sheffield deathcore outsiders to one of Britain’s biggest modern rock bands, their journey has been staggering.
Now, Count Your Blessings has finally reached the grown-ups’ table.
And it has brought the blast beats with it.
Highest-charting deathcore album in UK history?
That will do nicely, lads. 🤘💀🔥
💬 Did You Grab a Copy?
Did you pick up Count Your Blessings: Repented on vinyl, CD or digital?
Does the anniversary edition hit harder than the original, or will nothing ever beat the glorious mess of 2006?
Drop your favourite track in the comments, share your unboxing pictures and tell us how many times you have already screamed along to “Pray for Plagues.”
Or just type “Medusa.”
The old-school crowd will know exactly what you mean. 😈🤘
Proudly Welsh. Proudly Loud. Zero Apologies.
Michael is the founder, editor, and chief riff wrangler behind The Riff Report, an independent Welsh rock and metal publication built by fans, for fans. With a lifelong passion for loud guitars, unforgettable live shows, and the incredible community that surrounds rock and metal, he created The Riff Report to celebrate everything that makes the scene special—from legendary headline acts and grassroots venues to rising bands that deserve to be heard.
A familiar face at festivals across the UK, Michael spends much of the year covering events including Download Festival, Bloodstock Open Air, Steelhouse Festival, Firevolt, Plumpton Revival, and many more. Whether he’s battling the Welsh weather on a mountainside, surviving a weekend in a muddy campsite, or squeezed against the front barrier with thousands of fellow fans, he’s always searching for the next great story to share.
As editor of The Riff Report, Michael writes festival guides, breaking news, album reviews, gig reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, nostalgia features, and behind-the-scenes stories from across the rock and metal world. His writing combines honest opinions, humour, and a genuine love for live music, bringing readers closer to the bands, festivals, venues, and people that keep the scene alive.
Michael is particularly passionate about supporting independent artists, local venues, charities, and the wider UK rock and metal community. He believes every band deserves a chance to be discovered and every festival has a story worth telling. Through The Riff Report, he aims to shine a spotlight on both the biggest names in rock and the future stars waiting to break through.
When he’s not writing or interviewing artists, you’ll probably find him exploring festival campsites, photographing live shows, chatting with fellow fans over a pint, or planning the next road trip in search of more riffs, bigger crowds, and unforgettable moments.
Above all, Michael believes rock and metal are about more than music—they’re about community, friendship, and creating memories that last a lifetime. That’s exactly what The Riff Report exists to celebrate.
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