Royal Blood were unique – an instantly gargantuan guitar band without a guitarist, Mike Kerr’s closely guarded, split-amp, pitch-shifting bass setup at the heart of an impossibly massive noise. A less memorable second album,How Did We Get So Dark, raised suggestions that all wasn’t well...
When I think of Royal Blood, I think of the revitalization of rock music. Before listening to this record I am about to review, my only prior knowledge of Royal Blood was the hit “Figure It Out” blowing up in 2014. I am primarily a listener of metal, death, emo, and anything...
Royal Blood celebrate 10 years of debut album: “It’s still a record that we live and breathe” As the duo re-release their self-titled debut, Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher look back on rising to fame, befriending Queens Of The Stone Age, finding fans in Jimmy Page and Lars Ulrich, and...
Royal Bloodare one of those rare commodities in Rock these days. Not only are they a true two-piece band, they were what you might call an overnight success. Within weeks of self-releasing their first single, “Out of the Black,” a year ago, word of mouth and love from music critic...
, hagerty a denver-based dad—this song, though, serves as a blood-pact reminder of their hardscrabble past. but royal trux never sound more pure and fully realized than when practicing the fine art of falling apart. on white stuff ’s most disorienting track, “purple audacity #1,” her...
; the soaring violins mingle with choirs from now on, the pure progressive spirit of the beginning of the album is lost in favor of a typical break, not bad in itself but much more predictable; now we are more on a sovereign MALMSTEEN than anything else, good but less blood 7. ...
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The Royal Blood frontman on overcoming impostor syndrome, finding the right balance of riffs and hooks on new album, Typhoons and why he’s learned a few tricks from the scores of people trying to unsuccessfully emulate the secret of his monster bass sou
Will the success of Royal Blood lead to more bass/drums combos? Probably to some extent, but we hope they, and bands likeUncle Acid and the deadbeats, lead a revival of heavy riff based rock. We’ve had enough of the prevasive vacous blandness of what “rock” is becoming today. ...
No stranger to singing other people’s songs, Chan Marshall attempts her most ambitious cover project yet: an album-length recreation of a Dylan concert that changed the course of rock history.On May 17, 1966, Bob Dylan gave a performance that would go down among the most significant of...