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Agree! They just have a knack for creating interesting, catchy, hook filled tunes. That last album might possibly be my favorite album of the last 5 years if I were making a list. It's just held up really well for me and I still play it often. Tall order for sure but off to a good start!

https://www.napalmrecordsamerica.com/kissin-dynamite-back-with-a-bang-digipak-cd.html German stadium rockers KISSIN’ DYNAMITE return with their eighth full-length, the aptly entitled Back With A Bang, out July 5, 2024 via Napalm Records! Founded as a teenage school band in 2007 and equipped with an authentic 80s stadium rock attitude, KISSIN’ DYNAMITE have performed at countless major festivals internationally, opened for acts such as L.A. rockstars Mötley Crüe and played massive sold-out headline tours. KISSIN’ DYNAMITE’s booming career has seen several high chart entries, with the latest studio album and Napalm Records debut Not The End Of The Road (2022) impressively climbing to #2 on the Official German Album Charts. Moreover, the rock formation’s catchy hits have made it to #1 on the Rock Radio Airplay Charts several times, and the multi-million-times streamed band has gained over a million views on each of their most popular music videos. Now, KISSIN’ DYNAMITE release their promising new offering Back With A Bang, once again recorded and produced by singer Hannes Braun (Südland Music). The album was mastered by Grammy-nominated mastering engineer Robin Schmidt (24-96 Mastering). Explosive title track “Back With A Bang” kicks the party right off, setting the scene for an album full of stadium rock anthems in true KISSIN’ DYNAMITE manner. Incredibly catchy following track “My Monster” is a guaranteed future radio hit, while uplifting “Raise Your Glass” is filled to the brim with nostalgia. Epic guitar riffs and true rock vocals on the dark rock number “Queen Of The Night” and “The Devil Is A Woman” persuade. To wrap up the album, KISSIN’ DYNAMITE shows their versatility and emotional side one last time by bringing it down for the beautiful closing track “Not A Wise Man”. With their exciting, multifaceted 12-track offering, KISSIN’ DYNAMITE is indeed Back With A Bang, serving the best of modernized stadium rock with their guitar-driven anthems, loaded with hit potential and designed for huge stages. Track Listing: 1. Back With A Bang 2. My Monster 3. Raise Your Glass 4. Queen Of The Night 5. The Devil Is A Woman 6. The Best Is Yet To Come 7. I Do It My Way 8. More Is More 9. Iconic 10. Learn To Fly 11. When The Lights Go Out 12. Not A Wise Man Album off to a good start IMO with Raise Your Glass! Video here:

I've never been an overly huge Judas Priest fan. I did love the Turbo album though and usually seem to find a couple tunes on each album I like. I seem to gravitate toward their more melodic stuff than their burning, power metal screaming stuff. Here, I think Gates of Hell is my favorite tune.....Really digging that one. Crown of Horns and Devil in Disguise are very good too. I wish they'd do a full album of tunes like those....which is kind of what Turbo was lol. Not too much else grabbing at the moment but it does rock pretty good and I'd think many Priest fans that like that heavier metal style would probably dig it.

I saw from Magnus on You Tube in the video premiere that it's just a one off single that is being released on Vinyl. There is no album coming in near future. Although, I still wouldn't be surprised to see a deluxe edition of Megalomanium at some point with this song on it.

New song is basically more of what you'd expect in terms of sticking to their formula. That said, I like this song a bit more than most on the last album. This one kind of reminds me of Saturday Night from Wired and feels like a song that could've fit on that album. I know their songs don't really stray too far from each other but I felt like Wired had more "catchy" tunes than the last album and this song to me has some catchiness to it. Still not breaking any new ground though.

Agree on the production....Thought the same myself. Like you say, hard to explain. Just a little thin or something in spots. I do like the 2 new tunes though. And Fire It Up seems to have quite a bit more life to it to my ears. The 2nd half of the album isn't doing much for me with some of the song choices there but decent filler album nonetheless I guess.

Teaser sounds pretty good. Seems way too early for a new album though. I suppose my guess would be it's a leftover from the last album recording sessions but maybe some kind of compilation or something is coming. I wouldn't put it past them to maybe have a Megalomanium Deluxe Edition coming either...They did something like that with Armageddonize. Hoping for something that stands out a little more than most of the stuff on Megalomanium did for me. That last album just didn't grab me much. I think I have 2 songs from it in my main playlist (Hardest Part is Losing You and Children of the Night) and the rest just kind of bounced off me. It was a little weird though...Didn't dislike anything on it and sounded fine. Just not very memorable or something.

I dig the new tune! Honestly, might be my favorite yet from these guys. I like that this kind of gets away from the Bon Jovi Country vibe they sometimes had on the debut. For me, this has a fresh, big sound to it. Will have the new one on my radar.

Bummer. I know I'm likely in the minority, but I was never into this band until Gabriel came on board. I just dug his vocals and thought Automaton and Rust were both excellent albums. Hopefully they can do some good things with their new lineup.

That's quite a video. Amazing and scary is probably the best wat to describe it. I was never into Billy Joel outside of casually liking some of his songs here and there. But that's a nice song and a well put together video.

Gave this a listen and sounds pretty good. While I haven't been all that interested in this being a compilation album, this has a couple new songs and many of the other ones here are kind of lesser known songs in that they were bonus tracks, one off singles or whatever. And some are from Riot Avenue which I never paid much attention to anyhow. Either way, I guess this comes at a nice time being there's been very little of interest to me so far this year so I'll probably listen to this more than I might've otherwise. The new songs sound pretty decent and some of the older songs sounded a bit freshened up to me on first listen and almost feel new since I never listened to most of those older songs much to begin with. Wish it were a full, new album though. They could've ran with the whole Young Guns/Western theme thing.

