![]() Unbeknown to those fans, Sykes was suffering from undiagnosed ADHD and developed an addiction to ketamine. The disaffection was grist for his new band, who built a devoted following across their first three albums. The band performing in New Orleans in October 2019. It would stem from one kid beating me up, to everyone … implanted into me that’s what everyone was going to do to me, going through life.” The end of year 11 prank every year was to beat the shit out of me. “I was the school punching bag,” he says. Now 33, he grew up in Stocksbridge, a small South Yorkshire town between Sheffield and Huddersfield. Tattoos cover his arms and creep around his face, as if he is only just keeping them at bay. We talk through it all in the vegan bar he owns in Sheffield, under the offices of his clothing company, Drop Dead. ![]() His passage through hoarse choruses to pop tunefulness reflects his own progress through a hellish childhood, addictions and divorce. Its slick pop was a long way from their roots, back when Sykes would demonically roar over fiddly riffs and stop-start rhythms. That 2018 album was their sixth since forming in Sheffield in 2004, and gave them their first UK No 1 and two Grammy nominations. “Our last album, Amo, we must have spent hundreds of thousands making that, and we’ve made this new one for nothing,” says Sykes. It makes sense, practically and aesthetically, for their “cyberpunk metal” to be built with software. Seven of the nine tracks were made entirely during, and are often about, lockdown the new single Teardrops, on which Sykes yells “Oh God, everything is so fucked!” with exasperated terror, was inspired by rolling news during the pandemic, “how we allow ourselves to be traumatised by it every day, and it’s addictive”.īand members isolated from one another and collaborated over Zoom and FaceTime. The song is included on Bring Me the Horizon’s new EP Post Human: Survival Horror, which features brilliant apocalyptic pop with boyband-style melodies. Sykes castigates “all the king’s sources and all the king’s friends” who “don’t know their arses from their pathogens” and asks: “When we forget the infection / Will we remember the lesson?” Full of theatrical flourishes such as sirens, sneezes and dispassionate cyborg-overlord voices, its volatility – swinging from whispers to giant chords – is evocative of the chaos that has defined 2020. ![]() That's what rock music is about - addressing the dark side and processing it.Parasite Eve was released in June and became the first great piece of art about the pandemic. You can't just brush over it and expect life to go back to normal, because it f-king ain't. "The world needs more and needs to think about it and remember. It's not what the world needs," Sykes explained to NME. "In our music we've always wanted to escape, but there's been too much escapism and ignoring the problems in the world. Through a series of video calls and remote recording, they completed "Parasite Eve" and released it as a single on June 26, 2020. As time went on, Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish concluded the song applied to the times and that instead of shying from it, they should embrace the dark side. Lockdown triggered a writing process that began to align and merge the boundaries between isolation and the virus. 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 realizing the magnitude of it all. "We'd heard about the pandemic in China, but then the similarities between what we were writing about started to become closer to reality. "It was really weird," Sykes admitted to NME. Bring Me The Horizon started to record the track in February 2020 before COVID-19 really took hold across the globe.Īs the pandemic started to sweep worldwide, the band felt the parallels were too similar so set the song aside. ![]() Borrowing the title from a late 1990s action role-playing video game, he came up with the idea for a horror song about a deadly virus. "Parasite Eve" originated in 2019 when frontman Oli Sykes read an article about a Japanese superbug that had become heat resistant because of climate change.
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