Killing Ground

The fifteenth album was released by SPV/Steamhammer in 2001. It was recorded at Karo Studios in Brackel, Germany, and produced by Biff Byford with the band. It reached twenty-six in Germany and 141 in France. The third track, "Court of the Crimson King", is a King Crimson song written by Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield. It is also the last album with Fritz Randow on drums; he left the band in 2004. A digipak edition carried a second disc of eight re-recorded older songs. Those recordings became an album in their own right the following year, Heavy Metal Thunder (2002). The running order given here is the original pressing's.