Someone once described Royal Thunder as being like Janis Joplin fronting Led Zeppelin. Throw in a bit of Queen Of The Stone Age-y psych, and a grungy residue, and you’re pretty on the money. Their last album, 2017’s 5/5-rated Wick, was a work of brilliance that hit card and caressed lovingly.
That it’s taken six years for this follow-up to emerge is less down to artistic knots, and more the band almost collapsing and destroying itself as, according to guitarist Josh Weaver, “toxic behaviour became a priority over the music, addiction being the number one factor for things falling apart.” From the outside, it appeared Royal Thunder were done – quite something considering their 2015 album Crooked Doors referenced in its lyrics the breakdown of Josh and bassist/singer Mlny Parsonz’ marriage.
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Rebuilding The Mountain tracklist:
“Drag Me”
“The Knife”
“Now Here No Where”
“Twice”
“Pull”
“Live To Live”
“My Ten”
“Fade”
“The King”
“Dead Star”