Defying monotony is the reason ROYAL BANGS exist. In recording their third album, Flux Outside, the band has proven their ability to challenge the tediousness that consumes the music industry today. With the new album they have reclaimed their identity: three high school friends playing inspired, kinetic rock and roll, and in the process, discovered the sound they’ve been looking for all along.

Under ROYAL BANGS and various other guises, frontman Ryan Schaefer, drummer Chris Rusk, and guitarist Sam Stratton have been making music together since their high school days. In 2006, they unleashed We Breed Champions, a home-recorded and self-released breakthrough album. The record's potent noise-pop wormed its way into hearts throughout the southeastern US, eventually finding its way to Patrick Carney (The Black Keys), who reissued We Breed Champions on his own Audio Eagle Records in May of 2008.

In February of 2009, ROYAL BANGS traveled to Akron, Ohio to record their long-awaited sophomore album. The studio quickly became home to the three obsessive musicians, who even found themselves sleeping there at night. “We just could not stop working,” Schaefer recalls. The result was Let It Beep, released in September 2009.

After years of exploration and reinvention, ROYAL BANGS finally know who they are and what they’re about. In this state of reassurance, the band is eager to tour. “When you’re on tour it’s nice because there’s a schedule,” Schaefer says. “It’s not a tough schedule, but it’s a schedule, and we're doing the only thing we've ever wanted to do.”