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ROYAL REPUBLIC Release Date Pre-Order Start Club Majesty uu 31/05/2019 uu 08/03/2019

uu Digital Singles: 08.03. “Fireman & Dancer” 12.04. “Boomerang” 17.05. “Anna-Leigh” uu advertising in many important music magazines APR/MAY 2019 uu  reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Europe’s APR/MAY Price Code: CD04 2019 issues NB 4876-2 CD uu song placements in European magazine compilations uu  playlists in all European territories uu instore decoration: flyers uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images on nuclearblast.de and nucle- arblast.com Price Code: LP16 uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings to targeted audi- NB 4876-1 LP ences in support of the release NICE MUSIC FOR GOOD MOOD don’t believe in ‘guilty pleasures’ – only pleas- If »« was the album that really nailed their identity, uu Tracklists: ures, free of compromise. Since meeting at the Malmö Acade- »Club Majesty« is the sound of them embracing it from the word my Of Music in 2007, they’ve become Sweden’s most addictive go. Written and recorded over the last year, mostly in the band’s CD: rock’n’roll export; mixing riffy guitars, king-sized tunes and jet- headquarters in Malmö, it’s laden with ‘guilty pleasures’ – in an 01. Fireman & Dancer packed beats with their own eclectic tastes and inimitable joie de 02. Can’t Fight The utterly guilt-free manner. This is an album for the dancefloor and 03. Boomerang vivre. Plus the kind of snazzy suits most of their contemporaries the mosh pit, where rock guitars and drums sit alongside addictive 04. Under Cover wish they had the balls to pull off. They’ll rock the shit out of you choruses, shimmying rhythms and saxophone (the latter added 05. Like A Lover and make you dance like you’ve just won the lottery. 06. Blunt Force Trauma less than a month after Grahn first picked up the instrument). 07. Fortune Favors And still that question ‘what are your guilty pleasures’ often crops Opening track and first single ‘Fireman & Dancer’ sets the tone. 08. Flower Power Madness up. Because you can’t be in a proper badass rock band and enjoy Another track that clicked into place quickly was ‘Under Cover’, 09. Stop Movin’ 70s disco, jazz and pop, or listen to and CANNIBAL 10. Anna-Leigh though it wasn’t originally meant for ROYAL REPUBLIC … 11. Bulldog CORPSE on your tour bus and (whisper it) THE SPICE GIRLS and From here the highlights keep coming. Want addictive hooks and THE BACKSTREET BOYS… Or can you? strutting guitars? You’ll find them in ‘Boomerang’, followed by LP (33 RPM): Fronted by moustachioed, six-foot-something dandy Adam the irresistibly cool, sultry power of ‘Like A Lover’, and gleeful, Side A Grahn, and completed by partners-in-crime Hannes Irengård 01. Fireman & Dancer dancey gems like ‘Can’t Fight The Disco’ and ‘Anna-Leigh’. It’s 02. Can’t Fight The Disco on guitars, Jonas Almén on bass and Per Andréasson on drums, like the most fun bits of the late 70s delivered in the freshest way 03. Boomerang ROYAL REPUBLIC are the band you’d want to play at your party. possible, with lashings of raw oomph and absolutely no holding 04. Under Cover The moment the four of them first performed together onstage, the 05. Like A Lover back. 06. Blunt Force Trauma alchemy was extraordinary. And ever since 2010’s colossal debut But here’s the thing: by not actively trying to ‘be more rock’, ROY- Side B »We Are The Royal« – with mega-hit single ‘Tommy-Gun’ turning 01. Fortune Favors AL REPUBLIC actually rock way harder than many of their peers. heads well beyond Sweden – it’s been clear that something be- 02. Flower Power Madness There’s something about their sense of freedom and confidence 03. Stop Movin’ tween them just works. that transcends genre boundaries. Perhaps that’s why they sing 04. Anna-Leigh The riotous tour for 2016’s hugely popular album »Weekend 05. Bulldog Man« was triumphant proof of this. Every night was packed with ‘Can’t Fight The Disco’; whoever you are it’s damn-near impossi- floor-fillers. From the biting hooks, primal roars and four-part ble to fight the appeal of this music, whether you’re a fully signed- harmonies to their snappy stage attire and commanding stage up disco acolyte or an devotee. personas, theirs is a seamless marriage of fire, flair and fun. The Curiously it was a show at Sweden , by the bizarrely raw spirit of punk with the hips of James Brown and swaggering named ELECTRICAL BANANA Band, that brought it all home for uu Line up: braggadocio of James Bond. No wonder they struggle to label Grahn. “They’re these Swedish comedians who’ve been around themselves. since the 80s, they dress like fruit and they play the slickest | vocals Plenty of other people have tried to, of course. , songs,” he explains, “lyrics like ‘I wanna be a mushroom’, kids’ Hannes Irengård | guitars pop rock, kung-fu rock and even Chuck Norris rock are all tags stuff, but it’s really well played and arranged. I saw them play Per Andreasson | bass the main stage, right between Hammerfall and , that have been devised for their punchy, propulsive brand of Jonas Almén| drums rock’n’roll. Now, with the arrival of fourth album »Club Majesty«, and it was packed. It was insane. And it was a beautiful thing; all ‘disco rock’ has been added to the mix. “I love the word ‘disco’,” these super ‘metal’ people coming together with their spikes and Grahn says. “But some people will say ‘but you’re a rock band!’ tattoos, because it resonated with their childhood memories, or We’re a band. I never knew what to call us.” they’re just drunk and happy.” For a bunch of guys as much in awe of EARTH WIND & FIRE If you like ROYAL REPUBLIC, you’ll love »Club Majesty«. And for and Michael Bolton as LED ZEPPELIN and THE BEATLES, this is the uninitiated – rock fan, pop lover, metal-head or otherwise – Territory: hardly surprising. For a long time, however, it was something they you’ve arrived at an excellent time. All are welcome here, so step World battled with. inside… Style: Rock www.royalrepublic.net · www.facebook.com/royalrepublic · www.instagram.com/royalrepublic · www. twitter.com/royalrepublic

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