- Kingdom Come (band)( Kingdom Come )【 13 albums 133 lyrics 】
- Kingdom Come was a German heavy metal/hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf (born as Frank Wöllschlager). The group's first album, Kingdom Come is to date the band's most internationally popular and biggest selling recording.
History
The group was formed in 1987 after the breakup of Wolf's moderately successful rock project Stone Fury. Wolf recruited Pittsburgh-based lead guitarist Danny Stag, Louisvillians Rick Steier (guitar) and James Kottak (drums) and Ravenna, Italian-born Johnny B. Frank on bass and keyboards. Stag and Frank had previously been members of the bands Industrials (CBS Int'l), produced by Kim Fowley; WWIII; and Population 5, which included bassist Prescott Niles (The Knack) and future Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. Frank was also at one point the keyboard player for Josie Cotton. Kingdom Come marked the first band where Wolf sang without playing guitar. The frontman later admitted that, for a while, it was a very awkward adjustment.
In 1988, the band released its debut LP, Kingdom Come. The band's first single, 'Get It On,' was a big enough hit on AOR stations (most requested song for 6 weeks), that the band's eponymous debut went gold the day it was shipped (610,000 units sold). Their second single/video for the power ballad 'What Love Can Be' received much airplay on US radio and MTV. By the time the single/video 'Loving You' was released, the album had sold to platinum status in the United States, Germany and Canada, among other music markets. The band was chosen to open for the North American Monsters of Rock Tour 1988, supporting Dokken, Scorpions, Metallica and Van Halen. Following that, they were tapped to support Scorpions on their North American 'Savage Amusement' tour. In 1989, Kingdom Come released their next LP, called In Your Face. It had sold a hardly modest 486,000 units, only 14,000 short of achieving their second Gold LP, when the band abruptly broke up for personal reasons in August, 1989.
In 1992, Stag joined forces with onetime Foreigner vocalist Johnny Edwards, former Krokus drummer Jeff Klaven, and bassist David Seaton to form Royal Jelly, which got the attention of legendary A&R man Denny Cordell at Island Records in 1993. Cordell signed Stag and Royal Jelly to a recording contract. The band's first single, 'Ceiling' reached #22 with a bullet on the FM airplay charts before the band was lost in the shuffle of Cordell's death from lymphoma and the purchase and restructuring of Island by PolyGram. In 1995, after the demise of the band, a disillusioned Stag went back to Pittsburgh and immersed himself in the blues, to get back in touch with the source of his inspiration. Steier and Kottak went back to Kentucky and assembled the short-lived Wild Horses, who released an album on Atlantic Records. Both would later resurface in Warrant. James Kottak did not go unnoticed by Scorpions and eventually earned a place as their permanent drummer.
With a new lineup, Kingdom Come managed one more international release on PolyGram, an album entitled Hands of Time in 1991, co-writing with harpist/songwriter Carol Tatum (Angels of Venice), which was recorded with several session guitarists and drummers, including future Poison guitarist Blues Saraceno, and former Dancer drummer Bam Bamm Shibley, with Lenny Wolf himself playing the bass. By 1993, Wolf had returned to Germany to regroup. With a new, mostly German lineup, Kingdom Come remains active with several subsequent releases and tours in Europe under their collective belt.
The band keeps recording albums and touring since then. In early 2013 Kingdom Come released studio album no. 13 'Outlier', which was produced by Lenny Wolf in his home recording studio. He plans to tour again in 2013.
In 2014 the band has reunited once again with guitarist Danny Stag, bassist Johnny 'JB' Frank and drummer Hendrik Thiesbrummel for a series of concerts worldwide.
In August 11, 2016 Lenny Wolf says that Kingdom Come is over.
