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See Oli Sykes join MGK onstage for their first live performance of Maybe
Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes joined Machine Gun Kelly onstage in Germany this weekend as the pair performed their 2022 collab Maybe live together for the first time.
Forget the pop-punk of Tickets To My Downfall – on Machine Gun Kelly's sixth album Born With Horns the musician "just turned the lights off".
Following the release of latest single papercuts in August – a slightly heavier sound than last year's Tickets To My Downfall album – Machine Gun Kelly has revealed that his new album Born With Horns will be "deeper" and more "guitar-heavy".
In a new interview with Sunday TODAY With Willie Geist over the weekend (via Billboard), MGK reveals that album number six will see him pretty much go the opposite direction of Tickets… – and it's a very intentional move.
"It feels more guitar-heavy for sure, lyrically it definitely goes deeper – but I never like to do anything the same," he says. "Every album is a juxtaposition of the last album. So I went and studied Tickets…, and I heard the bright sound that I had, and for this album I just turned the lights off.
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"I'm not scared anymore, there's nothing holding me back from being my true self – and my true self can't be silenced, can't be restrained," he continues. "It's a force, it's like a hurricane. Can't stop that, it just goes until it feels like stopping, and I don't feel like stopping anytime soon."
As for when we'll get to hear Born With Horns in full? It could well be in the next couple of months, as MGK teases: "The second you open your eyes and it's 2022, you'll have something to listen to." So a New Year's Eve release date, then?!
Catch MGK on his sold-out U.S. Tickets To My Downfall tour right now:
October 2021
12 Spokane, WA – Spokane Pavilion
13 Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield
17 Salt Lake City, UY – The Complex
18 Denver, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheater
20 Los Angeles, CA – The Shrine
21 Phoenix, AZ – Meza Amphitheater
24 Dallas. TX – Toyota Music Factory
27 Charlotte, NC – Metro Credit Union
28 Richmond, VA – Virginia Credit Union Live!
December 2021
18 Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse
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