BLOOM Debut “Withered” Video, Announce New Album ‘The Light We Chase’

Australian metalcore outfit Bloom will unleash their new album The Light We Chase on October 31st via Pure Noise Records. Ahead of its Halloween release, the band have dropped pre-orders and unveiled “Withered,” the record’s hard-hitting lead single, accompanied by a Jack Fontes–directed music video.

Speaking about the upcoming album and its opening track, drummer Jack Van Vliet offered insight into the themes and sound fans can expect:

“In many ways, the album is an oxymoron. 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.”

“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.”

The Light We Chase track listing:

01 – “Belrose”
02 – “Forget Me Not”
03 – “Out Of Reach”
04 – “Keep You” (feat. Patrick Miranda of Movements)
05 – “Glen Street”
06 – “Life Moves On Without Us”
07 – “Act II” (feat. Jack Bergin, formerly of Void Of Vision)
08 – “Withered”
09 – “Only Sky”
10 – “Tongue Tied” (feat. Mikaila Delgado of Yours Truly)
11 – “Show Me Who I Am”

Pre-orders: purenoiserecs.lnk.to/BloomStores.

With Thornhill & Ocean Grove:

10/17 Stuttgart, GER – Im Wizemann
10/18 Aarau, SWI – Kiff
10/19 Koln, GER – Kantine
10/21 Hannover, GER – Musik Zentrum
10/22 Hamburg, GER – Kent Club
10/23 Berlin, GER – Hole 44
10/24 Prague, CZE – Futurum
10/25 Wien, AUT – Flex
10/27 Munchen, GER – Backstage
10/28 Nurnberg, GER – Hirsch
10/29 Frankfurt, GER – Das Bett
10/30 Utrecht, NET – De Helling
11/01 Paris, FRA – Backstage By The Mill
11/02 Antwerp, BEL – Zappa
11/04 Glasgow, UK – Slay
11/05 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
11/06 Leeds, UK – Stylus
11/07 Manchester, UK – Rebellion
11/08 Wolverhampton, UK – KK’s Steel Mill
11/09 London, UK – O2 Islington Academy

With Silverstein (celebrating 25 years), 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
12/02 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
12/03 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
12/05 Riverside, CA – RMA
12/06 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
12/07 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

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