Working over Skype and Zoom, with Oli in his home vocal booth and the rest of the band in their set-ups, it became clear that expensive studios in far-flung places weren’t actually necessary. But, forever looking forward, the five-piece embraced the opportunity to work remotely. Earlier this year, frontman Oli Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish decamped to Amsterdam to start writing with the idea of releasing something this summer, but as global circumstances changed, so did the band’s plans. Officially one of UK rock’s biggest bands, with festival headline slots and a Number One album under their belts, there has been much speculation about the direction BMTH would go in next.Īnd then they dropped Parasite Eve, the first fruit from the Yorkshire heavyweights’ lockdown sessions. There’s so much to be pissed off about.Despite 2019 being a prolific year for Bring Me The Horizon (the release of amo, the Music To… surprise EP, and Ludens' inclusion on the Death Stranding soundtrack), the notion of new material is always cause for celebration. The world doesn’t need light-hearted pop music right now – it needs anthems for anger. "It's a lot more aggressive than anything we’ve done for a while. They’ll each be tonally different with their own sound and mood," he continued. "We’ve just been winging it and recording from lockdown, and now we’re going to make four different records over the next year," Oli recently told NME.
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'Parasite Eve' is the first cut from a series of upcoming mini-album/EP length projects from the band, which follow on from the triple j-featured amo and their 2019 surprise experimental album. Bring Me The Horizon releasing four records over the next year No real surprise, Oli is a big gaming fan, even getting the chance to meet Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima while making 'Ludens' for the soundtrack to Death Stranding. The videogame connection doesn't stop there the song features additional production from Mick Gordon, the composer behind Doom Eternal's OTT demon-destroying soundtarck. "As time went on, we started to feel how relevant it was and that instead of shying from it, that we should address the dark side, embrace it and process what’s going on… 'Parasite Eve' is our message of hope, wrapped in sadness and anger.” Listen below via the gritty new music video.īefore the release of BMTH's new single, if you'd Googled 'Parasite Eve', you'd have come across the 1998 PlayStation game of the same name: a survival-horror RPG developed by legendary Final Fantasy developers Square. " came from an idea to write a survival horror song, but as the pandemic started to develop, the parallels were so similar it felt so close to the bone we decided to shelve it," frontman Oli Sykes explains. The single was recorded in quarantine but written last year, before the COVID pandemic gripped the world. 'Please remain calm/The end has arrived/ We cannot save you/ Enjoy the ride.
Then there's the lyrics, which speak to our current scary times. The track melds an angry metal atmosphere with an eerie sample of Bulgarian folk singing to cinematic effect. ' When we forget the infection/Will we remember the lesson?'įollowing months of video teasers from their social-distanced studio, Bring Me The Horizon have released 'Parasite Eve'.
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