Music icons such as Ozzy Osbourne and Dave Grohl have labeled Yungblud the future of rock and roll. Howard Stern feels any young musician might feel the weight of the world on them after hearing something like that.
Yungblud talks about his rising career
“Sometimes it is like that — like, you don’t want to mess with the voodoo,” Yungblud admitted.
However, with guitarist Adam Warrington by his side from the very beginning, the rocker has been able to stay true to his artistic vision.
“We’ve been together since I was like, what, 16 years old, and we’ve kind of just done the same sh*t,” he noted. “I remember our first gig in front of a lot of fu**ing record executives — I went to the toilet and threw up.”
“I’ll never forget [Adam] just came out and was like, ‘A gig’s a fu**ing gig,’” Yungblud continued. “And I think that’s kind of what you’ve got to do.”
That attitude probably came in handy when an unsigned Yungblud finally crossed the pond for a showcase in Los Angeles. While booking a songwriting session at the Universal Music Group building, he had a friend ride the elevator all day, hyping Dom to every one of his fellow passengers.
“‘Yo, you heard about this fucking Yungblud kid? He’s blowing up outside the U.K.,’” he recalled his friend saying before adding that it resulted in plenty of industry attention when it was time to play the showcase. “You’ve got the fucking head of Epic Records [and] Interscope Records and whatever just by my Irish mate riding an elevator.”
With all the torchbearer talk comes the question whether rock & roll is dead? Gene Simmons has said it. Not according to Yungblud. “It’s such a sacred genre,” he declared. “Every fu**ing dad says to his kid, ‘I don’t like that – it sounds like what I knew,’ and it always happens.”
“People always put so much pressure on one person bringing it back … That’s a load of bullshit,” the rocker continued before referencing current bands like Turnstile, Amyl & the Sniffers, Geese, and Knocked Loose.
With his own work, Yungblud is unafraid to take chances – including with his latest album, “Idols.”
“What I wanted to do was bring a sense of theater and showmanship and adventure and nine-minute songs in a 2025 way,” he explained. “It was a fu**ing risk … [but] we have a fanbase that will go with us.”
