Parasite Eve drops on the 25th of June, are you ready?
After postponing their long awaited come back with their single to be released on the 10 June, Bring Me the Horizon have announced their hugely anticipated new single, Parasite Eve, will be landing this week!
The announcement comes after the Sheffield metal pioneers decided it didn’t feel right to release a single as global protests broke out following the in justices and death of George Floyd. The band wrote, “With the incredible movement that is taking place currently we don’t feel comfortable releasing and promoting anything that takes the focus off what’s important right now…”
However, fans have not been left in the dark, the band have taken them with them for the ride, with weekly daily lockdown updates that provide a real taste for their new musical projects and showcasing that they have been working hard remotely during the global pandemic. Watch here.
Parasite Eve originally a survival game that was released in 1998 by PlayStation, the game and single both share the same name as Bring Me the Horizon’s new single. In their new YouTube video, front man Oli Sykes explains how the inspiration for Parasite Eve came about. Sykes explained: “Although the inspiration for the song didn’t come from the current pandemic, as we were writing it the similarities started to get weird, I guess. It felt important for us to carry on with this song in particular because the message really hits differently, because it feels like something we need right now.”
In an interview last year with NME, when asked if the band was working on any upcoming projects, Oli Sykes explained that the band might be changing the way they release music. He said, “We’re not going to do an album again, maybe ever. We’re thinking about doing shorter records… the plan is to release multiple records [in 2020].”
With the band having released their sixth studio album last year, amo, Oli responded further, “There’s all this shit you need to think about and how it’s going to sit on a 15-track album. I don’t want to do that. When we wrote Ludens, it was crazy but it was fun. We just had to write one song and it just had to serve the video game. We didn’t have to write the biggest song in the world. I just love to sit and go, ‘Let’s just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be.’
