{"id":43012,"date":"2026-08-13T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43012"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:29:40","slug":"bring-me-the-horizon-and-spiritbox-team-up-for-valorant-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=43012","title":{"rendered":"Bring Me The Horizon and Spiritbox team up for \u2018Valorant\u2019 anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/bring-me-the-horizon\">Bring Me The Horizon<\/a> vocalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/oli-sykes\">Oli Sykes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/spiritbox\">Spiritbox<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0Courtney LaPlante and producer Grabbitz have teamed up to create a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/games\/valorant\"><i>Valorant<\/i><\/a> anthem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If The Sun Burns Out Tonight\u2019 will be released later this year to coincide with the Valorant Champions Shanghai 2026 Finals, which brings together the world\u2019s top 16 teams and will take place between September 24 and October 18.<\/p>\n<p>The track has been written and produced by Grabbitz, with Oli Sykes and Courtney LaPlante providing vocals. \u201cI\u2019ve always been drawn to projects that blur the lines between storytelling and music, so working with Riot Games, alongside Grabbitz and Courtney, and becoming part of the <i>Valorant <\/i>world felt like a really natural fit,\u201d said Sykes in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot wait to release this song! Oli has given me the opportunity to perform live with Bring Me The Horizon many times over the years, and we\u2019re finally debuting something we worked on together. Grabbitz produced such a great atmosphere and a song tailored to all three of our voices and Oli went in right away and made it a true collaboration,\u201d added LaPlante, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/spiritboxs-courtney-laplante-league-of-legends-2kxo-ties-that-bind-3896726\">recorded \u2018Ties That Bind\u2019<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/games\/league-of-legends\"><i>League Of Legends<\/i><\/a> spin-off <i>2XKO<\/i> last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Champions 2026 Anthem Announcement  \/\/ ft. 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The 3 of us just clicked \u2013 and the result is what I believe to be the best <i>Valorant <\/i>anthem to date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <i>NME<\/i> back in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/bring-me-the-horizon-malta-weekender-2022-interview-3236681\">LaPlante said Bring Me The Horizon were the band that \u201craised the bar for metalcore<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of metal bands are very comfortable doing the same things as everyone else. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, of course \u2013 I love seeing a band who\u2019ve been around for 30 years playing to three generations of fans, but Bring Me The Horizon speak to my dreams a lot more,\u201d she added<\/p>\n<p>In other news, a\u00a0number of classic songs from across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/games\/pokemon\"><i>Pok\u00e9mon<\/i><\/a>\u00a0series have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/gaming-news\/pokemon-emo-covers-album-soundtrack-jimmy-eat-world-3962115\">reworked for a new emo covers album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes, Spiritbox\u2018s\u00a0Courtney LaPlante and producer Grabbitz have teamed up to create a new Valorant anthem. \u2018If The Sun Burns Out Tonight\u2019 will be released later this year to coincide with the Valorant Champions Shanghai 2026 Finals, which brings together the world\u2019s top 16 teams and will take place between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Valorant-anthem-2026-Shanghai.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-gossip"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}