8 Rock & Metal Bands That Drastically Switched Genres

Another band that made their name in Deathcore, Bring Me The Horizon were once the hardest working band in the genre. Despite their original releases Count Your Blessings and Suicide Season being sub-par at best, the band quickly gained a large teenage following due to the apparent charisma of frontman Oliver Sykes.

This following only increased when the band took a turn into Metalcore with their 2010 album There is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it, There is a Heaven, But Let's Keep it a Secret. Taking a much less heavy approach, the band found a market for wider audience which brought them almost to cult status among teenage audiences.

Obviously seeing a connection between softer music and wider audiences, the band changed musical styles once again with 2013's Sempiternal, utilising a unique blend of Post-Hardcore and Electronic Rock. This obviously worked for the Sheffield natives, as the album was critically adored and financially successful.

Furthermore, the band got softer still with their 2015 release That's The Spirit, ditching almost every heavy aspect to their music, and moving almost fully into Alternative Rock. The changes over the years actually ended up giving the band a more mainstream platform for performance, gaining them high profile places on the line-ups for Reading and Leads, and the Download festival respectively.