Royal Bath is an industrial electronic band from Christchurch, New Zealand, dealing in hard-edged rhythms, distortion and bleak, hypnotic atmospheres.

Built on machines, abrasive synths and dense layers of noise, their sound sits somewhere between industrial and EBM. Royal Bath approaches music from the periphery rather than the centre. That sense of remove runs through the project: not just geographic isolation, but the psychological kind too. The low-grade disconnection, overstimulation and unease that now feels built into everyday life. Their tracks often sit in that space, where control starts to slip, systems feel increasingly abstract, and the background noise of modern life becomes impossible to tune out.

Rather than treating industrial as a retro aesthetic, the band uses it as a way to speak to the present — to alienation, surveillance, burnout, disinformation, and the strange weight of living through a constant state of existential crisis.

Loud, focused and deliberately unsanitised, their music carries the feeling of a transmission from somewhere just out of reach.