{"id":2275223,"date":"2026-02-10T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275223"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:42:08","slug":"metalcore-has-gotten-sexy-again-bloom-are-chasing-new-heights-on-their-latest-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/metalcore-has-gotten-sexy-again-bloom-are-chasing-new-heights-on-their-latest-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Metalcore Has Gotten Sexy Again&#8217;: Bloom Are Chasing New Heights On Their Latest Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Bloom vocalist Jono Hawkey discusses releasing two albums within a year of each other, how metalcore is sexy again, drinking champagne under the Eiffel Tower, and their upcoming Australian tour. <\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"artist-callout\" href=\"https:\/\/themusic.com.au\/artist\/jgiIg4CBhoc\/bloom\" x-data=\"sbLink\" x-bind=\"bindingsLink\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span>Bloom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sydney melodic hardcore five-piece <strong>Bloom<\/strong> begin their national tour on February 11th to officially launch their second album <em>The Light We Chase<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a wild two years for Bloom, they released their 2024 debut album <em>Maybe In Another Life<\/em> to critical acclaim and to prove it wasn&#8217;t a fluke they followed it up with <em>The Light We Chase <\/em>just a year later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To capitalise on this momentum Bloom spent most of 2025 on the road including tours with <strong>Silverstein <\/strong>in Europe and North America, and supporting bands like <strong>Chelsea Grin<\/strong>, <strong>Currents<\/strong>, and <strong>Trophy Eyes<\/strong>. When the album was released in October they celebrated with a day off in Paris while on a European tour with <strong>Thornhill <\/strong>and <strong>Ocean Grove<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will hold that day close to me until the day I die,\u201d vocalist <strong>Jono Hawkey<\/strong> tells <em>The Music <\/em>over Zoom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a special day. We drank champagne in front of the Eiffel Tower. We got to stop and celebrate and acknowledge how in 2025 we started the album in January of that year and to be a part of a tour package, where we&#8217;re surrounded by our best friends for three weeks straight, to be in a beautiful city, to be sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower, to be drinking champagne and eating charcuterie. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was truly one of those incredible special moments that I will always look back on fondly.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloom &quot;Keep You (ft. Pat Miranda)&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rdbm7OEQRzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>These Australian shows will be the only time fans will get to hear all of the songs from <em>The Light We Chase <\/em>live. It won&#8217;t be a from start to finish album play-through, but instead the songs will be scattered in with the best of their older material. <\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t always the plan, however, as Hawkey admits he never intended to play all the songs on the album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"newsletter-signup \">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss a beat with our FREE daily newsletter<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe were just going to do the best songs from the album, songs people love and go from that and I think it was really me and <strong>Oliver <\/strong>[<strong>Butler<\/strong>, bassist] bouncing ideas around the setlist,\u201d he explains. \u201cOnce we kind of had this brainstorm of \u2018we should do this song into this song\u2019 and \u2018it\u2019d be really cool if we did this for this\u2019 and you throw your ideas around. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at the setlist and we had written down 10 of the 11 songs from the album as part of the setlist. At that point we went, \u2018Well, what&#8217;s one more song?\u2019, it&#8217;s not going to be played one through 11. We did that for <em>Maybe In Another Life<\/em> and that was fun, but I think this tour is the most we&#8217;ve ever cared about the flow, the progression, the different moments that we want to hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think because <em>The Light We Chase<\/em> is quite varied sonically, it has quite high intensity moments,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt has quite withdrawn and more of those like big atmospherey sort of moments. We want to create a setlist that really guides through the motions rather than just just playing the album in full and then chucking on some old songs at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloom &quot;Forget Me Not&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dW-K4lj94NM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The fact that Bloom have produced two back-to-back albums of such high quality has been one of the reasons why they&#8217;re seen as one of the most exciting Australian metalcore bands to watch right now. <\/p>\n<p>On paper, the albums were only two years apart but Bloom had been sitting on <em>Maybe In Another Life <\/em>for a year and a half. By the time it saw the light of day they were already itching to get back into the studio.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe went into those recording dates at the start of the year [for <em>The Light We Chase<\/em>],\u201d Hawkey explains. \u201cNot necessarily with the pressure of, \u2018Here&#8217;s a deadline, it&#8217;s got to be out by this time\u2019, but we knew from <em>Maybe In Another Life<\/em> how painful it was dragging that process out. By the time the album&#8217;s released, you&#8217;re already sick of the songs, they&#8217;ve kind of been played to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we knew that we had a really big year of touring coming up and we knew that there were going to be windows that we could hit. If we do these dates here, if we make sure that we&#8217;ve got music videos, scheduled, booked, concepts done by this time, we can start rollout in August and then have the album by October. