Sept 17, 2025 – Sydney, AUS – Fresh off announcing their sophomore album, The Light We Chase, melodic hardcore group Bloom is back with another new single. Today the band has shared “Tongue Tied”, a melancholy and moving duet featuring Mikaila Delgado (Yours Truly) – out now and streaming here, with a new music video available here. “This song marks new ground for Bloom and is our softest, cleanest song to date,” drummer Jack Van Vliet shares. “A duet with Yours Truly’s Mikaila Delgado, ‘Tongue Tied’ is an honest look at being afraid to speak your mind, for fear of what will happen if you do.” He continues: “While it begins as an acoustic track, electric guitars and drums barge into the song with energy midway through the second verse, and lead the song to a finger pointing, sing-a-long refrain of ‘what am I without you.’ The song balances two clean voices as it balances full band and acoustic sections that flow naturally after the other, as the vocals balance honesty and fear in equal parts.” About the visualizer, the band adds: “Just as how the song sonically is a different direction for us, we wanted to create a video that was different to any form of content we’ve made before. Shot completely as a one-take, the video is a fly-on-the-wall view of a couple who long for connection from each other, but aren’t able to find the ways to communicate. Both shaken up by an argument that has taken place, the video begins as they sit in the car driving away from each other, representing the distance growing in their relationship. As they physically move further apart, silhouettes of how they truly feel begin to communicate and reach out and try to reconnect. As the lyric “I hope that we’re good” is sung, we see their silhouettes reaching out one final time and embrace each other, while they both sit across from each other in different locations with no way of resolving the pain they both feel.” The Light We Chase is set to be released on October 31st via Pure Noise Records. The album 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 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/. He continues:“While it begins as an acoustic track, electric guitars and drums barge into the song with energy midway through the second verse, and lead the song to a finger pointing, sing-a-long refrain of ‘what am I without you.’ The song balances two clean voices as it balances full band and acoustic sections that flow naturally after the other, as the vocals balance honesty and fear in equal parts.”About the visualizer, the band adds: “Just as how the song sonically is a different direction for us, we wanted to create a video that was different to any form of content we’ve made before. Shot completely as a one-take, the video is a fly-on-the-wall view of a couple who long for connection from each other, but aren’t able to find the ways to communicate. Both shaken up by an argument that has taken place, the video begins as they sit in the car driving away from each other, representing the distance growing intheir relationship. As they physically move further apart, silhouettes of how they truly feel begin to communicate and reach out and try to reconnect. As the lyric “I hope that we’re good” is sung, we see their silhouettes reaching out one final time andembrace each other, while they both sit across from each other in different locations with no way of resolving the pain they both feel.”The Light We Chase is set to be released onOctober 31st via Pure Noise Records. The album 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 in theUK / EU can catch Bloom on tour with Thornhill and Ocean Grove starting onOctober 17th. After that the band will be supporting Silverstein in North America on the25 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 thisbrand new chapter for Bloom captures them in an entirely new light. Following the release of their debut full length album, the conceptual 2024 masterpieceMaybe In Another Life, the journey to craftingBloom’s sophomore full-length,The Light WeChase(due out in 2025 viaPure Noise Records), found vocalist Jono Hawkey, guitarists Jarod McLaren and Oliver Butler, bassist Andrew Martin, and drummerJack 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 producerSam Bassal (Ocean Grove, Void OfVision, Thornhill), while also marking their first full-length release withPure 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’sJack Bergin and Yours Truly’s Mikaila Delgado) through to international icons (Movements’Patrick Miranda),The LightWe Chase snapshots everything from thunderous ruminations on fear and the present day(Forget Me Not)through to romanticising the past and the reality of loss(Glen Street), whilealso 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 in2017,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 singleThe 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 The Light We Chase Trac-klist: 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 Bloom are gearing up to bring their electrifying energy to stages across the UK, joining Thornhill on their highly anticipated upcoming tour. Known for their dynamic live performances and emotive sound, Bloom will add a powerful edge to the lineup, complementing Thornhill’s signature intensity. Full list of dates below. Upcoming EU/UK Tour Dates
(Supporting Thornhill, Ocean Grove) 17th October 2025 – Im Wizemann, Stuttgart, DE
18th October 2025 – Kiff, Aarau, CH
19th October 2025 – Kantine, Köln, DE
21st October 2025 – Musik Zentrum, Hannover, DE
22nd October 2025 – Kent Club, Hamburg, DE
23rd October 2025 – Hole 44, Berlin, DE
24th October 2025 – Futurum, Prague, CZ
25th October 2025 – Flex, Wien, AT
27th October 2025 – Backstage, München, DE
28th October 2025 – HRSCH, Nürnberg, DE
29th October 2025 – Das Bett, Frankfurt, DE
30th October 2025 – De Helling, Utrecht, NL
1st November 2025 – Backstage by the Mill, Paris, FR
2nd November 2025 – Zappa, Antwerp, BE
4th November 2025 – Slay, Glasgow, UK
5th November 2025 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
6th November 2025 – Stylus, Leeds, UK
7th November 2025 – Rebellion, Manchester, UK
8th November 2025 – KK’s Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, UK
9th November 2025 – O2 Islington Academy, London, UK |
