JOINS STACKED LINE UP VANS WARPED TOUR THIS SUMMER
RIAA Gold-certified singer-songwriter Royal & the Serpent is back with a brand new single entitled “Death Do Us Part” available now via Atlantic Records. It marks the genre disruptor’s very first release of 2025, and it also heralds the beginning of her next sonic era, paving the way for the arrival of her anxiously awaited debut album later this year.
A glitchy hum opens the song, catalyzing her return on “Death Do Us Part.” The vocals practically hover above icy keys and strains of feedback. The mood shifts as acoustic guitar snakes through a percussive groove. Emotion and energy eventually overflow from a gorgeously gothic refrain, “I’ll die in your arms. We’ll turn into daisies. Yeah, we’ll turn into stars. And they’ll call us crazy, baby. I’ll follow you into the dark…‘Til death do us part.” Fittingly, a wave of thick distortion carries her final words off into the darkness.
About the single, Royal & the Serpent shared, “’Death Do Us Part’ was the first song we wrote in the process of writing for my very first full-length studio album. It set the tone for the rest of the project – and only felt right to give it to the fans before everything else that’s to come!”
Last year, she notably contributed “Wasteland” to the Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 Original Soundtrack. This standout has already eclipsed 60 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 Spinand 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.”
Next up, Royal & the Serpent will appear on the stacked lineup of the 2025 Vans Warped Tour this summer. 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 870 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.
TOUR DATES:
6/14-15 – Washington, DC – Vans Warped Tour
7/26-27 – Long Beach, CA – Vans Warped Tour
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.
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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