It took a long time, looking back, to find familiarity. 'Honestly, I didn't really know what was on the other side,' he adds. In an effort to stop 'letting chaos into my life,' he, with Thatcher's support, made the decision to become completely clean and sober. It was pretty consistent and it just got more and more intense.' 'The first extreme being living that party lifestyle and doing that for eight years on the road without letting up at all. 'I went from one extreme to the other, really,' Kerr admits to. Regardless, Kerr feels he couldn't have had the wherewithal to co-create Typhoons if he hadn't given up drugs and alcohol beforehand. Stay tuned for more details on Royal Blood’s forthcoming 2021 album as they become available.Everyone's relationship to sobriety is different, and Royal Blood offer no prescriptions for anyone's lifestyle. You can pick up the song via the platform of your choosing here. Lyrically, the song comes from the viewpoint of looking inward to try to recognize the signs before a situation erupts into chaos. But this was a different challenge, less varied maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.” We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. I didn’t just have to carry the beat, I’d have to color in the changes. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”ĭrummer Ben Thatcher says, “When we first broke out, there were only two elements to the band. It felt like we were returning to music we’d loved from the very beginning: Daft Punk, Justice, things that were groove-oriented. He adds, “Although on the surface we were stepping outside what we’d done before, it didn’t feel at all unnatural. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat.”

The breakthrough was realizing there was real common ground between that and what we’d done before. Singer/bassist Mike Kerr says, “It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over these much more rigid dance beats.

“Trouble’s Coming” proved to be a key turning point in the creation of the disc. The band self-produced their new album, working at The Church and Sleeper Sounds in London. It’s evident in the supremely catchy and danceable yet rocking new single, which gets the ball rolling for their upcoming album. The duo of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher return with their first music since their 2017 album How Did We Get So Dark? While maintaining their heavy bass riffs and drums, the duo have put more emphasis on the beat, pulling influence from electronic favorites like Daft Punk, Justice and Phillipe Zdar. Royal Blood are getting a jump on the new year by unleashing the single “Trouble’s Coming” from their still untitled third album, which is expected next spring. 2021 could be a huge year musically, and we’re getting a taste of that as 2020 winds down.

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