The group's debut EP, Holy Roller Novocaine, and LP, Youth and Young Manhood (Number 113), both produced by Petraglia and Ethan Johns (son of Led Zeppelin and Who producer Glyn Johns), were released in 2003. A bidding war ensued, and the band ultimately signed with RCA Records. The boys began woodshedding, and by 2002 Kings of Leon had interest from nine labels. Jared, who had briefly attended public school, had learned about the music of the Pixies and Velvet Underground. Kings of Leon, named for their father, were born in 2000 when youngest brother Jared and a cousin, Matthew Followill, joined Nathan and Caleb in Nashville. They quickly ran into Nashville songwriter and former new waver Angelo Petraglia, who turned the brothers on to the secular music of the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash.
The divorce rocked the Followills' world, and afterwards, the Nathan and Caleb moved to Nashville, hoping to break into the music business. The boys' fates as followers of fundamentalist Christianity seemed sealed until 1997, when Leon Followill resigned from the church and divorced his wife. Forbidden to listen to secular music, they spent their early childhoods being home-schooled, watching church choirs and occasionally banging on drums during services. The Followills grew up watching their grandfather Leon, a Pentecostal minister, instill the fear of God in parishioners across the South. By the end of the 2000s, they were famous. Soon, they were a rough and ready band, enjoying the pleasures of the road while playing grinding, garage-y jams tinged with Southern rock and gothic lyrics. After being shattered by a divorce, the brothers were transformed by illicit substances and the stoner music of Led Zeppelin. The Followill brothers - Nathan, Caleb and Jared - are sons of a preacher man who were raised on the road throughout the South, traveling from one Pentecostal church to the next.
Kings of Leon have a backstory so steeped in rock mythology that it almost sounds made up.
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