NME reports that Brighton rock duo Royal Blood have today posted a video to their YouTube channel, teasing the progress of their latest album. The brief clip, seen below, shows frontman Mike Kerr etching a tattoo featuring a diamond, with “2017” shown below it.
At this time, there is no revealed title for the album, but fans will take comfort that new music will be with them within the year. The band themselves haven’t released new music since their eponymous 2014 debut, which did huge numbers in the UK.
However, the band have never been shy of sharing new tracks, or indeed giving updates on the progress of the new album. As recently as May this year, Royal Blood’s Twitter page shared a photo of the duo in the recording studio.
Photo by Daffy Kyle pic.twitter.com/6NHZae28AF
— Royal Blood (@royalblooduk) May 5, 2016
Prior to this, the band released new track “Where Are You Now?”, which they contributed to the soundtrack of HBO’s Vinyl, which was executive produced by both Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese. Kerr was proud to have been involved in the project, saying “Hearing [Vinyl character] Richie Finestra talk about the first time you heard a song that made your hairs on the back of your neck stand up or made you wanna dance or kick someone’s arse […] I just wanted to write a song that gave me that sort of buzz.”
The band have been sharing new songs as far back as August 2015, debuting “Hook, Line, and Sinker” At Reading and Leeds Festival. Drummer Ben Thatcher revealed that the band were anxious to play the track, telling NME “I think that song came about a few months before Reading. We were so desperate to play it, so we did. The writing process really has just begun. Maybe that’s like, the weirdest song on the record, I don’t know yet – it’s hard to say,”