By Royal Decree

By Royal Decree
Studio album by
the Flower Kings
Released4 March 2022
GenreProgressive rock
Length93:57
LabelInside Out Music, Sony Music
The Flower Kings chronology
Islands
(2020) 		By Royal Decree
(2022) 		Look at You Now
(2023)

By Royal Decree is the fifteenth studio album by the progressive rock band the Flower Kings, released on 4 March 2022.[1]

Track listing

By Royal Decree track listing
No.TitleLength
1."The Great Pretender"6:58
2."World Gone Crazy"5:06
3."Blinded"7:52
4."A Million Stars"7:19
5."The Soldier"5:26
6."The Darkness in You"5:17
7."We Can Make It Work"2:52
8."Peacock on Parade"5:22
9."Revolution"6:02
10."Time the Great Healer"6:16
11."Letter"2:26
12."Evolution"4:50
13."Silent Ways"5:03
14."Moth"4:41
15."The Big Funk"4:43
16."Open Your Heart"5:19
17."Shrine"1:11
18."Funeral Pyres"7:14
Total length:93:57

Personnel

The Flower Kings

  • Roine Stolt – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, ukulele, Portuguese guitar, nylon guitar, additional keyboards, orchestration
  • Hasse Fröberg – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar
  • Jonas Reingold – fretted bass, fretless bass
  • Michael Stolt – bass, Moog Taurus pedalboard, backing vocals
  • Mirko DeMaio – drums, percussion, additional orchestration
  • Zach Kamins – organ, piano, synthesizers, orchestrations

Guest musicians

  • Aliaksandr Yasinski – accordion
  • Jannica Lund – backing vocals
  • Jonas Lindberg – bass
  • Rob Townsend – saxophones
  • Hasse Bruniusson - acoustic and electronic percussion

Additional credits

  • Kevin Sloan – artwork
  • Lasse Hallbäck – engineer
  • Thomas Ewerhard – layout
  • Roine Stolt – mixing
  • Lilian Forsberg, Patrick Marek – photography

Charts

Chart performance for By Royal Decree
Chart (2022) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[2] 185
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[3] 84
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[4] 53
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[5] 17
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[6] 23

References

  1. ^ "The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree (2022, Digipak, CD)". Discogs.
  2. ^ "Ultratop.be – The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Ultratop.be – The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Swisscharts.com – The Flower Kings – By Royal Decree". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2024.