Palaye Royale

Self-described as a fashion-art rock outfit, Palaye Royale fuses sweeping contemporary alt-pop textures with raw guitar-driven rock that sometimes nods to glam and Brit-pop traditions. The Las Vegas indie trio built an organic following through visual creativity and initial independently issued singles such as 2012's "Morning Light" and 2013's "Get Higher." After joining Sumerian Records, they unveiled the expansive two-part debut Boom Boom Room, divided into separate full albums across 2016 and 2018. A subsequent full-length, The Bastards, surfaced in 2020, followed by several expansive, cinematic singles including "Broken" from 2022's Fever Dream. During an especially active stretch, Palaye Royale released consecutive EPs Sextape and Songs for Sadness just before their fifth album, Death or Glory, arrived in 2024.

The core lineup of singer and frontman Remington Leith, guitarist and organist Sebastian Danzig, and drummer Emerson Barrett formed the band in 2011 and issued their first single, "Morning Light," the next year. Unsigned at the time, the youthful group quickly assembled a supporter base that delivered 20 million views on their video channel, fueled largely by dedicated fans they dub "Soldiers of the Royal Council." Their next release, the energetic 2013 single "Get Higher," was chosen by a major technology firm for a worldwide advertising campaign and expanded their reach further. Also in 2013 they issued their debut EP, the six-track The Ends Beginning. In 2014 they claimed first place in MTV's Musical March Madness competition, outpacing established acts such as Coldplay, Tokio Hotel, and Linkin Park.

By late 2015 Palaye Royale had secured a label deal with Sumerian Records, which released their James Iha-produced debut album Boom Boom Room (Side A) in summer 2016. The following year selections from their catalog appeared in the thriller film American Satan, with Leith supplying the singing voice for one of its characters. Starting with 2018's "You'll Be Fine," the band began rolling out tracks from the follow-up Boom Boom Room (Side B). After that album emerged, the trio toured globally in support on the Final Boom trek; they later joined Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson's co-headlining package and closed the decade with 2019's Funeral Tour. That same year they entered the studio with Matthew Pauling and Chris Greatti to track their third album. The resulting The Bastards appeared in May 2020 while the group launched a pre-release world tour that was halted in Europe by the Covid-19 outbreak. In 2021 Palaye Royale previewed new material with the thumping alt-rock single "Punching Bag" and "Paranoid." The following year brought "Broken," which pointed toward a more intense, cinematic direction fully explored on Fever Dream. They then issued two stylistically broad EPs in rapid succession—Sextape in 2023 and Songs for Sadness in 2024. Over subsequent months additional tracks arrived, among them the single "Just My Type," as the band prepared for the August release of their fifth album, Death or Glory.