Kings of Leon unleashed a bombastic rendition of Reverend on The Tonight ShowWednesday.
The Followills marched through the headbanger with proper anthemic poise, layering an array of sparkling guitar riffs on top of a barrage of power chords while the rhythm section maintained a steady wallop and Caleb Followill belted the track with plenty of grit.
Reverend appears on Kings of Leons latest album, Walls, which arrived last October. The band has been on the road in support of the LP this month and have a handful of dates left before wrapping January 28th in Los Angeles. A short European trek will follow.
Wallsfollows 2013s Mechanical Bulland notably found Kings of Leon working with a new producer, Markus Dravs. In an interview with Rolling Stone,drummer Nathan Followill recalled Dravs unorthodox and sometimes exasperating recording methods: We would run through the song and play it three times and hed be like, Uh, yeah, you know lets run it a few more times. You still dont have it nailed down. So we would do it a few more times and hed be like, You all still dont have it nailed down. Lets go through it a few more times. So wed do it three or four more times, and then hed be like, Uh, were keeping the first one. I was trying to see if I could get you guys to beat it, but obviously were not going to.'