OPENING FOR GHOST ON SELECT TOUR DATES
THIS SUMMER

NEW ALBUM WICK OUT NOW

“In an industry full of cookie-cutter sentiment, it's refreshing to find a band with the courage to wear their heart on their sleeve as boldly as they do on WICK.”
– Exclaim!

“Big, beautiful, brilliant – that’s enough good reasons to fall in love with this lot.”
– Kerrang!

"Royal Thunder could be the much-needed antidote to the blustery machismo that dominates active-rock radio." – Rolling Stone

"WICK is their least metallic effort to date—and arguably their best. It sounds as though the Atlanta four-piece has finally found their sound, after years of being pushed and prodded towards what other people thought they should be, and the end result is sublime." – Noisey

Toronto, ON – June 7, 2017 – Royal Thunder's critically praised Spinefarm Records debut, WICK, was released last month (April 7) to critical acclaim worldwide.  Royal Thunder will return to the road this summer supporting Ghost on select dates in the US. 

Earlier this month, the band visited the NPR Studios in Washington, DC to take part in the Tiny Desk Concerts.  Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts hosted by NPR Music at the desk of All Songs Considered host, Bob Boilen. Watch HERE as Royal Thunder plays stripped down, intimate versions of three songs from their latest release, WICK.

“WICK is different, a bigger jump as far as our sound goes, but it’s still us, it’s just the sound of Royal Thunder’s evolution,” comments guitarist, Josh Weaver. “Out of all of the albums, WICK was the hardest one to make,” continues frontwoman, Mlny Parsonz. “It was a fight, but to hear it now, to see it finished, is so gratifying. Finally it’s over, it’s amazing to be done with it. I’m looking at it, going you’re done, it’s over, go away.”

It’s 2017 and after making perhaps the toughest album of their career, Royal Thunder are coming out swinging.  The Atlanta based four-piece (Mlny Parsonz – bass/vocals, Josh Weaver – guitar, Evan Diprima – drums, Will Fiore – guitar), once memorably described as playing, “a revved-up Southern hard rock that howls like Led Zeppelin astride a psychedelic unicorn," are, with WICK, reaching their tipping point. Following 2007’s self-titled EP (reissued four years later by Relapse Records), 2012’s CVI and 2015’s critically acclaimed Crooked Doors, Royal Thunder’s fourth release is an accumulation of shared experience, musical and otherwise, making art out of adversity and imbued with a new melodic succinctness that’s borne out of a band who’ve spent the last few years growing up together.

ROYAL THUNDER W/Ghost:
June 8 - Norfolk, VA - The Norva
June 10 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
June 14 - Louisville, KY - The Palace Theater
July 13 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room of National Centre
July 14 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Embassy Theater