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October 2025

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury behind the Dystopia Concept

2025-10-30T12:57:45+00:00October 30, 2025|

Discovering Fahrenheit 451 Through Royal Hunt's Dystopia A Personal Reflection on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Royal Hunt's Dystopia, by Rolf-Erik Nyland Hi! When I joined this campaign and learned of the song and its intended role as the ending of Dystopia, I finally decided to read the Ray Bradbury book “Fahrenheit 451” that the concept is based on. I have read dystopian literature before, most notably “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin, many years ago – and it’s still wrenching my soul in all its hopelessness and [...]

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April 2025

JAPAN TOUR 2025 – RECAP VIDEO

2025-04-27T20:39:11+00:00April 27, 2025|

The video captures the high-energy performances and behind-the-scenes moments from the band's spring shows in Japan — bringing fans closer than ever to the action. Message from the band: “Buckle up for a wild ride through the stunning landscapes of Japan, straight into the heart of our great shows from earlier this month" - https://youtu.be/_PKKKAwO0m4 As Royal Hunt reflects on these unforgettable moments, they now look ahead to their next chapter: the release of their highly anticipated EP, Behind the Curtain. Fans are invited to be part of this exciting project [...]

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New EP: Crowdfunding Launch

2025-04-30T21:04:26+00:00April 4, 2025|

Get YOUR NAME in the liner note of the new EP & exclusive merch Our long awaited new EP is finally done/finished/ready. We decided once again to take a tried-and-true path of running a pre-ordering campaign for the new EP. What else is in store, you might ask? Well, we shot quite a bunch of videos last year as well as lots of “backstage/documentaries” have been filmed during our travels so – as usual – we´ll be delighted to share it all with you and to pop up from [...]

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May 2022

Big in Japan

2023-09-29T20:35:43+00:00May 16, 2022|

It is remarkable to see Royal Hunt on the pages of "BIG IN JAPAN" - a special issue of BURRN magazine.  Pretty notable to find the whole lot of stories about Royal Hunt's musical journey in Japan among the stories of such monsters as Bon Jovi, Mr.Big, Helloween, Fair Warning, Harem Scarem, Night Ranger, Dokken. You can purchase this issue on Amazon Japan. Contents of this special issue of Burrn! magazine: Chapter 1: General ●The era when CDs sold the most = the era of the metal bubble ●Special industry [...]

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April 2022

FAN FILMED FOOTAGE FROM KYIV 2016 

2022-04-11T09:59:10+00:00April 11, 2022|

While the world´s witnessing in disbelieve what´s happening in Ukraine, we stumbled over this fan-filmed video from one of our shows there… a great way to remember this welcoming country and it´s warmhearted people: Chernigov, Kharkov, Kiev, Dnepr… lots of great memories. Our thoughts are with you, Ukrainians, hope to see you all again very soon!

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March 2022

Getting ready: Let’s stay in touch!

2022-03-18T13:02:38+00:00March 18, 2022|

Dear friends, We are getting ready to begin the pre-ordering campaign for "Dystopia - Part 2". Just can't wait to share the new music and all the materials we have prepared!!! 5 days until the launch. As usual, we invite you - our listeners - to sponsor the release by pre-ordering the “Deluxe Edition” of the album or ANY bundle in our webshop. You will get access to FULL video updates at Royal Hunt Camp 2022; Listening Parties; Rare footage This time we´re not only preparing a larger amount of [...]

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November 2021

“Moving Target” cover artwork

2021-11-05T13:50:19+00:00November 5, 2021|

...One of the very few occasions when the actual artwork was decided on even before we had a title for the album…actually, the cover dictated the title. I generally like to go through some old books in smaller, kind of hidden-away-from-main-streets secondhand book stores: you never know what you might find… but at that particular time I was going through the books that my dad (who passed away a couple of years earlier) had left on his personal shelves. Everything was mixed: history books, political stuff, maps, old newspaper articles, [...]

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September 2021

Songwriting completed

2021-09-29T10:01:41+00:00September 29, 2021|

"Dear friends, Songwriting for “Dystopia. Part 2” has been completed: as the story unfolds, the material´s got a bit more aggressive yet fairly dynamic, leaving space for a few experiments here and there. Obviously, as the plot includes a couple of new characters, the list of special guests should be quite interesting as well. Stay tuned, we´ll keep you posted." - writes André Andersen on his Facebook page. 💿 Сoncept studio album "Dystopia - Part I" is available on ALL digital platforms ( as MP3, FLAC), as a regular CD [...]

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