{"id":2173924,"date":"2025-11-23T22:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2173924"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:37:18","slug":"shields-release-new-song-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/shields-release-new-song-parasites\/","title":{"rendered":"Shields release new song &#8216;Parasites&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>SHIELDS<\/strong> have released a brand new single!<\/p>\n<p>The British metalcore band have unveiled their latest track <strong>Parasites<\/strong>, taken from their upcoming studio album <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/distortedsoundmag.com\/shields-announce-new-album-death-connection\/\"><strong>Death &amp; Connection<\/strong><\/a>, which is set for release on January 30th, 2026 via <strong>Long Branch Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the new single, vocalist<strong> Joe Edwards<\/strong> says, <em>\u201c<strong>Parasites<\/strong> is about the experience of sinking into depression and the warped internal relationship that develops within that state. Originally a rock song from a previous project, <strong>Parasites<\/strong> was repurposed for our album. As the original track already had dark undertones, it was easy to reframe it in moody industrial arrangements, allowing for a wide range of dynamic shifts between sections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to Parasites here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parasites\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uuTlN90zG0U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Death &amp; Connection is set for release on January 30th via Long Branch Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/holdtight.us6.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=7e62302b5ae86486df585d9a4&amp;id=7e7c212c66&amp;e=6344be6792\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on SHIELDS like their official page on\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Shieldsuk\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source distortedsoundmag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHIELDS have released a brand new single! The British metalcore band have unveiled their latest track Parasites, taken from their upcoming studio album Death &amp; Connection, which is set for release on January 30th, 2026 via Long Branch Records. Speaking about the new single, vocalist Joe Edwards says, \u201cParasites is about the experience of sinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2173925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[418065,240530,318679,418066,358479],"class_list":["post-2173924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-death-connection","tag-hold-tight","tag-long-branch-records","tag-parasites","tag-shields"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Shields-release-new-song-Parasites.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173926,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173924\/revisions\/2173926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2173925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}