The new single and video ‘Deathwatch’ from The Royal features Ryo Kinoshita of Crystal Lake and is the third single taken from the studio album of the same name, which will be released on March 8 via Long Branch Records.

The Dutch metal band keep exploring the wide variety of today's metal scene. After the release of their first album, Seven, which was hailed for its catchy riffs and uplifting songs -The Royal played numerous club shows and festivals across 25 European countries during a two-month tour. This was followed by a series of intercontinental shows during a four-week tour in Japan and China.

Writing songs on tour, and five guys discussing rather heavy topics at times, The Royal decided to explore the darker side of metalcore on their new album. The new record is a mix of catchy riffs with heavy breakdowns and ambient sounds. There is a lot of raw emotion put into this record, in which the band processes what has been a very emotional past year.

The Royal European Tour

support by Dead Like Juliet

08/03 - UK - Bridgend - Hobos

09/03 - UK - Bridgwater - Cobblestones

10/03 - UK - Leeds - Key Club

11/03 - UK - Bolton - Alma Inn

12/03 - UK - London - 229

13/03 - UK - Worthing - Bar42

Torsten In Queereteria is the third solo album by Andy Bell (Erasure) performing as alter-ego Torsten, a semi-immortal polysexual who is destined to love many, lose many and be haunted by bittersweet memories, due to his unnaturally elongated life.  The album is released on April 12 through Cherry Red Records.

It’s a role Andy first took up at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival in 2014 in Torsten The Bareback Saint and a role reprised by him in the critically acclaimed 2016 follow up, Torsten The Beautiful Libertine, which enjoyed a sell-out four week run at London’s ‘Above The Stag’ Theatre.

Andy Bell Is Torsten is a unique collaboration between a singer (Andy Bell), a poet / playwright (Barney Ashton) and a musician (Christopher Frost). Their new album is structured around four separate themed ‘Acts’ which deal with different aspects of both Torsten’s life story and his self-realisation. As with previous Torsten albums, each song is designed as if a postcard insight into a particular hot-spot of memory.

Track listing is:

Act 1 : Remembrance, Youth and Beauty.

01 - A Hundred Years Plus Today

02 - You Stampede An Open Wound

03 - Lowland Lowriders

04 - I Am Of The Sea

Act 2 : The Hedonism And The Hurting.

05 - Cabaret Awayday

06 - Queereteria

07 - If We Want To Drink A Little

Act 3 : Bitter Regrets.

08 - Thou Shalt Be My Vibe

09 - Money With Menaces

10 - Let’s Be Sober Another Time

11 - Come And Taste My Breakdown

Act 4 : To Mourn And To Miss.

12 - To Know Good Men From Perverts

13 - We Hadn’t Slept For Twenty Years

14 - Silence Is Golden

15 - Not Opting Out