It’s like “okay, we should probably do something that’s more straight down the middle, rock music or we could do the opposite, so let’s just do the opposite”. It’s almost like the opposite of what we should have done after amo, which is quite experimental. That’s kind of what the mixtape felt like. I really respect that, I think when you’re a fan of music what you’re really missing are those in-between moments. It also enables us to bounce back into enjoying the more heavy side of our band, which, I think, benefits everyone. It just allows us to push that side of our band a bit more. If I’ve still got enough energy at the end of the year after working on our “actual music” or whatever you want to call it, then I think we’re going to do another one at Christmas again. I think it’s going to be something that we do every year, actually. We kind of made the EP in like three or four days. We also had a bunch of ideas in music that we just wanted to put out, but there was no real suitable thing for it. Yeah, you’ve broken the taboo of everything needing to be an album or a single, and it’s like “here we go we’ve just dropped an EP”. To just drop one really quickly and get it out of the way was an option. Part of the reason of us doing the EP at Christmas is because we knew we wanted to go into a bunch of EP’s this year instead of full album releases. It’s kind of like you’ve already pushed all those boundaries. We wanted to get to the point where we can do whatever we want without it feeling that shocking. How has the way you’ve approached making and releasing music changed at this point in your career? Musically you’re challenging fans by drawing from an eclectic sonic palette, but also the way you’ve released music has been unconventional for a band of your stature. Since amo, Bring Me The Horizon have embodied a no rules approach to music ie the mixtape EP. When that all stopped it was like, “okay, what is my purpose actually?” It was probably a week ago where I realised I’m always in the race for the next thing - like I wanna move house, or I wanna do this, or I was super driven by the career with the band, or whatever. Yeah definitely, you could almost feel the whole world having it around the same time. I think everyone had a collective identity crisis. In the first week after the pandemic stopping everything I had one of those moments like, you know when you’re so driven by what you’re doing and it stops and you’re like “what the fuck is the point of my life?” I guess we gotta learn to wash our hands more, that’d be good. I don’t really like the idea of not hugging people, it’s inhuman. ![]() There’s the literal ones you can take from what caused this whole thing. Generally caging animals in close proximity is probably not good. I’m not a big fan of animal markets anyway, so that would be one. ![]() One of the standout lyrics of ‘Parasite Eve’ is “ When we forget the infection, will we remember the lesson?”, What is the lesson? It just had an end of world vibe that fit the song. We might have lucked out, it could be something that works with the lyrics I don’t know. I’m going to assume that someone might have told us. It’s probably some gibberish, I should check what they’re saying. To be fair it had no real relevance to the song. ![]() We were just looking at stuff on YouTube and Oli was like, “someone sent me this Bulgarian choir shit we should sample it.” It just worked really well. ‘Parasite Eve’ is built on this sample of a Bulgarian female vocal performance, how did that come about?
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