Melodic hardcore group Bloom is excited to announce their sophomore album, The Light We Chase. Set to be released on October 31st via Pure Noise Records, The Light We Chase reflects a period of emotional turmoil – relationship breakdowns, struggles with trust, and wrestling with hopelessness – offering the band’s most visceral collection to date. Fans can get their first taste with latest single and music video “Withered”, streaming here: https://lnk.to/BloomStreams
In many ways, the album is an oxymoron,” drummer Jack Van Vliet shares. “You can’t catch light in your hands, and you can’t have darkness without the light casting its shadow. We all have an idea of something perfect. A memory, a vision of the future, a light at the end of the tunnel. The Light We Chase is that perfection. The sublime. The taste of something good. Our widest exploration of how far metalcore can be pushed and shaped, this album is lyrically diverse as it is instrumentally.”
About the new single, he adds: “In anything that we do throughout our lives there is a question of worth. Was this relationship worth it? Is my career everything I thought it would be? Is the life I’m living worth all the things I’ve gone through? ‘Withered’ tackles this question with unflinching honesty, and how the light we chase can be the path to our own ‘desolation.’ In ‘Withered’ the present is bleak, and grief forces us to wonder if ‘I didn’t hope hard enough’ for the life we dreamed of. The frankness of the song repeats itself as ‘Eight years of my life, dedicated/desolated’ repeats like a mantra for all the things that have been lost, over the heaviest hitting, most distorted, soul wrenching instrumentals over the entire record. The song slows into desperation as Bloom becomes ‘Withered’, continuing the oxymoron trope that has been used throughout the record, and corrupting whatever hope had been scattered through the record so far.”
Fans in the UK / EU can catch Bloom on tour with Thornhill and Ocean Grove starting on October 17th. After that the band will be supporting Silverstein in North America on the 25 Years of Noise Tour, also featuring Thursday and Free Throw. For more information, please visit: https://www.bloomsyd.com/.
About Bloom
Steeped in emotion, nostalgia and experimentation, album #2 for Sydney melodic hardcore collective Bloom vigorously cleaves together the group’s past, present and future, relishing in self-reflection and searing musicianship and ultimately facing the darkness with open arms. A significantly personal and musically diverse collection of songs, it’s fitting that this brand new chapter for Bloom captures them in an entirely new light. Enter: The Light We Chase.
Following the release of their debut full length album, the conceptual 2024 masterpiece Maybe In Another Life, the journey to crafting Bloom’s sophomore full-length, The Light We Chase (due out in 2025 via Pure Noise Records), found vocalist Jono Hawkey, guitarists Jarod McLaren and Oliver Butler, bassist Andrew Martin, and drummer Jack Van Vliet adopting multi-faceted change, including starting and finishing the entire album in the space of a few short weeks.
Brandishing fundamental themes of nostalgia, longing and the disappointment often associated with expectations at its core, The Light We Chase found Bloom boldly embracing uncharted sonic terrain alongside producer Sam Bassal (Ocean Grove, Void Of Vision, Thornhill), while also marking their first full-length release with Pure Noise Records after inking a deal with the label in 2024.
Featuring the band’s first ever credited guest vocals, bringing together a stalwart lineup of features spanning homegrown heroes (Void Of Vision’s Jack Bergin and Yours Truly’s Mikaila Delgado) through to international icons (Movements’ Patrick Miranda), The Light We Chase snapshots everything from thunderous ruminations on fear and the present day (Forget Me Not) through to romanticizing the past and the reality of loss (Glen Street), while also injecting infectious hazy odes to the band’s shared collective past (Keep You), transcendent acoustic tenderness (Tongue Tied), and one of the heaviest Bloom moments to date, also offering a window into the band’s inner world (Withered).
“I feel like we learned a lot from releasing album one, as well as the music that’s come before that,” vocalist Jono Hawkey shares. “We’re now at a point where we’re very confident in our sound, and we’re willing to take more risks.”
Renowned for their open-veined take on the melodic hardcore realms since forming back in 2017, Bloom’s ability to balance catharsis with rage, despair and full-blown bangers has seen them recently tick off performances alongside Silverstein in Europe earlier this year, Chelsea Grin and Currents down under, their debut Japanese headline shows (with Tokyo entirely sold out), Miss May I, Polaris, Make Them Suffer in 2024, and a completely sold out headline tour for earlier single The Works Of You. In 2023, Bloom ticked off an appearance at Good Things Festival, supporting Bad Omens and Thornhill with Holding Absence, with their live performance equally renowned to be as potent as their commanding releases.
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The Light We Chase Tracklist:
1. Belrose
2. Forget Me Not
3. Out Of Reach
4. Keep You (ft. Pat Miranda)
5. Glen Street
6. Life Moves On Without Us
7. Act II (ft. Jack Bergin)
8. Withered
9. Only Sky
10. Tongue Tied (Ft. Yours Truly)
11. Show Me Who I Am
Upcoming EU/UK Tour Dates
(Supporting Thornhill, Ocean Grove)
10/17 – Stuttgart, DE @ Im Wizemann
10/18 – Aarau, CH @ Kiff
10/19 – Köln, DE @ Kantine
10/21 – Hannover, DE @ Musik Zentrum
10/22 – Hamburg, DE @ Kent Club
10/23 – Berlin, DE @ Hole 44
10/24 – Prague, CZ @ Futurum
10/25 – Wien, AT @ Flex
10/27 – München, DE @ Backstage
10/28 – Nürnberg, DE –@HRSCH
10/29 – Frankfurt, DE @ Das Bett
10/30 – Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
11/1 – Paris, FR @ Backstage by the Mill
11/2 – Antwerp, BE @ Zappa
11/4 – Glasgow, UK @ Slay
11/5 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
11/6 – Leeds, UK @ Stylus
11/7 – Manchester, UK @ Rebellion
11/8 – Wolverhampton, UK @ KK’s Steel Mill
11/9 – London, UK @ O2 Islington Academy
Upcoming North American Tour Dates:
(supporting Silverstein, Thursday, Free Throw)
11/18 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
11/19 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
11/21 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
11/22 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
11/23 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
11/25 – Calgary, AB @ The Palace
11/26 – Edmonton, AB @ Midway
11/28 – Vancouver, BC @ The Vogue
11/29 – Portland, OR @ Roseland
11/30 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
12/2 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
12/3 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
12/5 – Riverside, CA @ RMA
12/6 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
12/7 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
12/10 – Austin, TX @ RADIO/EAST
12/12 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
12/13 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
12/14 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
12/16 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
12/17 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
12/19 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
12/20 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
