A band project formed in America by German-born vocalist Lenny Wolf following his critically acclaimed but commercially untenable band Stone Fury which released a brace of albums through MCA Records. The initial line-up comprised of Wolf, guitarists Danny Stag and Rick Steier, bassist Johnny B. Frank and drummer James Kottak.
In 1995 Wolf had assembled an all German band comprising of guitarists Markus Dehmel and Oliver Kie?ner, bassist Mirko 'Mike' Schaffer, keyboard player Bernd Fitzen and drummer Kai Fricke and came up with the slightly more experimental but still commercially successful Twilight Cruiser album. The Schaffer / Fricke rhythm section axis would also create a side project with former guitarist Heiko Radke dubbed Different Green. This act, retaining Fricke but losing Radke and Schaffer, evolved into Sub Orange Frequency.
Lenny Wolf marked his return in August 2004 with the new studio album Perpetual, Kingdom Come making it in European festivals upfront of touring in October. All instruments and vocals are done by Lenny Wolf except for the guitar solos which were done by Eric Foerster. I am sorry to say this but it certainly is a disappointment, with a lot of rehashed and recycled riffs from a band that was once so rich in creativity and some of the songs will just make you want to slit your wrists open.
There are a few times where you grate your teeth and think holy fuck this is cheesy, but you keep hanging on, because you hope that if it maintains this constant level of quality, it will stay okay... but unfortunately this is like what happens in cartoons, where Wile E. Coyote gets dropped off a cliff and it takes him two songs to figure out that he's fucked, no matter what, and from that point on it's complete anguish all the way down.
From the start to the end the tracks are very stale and they never kick off. It's like waiting for the delivery guy to show up with your pizza, only to find out after you take a bite, that it's got no flavor! The music itself is phenomenally weak, with a lot of the riffs seeming to be rejects from other bands, tossed together to make a Frankenstein of music (but Frankenstein was cool). The drums are really just thrown in the background, with them occasionally popping up, never really taking charge. One of my favorite characteristics of Metal is the forceful barrage of drums.
This album could probably be an interesting piece of history today (if it had been released in the past), but you would not use it in order to show someone how good Hard Rock was back in the 80s. It is simply too mediocre for something like that. There are some good songs on the album, however, I do think it is a bit over-rated as there's just not enough quality features to keep me coming back. I enjoyed it while I listened to it, but aside from certain songs, the whole CD probably won't get much play in the near future.