KINGDOM COME
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Steamhammer / SPV
It’s been a long, long time since Kingdom Come were all over MTV, whilst at the same time being ridiculed as Led Zeppelin copyists. Me? I’m more likely to bung on a copy of “Kingdom Come” or “In Your Face” than I am anything by the lumpen Zep. Of course, they ceased to be a band after that, with singer and songwriter Lenny Wolf using the band name, despite doing almost everything himself.
And fair play, for never giving up, as this is about the 14th Kingdom Come album he’s put out over the last 25 years. With the exception of the solo guitar parts contributed by Eric Förster, all instruments were recorded by the Kingdom Come boss himself. In addition, Wolf produced, engineered, mixed and mastered his new album. So he’s got no-one to blame but himself. But he won’t have to, because by and large, this is a cracking album.
It’s not a million miles away from what he was doing during the platinum selling days, and for an old rocker like me, that’s quite literally music to my ears. However, there are some jarring, electronic sounds popping up hither and thither, whether keyboards and samples, which don’t quite ring true to me. And it’s a sound that is dated, and not in a good way. Luckily, they’re not to intrusive, and the classic rock still shines through.
He’s still in good voice, and even though there seems to be a strain of melancholia, fans of yore will find comfort in songs like ‘Let The Silence Talk’ and ‘Don`t Want You To Wait ‘. It’s his first studio album featuring completely new material since the 2009 release, “Magnified”, and people who have been waiting for this won’t be disappointed.
The Rocker - The Artist Formerly Known As Zeitgeist. TAFKAZ 
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