Two sisters from the Traverse City MI area creating dreamy, spacey, post-hardcore musical reverie. Cultivating a sound coined "dream rock" and carving out their own path as a 2 piece band since 2016, Hail Your Highness is a DIY, fully independent force to be reckoned with. Owners and founders of SHEFREAK Studio where they write, record, rehearse, produce all that is the signature Hail Your Highness sound and is home to their own cassette label. In 2019 they created a show initiative called "Safe With Me" after their own deeply personal struggles with incel, stalker, and deeply disturbing behavior targeted at them at shows. "Safe With Me" is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for any kind of unwanted attention or harassment at shows for anyone who identifies as a woman in bands and coming to shows. Working closely with venues and staff who have inclusive policies of their own, HYH presses on diligently to ensure that everyone is free to express themselves and experience the magic that is live music.
"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 single "You Again"
"Dream rock. Two sisters. A history steeped in religious control and personal upheaval. And now they’re screaming back at the void with something that sounds like a séance happening inside an abandoned roller rink. Yeah, we’re doing this. is a dense, cathartic, and emotionally volatile track that oozes exorcism energy. The “we’ve finally torn the chains off our backs and turned them into a goddamn guitar riff” kind. This thing starts in pure dream-state — washed-out pads, a slow swirl of delay and reverb that would make Julee Cruise nod in approval. But just when you’re leaning back into that Twin Peaks haze? Boom — it kicks. Guitars start punching through the fog. The chorus doesn’t knock, it barges in. And yeah, while the whole dream rock genre isn’t exactly crawling with weekly releases, this thing deserves its own corner of the altar. It checks every box: memorable chorus, layered textures, emotional teeth, and a story that feels lived, not manufactured. You don’t come out the other side of that kind of religious trauma and accidentally write a song like this. You bleed it into a DAW." Indie Boulevard