Rendered Waters

It is not the success of the early days which Lenny Wolf associates Kingdom Come with, nor earlier hits from his long-standing career. What he really cares about is the present. Is this a contradiction in view of his new album Rendered Waters (out on 28 March 2011 in Europe, 25 March 2011 in Germany, and on April 5th 2011 in the US), which features eight old and three newly recorded songs? Certainly not. All eleven tracks were cut at Lenny s Two Square Noise Factory studio in Hamburg, Germany. In particular, the new recordings of old material show Kingdom Come s vision of living in the here and now. I purposely chose tracks from the very early days to show how we play, hear and feel the songs nowadays, says Wolf. Listening habits have changed dramatically, especially among the younger audience, which made it exciting for me to breathe new life into numbers which have not been heard for a while. For example Should I , this time played more slowly lending it a heavier appeal. The drums are more open and the guitars, according to Lenny, feature a more tube-oriented sound and warmer, more driving tone: Just to give it an overall 2011 vibe. Of course, you can only change songs to a certain extent if you don t want to lose the character and central theme of the original version. The same goes for I ve Been Trying , Pushing Hard and Living Out Of Touch . None of them has been reinvented, but all three certainly have a noticeably new approach to them. On the other hand, Lenny changed the verse of I ve Been Trying completely, giving it a different arrangement, just like he transported the song Seventeen into the year 2011. Seventeen has always been kind of a key song for Kingdom Come, yet it has never received much attention since it has a very non-commercial approach and is either loved or hated, but with the new version it will hopefully get the recognition it deserves.