Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come is a hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf. The group's first album, Kingdom Come was that band's only international hit. It currently consists of an entirely German line-up.

The group was formed in 1987 after the breakup of Wolf's moderately successful rock project Stone Fury. Wolf's A&R man, Derek Shulman and record company, Polygram, allowed him incredible freedom to assemble Kingdom Come's lineup and direct its sound, and he recruited Pittsburgh-based lead guitarist Danny Stag, Louisvillians Rick Steier (guitar) and James Kottak (drums) and Northern Californian Johnny B. Frank (Kenny Brewer) on bass. Stag and Frank had previously been members of the bands WWIII[2] and Population 5. 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.

The musical style on Kingdom Come's debut album was very close to the early blues-rock style of English rock band Led Zeppelin, to the point that some listeners initially thought that Kingdom Come was actually a Led Zeppelin reunion. With a sound that was thought by many to be highly derivative of Led Zeppelin's, there was a backlash from critics, with the band being dubbed "Kingdom Clone" in the press.

Led Zeppelin's guitarist and producer Jimmy Page himself commented in 1988:

Obviously it can get to the point where it gets past being a compliment, and it can be rather annoying, when you've got things like Kingdom Come, actually ripping riffs right off, that's a different thing altogether.

É uma boa banda alemã, não cheguei a ouvir nenhum disco inteiro da banda e sim várias músicas de vários álbuns, é mais conhecida como o lado B do sufoco do Hard, gosto bastante do som das guitarras !!!

Eu só ouvi o primeiro, muito bom, os guitarristas mandam muito bem, ótimo álbum!