Palaye Royale is an American rock band from Las Vegas, formed in 2008 by brothers Remington Leith, Sebastian Danzig, and Emerson Barrett.

When Danzig was sixteen, Leith was fourteen and Barrett was twelve, their mother, Stephanie Cowper, was advised by her friend Paul Weller of the Jam to allow the brothers to drop out of school and pursue music as a career.

[1] The brothers originally formed under the name Kropp Circle and began playing a style of acoustic soft rock.

[3] The following year they released the four track EP Who we Really are, accompanied by two singles and music videos: "Who we Really are" and "Can't Stop the Rain".

In 2014 they were the first unsigned band to win MTV's Musical March Madness tournament, beating out artists such as Linkin Park.

[15] In the summer of that year, Palaye Royale opened for Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson on the Twins of Evil Tour.

[20] The band's third album, The Bastards, was released in May 2020 and included songwriting contributions from touring musicians Daniel Curcio and Andrew Martin.

[26] On June 23, 2023, they released the single "Debilitate" featuring Pussy Riot, which had previously been included as a bonus track from the Japanese edition of Fever Dream.

[27] On November 22, they released a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins's 1995 song "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" as a single, a part of the soundtrack for the science fiction film Divinity.

[5][39] They have cited influences such as the Animals, the Faces, Small Faces, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Bowie, T. Rex, the Velvet Underground, classical music,[5] the New York Dolls, My Chemical Romance, Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Sex Pistols, the Libertines,[1] the Strokes, Mott the Hoople, the Blue Stones, King Princess and Them Crooked Vultures.