After becoming the biggest breaking British rock band with their self-titled 2014 debut album, RoyalBlood’s eagerly anticipated second album How Did We Get So Dark? will be released on June 16. The album’s lead single Lights Out is available now and How Did We Get So Dark is available to pre-order now.

The ten tracks that feature on How Did We Get So Dark? were written in instrumental form during sessions in Brighton, Hollywood, Los Angeles and Nashville. Always trying to explore ways of stripping their enormous sound back to give it more space and impact, inspiration for the lyrics came from events in vocalist/bassist Mike Kerr’s life since the band first found huge success.

While the album finds Royal Blood refining their melodic might, there are other moments that fulfil their aim to create songs that will add new dimensions to their live sets. Adorned with Kerr’s falsetto, Don’t Tell drops the intensity to mesmerising effect, while Where Are You Now? pulsates with a bounding energy that’s quite a step apart from anything else in their catalogue. The Royal Blood palette is also expanded with the complementary addition of piano or keyboards on four tracks, including the foreboding album closer Sleep.

Royal Blood will also appear on the sold-out Splendour In The Grass festival 2017.