At this point, unless you’ve been living under a rock or don’t own any technology, you’ve heard the Kings of Leon. Whether you heard them as the entire soundtrack to the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show or just one of the million times a day that they are played on the radio, the Kings have dominated the mainstream music scene.
The slow rock style of the Kings has proved themselves as arena-rock Gods with their multiple singles from their newest album, “Only by the Night.” Now technically released in late 2008, this album picked up little momentum until their live performance on the Grammy’s that following January.
The Kings have already gained quite a following on previous albums, but until “Night,” they were still only a mediocre radio-rock band. With “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire,” the album has already has gone multi-platinum in Australia, Canada and the United States, peaking at 7x platinum in the United Kingdom.
“Night” is by no means a profound or politically charged album, but exhibits the power that arena-rock still has on the music industry. When a band like the Kings comes around, there’s no stopping the U2-esque power that can be created.
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