Black Orchid Empire announce new album ‘Tempus Veritas’
BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE have announced a new album!
Titled Tempus Veritas, the upcoming album from the UK progressive trio is the follow-up to 2020’s Semaphore, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Season Of Mist.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist Paul Visser says, “interwoven with the fabric of our history as a species are countless opportunities for stories. Little pieces of imagined narrative, set within events we all collectively know as historical, that seek to explore what it means to be human – this is the idea behind Tempus Veritas. Whereas Semaphore looked to the future, this record reinvents the past, wondering what it was like to be inside the mind of a person living through times of consequence. Musically, we continue to seek the boundary between the savagely technical and the undeniably beautiful and attempt to push it as far as possible. We poured our entire creative beings into making this album – we sincerely hope you enjoy it.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Deny The Sun.
Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Visser says, “Deny The Sun is the first song we wrote for Tempus Veritas and we love how hard the riff goes! We’ve been pushing more and more into the technical side of our music for this album and this track is a great example of that. Lyrically it deals with Galileo’s ideas about the central nature of the sun and the clash with religious views at the time, written from the point of view of his friend Pope Urban VIII who found himself in an impossible position and ended up condemning the astronomer. Our friend and long-time collaborator Alina Gordienco made the amazing video in LA, starring the wonderful Irina Dudyk as the sun goddess. Her work is consistently inspired and we love what she did for this song!”
Watch the official music video for Deny The Sun here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Tempus Veritas
2. Hydrogen
3. The Raven
4. Last Ronin
5. Scarlet Haze
6. Deny The Sun
7. Glory To The King
8. Summit
9. Weakness
10. Vesuvius
11. Latimer
Tempus Veritas is set for release on April 14th via Season Of Mist. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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