In the Studios with Royal Pirates!

[essyllus.livejournal.com]

Royal Pirates started in 2004, originally as Fading From Dawn, featuring guitarist-vocalist Moonchul Kim, drummer Sooyoon Kim, and bassist Richard Kim (Moonchul's older brother). Unfortunately, after a tragic car accident in Pomona, California, Richard died at the age of 21 in April last year.

Despite tragedy, they continued without a bassist as a two-piece band with a Muse-inspired rock sound. Through Moonchul's soulful falsetto and Sooyoon's compositions, the band is gaining much recognition. Sooyoon's song writing skills have been recognized by a major Korean producer. Sooyoon will be working closely with this as yet unnamed producer to write songs for other Korean artists.

The duo has gained popularity through their youtube covers of popular Kpop hits such as Super Junior's Sorry Sorry and Wonder Girls' Nobody.

Their popularity has led to a love call from Star King, Korea's star search show featuring today's best talents. However, the Royal Pirates have declined due to scheduling issues with each member's responsibilities to school/classes. The more important and personal issue was their band image as a cover band. Appearing on the popular television show along with the actual group Super Junior may have left audiences and fans alike with the impression of a wannabe famewhore band.

To prevent any misunderstandings, the band politely declined to focus on original songs and music for fans to enjoy.

Recently, the band was featured and interviewed on Korea's news network YTN. Love calls and their passion for music, keep the Pirates making music as they look forward to working with Korean management/entertainment companies in the near future.

allkpop had the pleasure of bringing and watching the Royal Pirates in action at the Sound Aslyum recording studio, under the supervision of sound engineer/producer Mike Troolines in Santa Ana, California. While working, the guys had a couple run-throughs and recorded a brand new song called Crawling Out!

The lyrics written by Moonchul are not based on a true event. We had a good laugh about the inspiration for the song. Crawling Out will definitely have you playing it over and over!

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Photographs of the recording at the source.

Comments

[sarsee.livejournal.com]

Watch out The White Stripes,
Royal Pirates are taking ship~

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

lol They are kinda shy when they talk but it's on when they play their music.

[shinjukudolls.livejournal.com]

i love them sfm!

i want to see them do well

[iheartdarkblue.livejournal.com]

'Moonchul' is such a cute name.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

ia ia. maybe cause it reminds me of heechul but it's really nice either way :P

[rickasaurus.livejournal.com]

♥ Royal Pirates

[rickasaurus.livejournal.com]

Damn, accidentally clicked Post Comment.
Anyway, I hope to see them do well, too! c:

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

as an aspiring audio engineer i'm just going to lol and wtf at that ~recording setup~ they had there.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

lolll gurl give me details on whats wrong

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

the biggest wtf for me is how the vocalist is standing like RIGHT BESIDE THE DRUMS.

if you attempted to record that for real you would get so much drum bleed in the vocal tracks that they would pretty much be unusable. you wouldn't be able to edit, eq, and compress them to make them sound nice. and autotune, forget about it. unless you want to hear autotune drum kit as well.

i'm thinking they just set them up like that to record the video, not for the legit tracking.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

yeah prob i didnt think it was live. they prob just wanted to have everything tight in the frame.

[xradiostatic.livejournal.com]

as a band geek, i was doing the same thing LOL.

[waiyza.livejournal.com]

Aw, they're cute. And I love his voice.

[ohlilu.livejournal.com]

they are so cool. crazy how an internet vid can set a whole bunch of things into motion. and i kinda admire them for declining star king's offer...

ot: i still need to scan you miranda july's art book, bb. i suck orz

[essyllus.livejournal.com]

Really, it was the work of a fan tipping off Allkpop. As much as I detest Allkpop's writing, they're the best place to 'launch' and get popular.

Ahh, I can't believe you still remember. Don't worry about it! I'm looking forward to see it, but I'm in no hurry. :)

[iheartomntd.livejournal.com]

cute boys are cute. Someone sign them already. They're really good

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

they're so talented. i really can't wait for them to debut

[dreamerbri.livejournal.com]

good luck to them!

[chiroro.livejournal.com]

They're amazing. I can't wait for them to debut. Plus they're easy on the eyes.

Talent + Looks = why aren't they signed yet?!

[essyllus.livejournal.com]

Because they're just students. They're still in college.

[kanaala.livejournal.com]

haha, so cute =D .. they really seem kinda shy^^
i really want them to hurry up and debut already~ i love them so much since i first listened to their cover songs <33333333333

[discs.livejournal.com]

are they going to be famous yet?

[secretly-kanna.livejournal.com]

O____O
this is osm. finally someone hot who uses instruments as their main asset.

their english is good. It's like they're shy instead of addled in the language.
major turn-on.

[vanillacat.livejournal.com]

The vocalist is such a qt... actually, they both are. ♥

His voice is... oddly American, does that make sense? It's very unlike any current Korean singer... kind of reminds me of Cute Is What We Aim For?

[gogoparty.livejournal.com]

[essyllus.livejournal.com]

If not them, who else? No one else gets the traffic or name recognition that Allkpop does. It's the unfortunate reality. :/