In a brand new interview with The Logan Present, RIVAL SONS singer Jay Buchanan was requested if he and his bandmates are engaged on the follow-up to the 2 albums they launched in 2023: “Darkfighter” and “Lightbringer”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Scott [Holiday, RIVAL SONS guitarist] and I, we’re speaking about it proper now, about getting began on writing the following RIVAL SONS document. So we’re doing that. I believe Scott‘s engaged on producing a rock band, and I am engaged on producing a few artists as effectively in our downtime. I am ending up the writing for a solo document in tandem with starting the work on one other RIVAL SONS album.”
Relating to whether or not it’s protected to say that the following RIVAL SONS document will as soon as once more be produced by Dave Cobb, Jay mentioned: “Greater than seemingly. I imply, we have been collectively a very, actually very long time, however we have gotta discuss with Dave. I believe that one thing like that, regardless that we have labored collectively a lot, everyone has to return collectively and really feel actually good. Issues should align correctly. We all the time speak about it and see the place everyone’s heads are at.
“I love working with Dave,” he added. “Gosh, we have recorded 9 data with that man. That is a variety of time collectively… He is simply so rattling good at what he does. We love Dave, and I do. He is an excellent good friend and a particularly gifted particular person.”
Requested if Cobb is “primarily nearly like a silent member of RIVAL SONS now”, having finished so many albums with the band, Jay mentioned: “Effectively, you possibly can say that from a recording standpoint. After we’ve gone in to make data, we do ’em with Cobb, however I believe that the band… We have coated a lot floor, we have coated a lot floor artistically and actually everywhere in the world touring a lot through the years, I believe that on the subject of a sure diploma of document making, he is like a fifth member that means, but it surely’s solely inside that vacuum of after we’re making the data. As a result of who the band is outdoors of after we’re go in to make data is a lot extra. Our reside present and the precise ethos and who the band is at its core, I believe, is simply a lot greater than what we do within the studio, as a result of the writing takes place outdoors of the studio or outdoors of Cobb‘s purview, or a lot of it. Dave Cobb, he’ll help on inspiration and writing right here and there, however I believe that after we’re writing, it is vitally very similar to that. However I believe that the extra the band has grown, I believe that it is much less and fewer so, and it is much less and fewer in order that means, as a result of we, and I believe that Cobb would agree, that him watching us develop the best way that we have now, like our inventive method and all the pieces. It is fantastic to work collectively figuring out one another so effectively. Cobb is aware of me nearly in addition to anyone else does. And having a shorthand of communication positively helps out if you’re within the studio. Numerous the time you may simply be pondering the identical factor, and I believe that that simply comes from making so many data collectively that you may be on the identical web page. After which at different occasions be on a very separate web page since you’re so shut. It is like household.”
In June 2021, RIVAL SONS delivered two reside performances from Catalina Island, California which have been initially streamed through Veeps to followers at dwelling the world over, a lot of whom have been nonetheless in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, for the primary time, these performances are being made out there to look at on YouTube and to stream on audio platforms. Each performances are being premiered through YouTube and launched of their entirety digitally. “A Pair Of Aces: Dwell From Santa Catalina Island (Half 1)” was launched on November 22; “A Pair Of Aces: Dwell From Santa Catalina Island (Half 2)” shall be launched on December 13.
RIVAL SONS play rock ‘n’ roll in its purest kind with out apology or pretense. They merely plug in, flip up, and rip on a path of their very own. Alongside the best way, they’ve architected a critically acclaimed catalogue, together with “Stress & Time” (2011),“Head Down” (2012),“Nice Western Valkyrie” (2014),“Hole Bones” (2016) and “Feral Roots” (2019). The latter represented a inventive and demanding excessive watermark, scoring a pair of Grammy Award nominations within the classes of “Finest Rock Album” and “Finest Rock Efficiency” for the only “Too Dangerous”. Elevating the band to a different degree, “Do Your Worst” vaulted to No. 1 at Rock Radio as their greatest hit up to now, tallying north of 60 million streams and counting. Talking to their influence, Rolling Stone attested, “RIVAL SONS have finished their half to introduce new followers to rock.” Past sharing levels with everybody from BLACK SABBATH, THE ROLLING STONES and AC/DC to GUNS N’ ROSES and Lenny Kravitz, they’ve ignited tv reveals similar to “The Late Late Present With James Corden”. Throughout 2021, they launched their very own label Sacred Tongue Recordings distributed by Thirty Tigers and celebrated the anniversary of their debut album with reside streamed performances from Catalina Island On line casino.
In 2023, they continued to subvert expectations with two full-length LPs — the aforementioned “Darkfighter” and “Lightbringer”. Although the genesis of those albums is intertwined, in addition they converse to the band’s perpetual development ahead.
The band as soon as performed over 250 reveals in a yr, and they’re regulars on the pageant circuit each by means of Europe and North America. One of the vital hard-working rock’n’roll bands on the market, 2024 noticed the band full in depth European pageant dates all through the summer season, after which embark on “The Two-Headed Beast” tour with CLUTCH throughout North America.
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