Except for a five-year period when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills' childhoods were spent driving through the southern United States in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, camping for a week or two wherever Ivan was scheduled to preach. They were either home-schooled by their mother, or enrolled in small parochial schools at this time. According to Rolling Stone magazine, "While Ivan preached at churches and tent revivals throughout Oklahoma and the Deep South, his boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to "bang on some drums". Jared attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and raised in Mississippi. Nathan was born in Oklahoma, and Jared and Caleb were born in and around Memphis, Tennessee. The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann.
Their sixth album, Mechanical Bull, was released on September 24, 2013. The band's fifth album, Come Around Sundown, was released on October 18, 2010. The album was their first Platinum-selling album in the United States, and was also the best-selling album of 2008 in Australia, being certified platinum nine times. The singles " Sex on Fire", " Use Somebody", and " Notion" all peaked at number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. Their third album, Because of the Times, also reached the number one spot.Īfter the release of Only by the Night in September 2008, the band achieved chart success in the United States. Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine Top 40 singles, two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band's albums at the time peaked in the top five of the UK Albums Chart. The band's early music was a blend of Southern rock and garage rock with blues influences, but it has gradually evolved throughout the years to include a variety of genres and a more alternative, arena rock sound. The band is composed of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill with their cousin Matthew Followill. in March, the band posted a live video of a new song, "Going Nowhere.Kings of Leon is an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1999. Shortly after the pandemic transformed life in the U.S. At the start of 2020, the band was posting photos from the studio, with concerts and festival dates in Europe scheduled for the summer.
This new album might have been waiting in the wings for awhile. with their 2003 debut, then became stars in the U.S. The quartet - comprised of brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill, along with cousin Matthew Followill - became the first Nashville-bred rock band to make it big on an international scale. On Thursday, they shared the first two songs from the project - the gritty, up-tempo "The Bandit" and synth-spiked "100,000 People." Both tracks suggest a calming spin on the rough-and-tumble garage rock of the band's early days. The wait ends on March 5, when the band plans to release their eighth studio album, "When You See Yourself." It's been close to five years since we've heard a new batch of songs from Nashville's original homegrown rock stars, Kings of Leon. View Gallery: Kings of Leon perform at First Tennessee Park