{"id":364,"date":"2024-06-03T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:58:50","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h2 namednodemap=\"\">Who we are:<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Liberation Sans\", Arial, sans-serif, \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Noto Color Emoji\"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;\"><\/strong><\/span><\/p><p data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"508\" class=\"\"><strong data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"167\">ROYAL UGLY DUDE<\/strong> &#8211; founded in summer 2021 by experienced guitarist and songwriter <strong data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"255\">Pascal T\u00f6ngi<\/strong> &#8211; is anything but slick.  <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"148\" data-end=\"508\" class=\"\">Shortly after the band was founded, drummer <strong data-start=\"331\" data-end=\"349\">Pascal St\u00f6ssel<\/strong> joined the band and the band room in Bremgarten AG was moved into, furnished and transformed into a loud, honest breeding ground for dirty riffs and thundering grooves.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"701\" class=\"\">After an intensive search, bassist <strong data-start=\"567\" data-end=\"584\">Sascha M\u00fcller<\/strong> joined the band in the summer of 2022. With him, the power trio was complete &#8211; ready to give the scene a breath of fresh air and plenty of oomph. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"1001\" class=\"\">During this time, Pascal T\u00f6ngi wrote the first dozen songs &#8211; raw, driving and straight to the point. Demos were recorded and now they are working flat out on the live version. The official baptism of fire on stage will take place <strong data-start=\"935\" data-end=\"972\">in June 2023 at the Bremgarten town festival<\/strong> &#8211; loud, wild and unadorned.  <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1119\" class=\"\">But the dudes are not resting on their laurels: In <strong data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1060\">December 2023<\/strong>, it&#8217;s off to the studio to hammer out the <strong data-start=\"1090\" data-end=\"1105\">first album<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1328\" class=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1140\">ROYAL UGLY DUDE<\/strong> deliver a fat mixture of old school heavy metal, spiced up with excursions into hard and punk rock. Genre boundaries? Fuck that. Variety, energy and joy of playing are in the foreground.   <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1555\" class=\"\">And the most important thing: the band doesn&#8217;t take itself too seriously &#8211; their lyrics are bursting with humor, self-irony and a wink. Metal doesn&#8217;t always have to be grim &#8211; sometimes it can just be really groovy. <\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, \"Helvetica Neue\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Liberation Sans\", Arial, sans-serif, \"Apple Color Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Emoji\", \"Segoe UI Symbol\", \"Noto Color Emoji\"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><u><span lang=\"DE-CH\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: \"Segoe UI\", sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/u><\/p><p data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1574\" class=\"\"><u><strong data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1574\">Line-up:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1574\" class=\"\"><u><strong data-start=\"1562\" data-end=\"1574\"><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1689\" class=\"\"><strong data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1592\">Pascal T\u00f6ngi<\/strong> &#8211; Guitar \/ Vocals<br data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1614\"> Pascal<strong data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1632\">St\u00f6ssel<\/strong> &#8211; Drums \/ Backing Vocals<br data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1665\"> Sascha<strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1682\">M\u00fcller<\/strong> &#8211; Bass<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/364\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royaluglydude.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}