Yungblud has returned to music with an epic nine-minute single

Yungblud has returned to music with an epic nine-minute single.

The 27-year-old star ended a period of online silence by dropping new anthem 'Hello Heaven, Hello', which follows a lineage of Great British classic rock medleys in a composition that spans several of the genre's styles.

He 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.

"['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."

Yungblud - whose real name is Dominic Harrison - admitted he was "discouraged" from releasing a nine-minute track as his first piece of new music for a year, because he was told it was a "risk".

However, he sees it "as an opportunity".

He added: "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'.

"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."