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 report. So we’re doing that. I feel Scott‘s engaged on producing a rock band, and I am engaged on producing a few artists as nicely in our downtime. I am ending up the writing for a solo report in tandem with starting the work on one other RIVAL SONS album.”
Concerning whether or not it’s secure to say that the following RIVAL SONS report will as soon as once more be produced by Dave Cobb, Jay mentioned: “Greater than doubtless. I imply, we have been collectively a very, actually very long time, however we have gotta speak with Dave. I feel that one thing like that, despite the fact that we have labored collectively a lot, everyone has to come back collectively and really feel actually good. Issues need to align correctly. We at all times discuss 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 numerous time collectively… He is simply so rattling good at what he does. We love Dave, and I do. He is good friend and an especially proficient particular person.”
Requested if Cobb is “basically virtually like a silent member of RIVAL SONS now”, having finished so many albums with the band, Jay mentioned: “Effectively, you would say that from a recording standpoint. Once we’ve gone in to make data, we do ’em with Cobb, however I feel 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 feel that on the subject of a sure diploma of report making, he is like a fifth member that method, however it’s solely inside that vacuum of after we’re making the data. As a result of who the band is exterior 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 feel, is simply a lot greater than what we do within the studio, as a result of the writing takes place exterior of the studio or exterior of Cobb‘s purview, or a lot of it. Dave Cobb, he’ll help on inspiration and writing right here and there, however I feel that after we’re writing, it is vitally very similar to that. However I feel that the extra the band has grown, I feel that it is much less and fewer so, and it is much less and fewer in order that method, as a result of we, and I feel that Cobb would agree, that him watching us develop the best way that we now have, like our artistic method and all the pieces. It is fantastic to work collectively realizing one another so nicely. Cobb is aware of me nearly in addition to anyone else does. And having a shorthand of communication positively helps out whenever you’re within the studio. Plenty of the time you will simply be considering the identical factor, and I feel that that simply comes from making so many data collectively which you can be on the identical web page. After which at different instances 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 accessible 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: Stay From Santa Catalina Island (Half 1)” was launched on November 22; “A Pair Of Aces: Stay From Santa Catalina Island (Half 2)” will probably be launched on December 13.
RIVAL SONS play rock ‘n’ roll in its purest type 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 “Strain & Time” (2011),“Head Down” (2012),“Nice Western Valkyrie” (2014),“Hole Bones” (2016) and “Feral Roots” (2019). The latter represented a artistic and important excessive watermark, scoring a pair of Grammy Award nominations within the classes of “Greatest Rock Album” and “Greatest Rock Efficiency” for the only “Too Dangerous”. Elevating the band to a different stage, “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. Chatting with their affect, Rolling Stone attested, “RIVAL SONS have finished their half to introduce new followers to rock.” Past sharing phases with everybody from BLACK SABBATH, THE ROLLING STONES and AC/DC to GUNS N’ ROSES and Lenny Kravitz, they’ve ignited tv reveals reminiscent of “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, additionally they converse to the band’s perpetual development ahead.
The band as soon as performed over 250 reveals in a 12 months, and they’re regulars on the competition circuit each by Europe and North America. One of the vital hard-working rock’n’roll bands on the market, 2024 noticed the band full intensive European competition dates all through the summer time, after which embark on “The Two-Headed Beast” tour with CLUTCH throughout North America.
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