The Blackheart Orchestra release brand new single Bloodlines

20 Sep 2024, 09:38 · louder

By Jerry Ewing
( Prog )
published 20 September 2024

UK pop prog duo The Blackheart Orchestra will release their new studio album in 2025

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Manchester prog duo The Blackheart Orchestra release their brand new single Bloodlines today. The duo, multi-instrumentalists Chrissy Mostyn and Rick Pilkington (they play over 13 instruments from guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion to omnichord, glockenspiel, melodica and their collection of ancient synths.
, will also release a video for the track next week, which you'll be able to see in next week's Tracks Of The Week.

Bloodlines is also the name of the band's current UK tour which hits London's Courtyard Theatre tonight.

"Bloodlines draws inspiration from the things passed down through our lineage – not just physical traits but intergenerational trauma, mental illness, strengths and resilience," the pair say. "The song delves into the secrets our bodies hold and asks the question is society’s current epidemic of depression generic or genetic."

The new single is the first piece of music to be taken from their upcoming album, which the band have been working on in the studio recently and which will be released in 2025.

You can view the remainder of the band's October and November tour dates and ticket information below.

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The Blackheart Orchestra Bloodlines 2024 tour dates

Sep 20: London Courtyard Theatre
Sep 21: Wycombe Arts Centre
Sep 27: Oundle Talbot Hotel
Sep 28: Winchester Railway
Oct 5: Sheffield Lantern Theatre
Oct 6: Leicester The Musician
Oct 10: Manchester Deaf Institute
Oct 13: Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe
Oct 18: Great Yarmouth HRH Prog
Oct 19: Oswestry Hermon Chapel Arts
Oct 26: Middlesbrough Toft House
Oct 31: Cardiff Norwegian Church Arts
Nov 1: Reading Leckhampstead Church

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Jerry Ewing

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

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