BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE have had quite the year. The prog-metal band released their first album for Season of Mist back in the spring to critical acclaim. With ‘Tempus Veritas’, Distorted Sound declared that BOE “set the new standard for prog rock”.
After blowing away audiences at Radar, Tech-Fest and other summer festivals with equal parts melodic power and ferocious beauty,
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE just took a much-deserved victory lap on their UK fall tour.
But they’ve already got plans to keep rolling well into next year.
Today, the British rockers are announcing their first tour of 2024. They’ll be playing shows all across the UK next March.
Get tickets: https://blackorchidempire.com/#tour
March UK Tour 2024
2 March – Bristol @ Crofters Rights
3 March – Swansea @ The Bunkhouse
4 March – Stoke @ The Underground
5 March – Warrington @ Friars Court
6 March – Sheffield @ Corporation
7 March – Birmingham @ Subside
8 March – Derby @ The Hairy Dog
9 March – Bournemouth @ Bear Cave
10 March – London @ New Cross Inn
“We’re blown away by the continuing positive response to Tempus Veritas”, says vocalist and guitarist Paul Visser. “We can’t wait to get back out on the road in the UK – we’re hitting some places we haven’t been to for a long while, as well as some new venues in towns that already feel like home. See you at a show!”
Order ‘Tempus Veritas’: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/BOETV
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Go behind the music with BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE and learn how ‘Tempus Veritas’ was inspired by Galileo, Vikings and other moments in “hi-fi”.
Watch the making-of video: https://youtu.be/hX8tX0mdPTo
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE create huge, memorable rock music that combines heavy-hitting savagery with intense melodic beauty. Their technical, fearlessly complex grooves and gigantic sing-along choruses have already earned them a widespread fanbase.
A ferociously tight live band, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE have toured Europe and the UK extensively, supporting Skunk Anansie, HED p.e, INME and Black Map as well as festival slots at Download, Standon Calling and Planet Rockstock. Black Orchid Empire have sealed the bands reputation as a force to be reckoned with.
Having released their debut album ‘Archetype’ (2016) to universal acclaim, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE signed with German label Long Branch Records to release the follow up albums ‘Yugen’ (2018) and ‘Semaphore’ (2020). Both albums received stellar reviews and over 3,000,000+ combined streams.
“Tempus Veritas” is a collection of stories that seeks to find compelling imaginary narratives hidden away in what we all think of as history. Behind every milestone or major event in humanity’s long, complex past lies a treasure trove of possibilities for invention – how did Pope Urban VIII feel when confronted by his friend Galileo about the true nature of the sun? What really happened during an almost triumphant but ultimately doomed Everest attempt? What was it like to be a Norse settler amongst the Saxons; did the omens of the ancient gods begin to disappear?
In approaching “Tempus Veritas”, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE sought collectively to push themselves both musically and thematically. Their pursuit of heaviness, melody, emotional power and rhythmic complexity has pushed them to create something they‘re immensely proud of. “Semaphore” was an album of Sci-Fi, this is an album of Hi-Fi. Tempus Veritas.
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