Both the track and the video for ‘Parasite Eve’ are influenced by the video game Doom Eternal
Bring Me The Horizon’s long-awaited aggressive and passionate single ‘Parasite Eve’, originally meant to premiere on June 10, is finally out. In the recent behind-the-scenes video of BMTH recording new music while in lockdown, frontman Oli Sykes says the sound of ‘Parasite Eve’ is influenced a lot by the video game Doom Eternal.
The guys from Bring Me The Horizon appear to be such fans of Doom Eternal that they even contacted the game’s soundtrack composer Mick Gordon and convinced him to collaborate on ‘Parasite Eve’.
Watch: BRING ME THE HORIZON launch series of captivating behind-the-scenes videos
Another person who contributed to the creation of the epic new song is producer Dan Lancaster (blink-182, 5 Seconds Of Summer), who previously worked with BMTH on 2015’s record That’s The Spirit.
‘Parasite Eve’ was premiered along with a music video, also inspired heavily by Sykes’ favorite video games and films. Not only did the band use masks Sykes’ friend created for the video, each member recorded their video parts separately. This way BMTH kept to the social distancing restrictions due to quarantine and managed to save on the crew effort and resources.
“One thing lockdown has proven to us is that we can make shit happen with a lot less resources than we actually need,” explains the frontman. “I’m not even going to tell how much our last video for ‘Ludens’ cost, but it was fucking crazy.”
Be sure to enjoy ‘Parasite Eve’ song and video right here:
Plans to release four albums over the next year
‘Parasite Eve’ will land on Bring Me The Horizon’s new album planned for later this year, along with ‘Ludens’. But that’s only the beginning. BMTH have also announced they will be releasing four albums over the next year, reports Alternative Press.
The idea of a multi-album release visited the band already back in November 2019. But it was in a new interview with NME that Sykes confirmed they were working on four different records planned for the next 12 months. Interestingly, each album will have a name 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,” unveils Sykes.
“So for the songs we are working on for this new record, we knew that they were going to be a bit more aggressive in nature. This first record is very much a protest record. It’s trying to capture the anger, sadness, frustration, fear, paranoia and everything I think we are all collectively going through right now.”
Why such a philosophical and a bit pessimistic name Post Human for the upcoming multiple albums?, fans wonder. Oli Sykes & co. explain that the core theme will be taking responsibility for your actions and mankind’s entire future:
“The idea behind Post Human 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.”
Enjoy the new song ‘Parasite Eve’ and the lyrics below! Stay tuned with us on AlteRock Facebook and AlteRock Twitter!
‘Parasite Eve’ lyrics
[Verse 1: Oli Sykes]
I’ve got a fever, don’t breathe on me
I’m a believer in nobody
Won’t let me leave ’cause I’ve seen something
Hope I don’t sneeze, I don’t sneeze
Really we just need to fear something
Only pretending to feel something
I know you’re dying to run
I wanna turn you around
[Pre-Chorus: Alissa Salls]
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for
Don’t call it a warning, this is a war
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It’s the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach ’cause you know that it’s coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don’t forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn’t kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
Move
[Verse 2: Oli Sykes]
I heard they need better signal
Put chip and pins in the needles
Quarantine all of those secrets
In that black hole you call a brain before it’s too late
Really we just wanna scream something
Only pretend to believe something
I know you’re baying for blood
I wanna turn you around
[Pre-Chorus: Alissa Salls with Oli Sykes]
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for
Don’t call it a warning, this is a war
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It’s the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach ’cause you know that it’s coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don’t forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn’t kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
It’s the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach ’cause you know that it’s coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don’t forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn’t kill you
Something else will
[Breakdown: Oli Sykes]
You can board up your windows, you can lock up your doors, yeah
But you can’t keep washing your hands of this shit anymore
When all the king’s sources and all the king’s friends
Don’t know their arses from their pathogens
When life is a prison and death is the door
This ain’t a warning, this is a war, war
This is a war, eh-eh, oh-oh
Ah
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It’s the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach ’cause you know that it’s coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don’t forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn’t kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
[Post-Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It’s the Parasite Eve, eh-eh…
[Outro: Alissa Salls]
We cannot save you…
