Melodic hardcore group Bloom has officially released their sophomore album, ‘The Light We Chase’, which is out now via Pure Noise Records. This visceral collection reflects a period of intense emotional turmoil, including relationship breakdowns, struggles with trust, and wrestling with hopelessness, offering the band’s most powerful and ambitious songwriting to date. Fans can dive into the album with the latest single and music video, “Withered,” a track that tackles questions of self worth and the weight of lost hope with unflinching honesty. The song features the heaviest hitting, most distorted instrumentals on the entire record, serving as an absolute powerhouse single.
Drummer Jack Van Vliet explains the philosophical core of the album, sharing, “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… The Light We Chase is that perfection. The sublime. The taste of something good.” He also spoke about the emotional core of the single: “‘Withered’ tackles this question with unflinching honesty, and how the light we chase can be the path to our own ‘desolation.’ 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.” The album, produced by Sam Bassal, is a wide exploration of how far metalcore can be pushed, featuring guest vocals from Movements’ Patrick Miranda and Void Of Vision’s Jack Bergin. Fans can catch Bloom on their North American tour supporting Silverstein on the 25 Years of Noise Tour, which includes Thursday and Free Throw.
‘The Light We Chase’ Track Listing
- Belrose
- Forget Me Not
- Out Of Reach
- Keep You (feat. Patrick Miranda)
- Glen Street
- Life Moves On Without Us
- Act II (feat. Jack Bergin)
- Withered
- Only Sky
- Tongue Tied (feat. Mikaila Delgado)
- Show Me Who I Am