Format Digital download | Length 3:56 | |
Released 29 October 2014 (2014-10-29) Genre Post-hardcore, drum and bass, rap, dubstep Writer(s) Jordan Fish
Lee Malia
Oliver Sykes Producer(s) Jordan Fish
Oliver Sykes | ||
"Don't Look Down" is a song by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon that features guest vocals from Foreign Beggars' Orifice Vulgatron. The song premiered on 29 October 2014 during a BBC Radio 1 broadcast and the following day was shown in Zane Lowe's re-score of the movie Drive. "Don't Look Down" is not set to be included on any album and was only created for the Drive re-score.
The electronic-influenced post-hardcore, drum and bass, dubstep and rap track was released via Soundcloud for free download on 29 October 2014, though was later removed.
Reception
Many fans were unhappy with the track due to the inclusion of rap and dubstep music on it, which has never been done before in any Bring Me The Horizon song. Within a day of the song's release, the band issued a statement regarding the matter on their Twitter page.
We appreciate the level of passion both good and bad for DLD. We are really proud of what we created, but at the same time, we understand peoples confusion and panic after hearing the track. We were approached by Radio 1 to score a piece of music for a rescore of the movie Drive. Now if you’ve seen Drive i’m sure you will agree neither anything from our previous albums, nor drown would of [sic] fit very well with the vibe of that particular movie, so we decided to create a piece of music that did justice to the amazing scene we was given. we took the opportunity to make something completely different, to do something completely different, something that we wouldn’t usually do- although I feel that doesn’t really make sense anymore, because we never do the same thing 2x. We experiment, we change it up, We take risks because we don’t want to stay the same and we want to breathe life into this lacklustre genre, and we want to keep you guessing whats coming next. Big up Orifice Vulgatron of Foreign Beggars for collaborating on the track, And once again, if you can tune into BBC 3 tonight at 10 and watch the whole movie, it's an amazing project, and we think we smashed our part, and hope you guys feel the same once you’ve seen it. Peace, BMTH