I'll 3rd this lol... This sounds really good. What I like is Girish is doing more signing and not screaming like he often tends to do in his main band....This is basically what I'd want to hear more of from him. I thought the first song was decent but really digging the 2nd one.

I could be wrong, but I thought I remember the girl he was with was the girlfriend of one of the other guys in the band or something so I doubt there's ever a Bad City reunion lol. Nice to see him back in music in some fashion but this certainly doesn't interest me much. I do hear some Bad City in these though...I think mostly in that 2nd tune which is probably the best of the bunch here for me. The dude has a good voice for rock music and I still listen to that Bad City album from time to time but the whole gospel rock thing isn't for me.

Been a very slow start for me also. I always have a current year playlist with that's years releases I dig....And so far, I haven't even started that playlist for 2024. There's just been nothing of interest to me so far. All my listening has just been diving into older releases. I think it's going to be a very slow year for my tastes. I'm looking forward to new Kissin' Dynamite but being they haven't even released a single yet, I'm sure that's at least a good 4-5 months away from release. Maverick is another on my list but last I knew they were still recording so that will probably be toward the end of the year also. I think just about every band I follow has come out with a new album in the past 2-3 years which was mostly all the result of them working on stuff during covid to varying degrees. I feel like all that stuff is through the pipe now and this is shaping up to be a very slow year. Hopefully some stuff comes along that surprises me.

Agree. Don't hate that. Don't overly like it either though lol. Frankly, probably about as good as it's going to get from these guys at this point.

I was the same....Or used to be until the past couple albums. I always kept holding out hope they'd get back to doing stuff closer to their earlier stuff but they just keep moving farther and farther away with every release. I'm willing to at least give the opening single a listen though out of respect for what they once were but my expectations are basically non-existent. It's just such a shame....These guys used to be right there with my favorite bands back in the day and I even found some songs on HAND, Crush and Bounce I remember liking well enough. But there's been nothing at all on the last few albums for me.

Agree 100%. I was as hyped for Forgotten Shades of Life as much as any album in the past 10 years or so. And it turned out to probably be one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had with an album. I absolutely loved Carnival Days and the Vibration EP....both darn near perfect and exactly what I'd want from these guys. But for me they did a complete 180 with that last album. The songs just weren't very catchy or interesting IMO. I think Scream is the only song that has stayed in any of my playlists. It boggles my mind why they didn't put Fake Perfection and Broken Into Pieces on that last album....I think both songs would've elevated the album and are better than most of the songs that made the album. In hindsight, it appears these guys made a bad move leaving Frontiers. I mean, they had built some decent momentum. with that Carnival Days album but they seem to have fallen off the radar a bit now. I believe I saw an interview with Hannes done last summer that said they were working on new material and shopping it around to new labels as they weren't happy with the label they had moved to after Frontiers. I think their next release is probably a fairly important one to get them back on track and it seems like they're probably aware of that with the slow pace they seem to be moving at. Fingers crossed they can get back closer to the style of Carnival Days & Vibration with their next release.

Horrible. I'm not sure how I look at it....These guys are either one of the biggest over-achieving bands in history....or one of the biggest underachieving bands. I mean, on one hand they overachieved being that they made a huge career out of basically 2 albums (AFD, Illusion albums) but on the other hand they underachieved by only managing to do 2 decent albums. I guess at the end of the day, they became huge and made their money so guess they got what they were after. But they surely left a lot of meat on the bone and should've accomplished much more.

Not a bad song musically but struggling with the vocals and accent in spots.

Same here. I liked the first album, but the 2nd album lost me because of the singer. I remember not minding the opening single but then it sort of lost me the more I heard. I dig the vibe and overall sound but when that stuff doesn't matter if vocals hold you up for whatever reason.

Don't think I've ever heard of these guys as far as I can remember. Song is okay but not really grabbing me all that much. I think I'm a little iffy on the singer. I'll probably give the next couple singles a listen to see if they stick a little more or not.

Been checking that one out too.....it is pretty good. Not quite as edgy as the new one though. Been sampling their other albums too but so far the newest one is grabbing me most.

I have to make an edit to my year end list. After seeing some other year end lists, I happened upon giving the new album from Black Stone Cherry a listen after seeing a couple people with some similar tastes post about it. I've never once listened to these guys before but really digging this new album and have basically had it on repeat the past week....just some solid modern melodic rock with some edge to it. It kind of reminds me of the When Legends Rise album from Godsmack that I got into quite a bit after listening to it this year. Maybe I'm just in the mood to hear something a little different lately, IDK. Anyways, my "final" list now: 1. Temple Balls - Avalanche 2. Midnite City - In At The Deep End 3. Black Stone Cherry - Screamin' At The Sky 4. Station - And Time Goes By 5. Tempt - S/T 6. Defiants - Drive 7. Eclipse - Megalomanium

Never really listened to these guys but with new music hitting slow to start in 2024 I've been noting some stuff I've seen on year end lists to check out and this was one I checked out. Really good album and some solid modern melodic rock. Kind of reminds me in sound to Lansdowne....Frankly, sounds very similar IMO, especially to Lansdowne's more recent material which has more of a modern sound compared to their Blue Collar Revolver days. Think my favorites so far are Nervous, When The Pain Comes, Smile, World and R.O.A.R. But there's nothing here I'm getting the urge to skip. Good stuff for a little change of pace.

Really no resolution other than to be very frugal with what I buy. I just don't listen to CD's much at all anymore but it's still a struggle to not buy them for some reason lol. I have cut it down considerably though as I only bought 3 last year. I have to keep reminding myself though to only buy albums I absolutely love or bands that I just want to collect. It's still hard though as I still have those memories of buying basically every album that came out even if I only liked one song off it lol.