This was an effort to stay within the social distancing restrictions set in place. Using masks a friend of his created, each member filmed their video parts separately. Directed by Sykes himself, he took inspiration from some of his favorite video games, films and the genre of nu metal. The music video for "Parasite Eve" was released on the same day as the single was streamed. That's what rock music is about – addressing the dark side and processing it." Music video You can't just brush over it and expect life to go back to normal, because it fucking ain't. The world needs more and needs to think about it and remember. In our music we've always wanted to escape, but there's been too much escapism and ignoring the problems in the world. After sitting on it for a while, we realised that this was a reason to release it now more than ever. We shelved the song for a bit because it felt bit too close to the bone. Every time there was a news story about it, we'd turn to each other and say 'Parasite Eve', not realising the magnitude of it all. "It was really weird, we'd heard about the pandemic in China, but then the similarities between what we were writing about started to become closer to reality. Sykes said about the lyrics of the song amid the similarity of the current world situation: Musically, it was influenced a lot by Sykes playing the game Doom Eternal, as well as the contributions of the game soundtrack artist Mick Gordon, giving it a futuristic and cyber overlay. President Donald Trump and Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro that rejected and ignored the gravity of the virus. At the same time, Sykes talks about when the pandemic is overcome, while asking "When we forget the Infection, will we remember the lesson?" to the people and the world leaders like U.S. The lyrics talk about what is happening during the pandemic, saying that "This is a war" between countries for discovering a vaccine. The song samples "Erghen Diado" from the album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. It was written and composed by the band while in quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic. The song was inspired by the Japanese video game of the same name. "Parasite Eve" has been described as a nu metal and electronic rock song with some elements of electropop. It was expected to be released on 10 June 2020, but due to the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, the song was postponed to 25 June. The track was teased by Oliver Sykes on Instagram. "Parasite Eve" is the band's second Top 20 single hit in the Scottish Singles Chart. The song samples "Erghen Diado" written by Petar Lyondev and performed by the Bulgarian Female Vocal Choir Lyondev is credited as a co-writer. Produced by the band's vocalist Oliver Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish and written by the entire band, it was released as the second single from the group's 2020 commercial release Post Human: Survival Horror on 25 June 2020. “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." Parasite Eve" is a song by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. “This song is going to be part of a record that has the same feel along with Ludens,” he said. Parasite Eve is the first track from an upcoming series of EPs from Horizon, with Oli previously revealing that they want to make “four different records over the next year”. We really want to try and create something in a similar vein to that for this music video.” “Even though the film was never properly released, some of the excerpts from that film are really sick in terms of the colours and the lighting just the effects. “Aesthetically, one of the main inspirations I drew from was actually an unreleased film called The Inferno Unseen by Henri-Georges Clouzot,” he reveals. He adds that he found inspiration from nu-metal, characters from comic books (Venom) and anime (Tokyo Ghoul), as well as “a really sick game called Hellblade” and an unreleased film titled The Inferno Unseen. Read this: Oli Sykes: “I've realised that what Bring Me The Horizon do is special, and we shouldn't lose everything”
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