Autumn Fires announce 'BLOOM' EP and premiere 'Fall for You' video

This year’s winners of Kerrang! Radio’s ‘The Deal’ competition, Autumn Fires, have announced their new EP ‘BLOOM’ and they’ve premiered the video for lead track ‘Fall for You’.

Released on Friday 25th February 2026 via Marshall Records, the ‘BLOOM’ EP was recorded at The Marshall Studios with revered producer-engineer Romesh Dodangoda, who has worked with Bring Me The Horizon, Funeral for a Friend and Nova Twins to name but a few.

Autumn Fires teamed with Marshall to record to the EP as part of the prize for winning The Deal, which also included opening The Avalanche Stage on the Saturday at Download Festival in June, and airplay on Kerrang! Radio.

“Winning The Deal has easily been the wildest and most exciting moment of our careers to date,” enthuses singer Charlotte Haimes.

“I know I speak for all of us in the band when I say we’re absolutely blown away by the love, support and generosity everyone involved has shown us! We barely slept the night before Download. We just chatted into the night about how excited we were, and when we saw how many people came to see us, it blew our minds”

Commenting on working with the esteemed Romesh Dodangoda, Charlotte adds: “Working with Romesh and his team, along with Adam and Ollie (at Marshall’s studio) and the Marshall Records team, has been amazing.

“It was so refreshing to have the team understanding, adoring, and supporting our vision for the new record. Romesh is so instinctively talented with alternative music; he could visualise exactly what we wanted before we even said it”.

After getting its first play on Sophie K’s show, ‘Fall for You’ is now on heavy rotation on Kerrang! Radio’s airwaves and it’s imbued with Autumn Fires’ instantly infectious pop-punk sonic blueprint throughout.

Watch Autumn Fires’ ‘Fall for You’ video:

“I’ve stayed away from writing happy love songs until now because I didn’t want to create something that felt cheesy or clichéd, or didn’t actually give my feelings”, says Charlotte.

“When I got engaged, I thought, ‘Okay, now it's time to write a song about how much this person means to me’. It’s genuinely about the story of wanting to stay single, and then that amazing person appears in your life out of absolutely nowhere”.

Autumn Fires are Charlotte Haimes (vocals), Callum Skea (guitar), Neil Dowd (bass/backing vocals), Luca Testa (guitar) and Daryl Humphries (drums).

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