Royal Blood Unleash Video For Fan Favourite ‘Boilermaker’

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Royal Blood have shared the official studio version of the fan favourite ‘Boilermaker’, alongside a new video for the track, from their upcoming third album ‘Typhoons’. Check it out below.

‘Boilermaker’ captured the imagination of fans after Royal Blood performed the song extensively in the summer of 2019, including high profile sets at the Reading and Leeds Festivals. It’s been the topic of speculation ever since, with various live videos emerging on YouTube and numerous discussions on the Royal Blood sub-Reddit. As one fan commented, “I am so excited to hear the studio version, it will absolutely blow my mind I can already tell.”

The song was produced by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and recorded at his vibey Pink Duck studio in Los Angeles. The two bands previously toured together in North America, and Mike Kerr has previously contributed vocals to ‘Crucifire’, a track from Homme’s Desert Sessions project.

In an interview with Upset, Kerr commented, “I had ‘Boilermaker’ up my sleeve and it felt like a very natural decision to go and cut that track at his studio. Josh is such a strong-willed character. He gave us such confidence in ourselves.”

Check out ‘Boilermaker’ here:

The video for the song was directed by Liam Lynch (Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age). It depicts a tattooed figure emerging from a hasty burial, throwing on a leather jacket and being joined by multiple zombie-like people who he marches with to the song’s pulsating beat. What follows is a striking visual tapestry of twisted rock ‘n’ roll tropes and disconcerting dreamlike imagery, which perfectly complements the song’s ambience.

Here’s ‘Typhoons’ tracklist:

1. ‘Trouble’s Coming’
2. ‘Oblivion’
3. ‘Typhoons’
4. ‘Who Needs Friends’
5. ‘Million & One’
6. ‘Limbo’
7. ‘Either You Want It’
8. ‘Boilermaker’
9. ‘Mad Visions’
10. ‘Hold On’
11. ‘All We Have Is Now’

The new album was largely produced by themselves, with Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme producing ‘Boilermaker’, and multiple Grammy Award winner Paul Epworth producing ‘Who Needs Friends’ and contributed additional production to ‘Trouble’s Coming’.

‘Typoons’ will be available from the official Royal Blood store in a deluxe vinyl edition, which will be limited to 8000 copies worldwide. The deluxe edition features a translucent pink / opaque black 12” housed in a metallic foil gatefold sleeve, and will be packaged with an exclusive 7” single containing the extra track ‘Space’ and an etched b-side. It will be completed by a large format booklet and an individually numbered 12” art print with alternative art that’s exclusive to this set. ‘Typhoons’ is now available to pre-order here.

The new album will also be available on Blue vinyl from indies, and Pink vinyl from Amazon. A picture disc is also available.

Talking about the first single ‘Trouble’s Coming’, Mike Kerr revealed that the song was a real turning point for the third album, saying “It was the moment something started to click – where we started playing over those much more rigid dance beats. The breakthrough was realizing that there was real common ground between that and what we’d done before. It’s that AC/DC aspect: where the quality that makes the riffs seem so cutting is because of that beat. 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.”

Drummer Ben Thatcher adds “When we first broke out, there were only two elements to the band. I didn’t just have to carry the beat, I’d have to color in the changes. We were both bearing a lot of freight, sonically. But this was a different challenge; less varied, maybe, but so satisfying as a drummer.”

Here’s ‘Trouble’s Coming’:

And here’s ‘Typhoons’:

And here’s ‘Limbo’: