Mon 6 Sep 2010
“Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody” hitmakers Kings Of Leon will release a new album next month called Come Around Sundown and Billboard.com reports they’ve put a teaser on YouTube which indicates a gospel-influenced new sound.
The video runs only a minute and a half, featuring lead singer Caleb Followill playing guitar inside a sunlit barn with a children's choir, inspired by the gospel music the band members were exposed to growing up in Tennessee.
Jared Followill reveals in the video that their new single is a song that the band had started writing “kind of in between Aha Shake Heartbreak and Because of the Times. There were actually a few songs like that that didn't make it. You know, we save songs until we get them right."
"We went into the studio and we tried it and it wasn't really working, so we were going to scrap the whole song. But then Caleb went back to this old spiritual song that we all sang growing up," Jared said.
Drummer Nathan Followill joked, "After my Grandma sees this video, she definitely won't think we're going to hell as fast as she did think we were going."
“Radioactive” should be on radio by the end of the week, with Come Around Sundown slated for an October 15 release.