O.R.k release new music video for ‘Black Blooms’

O.R.K have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Black Blooms, is taken from the band’s upcoming new album Ramagehead which is scheduled to be released later this month.

The band features Italy’s celebrated vocalist, producer and award-winning film score composer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari a.k.a LEF (lead vocals), KING CRIMSON‘s Pat Mastelotto (drums), PORCUPINE TREE‘s Colin Edwin (bass) and MARTA SUI TUBI‘s Carmelo Pipitone (guitars). The new song features the band’s collaboration with SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman, Serj Tankian.

Speaking about the collaboration, bassist Colin Edwin says, “the involvement of Serj Tankian came about through legendary producer Bill Laswell, who played bass on Lef‘s 2018 solo album Hypersomniac. Laswell passed a copy of Hypersomniac to Serj, who was impressed enough to also check out O.R.K and our previous two albums. This led directly to Lef and Serj connecting and discussing potentially collaborating at some point; it was just at the time we were working on Ramagehead, so of course a suggestion had to be made. Lef sent him the tracks as a ‘work in progress’ and from this, Serj himself chose Black Blooms as the song he wished to sing and work with us on.”

Watch the official music video for Black Blooms here: 

Colin continues, “the development of Black Blooms took a few unexpected turns as we all contributed along the way, Pat Mastelotto‘s masterful drumming added an underlying aspect of urgency I hadn’t anticipated on the original demo, and Carmelo Pipitone manages to strike a superlative balance between sensitivity and total fireworks as the song progresses. The atmosphere was always going to be a great context for Lef‘s vocals, but the biggest surprise was Serj Tankian‘s involvement, which really amazed me when I first heard it, he’s added, not simply a great vocal performance, but the exact amount of extra depth to the framework, to turn it into something truly special, and if I didn’t know better, I would have thought Black Blooms was made with him in mind.”

Ramagehead is set for release on February 22nd via Kscope.

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