Band members
Current members
Lenny Wolf — Lead Vocals, Guitar (1987–2016)
Danny Stag — Lead Guitar
Nils Finkeisen — Guitar
Johnny 'JB' Frank — Bass Guitar
Hendrik Thiesbrummel — Drums
Former members
Rick Steier - rhythm guitar, keyboards (1987–1989)
James Kottak - drums, percussion (1987–1989)
Dion Murdock - drums, percussion (1997)
Billy Liesgang - guitar
Arjen Anthony Lucassen - guitar
Heiko Radke-Sieb - guitar
Bam Bam Shiblei - drums, percussion
Mirko Schaffer - bass
Mark Cross - drums
Blues Saraceno - guitar
Discography
Albums
1988 - Kingdom Come
1989 - In Your Face
1991 - Hands of Time
1993 - Bad Image
1995 - Twilight Cruiser
1997 - Master Seven
2000 - Too
2002 - Independent
2004 - Perpetual
2006 - Ain't Crying for the Moon
2009 - Magnified
2011 - Rendered Waters
2013 - Outlier - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Outlier
2013
1.God Does Not Sing Our Song
2.Running High Distortion
3.Let the Silence Talk
4.Rough Ride Ralleye
5.Holy Curtain6.The Trap is Alive
7.Skip the Cover and Feel
8.Don't Want You to Wait
9.Such a Same
10.When Colors Break the Grey -
Rendered Waters
2011
1.The Wind
2.Blue Trees
3.Seventeen4.Is It Fair Enough
5.Don't Remember
6.Break Down The Wall -
Ain't Crying for the Moon
2006
1.Two Legged Sheep
2.Get It On (2006 version)
3.Across the Universe
4.Look at You
5.Darkroom
6.Friends in Spirit
7.Removed the Sting8.Bon Scott
9.This Is My Life
10.Perfect Citizen
11.Ain't Crying for the Moon
12.Same Old Stars
13.Not Here to Be Your Friend -
Independent
2002
1.Darling
2.Forever3.Tears -
Hands of Time
1991
1.Blood On The Land
2.I've Been Trying
3.Should I
4.You'll Never Know
5.Both Of Us
6.Stay7.Shot Down
8.You're Not the Only...I Know
9.Do I Belong
10.Can't Deny
11.Hands Of Time -
Kingdom Come
1988
1.What Love Can Be
2.Pushin Hard
3.Living Out of Touch
4.17
5.Get It On
6.Loving You7.Shout It Out
8.The Shuffle
9.Hideaway
10.Now Forever After
11.Get It On (12' Promo Mix) (Provided) -
Too
1.Tease2.Waiting -
Perpetual
1.Free Bird -
Master Seven
1.Bad I Am2.Roses -
Magnified
1.Living Dynamite
2.24 Hours (feat. Jessica)
3.Feeding the Flame
4.The Machine Inside
5.Hey Mama
6.Unwritten Language
7.Sweet Killing8.Over You
9.When I Was
10.So Unreal
11.24 Hours
12.No Murderer I Kiss
13.Anywhere I Go -
Live & Unplugged
1.Do You Like It
2.Living Out of Touch
3.Blood on the Land
4.I Don't Care
5.What Love Can Be
6.Always on the Run
7.Thank You All
8.Hope Is on Fire
9.Friends
10.You'll Never Know11.Rather Be on My Own
12.Janine (Unplugged)
13.Living Out of Touch (Live)
14.I Don't Care (Live)
15.What Love Can Be (Live)
16.Do You Like It (Live)
17.Thank You All (Live)
18.And I Love Her (Unplugged)
19.Janine -
Balladesque
1.Should Have Known
2.Cold Ground
3.Janine (German Version)4.And I Love Her
5.Can't Let Go
6.Rather Be On My Own -
Miscellaneous
1.Gonna Loose Her
2.Who Do You Love
3.Gotta Go (Can't Wage a War)
4.Highway 6
5.Perfect 'O'
6.Just Like A Wild Rose
7.Overrated
8.Mean Dirty Joe
9.Stargazer
10.Passion Departed
11.You're The One
12.Fake Believer
13.Night of the Pigs
14.Mad Queen
15.Little Wild Thing
16.Can't Resist
17.Talked Too Much
18.Glove of Stone19.Outsider
20.Always On The Run
21.Law Of Emotions
22.Twilight Cruiser
23.Spirit Of Joy
24.Hope Is On Fire
25.Trouble
26.Brains
27.Can't Put Out And Not Take Back
28.Gotta Go
29.Make Light In Your Dark House
30.Gonna Change
31.Macht Licht In Eurem Dunklen Haus
32.And I love
33.Lass Mich Dich Sehn
34.Let Me See You
35.Schnauze Voll
36.Mouth Full
【Correction of errors in the album information】