The Royal Highness

Dennis Kasten/Vocals, Guitars.

Lasse Jonsson/Guitars.

Thomas Broge-Starck/Bass.

Mads Valther/Drums.

The Royal Highness have written songs with Alain Johannes and Natasha Shneider (Queens of the stone Age, Millionaire, Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal, Eleven, and many more), signed a worldwide publishing deal with EMI, toured the US and Europe, and have a US tour and a Europe tour in current preproduction... all in the first year.

The Royal Highness debuts with emotive and hard rocking album

"... - Aggressive music makes me happy. Happy music makes me aggressive"

The words are said by guitarist in The Royal Highness, Joff Nilsen. He’s a happy man, and the Norwegian musician has had reasons to be since he joined the hard rocking and sludgy Danes The Royal Highness, who elegantly mixes ingredients from the 70s rock, the 80s punk, the 90s metal, and something in between that. The band that as fast as lightening had signed a worldwide publishing deal with EMI, had a UK manager working for them, established a personal and work wise relation with international heavyweight, and toured intensively in Denmark and USA. And that’s without having released one song! With The Royal Highness it was the personality, the music and the talent that opened the doors to the audience and the music industry. After an intense few years in Denmark and USA, the quartet recorded the debut album, La Mancha, over the summer of 2006. It took them 2 years from the first show, to the first album, and that was very much a choice the band made. The groups founder and bassist, Thomas Broge-Starck, explains:

- Everyone has a home studio these days, and it’s so easy to get a little label going. This meant that so many bands will record an album as one of the first things they do, without thinking “are we even good enough, and have good enough material?” you know. We didn’t want to go down that road. We wanted both the contracts down first, and we wanted to get the live show, the studio experiences, and song writing down, before we started recording an album.

And the strategy worked. La Mancha is catchy and varied guitar rock, with Dennis Kastens scratchy, screamy and full vocals in the centre.