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The Royal

About Me

The Royal is the sound of industrial beats layered with the subtleties of groovy bass lines and a total devotion to melody. Think of Nine Inch Nails meeting Deus, New Wet Kojak, Girls Against Boys, Morphine. We are about sadness, anger, melancholy... joy is such a difficult emotion to capture in a song.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/02/2006
Band Website: www.raymondwishes.com/theroyal
Band Members:
K., A. en J.
Influences: Deus, Pinback, Death Cab for Cutie, Weezer, Sigur Ros, Twilight Singers, Marc Lanegan
Sounds Like: Deus, Nine Inch Nails, the Rapture, Sigur Ros
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Some of my favourite paintings

Being a big an admiror of modern art, especially painting, I wondered if I could write something about some of my favourite painting: so I did. (I added some hyperlinks towards images of the paintings...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:53:00 GMT

Just an atheist leftist vegetarian punk rock poet

My influences in life are few: from Buddhism I took the aspect of respecting all forms of life. That made me a vegetarian (but also I want to keep alien hormones, antibiotics and other stuff). I...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:33:00 GMT

Music Approved by the Royal Family

Here are the records that are on my top shelf over the years (say from when I was fifteen till now): Cursive - Domestica +  the Ugly Organ: brutal and beautiful, Fugazi meets Quicksand; lyri...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:29:00 GMT