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Originally formed in the college town of Springfield, Missouri USA, this
Hard-Rock trio comprised of Chicago born bassist+vocalist Doug Pinnick,
he was already in his thirties when he met Mississippi native guitarist+vocalist
Ty Tabor, then just 18 and Jerry Gaskill a 22 years old drummer+vocalist
from New Jersey. In the early '80s, the threesome began playing cover
tunes as The Edge, becoming Sneak Preview in 1983. Two years later the
group were lured from Springfield to Houston by the false hope of a management
and recording contract; they also changed their name to King's X and after
several attempts, the band finally scored a deal with the independent
Megaforce label.
After eight years struggling for recognition in March 1988 Pinnick,Tabor
and Gaskill released their long-awaited debut album, "Out Of The
Silent Planet"; critics and musicians took immediate notice of the
band's unique blend of vocal harmonies with muscular riffs mixed with
a positive sometimes spiritual theme and the record deservedly cracked
The Billboard Top 200 chart, peaking at #144.
In the summer of 1989, the track "Over My Head" from "Gretchen
Goes To Nebraska", received a moderate amount of airplay on active-Rock
stations; the band found even more widespread favor with critics and fans
alike and their sophomore album entered the U.S. Top 200 chart at #123.
King's X's third album, "Faith Hope Love", was the first LP
to break the top 100 of The Billboard 200 list, due to the success of
the single "It's Love", it crested at #6 on The Mainstream Rock
Tracks giving the band a career-best chart placing in the process; the
trio toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe in support of the album
opening up for notable acts such as AC/DC
and Living Colour.
Their eponymous fourth release and the first issued by Atlantic Records
in March 1992, wasn't as successful as its predecessor failing to break
the top 100 of the Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart; however, the lead
single, "Black Flag" peaked at #17 on The Mainstream Rock chart.
Two years later the trio resurfaced with "Dogman", the album
was considered a break from the norm of King's X, where vocal harmonies
and musicianship still were the key, Pinnick handled the lead vocals for
the entire album which hit #88 on The Billboard 200 thanks to a line-up
of sold out shows including an appeareance at the Woodstock 1994 festival
and a brief tour opening for Pearl Jam;
the album's title cut eventually managed to crack the top 20 of The Mainstream
Rock list.
The next release, 1996's "Ear Candy", didn't rise higher than
#105 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and failed to produce a hit
single; not long after the group parted ways with Atlantic who would issue
one more release from the band a year later, "Best Of King's X",
which featured reamastered tracks, three unreleased compositions and a
10-minute live version of "Over My Head", recorded at Woodstock
II.
Ty Tabor released a solo album at the start of 1998 and a few months later
Doug Pinnick launched his solo project, under the alias Poundhound; however
King's X put out their seventh studio album and first for the Metal Blade
label, "Tape Head", in October 1998.
A year later Tabor was involved in the ambitious recording project Platypus,
with John Myung former bassist for Dream
Theater.
King's X's second release for their new label, "Please Come Home...Mr.
Bulbous", arrived May 2000.
"Manic Moonlight" followed one and a half year later cracking
the top 20 of the Billboard Independent Albums chart; to support the release,
the trio decided to embark on a fall 2002 arena tour opening for Dream
Theater and Joe Satriani.
May 2003 saw the release of "Black Like Sunday", the set was
a retrospective back into the days when the trio was in their infancy
and it was the first album which the band issued on its own Brop! label.
Two years later the innovative heavy-Rock trio returned with its eleventh
studio record, "Ogre Tones", it inched into the top 30 of the
American Independent Albums list; "Alone" was the single released
off the CD, but tanked.
King's X releases a new studio album, entitled "XV", in May
2008 through InsideOut.
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