Sony believes Bring Me The Horizon’s new album, That’s The Spirit (out on 11 September), will be the latest staging post on a journey to becoming “the biggest rock band in the world”.

It will be their second album with the major, appearing on RCA in the UK and Columbia in the US. Their previous record, Sempiternal, reached number three in the UK and 11 in the States.

“They’re one of those bands I love because they can go out ...