Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood
"Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" is a song by English rock band Bring Me the Horizon. Produced by frontman Oli Sykes, Dan Lancaster and Zakk Cervini, it was released as the seventh and final single from their seventh studio album, Post Human: Nex Gen on 5 June 2024.
Composition and lyrics
"Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" has been described as pop-punk, emo, pop rock, and post-hardcore. The song was written by the band's lead vocalist Oliver Sykes, lead guitarist Lee Malia, drummer Matt Nicholls, Dan Lancaster, Zakk Cervini, Daisuke Ehara and RJ Pasin, while it was produced by Sykes, Lancaster and Cervini. The songs themes deal with trauma, pain, and self-acceptance. Lyrically, the track explores personal struggles and confronting demons, inviting that vulnerability to be able to overcome them. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Sykes alluded to the track being about the responsibility one has to take for their own self-healing, further elaborating:Music video
The music video for "Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood" was directed by Harry Lindley; it was released on 5 June 2024.The music video for "Top 10 Statues Tha Cried Blood" is set inside a futuristic warehouse. The video borrows elements from sci-fi, being heavily inspired by the film franchises: Star Wars, Blade Runner, Dune and Tron, as well as the video game Cyberpunk 2077. The video involves a rave with dancing robots, motorbikes speeding around the venue, and a warrior couple having a heavily choreographed lightsaber fight, while the biomechanically engineered band perform the song on an elevated platform above the dancefloor. The video also has a subplot involving a telepathic girl and a cute robot companion named R-8 who roam the warehouse, now abandoned, at a later date, discovering the events as they take place throughout the music video. The subplot is directly referenced on the album cover art for Post Human: Nex Gen.
Speaking about the music video, Sykes explained:
The music video was described as "blockbuster-eqsue" by Megan Louise-Burnham of Music Is To Blame, elaborating: "Complete with lightsaber choreography and a rave fitting for a Matrix film, it really does speak to the imagination and creativity of the band." Kerrang! writer Emily Carter described the video as an "epic video treatment, helping once again to bring Oli Sykes’ incredible artistic vision to life in a hugely ambitious way."