Lights was in the same city and asked her to record with them, which she did. Composition Influences, style and themes Much like the band's previous work, There Is a Hell... is primarily considered metalcore. Bring Me the Horizon commonly use technical guitar riffs, dark lyrics, heavy breakdowns, and gang vocals in their music. The album develops Bring Me the Horizon's experimental, electronic tendencies, taking their original sound and infusing it with female vocals, choral vocals, orchestral sounds, emotive guitars, and "jarring" electronics. The album also blends aesthetics from electronica, classical, pop, classic rock, psychedelia, hardcore punk and progressive metal genres. In its review of the album, Metal Hammer wrote that the album was influenced by the works of The Red Chord, Killswitch Engage, and Pink Floyd. The album's opening track, "Crucify Me", has vocals by Lights and an acoustic ending. "It Never Ends" is a combination of "". "Don't Go" starts with delicate string instruments and guitars, and is noted for its emotional vulnerability. "Home Sweet Hole" and "Alligator Blood" are reminiscent of the sound of the band's earlier album Suicide Season. "Visions" is "the spacious reverberating guitar-spaces of post-hardcore experimentalist Isis" mixed with breakdowns and a catchy chorus. Electronic artist Skrillex is featured on Visions, singing clean backup vocals during the chorus. "Blacklist" and "Memorial" provide respite from the album's rage. While the former possesses a punk rock influence, the latter is an instrumental keyboard intermission. According to the reviewer Drew Beringer, the songs "It Never Ends" and "Blessed with a Curse" sonically pay homage to the album's title and show a contrast between Heaven and Hell. "Blessed with a Curse" has a sound that has been called "restrained post-rock". The lyrics of There Is a Hell... are about man battling his self-perpetuated inner turmoil. It has been described as almost conceptual for Sykes; the album's announcement from Epitaph said it "vividly explores humanity's collective good nature". The band have regarded the album's lyrical themes as repercussions of those of the band's second album. Matt Nicholls described Sykes' lyrics as darker and moodier than the music on previous albums. When asked about the truth of the lyrics, Sykes said, "It's all about me. Everything I write is personal. And it's all very true ... It's stuff I don't talk to people about. But when I put pen to paper, it's a lot easier." When Sykes commented on people's