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used the experience we had with <em>Maybe In Another Life<\/em> of that future planning and then just the experience of what releasing an album entails to enable us to speed through the process,\u201d he continues. \u201cI think we had more foresight this time around knowing that rolling out an album isn&#8217;t the easiest thing in the world, but we knew that it was possible and it made sense to line it up with a busy year of touring. It was cool that we pulled that off.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloom &quot;Out Of Reach&quot; (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t0T2_XsrHyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Considering they had written, recorded and released <em>The Light We Chase <\/em>in under a year, it&#8217;s not impossible to imagine Bloom going for a trifecta and releasing another album in 2026. However, Hawkey wants to savour <em>The Light We Chase <\/em>for a while longer first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if we wanted to release an album in 2026, we would have had to have started it last week,\u201d Hawkey laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look at the timeline of <em>Maybe In Another Life<\/em> to where we are right now\u2026 that album is mid-2022, early-2023, that project starts for us [then]. Our internal clock starts ticking from the second we start the process of making that album. That obviously had a much longer drawn out release. We had the signing to Pure Noise Records and for your debut you really want to make sure you get everything right the first time. <em>The Light We Chase<\/em> felt much, much faster because it was much, much faster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we&#8217;re going to pump the brakes, just a little bit, just a touch and kind of enjoy <em>The Light We Chase<\/em> for a little bit longer,\u201d he muses. \u201cIt still feels really new and fresh to us and I think that&#8217;s exciting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloom &quot;Withered&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hf2DK1Ic1qA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Being able to support them on tour and watch their Australian friends in Thornhill so closely has been extremely inspirational for Hawkey. After the early success of bands like <strong>Parkway Drive<\/strong>, <strong>The Amity Affliction <\/strong>and <strong>Northlane <\/strong>there now feels like a new wave of Australian bands making an impact and flying the alternative flag. It\u2019s the perfect time to be an up and coming band in the world of metalcore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetalcore has gotten sexy again,\u201d he asserts. \u201cWe are in a beautiful time to be writing metalcore\u2026 It&#8217;s really cool to see a band that has stuck to their guns and really put what they want to do and how they want their band to look and sound and what their [live experience] is like and put such paramount importance on that, backing themselves and seeing the point that they\u2019re at now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir 2025 was insane, ARIA, <strong>Sleep Token<\/strong>, all that sort of stuff. I think they as individuals are very incredibly talented musicians,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;ve given us a lot of tips and shown us different ways of thinking of things and I think we&#8217;ve learnt a lot from them and it&#8217;s great having that close personal relationship with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.destroyalllines.com\/tours\/bloom\"><em>Tickets<\/em><\/a><em> to Bloom\u2019s Australian tour are on sale now.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DURdfb5E7Sf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>DESTROY ALL LINES &amp; PURE NOISE RECORDS PRESENTS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>BLOOM<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE LIGHT WE CHASE &#8211; AUSTRALIAN TOUR\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>SUPPORTED BY AVOID (USA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday 11 February 2026 &#8211; Crowbar, Brisbane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Friday 13 February 2026 &#8211; Mo\u2019s Desert Clubhouse, Gold Coast<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday 14 February 2026 &#8211; Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunday 15 February 2026 &#8211; Crowbar, Sydney<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tuesday 17 February 2026 &#8211; Dicey Rileys, Wollongong<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday 18 February 2026 &#8211; Max Watts, Melbourne<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Friday 20 February 2026 &#8211; Pelly Bar, Frankston<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday 21 February 2026 &#8211; Lion Arts Factory, Adelaide<\/p>\n<div class=\"acknowledgement\">\n<p>This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tAustralia, its arts funding and advisory body<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.themusic.com.au\/images\/site-assets\/local-journalism.webp\" alt=\"Creative Australia\" style=\"--ratio: 500\/116;\" width=\"500\" height=\"116\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source themusic.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloom vocalist Jono Hawkey discusses releasing two albums within a year of each other, how metalcore is sexy again, drinking champagne under the Eiffel Tower, and their upcoming Australian tour. 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