In an interview with Sirius XM's Alt Nation channel at Firefly Festival last week, brothers Caleb and Nathan Followill confirmed that Kings of Leon have starting creating their seventh studio album.
"We've been at home writing, trying to get some new stuff going," Nathan Followill said, notes Rolling Stone. "And we kind of had to put it on hold because we have this and another festival coming up, but we have big enough breaks in between most of them to where I think we're gonna be able to get the album written by the end of the year."
The band still hasn't closed in on a recording space, although Caleb explains their options are between the home studio in Nashville where they recorded their 2013 LP Mechanical Bull, and the 174 year old property across the road, reports NME.
"It was built in 1841 and the guy that lived there was actually Dolly Parton's engineer," Nathan said of the new recording space. "It's a really rad place and I think we can do something cool with it. And you know if we go in there and it sounds like shit, we can just go across the street."
Caleb continued, "But record number seven, most people take like, what, five years to make that or something? So we're still in the very early stages of our five-year plan for this next record."
Kings of Leon still have numerous festival gigs to perform throughout the summer as well as a headliner slot at the NiFi Festival in Sparta, Kentucky from Aug. 28–30. The band's set at Firefly Festival was cancelled due to inclement weather and severe storms but friends in The Killers covered "Use Somebody" as well as "The Bucket" for fans bummed about the last minute termination.
