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Parasite Eve #

“We cannot save you, enjoy the ride.”

“Parasite Eve” is the second song on the album POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR. It’s title, although referencing the 1998 video game of the same name, still reminds us of the antagonist of the ARG: E.V.E.

Official Material #

Official MV

Lyrics

Накривил е калпачето ей така, па така/ Нанагоре-нанадоле, ей така, па така/ Накривил е калпачето ей така,па така/ Нанагоре-нанадоле, ей така, па така/

i’ve got a fever, don’t breathe on me/ i’m a believer of nobody/ won’t let me leave ‘cause I’ve seen something/ hope I don’t sneeze, I don’t…/

really we just need to fear something/ only pretending to feel something/ i know you’re dying to run/ i want to turn you around/

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/

it’s the parasite eve/ gotta feeling in your stomach, ‘cause you know that it’s coming for you/ leave your flowers and grieve/ don’t forget what they told you/ when we forget the infection/ will we remember the lesson/ if the suspense doesn’t kill you/ something else will/

move/

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/

you can board up your windows/ you can lock up your doors/ but you can’t keep washing your hands of this shit any more/ 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 a door/ this ain’t a warning/ this is a war.

(Source: Parasite Eve music video description)

Genius Annotation #

Annotation “Parasite Eve,” the second single from POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR, was recorded during the 2020’s quarantine and, although the inspiration for the track didn’t come from the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of references to it. The title comes from a 1998 survival horror game of the same name released by Square. The band said: We’ve got to look that face to face. We’ve got to confront it. We’ve got to feel it. We’ve got to breathe it. We’ve got to live it sometimes to get through this. You know, it’s understandable that we want to repress these feelings, and sometimes becoming civilised requires us to repress aspects of ourselves that don’t fit in with the structured ideal of our society. During the promotion of the song, the band changed their helix logo for a broken version. The song was expected to be released on 2020, June, 10th, but was postponed due to the George Floyd protests and all Black Lives Matter protests around the world. As Oliver Sykes stated: So as some of you know we were planning on releasing a new track this week. But 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. I know you will all understand because we have the best fans in the world and I promise you we won’t make you wait too long and the good news is more music will be coming soon after “Parasite Eve” too. But for now keep fighting the good fight and stay tuned. The game tells the story of a cop named Aya who is fighting against a biological entity that calls itself Eve, who formed when a mitochondrial cell mutated and evolved, eventually becoming self-aware and seeking a host beyond humanity. Eve threatens all life on Earth by causing her victims to spontaneously combust. The entity seeks to replace humanity with superior organisms that have control over their own DNA, and considers humanity to be a parasite leeching off the planet. Also, when asked about what would he like to achieve on his last day alive, Oli Sykes said: A speed run on Parasite Eve’s hardest setting. Musically, it was influenced a lot by Oli Sykes playing a game called DOOM Eternal, as well as the contributions of the game soundtrack artist Mick Gordon, giving it a futuristic and cyber overlay.

Interviews #

“‘Parasite Eve’ was about the dawn of a new problem that mankind was going to face,” says Sykes. “I was getting anxious, feeling that this could be our future. I wrote it before Covid, and we talked a lot about whether or not we should release it. We were worried if it was offensive. The line, ‘When we forget the infection / Will we remember the lesson?’ was originally ‘If we survive the infection…’. That line just shook me at first because people were actually dying.

“Then we thought, ‘People need this, actually,’ to get a cathartic experience from music and process things a little bit – even if it is dark. That really cemented what we wanted to do with this record and what the rest of the album was going to be themed around.”

(Source: NME)

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