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Hail Your Highness is a sister-led duo from the Traverse City, Michigan area crafting immersive, space-soaked post-hardcore reverie. Since forming in 2016, they’ve carved out a fiercely independent path as a two-piece band, cultivating a sound they’ve coined “dream rock” — where massive distortion, ethereal textures, and emotionally charged dual vocals collide.
Entirely DIY, Hail Your Highness write, record, rehearse, and produce all of their music out of SHEFREAK Studio, the creative home they founded and operate themselves. The studio also houses their cassette label and serves as the nucleus of their expansive visual and sonic worldbuilding. Every release, performance, and visual element is crafted in-house, reinforcing their reputation as a self-sustaining creative force.
In 2019, following deeply personal experiences with stalking and harassment at shows, the duo launched Safe With Me — a zero-tolerance show initiative focused on protecting women and marginalized attendees at live events. Working closely with venues and staff who share inclusive values, Hail Your Highness actively foster safer, more respectful spaces where everyone is free to express themselves and fully experience live music.
As KERRANG! puts it:
“On paper alone, Hail Your Highness sound poetic: two sisters from Michigan, who play dreamy emotional music that swirls together aspects of genres ranging from hard rock to shoegaze to trap. But it’s their music, with its unorthodox song structures, dreamy dual vocals, and lava-flow undercurrent of distortion and aggression, that completes the picture. As a whole, Hail Your Highness is bigger than its individual parts, a project with no easy genre designation or niche market that sounds like music you heard in a false memory.” KERRANG!
Praise for HYH's latest EP "Wonderdust"
"Bobenmoyer and Ryland sing like two characters from the same story who speak different languages but somehow understand each other. Tenderness versus aggression. Melody versus force. It works perfectly, and “perfectly” is a word I rarely use.
Hail Your Highness is a chameleon band that sheds its skin every five minutes, and predicting what the final release will be like is impossible. The only thing I know for sure: it definitely won’t be boring.
There are bands that find their sound and hone it for years. And then there are bands like Hail Your Highness, who reinvent themselves every time, risking failure but finding something valuable. This is music for those who are tired of safety. And it’s fucking awesome." Indie Boulevard