Who knew that Irish post-punks Fontaines D.C. have a deep love for Korn, however hate Limp Bizkit?

Fontaines D.C. will unlock their fourth album, Romance, on August 23 by way of XL Recordings. And in a flip of occasions that nobody will have foreseen once they launched their debut album Dogrel 5 years in the past, the quintet have printed that the file is influenced by way of nu steel, in particular Korn.

In an interview with The Dad or mum, vocalist Grian Chatten and guitarist Carlos O’Connell communicate up Korn are a significant affect on their new subject material.

O’Connell used to be a nu steel fan as a teen and has come again round to paying attention to Korn and Deftones, telling The Dad or mum that nu steel is “this factor I beloved when I used to be 14 and stopped paying attention to for years and now I like once more”. Chatten, too, is partial to the Bakersfield nu steel daddies, even supposing the band “scared the shit out of me as a child”, however stresses, “I fucking hate Limp Bizkit and don’t even in reality like Rage In opposition to the Gadget.”

The band have additionally mentioned that Alice In Chains, Mos Def, A$AP Ferg and OutKast have influenced the sound of Romance.

Talking of the imminent undertaking’s theme, bassist Conor Deegan says, “We’ve at all times had this feeling of idealism and romance. Each and every album will get additional clear of looking at that throughout the lens of Eire, as at once as Dogrel.