Yungblud shares epic “self-reclaiming” new single ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’
Yungblud has returned to music with his epic “self-reclaiming” new single ‘Hello Heaven, Hello’. Check it out below.
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The track, which clocks in at nine minutes and six seconds, features three tempo changes, building to an anthemic chorus in the middle of the song, with the singer – real name Dominic Harrison – belting out, “One step into Heaven / But first, you’ll go to hell and back”, over loud guitars and thrashing drums.
‘Hello Heaven, Hello’ then slows down into a more acoustic leaning jam with Harrison singing vulnerably: “There’s a chance I won’t see you tomorrow / So I will spend today saying hello”.
Speaking about the song in a press release, the Doncaster musician said: “Rock music is in my DNA. It’s the first genre I was ever exposed to; I grew up in a guitar shop with my Dad and my Grandfather. Rock music helped me find an identity as a human being”.
He continued: “‘Hello Heaven, Hello’ is a journey of self-reclamation—a goodbye to the past and how you may have known or perceived me before, and a ‘hello’ to the future and where I’m going. It’s an adventure that is sonically more ambitious than ever before—a journey that is meant to be played in its entirety, never holding back or allowing its imagination to be filtered.”
Directed by Charlie Sarsfield (Billie Eilish, Stormzy, Jesy Nelson), the video begins with a shirtless Yungblud singing the track in a snowy field filled with black roses and a black horse. He begins riding the horse, with the track’s tempo building before he unleashes a pair of black wings and takes flight.
A new scene zooms in to a black-and-white television which sees Yungblud and his his band in an all-white studio performing the anthemic track before black confetti begins falling from the sky. The final clip of the song sees Harrison sitting on a mountain leaning on a black cross, singing the reflective final part of the track in a black shirt and waistcoat.
Harrison also revealed that he created the track four years ago while along in a NYC hotel room. “I felt like I was starting to repeat myself – I’d fallen into my own cliche… I’d become comfortable. It was good in a way; it meant that I had my own style. But I’ve always said that if people know where I’m going next, that is my idea of failure,” he said.
‘Hello Heaven, Hello’ marks his first single since 2024’s ‘Breakdown’ and his first track since his 2022 self-titled LP.
“I’ve been discouraged from releasing a nine-minute and six-second song as my first move back in a year because, in the modern world, it’s seen as a ‘risk’,” he said about the song.
“I don’t see it that way at all—I see it as an opportunity. In my opinion, risk is an artist’s greatest tool—putting everything on the line in pursuit of the best evolution and art you can create. Without risk, there is no innovation.”
Elsewhere, Yungblud recently shared his thoughts on his upcoming Britpop-inspired album, saying he has “never felt more clear or been more proud to stand by anything” he has made.
Back in December, the musician spoke to NME and shared more details about his projects in the works – exclusively announcing that he had a “double album” on the way.
“The new album centres around the idea of self-love and self-reclamation that allows people to feel seen, and emit this light. You can be seen for who you truly are, no matter where you’re from or what you believe… That’s what I needed to write an album about,” he said.
Last March he spoke to NME to give the lowdown on his next album, calling it Britpop-inspired. He named the likes of Oasis, The Verve, Primal Scream, My Chemical Romance, David Bowie and Madonna as inspirations.
Harrison noted that the mantra of the record would be “Come together, look each other in the eye, be human”, as opposed saying “Fuck you, this is the world we’ve got to get to”.
Doubling down on the status of the record as a concrete concept album, he went on: “It’s a ’Tommy’, it’s a ‘Quadrophenia’ [The Who]. It’s ‘A Night At The Opera’ [Queen]. It’s a ‘Black Parade’ [My Chemical Romance]. It’s an ‘Urban Hymns’. It’s a thing that’s intended to be listened to from start to finish, and it’s pushed me harder and made me gut myself harder than anything before.
“We locked ourselves in a studio in Leeds and just felt. We shut the world out instead of asking, ‘What’s popping on this?’ ‘What’s the state of art’ or whatever. Fuck that. Could this album have been written 50 years ago? Could this album be written in 50 years time? Fucking everything else. It just is.”
In other Yungblud-related news, the second instalment of his own festival, Bludfest, will take place this summer and see appearances from Chase Atlantic, Denzel Curry, Blackbear and former NME Cover stars Rachel Chinouriri and Peach PRC. Visit here for tickets to Bludfest 2025.
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