"Kingmaker" is Pretty Maids' highly anticipated follow up to 2013's critically and commercially successful release "Motherland", a record that continued the "revitalized" path that the band set out upon with the now classic album "Pandemonium".
It's always difficult to follow a successful and inspired record, but "Kingmaker" shows Pretty Maids are still in the freshest and most vital phase of their career since the early 90's. The production is absolutely stellar thanks to Jacob Hansen (Volbeat), who has given the band a sound that not only reinvigorates them, but also incorporates the soundscapes of the past.
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