Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with BRING ME THE HORIZON guitarist Lee Malia. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

UG: The band has been variously described as being everything from hardcore, to deathcore to metalcore and beyond, but regardless, it seems to not be confined to one genre generally.

Malia: "Yes and that is really cool. I think the new CD doesn’t really sound like anything else out there or that, it sounds like a band that has ripped off this other band. That’s why the new CD has so many different influences on it. It is because we don’t actually listen to any metal anymore, we listen to everything else. I mean we like playing metal, but we try to incorporate everything else into a metal band."

UG: You’re not one metal band who are afraid to experiment. You’ve experimented with strings, electronica, choirs and numerous guest vocal contributions too…

Malia: "We always thought ‘Why should we stick to the two guitars, drums and bass format? Why can’t we have some production stuff brought into it and look at each song as a bigger picture?. And feel if we can add more to it and stuff and make it a bigger song. We thought what is stopping us from doing that?"

UG: So what is status of the next album?

Malia: "We haven’t even started thinking about it yet. We’ve been touring so much since the last one has come out, we haven’t had time to do anything like write new material. We haven’t even been in a practice room or anything together. We’ve just been constantly out on the road and we haven’t even been able to sit down and talk about anything. And we haven’t really played all of the new songs off the CD live yet. We’re still waiting to play them on the next tour cycle coming up in 2011."

Go to this location for the complete interview.