Kissin' Dynamite

The ninth album, the first release on Kissin' Dynamite Records — a label the band founded themselves — and the last with Hannes Braun singing. In August 2025 he wrote on social media that he would step away from the rock and roll stage and would no longer be the voice at KD's microphone, giving the toll that years of touring had taken on his health as the reason. He stays on as songwriter and producer, so in the band's own framing the record marks an ending and a new beginning at once. Six of the thirteen songs are new; the other seven are re-recordings from Steel of Swabia (2008) and Addicted to Metal (2010). The band brought in people it has worked with across twenty years: Saltatio Mortis on "I Salute You", Amaranthe on "Out in the Rain", Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear and Sam Totman of DragonForce on "Steel of Swabia", and Anna Brunner of League of Distortion on "Lie for Me". The singles were "Glory Days" on 1 July 2026, "I'll Be" in August and "Good in Goodbye" on 2 September. The sleeve shows a bright red mouth kissing a stick of dynamite — the band's name drawn rather than written. Out on 18 September 2026; until then this page leads with the sleeve rather than a player.