Sunday, April 19, 2026
New MusicRoyal RepublicSingle Reviews

Royal Republic, Sweden’s high-octane rock’n’roll renegades, have unleashed their latest single, “I’m So Excited,” on August 8, 2025, via Odyssey Music Network. This audacious cover of the Pointer Sisters’ 1982 disco hit is the second chapter in their four-part Blastbeaters saga, a wild musical journey that sees the Malmö quartet—Adam Grahn (vocals/guitar), Hannes Irengård (guitar), Jonas Almén (bass), and Per Andreasson (drums)—don corpse paint, spikes, and a beat-up Volvo 140 as the fictional black metal band The Blastbeaters.

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New MusicRock Tours Gig GuideRoyal Republic

Sweden’s finest purveyors of high-octane rock’n’roll, Royal Republic, have returned with a thunderous cover of Shocking Blue’s ‘Venus’. Released as episode one of a four-part musical saga, this track reimagines four iconic Disco-Classics, setting a bold new tone. Each video unveils a chapter in the wild tale of ‘The Blastbeaters’—a fictional Black Metal band on a quest for world domination.

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