Bush has set July 17th as the release date for its new album, The Kingdom. Although the LP had originally been slated for a May release, frontman Gavin Rossdale later said that a spring arrival for the record was not set in stone.
Asked by Tucson's KFMA-FM if the band's eighth studio LP will be musically similar to the recently released single, "Flowers On A Grave," Rossdale remarked, "It's just really heavy and wide and just of the time. It's really of the time — that's what I like about it. It feels really necessary — a necessary record. The band's on fire. It's just exciting."
Rossdale told us a while back that he thinks Bush's "pop" reputation back in the '90s was unwarranted: ["It was only when I went back that I was shocked, you know, by two things. First of all, I thought it was really good, and I was really proud of it. And, you know, this idea that we were, you know, had this sort of pure pop element where . . . there was melodic elements, but some of the stuff was pretty hard."] SOUNDCUE (:14 OC: . . . was pretty hard)
Bush is supposed to head out on a massive summer trek as guests of Breaking Benjamin, with Theory Of A Deadman, Saint Asonia and country/rock crossover artist Cory Marks all along for the ride. The fate of the tour, scheduled to begin on July 15th in Bristow, Virginia, depends on what happens with the COVID-19 pandemic.
