Kingdom Come (band)
Kingdom Come is a company incorporated in the United States hard rock band that was founded by the German singer Lenny Wolf to life and its driving force and only constant Wolf until today.
History
Kingdom Come went in 1987 out of the band Stone Fury, published the mid-1980s, the two albums Burns Like a Star (1984) and Let Them Talk (1986). Singer Lenny Wolf called for the end of the band Kingdom Come with a new band to life. Besides Wolf were the two guitarists Danny Stag and Rick Steier, bassist Johnny B. Frank and drummer James Kottak became the great line-up.
From the outset, the band was compared with Led Zeppelin, which was due not least to the similarity of the voices of Robert Plant and Lenny Wolf. In the American edition of the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour Kingdom Come opened each evenings for Metallica, the Scorpions and the headliners Van Halen. This was followed by a support tour for Bon Jovi and Ratt by Japan and a UK tour opening for Magnum.
A year later, the band was already waiting with their second album. While In Your Face could not quite match the success of their debut in the U.S., but made it to number 49 on the charts. Another U.S. tour opening for Whitesnake, Cheap Trick and Fleetwood Mac solidified the status of the band, though it was bubbling in the band structure. In August 1989, Kingdom Come finally broke. James Kottak went years later finally to the Scorpions.
For the third album Wolf worked with session musicians. The guitarist Blues Saraceno, Bert Meulendijk and Marco Moir are also on Hands of Time to hear how the drummer Steve Burke and Jimmy Bralower. Lenny Wolf returned in 1993 with the fourth album Bad Image back, his band was now exclusively of German musicians.
In the following years, Kingdom Come released though always new albums, but were always less perceived by the public. The band was more or less only of Lenny plus Mietmusikern. In the album Perpetual ( 2004), Wolf finally made everything alone.
In 2001 Lenny Wolf was part of the German -rock stars project, which published on the occasion of the terrorist attacks of September 11, the single Wings of Freedom.
In February 2005, Kingdom Come were planning for the first time in over 10 years, a return to America, the tour had to be canceled due to visa problems, however. Another album, Is not Crying for the Moon, was published in 2006. In November the same year was Kingdom Come on a tour of Russia with 11 concerts and a television appearance and in each case an appearance in Kiev, Ukraine, and Almaty, Kazakhstan on the go.
The notice published in the spring of 2013 album outlier was produced by Lenny Wolf in the home studio. Lenny Wolf is dedicated to some of issues such as the abuse of religious intentions (God Does Not Sing Our Song ) give critical of political correctness. A video is planned to release, possibly a tour.
Achievements
Your self -titled debut album was them, not least because of the press hype from the state to be a success in the U.S. and reaches number 12 in the charts. That same year, the band got a gold record in America for over half a million records sold. The second album In Your Face was a success for the band. Number 49 on the U.S. charts, as well as several concerts strengthened the status of the band before Kingdom Come lost more and more important over the years.
Criticism
While the press the band at the beginning celebrated as the ultimate Led Zeppelin 's successor, will not last practiced by prominent side massive criticism. Gary Moore for example, published on his album After the War in 1989 a song called Led Clones, which is sung by Ozzy Osbourne and where the group is accused of stealing in the " Houses of the Holy " to have ( line of text: "You've stolen from the houses of the holy ", a reference to the eponymous album by Led Zeppelin). Also, Dee Snider, ex- singer of Twisted Sister took in response to Kingdom Come for his band Desperado Song Uh Huh Huh on which, however, only in 2000 appeared on his solo album Never Let the Bastards Wear You Down.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums and compilations
Singles
Guest Posts and Other
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