Bring Me The Horizon are dropping their long-awaited single “Parasite Eve” tonight. But that’s not all – despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there are still loads of other music projects planned for 2020, singer Oliver Sykes has revealed.
The band plans to drop four records this year, as Sykes has told in an exclusive interview with NME. The Sheffield-based metal band has been teasing their new song “Parasite Eve” for a while now, and there are still four more records waiting to be published. “This song is going to be part of a record that has the same feel along with ‘Ludens’”, Sykes said, connecting the newest work with last years “Ludens”.
The new songs are all part of a project called “Post Human”. “We’ve just been winging it and recording from lockdown, and now we’re going to make four different records over the next year and they’ll all share the name ‘Post Human’. They’ll each be tonally different with their own sound and mood. That’s one thing we’ve never really done. There’s often been an over-arching theme on our records, but the music has always felt like a collage. That’s cool and I like it, but sometimes you want a soundtrack for a certain occasion and emotion.”
BMTH: new song Parasite Eve tonight
fans: Omg yasss can’t wait for it
(On the same day)
BMTH: actually we have four records to release this year
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— : i hope i don’t ฮัดชิ้ว (@megalomanian_) June 25, 2020
The idea of “Post Human”, the 33-year-old has said, is “looking at how we’ve stepped out of evolution and the food chain. If we can do that, then we can take responsibility for what we’ve done to the planet and become something better than what humans are right now.”
When asked what to expect from the “Post Human” project, the frontman said that it’s “a recruitment record with battle songs.” “This first record is about hope and anger and feels like the sonic equivalent of a riot. We’re inviting people to find the solution with us.” Sykes wants to release songs from the new records “whenever it feels relevant and will resonate.” Even though there’s no plan on when to release a new song, Sykes assured that fans can expect to hear a lot of new music after the release of “Parasite Eve”, with the EPs ranging from six to ten tracks each.
Talking about tonight’s new record, Sykes has revealed that even though the lyrics to the eagerly awaited “Parasite Eve” sound like they’re straight out of the corona lockdown diary, the song was actually written last year, when he was reading about a Japanese superbug. The track was then recorded in February – just a few weeks before the corona madness hit the UK and Europe.
