Apparently zatme.com is no longer.
Which is a tremendous shame, since that’s where the ultra rare 2nd King Of Kings album was available for purchase & download.
King Of Kings fans know the mystifying talents frontman/vocalist/bassist Desmond Horn revealed on the band’s sole “big time” DGC effort, the eponymous ‘Kings Of Kings‘. In the pre-internet days, there were similarly mystifying word-of-mouth rumors that the band released a followup to that enigmatic debut…and it brings me great joy to be able to share that sophomore disc with you now.
The actual sequence of the album is not certain, I believe I once had a hand-scrawled list that made some sense of my original zatme.com purchase. As it were, here’s a run down of the song titles in no particular order:
Bad Plantation
Sleepless
Open Your Arms
Young and Beautiful You
Psychoid
Easy
Who’s Your Guru
Bring Me The Head
Way Gone
Joyride
Fotis The Tailor
Opus Discordia
…we are so pleased at Culture Of None to see this essential (and intensely sought after) audio treasure made available to hear and enjoy. You know that you want it: The 2nd King Of Kings Album.
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THANK YOU for providing this great service to the auditorily capable masses on the Inter-nets. You may have single-handedly saved the sophomore outing of one of our era’s finest debuts–yea, even better than Boston and Hootie & the Blowfish.
I also have the entire Tribe After Tribe discography, but I don’t believe those are all completely impossible to find online right now…
How did you get this? The title of the album is Who’s Your Guru? by the way. Glad its up
Someone should post the first album on YouTube so people can rediscover this gem. What became of the other musicians from this band? On a similar note, a band called Loudhouse released a very unusual album – For Crying Out Loud – in 1991. Very similar idea to King of Kings but a bit more industrial-funky. Many of the band members formed Sponge a few years later. Also, the album Formula from OLD (released in 1995) – very underrated masterpiece…
Dear Mr. Horn: It’s a damn shame King of Kings “went away.” The style and sound were not quite metal, not quite alternative – but both at the same time. Your vocal talents are sorely missed in this genre. You should contact James Plotkin or Robert Roth (of Truly) to collaborate on something out of this world. Listen to Herbie Hancock’s track Hidden Shadows (1973) and put yourself in that sound.
“Truly” you say? I should look into it. Its a good lidea to put up the King of Kings stuff on youtube. I guess I could just set the music to a still shot of the album cover. The first and the second album. I have one song up, the opening piece to the “Whos Your Guru?” album. Contact me on facebook..there is a Desmond Horn page..connected to my personal page, Kenneth Young. You have interesting ideas…..DH
Just letting you guys know, Im currently recording an album now. Ive got some great people involved. Viktor from Coffin Daggers, Nausea, and Chaos UK, not to mention Reagan Youth who I was singing for (God knows why, what a mess), is playing lead guitar on some material and its his studio were recording at. All analog, no digital. Every piece of equiptment is no younger than 1976. Vintage all the way. Im working hard on this and hope to please you all.
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