Blackfyre Rising

Hi everyone. Unfortunately some absolute waste of blood and organs managed to hack into our Instagram account yesterday and proceeded to sent blatantly scammy messages to some of you, before completely taking away my access to the account, and now it seems the account has completely gone.

Please know that any messages received were absolutely NOT from us!

No idea if this can be resolved or not but will try.

Tom

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

It's with heavy hearts that we have to announce that James has decided to step away from the band. While a difficult choice, everything is amicable and we are still mates. It's just the best choice for the band at this stage.

See a statement from James below 👇

"Hi everyone, it’s James here. After much careful thought over the past wee while, I’ve decided to permanently step back from Blackfyre Rising. I know you’re probably thinking that we must have had a big fallout or have split over “creative differences” while I move to pursue a solo musical and/or modelling career. Not at all (well, we’ll see about the modelling career…!) We’re all still mates and parting on good terms. Change comes to us all and we all agree that me stepping back, while bittersweet, is the right decision.

It’s been an absolute privilege to have been involved with Blackfyre for the past 8 years (yikes, we might be getting old!). We’ve had a lot of fun writing tunes and playing gigs together, with plenty laughs and the usual musician frustrations along the way. I’ll always look back on our time together fondly. Some highlights include:

- Climbing the ranks to the final of Metal 2 The Masses 2024, then playing Orkney Rock Festival in quick succession.
- Being promoted as New Hail Fire Rising. Greyfriars Riding. Blackrise Firing. You get the idea.
- My curse by the gear gods whereby my equipment would never work properly. Not once. Not ever.
- Customary rounds of Sheepdog whisky shots at every opportunity.
- Our final gig in the current lineup at SOS Festival last month. We didn’t know it then but it was a great final send-off.

Going forward, the guys will be continuing the good work while looking for a new singer and guitarist. I wish them all the very best of success and will absolutely be cheering them on from the sidelines."

Obviously this is a big thing for the band, and it's going to take time for us to come back as a full line up, so all we ask of our awesome fans is that you are patient with us and keep listening to our music until we're back on stage again!

Onto the next chapter!