Emerging Hardcore Act Bloom Announces Sophomore Album Ahead of 2025 National Tour

The Light We Chase arrives 31 October via Pure Noise Records.

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After announcing a four-date national tour to commemorate the release of their latest single ‘Withered’, which dropped last Friday (14 August) via Pure Noise Records, emerging hardcore act Bloom have also revealed the title and release date of their upcoming sophomore album.

The Light We Chase arrives on Friday 31 October via Pure Noise Records and explores “relationship breakdowns, struggles with trust and wrestling with hopelessness” across 11 blisteringly heavy tracks.

“In many ways, the album is an oxymoron,” drummer Jack Van Vliet shares about the title of Bloom’s new long player. “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.”
 
Speaking on 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.”

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Bloom’s popularity internationally continues to grow, with the band joining Thornhill and Ocean Grove on their UK and European tour in October before heading stateside and supporting Silverstein on the 25 Years of Noise Tour, which also features Thursday and Free Throw.

But before that, Bloom are performing four special shows for their Australian fans with support from Inertia and Post Heaven.

Bloom’s Withered Across Australia tour gets underway in Adelaide at the newly reopened Ed Castle on Thursday 4 September, followed by shows at Melbourne’s Stay Gold on Friday 5 September, Brisbane’s The Outpost Bar on Friday 12 September and Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory on Sunday 14 September. Tickets for all shows are on sale now via destroyalllines.com.

Catch Bloom at Ed Castle on Thursday 4 September. Tickets on sale now via moshtix.com.au. The Light We Chase arrives on Friday 31 October via Pure Noise Records. Pre-order here.

The Light We Chase

1. Belrose

2. Forget Me Not

3. Out Of Reach

4. Keep You (ft. Patrick 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

Bloom Withered Across Australia 2025 Tour Dates

Thursday 4 September – Ed Castle, Adelaide, SA

Friday 5 September – Stay Gold, Melbourne, VIC

Friday 12 September – The Outpost Bar, Brisbane, QLD

Sunday 14 September – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW

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