ROYAL BLOOD // Release New Track ‘Trouble’s Coming’

Brighton, UK based duo Royal Blood have released the first single, Trouble’s Coming from their newly announced as of now untitled third album, coming off of the success of live performances of new their new tracks Boilermaker and King.

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Trouble’s Coming is a funky and thumping track that features four to the floor drums, vocals that sound like Muse by way of Jack White, and riffs that cut through the simple nature of the beat adding a heaviness to the proceedings.

“It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats. The breakthrough was realising that there was real common ground between that and what we had done before. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat,” vocalist and bassist Mike Kerr stated.

“Although on the surface we were stepping outside what we’d done before, it didn’t feel at all unnatural; it felt like we were returning to music we’d loved from the very beginning: Daft Punk, Justice, things that were really groove-orientated. It was all about the beat. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”

Greatly successful when playing live, Royal Bloods most recent tours have seen them in front of crowds of 100,000 people, including 30,000 over the course of a three-night stay at Alexandra Palace. Having toured alongside Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters in North America, and performing at Glastonbury, having also headlined shows as far afield as Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Sydney.

Having scored two UK #1 albums as well as selling 2 million albums worldwide, and a BRIT Award for Best British Group, Royal Blood are yet to reach their peak ahead of the release of their third album.

You can listen to Trouble’s Coming here.