Saigon post-metal outfit Bedlam Royals have released their debut album, “The Gap.” Six tracks, around 35 minutes, recorded at KET’s Studio and arriving on Bandcamp and in physical formats. It follows April’s single “Ode To Not a King” and closes a story that predates the band itself.
The Gap runs six tracks: “Sentinels II,” “Asana,” “Butterfly Skull,” “Morphing Time,” “Ode To Not a King,” and “Ta73.” Four are new originals; two, “Asana” and “Ode To Not a King,” are reworks of old LEER songs, rebuilt with fresh arrangements and new English lyrics by Viktor Nagradić. Each song comes with its own dedicated artwork by Imperial Cult, the Hanoi-based visual artist behind much of House of Ygra‘s identity, so the record arrives as six songs and six art pieces, built as a complete body of work rather than a collection of singles.
Recorded at KET’s Studio in Ho Chi Minh City in December 2025, “The Gap” was engineered by Aki and Mike Cohen, produced and mixed by Kiệt Trần with the band, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg at VRTIKL Audio. For anyone out there familiar with the genre, this name might sound familiar. Lindberg is a member of Cult of Luna, one of the most prominent names in post-metal anywhere, which makes his hand on a Saigon debut worth pausing over.
The band put it plainly in their own words: in Bedlam, everyone is their own kind of royalty, and the crown fits whoever has something to believe in. “The Gap” is out now on Bandcamp, local Vietnamese streaming platforms, and in physical formats.
