RIVAL SONS: 'All Over The Road' Video Released". www.blabbermouth.net. Blabbermouth. October 19, 2011 . Retrieved December 21, 2018. a b c Bowar, Chad (June 3, 2023). "Album Review: Rival Sons Darkfighter". Metal Injection . Retrieved June 6, 2023. Rival Sons played at Gene Simmons' "Aces & Angels" Super Bowl party on February 2, 2011, [6] before making their European debut appearance at Camden Barfly on February 12, 2011, for the HMV Next Big Thing. The band Vintage Trouble supported their act and the show sold out in advance, [7] which started a nearly unbroken string of European sell-out shows. [8] In March 2011 a string of shows at Canadian Music Week, SXSW and the House of Blues was announced. [9] RIVAL SONS SIGN TO LOW COUNTRY SOUND / ATLANTIC RECORDS; TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED AROUND SHAKY KNEES FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE". Bravewords. February 18, 2018 . Retrieved February 18, 2018.

Rival Sons will embark on their UK and Europe Darkfighter Tour later this year. The 30-date tour starts at London’s Roundhouse on 13 October and runs through to Finland on 21 November. This tour is to support their Darkfighter album, due on 2 June 2023, with a companion album Lighbringer set for later this year. In 2006 Holiday came across Buchanan while searching on MySpace for a singer. Drummer Michael Miley had previously worked with Buchanan (as well as having been in Veruca Salt and the Carson Daly TV show band) and he had met bassist Robin Everhart playing at a benefit concert at Isaac Hayes house for Hurricane Katrina in Long Beach. The union of Holiday, Buchanan, Everhart and Miley led to the formation of Rival Sons. Earache News: Rival Sons "Until The Sun Comes" Video Premieres On Vevo". Earachenews.blogspot.co.uk. January 3, 2013 . Retrieved January 20, 2016. Earache News: Rival Sons Arrive In Europe For Headlining Tour". Earachenews.blogspot.co.uk. November 3, 2011 . Retrieved January 20, 2016.

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On February 27, 2018, it was officially announced that Rival Sons had signed on with Low Country Sound an imprint of Elektra run by Dave Cobb. [27] Rival Sons – Get What's Coming [Official Video]". www.youtube.com. YouTube . Retrieved December 21, 2018. In comparison to our previous records, we certainly took our time both writing and recording this collection,” says Rival Sons vocalist Jay Buchanan. “ When we set out, the intention was mostly to dig as deep as possible. Even in the beginning before the body had formed, we agreed to throw the map away and chop our way through the woods to make a new path. By the end, there were really two different sides to the same story being told. On one side, you’re fighting the darkness and, on the other, you’re bringing your own light to where there is none. One side in a corner, on the ropes, and the other advancing, cleaning the ring. Without an intermission, a refractory period, the collection would be too big a bite, so splitting it in two was the only way to do it.

Rapture, below, was the first single released and has a film directed by Kurt Kubicek. “It’s been a great time writing and producing these videos along with great directors and crew,” Jay Buchanan said. “With video production, we’re really at that sweet spot where we don’t know the rules, so we’re not afraid of breaking them. We’ll see where it goes from here.” At album number seven a band is either cutting a path or struggling to stay relevant and Darkfighter is definitely nowhere near the latter. Rival Sons for me are still far too underrated and as a live act they are unstoppable so hopefully Darkfighter breaks them to a new level and the follow up Lightbringer burts them to superior heights.

Rival Sons is: Jay Buchanan (vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar), Scott Holiday (lead guitar), Mike Miley (drums), and Dave Beste (bass). In 2021, Rival Sons celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2011 album, Pressure and Time, by performing the landmark long player live in its entirety on the Pressure and Time Tour for the first time. They also lit up Southern California with a two-night livestream event, Rival Sons – “PAIR OF ACES” – Live from the historic Catalina Casino on Santa Catalina Island. They performed their debut LP, Before the Fire [2009], in its entirety on the first night and their self-titled EP, Rival Sons [2010], on the second. RIVAL SONS To Release 'Feral Roots' Album In January". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. November 2, 2019 . Retrieved December 31, 2019.