UK trio Black Orchid Empire have unveiled their new single ‘Glory To The King’, taken from their new album Tempus Veritas, set for release on 14th April via Season of Mist.
Watch the lyric video for ‘Glory To The King’ here: https://youtu.be/bY76U2RyHgk
Pre-order Tempus Veritas here: https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/black-orchid-empire-tempus-veritas
Stream the single and pre-save the album here: https://orcd.co/tempusveritas
On ‘Glory To The King’, guitarist / vocalist Paul Visser comments: “We’re super proud of this song – it’s one of the biggest choruses on Tempus Veritas. The middle section also has some of our favourite vocal harmonic moments, with a crazy riff hitting straight after. The lyrical narrative explores the relationship between an early Meso-American emperor Montezuma and the explorer and conquistador Hernán Cortés. The story, told from the point of view of Montezuma, imagines that the new arrival was initially seen as a god – assumed to be the deity Quetzalcoatl. When Cortes cuts himself and is seen bleeding, the mirage is shattered and the Aztec ruler goes to war with the people he now realises are merely men.”
Watch the video for previous single ‘Deny The Sun’ here: https://youtu.be/b1uukX9KALY
On new album Tempus Veritas, he continues: “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.”
Black Orchid Empire are:
Paul Visser – Vocals, Guitar
David Ferguson – Bass, Vocals
Billy Freedom – Drums
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