Sheffield-based rock band Bring Me the Horizon have confirmed Wednesday, June 10th as the official release date of their new single ‘Parasite Eve,’ a healthy dose of fresh material following the December release of their LP Music to Listen to. The five-piece band have been hard at work to keep their creative juices flowing during the Coronavirus lockdown, preparing for a follow-up to their 2019 album Amo.
The band’s frontman Oli Sykes took to Instagram recently to announce the latest single’s drop date, telling his 2.3m followers “Our new song will be out June 10th oh shit,” as well as sharing photos of him dressed in a “parasite eve sweater” brandishing the new track’s name. The band’s social media presence has been actively expanding lately, too, particularly their official Twitter profile, @bmthofficial. This page has seen the release of two new promotional videos in the past few days, featuring the five of them interacting during the lockdown, as well as previews of the making of ‘Paradise Eve‘.
really we jus wanna fear sumthing only pretending to feel sumthing…#BMTHS2 #parasiteeve #bringmethehorizon https://t.co/0yKUwrf1gy
— Bring Me The Horizon (@bmthofficial) May 24, 2020
This past Friday (May 22nd), one Brian Cox-directed video titled 00BMTHS2-prologue offered narration from Sykes in which he gave fans an update of the band’s activities during lockdown. Quoted in an NME article, Skyes reportedly revealed that, “After it became apparent that the lockdown wasn’t going away anytime soon, we realised we needed to start making music any way possible.” This narration plays over footage recorded in Amsterdam from January this year, which is surely a happy memory of the wider world since they have been forced into the enclosed confines of their own homes.
Sykes goes on to say that the band were able to continue producing music and developing their new material via remote means. It was during this process that one song in particular “really started to take on a new life. Although the inspiration for the song didn’t come from the current pandemic,” he clarifies, “as we were writing it the similarities started to get weird, I guess.” Sykes closes by affirming that the song’s sentiments “feels like something we need right now.”
