Black Orchid Empire release new music video for ‘Winter Keeps Us Warm’

BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Winter Keeps Us Warm, is taken from the band’s upcoming new album Semaphore which is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Long Branch Records.

Speaking about the track and its accompanying music video, guitarist/vocalist Paul Visser says, “Winter Keeps Us Warm is a huge song for us. We wanted to do something super melodic that still maintained the complexity and heaviness we love. Balancing the two helped us craft a track that is so much fun to play. Lyrically it continues exploring the Sci-Fi ideas shared by all the songs on Semaphore. Winter Keeps Us Warm is about the captain of a crippled ship setting course for what he hopes will be a friendly outpost, and committing totally to his path. He and his crew submit to hibernation knowing that either their desperate signal will be received and they’ll be saved, or they’ll drift forever in deep space and die. The title is inspired by a line from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, a poem that also gives us the titles of two books by my favourite author Iain M Banks – Look to Windward and Consider Phlebas.

“The video, again the brainchild of our friend Alina Gordienco, is an amazing sequence showing a female astronaut trying to escape a maze of tunnels. It was shot in the catacombs of Odessa, which served as bomb shelters during the Second World War. It’s truly beautiful. We filmed the band shots in London with the brilliant Jay Hillyer – he really smashed it.”

Watch the official music video for Winter Keeps Us Warm here: 

Alongside the release of the new music video, the band have confirmed a short run of tour dates for this summer. In June, the band will perform a run of shows across the UK in a co-headlining tour with tech-metallers EXIST IMMORTAL whilst also making appearances at UK Tech-Fest and 7Fest.

Tour dates are as follows: 

03.06 – Bournemouth, The Anvil
04.06 – London, 229 The Venue
05.06 – Bristol, The Old England
06.06 – Exeter, The Cavern
07.06 – Brighton, The Hope & Ruin

Semaphore is set for release on June 12th via Long Branch Records.

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