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 subsequent 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 properly 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 subsequent RIVAL SONS document will as soon as once more be produced by Dave Cobb, Jay stated: “Greater than possible. I imply, we have been collectively a extremely, actually very long time, however we have gotta speak with Dave. I believe that one thing like that, despite the fact 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 discuss it and see the place everyone’s heads are at.
“I love working with Dave,” he added. “Gosh, we have recorded 9 information with that man. That is quite a lot of time collectively… He is simply so rattling good at what he does. We love Dave, and I do. He is a great good friend and a particularly gifted particular person.”
Requested if Cobb is “primarily virtually like a silent member of RIVAL SONS now”, having achieved so many albums with the band, Jay stated: “Nicely, you could possibly say that from a recording standpoint. After we’ve gone in to make information, we do ’em with Cobb, however I believe that the band… We have lined a lot floor, we have lined a lot floor artistically and actually everywhere in the world touring a lot through the years, I believe that in terms of a sure diploma of document making, he is like a fifth member that method, but it surely’s solely inside that vacuum of once we’re making the information. As a result of who the band is exterior of once we’re go in to make information is a lot extra. Our dwell 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 exterior of the studio or exterior of Cobb‘s purview, or a lot of it. Dave Cobb, he’ll assist on inspiration and writing right here and there, however I believe that once we’re writing, it is extremely 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 method, as a result of we, and I believe that Cobb would agree, that him watching us develop the best way that now we have, like our artistic strategy and every thing. It is great to work collectively realizing one another so properly. Cobb is aware of me nearly in addition to anyone else does. And having a shorthand of communication undoubtedly helps out once you’re within the studio. A whole lot of the time you will simply be considering the identical factor, and I believe that that simply comes from making so many information collectively that you could 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 dwell performances from Catalina Island, California which had been initially streamed by way of Veeps to followers at residence the world over, a lot of whom had been nonetheless in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, for the primary time, these performances are being made accessible to observe on YouTube and to stream on audio platforms. Each performances are being premiered by way of YouTube and launched of their entirety digitally. “A Pair Of Aces: Reside From Santa Catalina Island (Half 1)” was launched on November 22; “A Pair Of Aces: Reside From Santa Catalina Island (Half 2)” shall 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 demanding excessive watermark, scoring a pair of Grammy Award nominations within the classes of “Greatest Rock Album” and “Greatest Rock Efficiency” for the one “Too Unhealthy”. Elevating the band to a different stage, “Do Your Worst” vaulted to No. 1 at Rock Radio as their largest hit thus far, tallying north of 60 million streams and counting. Talking to their affect, Rolling Stone attested, “RIVAL SONS have achieved 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 dwell 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. Probably the most hard-working rock’n’roll bands on the market, 2024 noticed the band full in depth European pageant dates all through the summer time, after which embark on “The Two-Headed Beast” tour with CLUTCH throughout North America.
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