Group's tour in support of new album, 'Back to the Water Below,' lands at the Agora on September 19
Shortly after Royal Blood formed in England in 2011, singer-bassist Mike Kerr discovered that he could manipulate his bass so that it would deliver an explosion of noise that would make it sound like both bass and guitar. And thus, the band, which also includes drummer Ben Thatcher, joined the ranks of rock’s finest duos .
After moving to Australia for a short time, the group returned to England and posted the Queens of the Stone Age-like “Figure It Out” on its SoundCloud account. The tune caught the attention of Warner Bros. which signed the group and has issued all four of its studio albums, including the just-releasedThe new single, “Mountains At Midnight,” carries with it an intensity thanks to its pounding drums and distorted guitars.
The other songs for the album also began to come together while the group was still touring in support of 2021’s“I think initially it was clear that we had quite an array of different types of songs and genre,” he says. “From the very beginning, it felt eclectic. We didn’t want to commit to one thing. We wanted to keep it wide open and allow the songs to inform the record rather than the other way around. I would say this one was very song-led.was much more of a studio album.
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