I ’m glad my ex-wife cheated on me,” says Oli Sykes , folding his legs in a yoga-like pose. “It felt like it needed to happen.”The Bring Me the Horizon frontman is sat in the lobby of a London hotel that, apart from us, is deserted. Sykes, his hair dyed pastel blue, is dressed in a black designer hoodie emblazoned with the word “Storyteller” as he discusses the breakdown of his relationship with model and tattoo artist Hannah Pixie Snowdon. “When you’re in a marriage,” he continues, “you can’t leave just because you’re arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don’t realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.”The 32-year-old insists he isn’t a vindictive person. But there are clearly strong feelings within him still – feelings he explores on his band’s sixth album, Amo. “Don’t swear to God, he never asked you/ It’s not his heart you drove a knife through/ It’s not his world you turned inside out/ Not his tears still rolling down,” he sings on “In the Dark”.From extras.The music itself, though, is the most pop-leaning Bring Me have ever made, because Sykes didn’t want the album to sound as though it was “loaded with venom”. For a long time, in fact, he resisted putting the details of what happened to his first marriage into his music. He worried, given his enormous fanbase, that it might be unfair to her, and thought “it didn’t matter as long as those close to me knew the truth”.The split affected his later relationships, including with his new partner, Brazilian model Alissa Salls, whom he married in 2017. “She had this manager who was older than me, and the guy my ex had an affair with had been a bit older,” he says. “I was petrified, which is stupid, but I had a bit of a breakdown where I was like, ‘please don’t do that to me’.”