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RIAA Gold-certified singer-songwriter Royal & the Serpent unveils a new single entitled “Carry Me Home” available now via Atlantic Records. Its release accelerates her creative momentum and also sets the stage for more music to come very soon, including her anxiously awaited debut album later this year.
On the track, her spacey vocals echo through a wall of reverb. Setting the scene in cinematic fashion, Royal & the Serpent makes a plea, “Father, save me from the monsters, hold me like a daughter, carry me, carry me home.” The pace picks up with fuzzy synth bass and a glitchy beat, climaxing on a chantable chorus.
Striking like a viper with a succinct snap unexpectedly, she remains as unpredictable and undeniable as ever.
Recently, she unleashed “Death Do Us Part.” The latter has already amassed over 1 million streams and counting. Right out of the gate, Billboard touted it on “Queer Jams of the Week,” proceeding to proclaim, “Royal & the Serpent is done toying with her sound — she’s found it, and she’s not letting it go.” mxdwn also spotlighted how “The vocals in “Death Do Us Part” float over the beautiful keys to create a chilling track.” Listen HERE.
Last year, the songstress notably contributed “Wasteland” to the Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 Original Soundtrack. This standout has already eclipsed 80 million-plus streams and counting. Taking over the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, she joined forces with Twenty One Pilots and d4vd for an unforgettable medley of music from the Soundtrack at The Game Awards 2025. In addition to plugs from Spin and more, NME hailed her rendition of “Wasteland” as “touching,” while mxdwn praised the performance as “stunning.” Plus, Neon Music attested, “The song unfolds as an emotional odyssey, charting a path from darkness toward hope.”
This summer, Royal & the Serpent will appear on the stacked lineup of the 2025 Vans Warped Tour. Check out the full confirmed itinerary below.
For updates, please see www.royalandtheserpent.com/tour.
Royal & the Serpent remains one of alternative music’s most inimitable and irresistible outliers. She has impressively eclipsed 900 million global streams, nearing the 1 billion mark. Moreover, she has shared the stage with everyone from Fall Out Boy and Avril Lavigne to Demi Lovato and Bring Me The Horizon.
TOUR DATES:
6/14-15 – Washington, DC – Vans Warped Tour
7/26-27 – Long Beach, CA – Vans Warped Tour
10/3-5 – Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
11/15-16 – Orlando, FL – Vans Warped Tour
ABOUT ROYAL & THE SERPENT:
Royal & the Serpent is an artist entirely unafraid to bare the deepest and darkest parts of her psyche. After making her Atlantic Records debut with the 2020 EP, get a grip – highlighted by the RIAA Gold-certified single “Overwhelmed,” which spent 22 weeks on Billboard’s “Alternative Airplay” chart – the L.A.-based singer-songwriter revealed even more of her frenetic inner world in 2022 with IF I DIED WOULD ANYONE CARE and Happiness Is An Inside Job. Royal introduced fans to the “royalverse” in 2023, dropping 5 double-sided RAT TRAP singles throughout the year. Among the highlights, RAT TRAP I: the blueprint features the powerfully inspiring, fan favorite LGBTQ+ anthem, “One Nation Underdogs.” RAT TRAP 2: the burn arrived next, followed by RAT TRAP 3: the band-aid, RAT TRAP 4: the burden and RAT TRAP 5: the beginning. Meanwhile she teamed up with GRAMMY® Award-nominated, multi-Platinum-certified labelmate GAYLE forvengeful collaboration “kinda smacks” and “Blame Brett (feat. Royal & the Serpent)” her collaboration with The Beaches. Her latest release “Death Do Us Part,” represents a rebirth of sorts for Royal & the Serpent, drawing on her pop roots and blending in elements of alt-rock and even electronica into a new, mature offering for her debut record.
Originally from New Jersey, Royal started in dance and theatre, and first took up guitar at age 14, then relocated to L.A. at age 18. While working as a bartender, Royal soon started self-releasing her music, beginning with her spellbinding 2017 single “Temperance.” Thanks to the buzz behind songs like 2019’s “Weddings & Funerals” and “Salvador Dali” – as well as her electrifying live show – she eventually inked a deal with Atlantic and released “Overwhelmed” in the early days of Covid lockdown.
Royal’s unfiltered songwriting has proved wildly resonant to her ever-growing fanbase, building a close-knit community of fans undeniably drawn to her one-of-a-kind balance of intense sensitivity and unruly self-possession. “The main reason I make music is that it’s the best therapy I could ever ask for: the process of taking everything in my brain and putting it on paper and then singing it out loud for people is so helpful and healing for me. The idea that my own expression can affect people in positive ways is such a blessing and a gift; I don’t ever take it lightly. I just want to keep telling my truth and reach as many people as I possibly can, and see where this little journey takes us.”
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