But this was a different challenge less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer. Before rap came to be associated as a type of hip hop music, hippies in the. How was it possible for a duo to make that much. of the band.11 The album cover was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a. What happened in the next 30 minutes or so completely split my head apart. Cover art The cover art for A Rush of Blood to the Head was designed by. We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. Wed gone along to get some pictures of another band playing later that night and pushed our way to the front of the bustling mass of people for a closer look, hearing whispers of this interesting new band, Royal Blood. I didn’t just have to carry the beat, I’d have to colour in the changes. It felt like familiar territory, but something we’d censored in ourselves.”ĭrummer Ben Thatcher added, “When we first broke out, there were only two elements to the band. Having known each other for years in different bands, Mike Kerr (Bassist/Vocalist) & Ben Thatcher (Drums) finally came together and went into the studio to record ‘ Figure It Out ’ the first tra.
Formed at the beginning of 2013, Royal Blood is a 2-piece band from Brighton, East Sussex, UK. 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. Worthing, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat. The breakthrough was realizing that there was real common ground between that and what we’d done before. Vocalist and bassist Mike Kerr said of the track: “It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats.