Your Demise

Your Demise formed in St. Albans during September 2003 and intitially featured a guy called Robert Kiff on vocals, but they didn't record anything with him. The first demo titled 'First Strike' was released in 2005 and featured Roland on vocals. I believe he was also in the OG St. Albans band Flatline (or maybe that was Robert?). They then put out a second demo in 2005 called 'Your Days Are Numbered' - George was now on vocals rather than guitar and they changed drummer between the two demos. I ripped both CDr's and while the songs are the same, the artwork is different and track times slightly different as well.

During 2006, they released their first full length on Zone 6 Records called 'You Only Make Us Stronger'. There were a few other lineup changes here, making George the only original member of the band as Stu didn't join until 2005. An interesting bit of trivia for you - the band Flatline had done a track called 'SAHC' on one of their early 00s demos (if anyone's got these, hmu) so YD did their own version called 'SAHC2'. Even further down the line, another band called Dead Weight did a track called 'SAHC3'!

Photographer and location unknown. Taken sometime in 2008.

Come 2008, they released 'The Blood Stays On The Blade' via Thirty Days Of Night Records. This was their last small release before going with the bigger independent label Visible Noise (BMTH & BFMV etc). Their lineup was mostly the members you see now at this point, aside from James who joined in 2009 from previous band Your Creation. I've also included the extended version of this that was due to be released on Three Swords Records. Not sure what happened there, but I'm not here to run the rumour mill...

I've only included the harder to find George era stuff, as the rest is readily available nowadays. I'm a fan of every iteration of this band, and they've been an important part of me growing up through the hardcore scene.

Your Demise - First Strike (2005)

Vocals - Roland Farrar

Guitar - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Bass - Sam Brown

Drums - Ashley Davison

Your Demise - Your Days Are Numbered (2005)

Vocals - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Bass - Sam Brown

Drums - Oliver Wolffe

Your Demise - Your Days Are Numbered [Re-Issue] (2005)

Vocals - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Bass - Sam Brown

Drums - Oliver Wolffe

Your Demise - You Only Make Us Stronger (2006)

Vocals - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Guitar - Andreas Yasoumi

Bass - Nathan Liddle

Drums - George Dixon

Your Demise - The Blood Stays On The Blade EP (2008)

Vocals - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Guitar - Daniel Osbourne

Bass - James Sampson

Drums - George Dixon

Your Demise - A New Ending (2014)

Vocals - George Noble

Guitar - Stuart Paice

Guitar - Daniel Osbourne

Bass - James Sampson

Drums - George Dixon

Bring Me The Horizon

Probably the biggest band I'll ever post on here, so I hope I don't get told off for it! I'm only posting some demo stuff though, as 'This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For' and the rest is still readily available. Formed in 2004, the band quickly wrote a demo - two of the tracks from this session are available below. Now, there is a handmade version of 'tiwteoyswmf' out there that was going to contain six tracks on a CDr. These would have been:

1. Bring Me The Fucking Horizon
2. Who Wants Flowers When You're Dead? Nobody.
3. The Film Produced The Effect I Wanted, And It Plunged Like A Dagger Into The Heart Of Paris As I Had Foretold. Our Film Ruined In A Single Evening Ten Years
4. Passe Compose (I Admit, I Was Never That Good At)
5. Traitors Never Play Hang Man
6. We Are All Moviestars

It's a shame the rest of these songs weren't actually recorded in this state, as you can see them live if you do some digging on YouTube. Tracks 2 & 3 have been floating around for some time now, one of them was incorrectly labelled as 'Shed Light'. Interestingly, the CDr does actually exist, but only contains a video of Oli's brother Tom skateboarding. Another point of interest with the CDr, is that the artwork says they live a 'drug free lifestyle'. I've also heard of a t-shirt that says xbmthx or something like that - if anyone can confirm the truth surrounding this, that'd be ace! The actual CD would then be properly recorded and released through Thirty Days Of Night Records in late 2004 and then reissued with different artwork by Visible Noise in 2005.

Photo taken by Mel Siddall. Public toilet, Sheffield 2004.

Also included with the downloads are their 2005 BBC Radio 1 session where they play Dragon Slaying (AKA Liquor & Love Lost), Medusa and Off The Heezay. These all vary in quality, but I can't find any official mention of this session online and I've had these for well over a decade with nothing better being leaked. Oli's vocals are truly savage on this session and he's even thrown in a few pig squeals for good measure! These tracks would obviously be properly recorded for 'Count Your Blessings' in 2006 and I'm sure you all know their upwards trajectory from there. While I only like bits and pieces after 'Sempiternal', it's still really cool seeing where they started compared to where they are now (although, Post-Human was excellent and I love the nu metal style they went for).

If anyone has any of these demos in clearer quality, please hit me up on Instagram.

Bring Me The Horizon - Demo (2004)

Vocals - Oliver Sykes

Guitar - Curtis Ward

Guitar - Lee Malia

Bass - Matt Kean

Drums - Mat Nicholls

Bring Me The Horizon - BBC Radio 1 Session (2005)