TIMELESS RAGE – My Kingdom Come
Symphonic Power Metal · Metalapolis Records · March 27, 2026
There are bands that make records, and bands that build worlds. With My Kingdom Come, Timeless Rage firmly plant themselves in the second category. Founded in 2012 in the Black Forest city of Villingen-Schwenningen, the four-piece have spent over a decade refining a sound that sits at the crossroads of melodic power metal and orchestral grandeur. Their second studio album — released today via Metalapolis Records — arrives as both a musical statement and a philosophical document.
The record covers ten tracks and nearly an hour of runtime, weaving between orchestral passages and full-throttle metal power without losing the thread. Early press reviews have landed around 85 out of 100 — numbers that reflect the album’s consistent quality rather than any single moment of brilliance.
New Blood, Familiar Ambition
Two lineup changes define this chapter of the band’s story. Vocalist Nicolaj Ruhnow, who joined in 2023 following the previous album Untold, brings a voice with serious credentials behind it — including work with Domain and a prominent role on Tokyo Blade’s acclaimed 2011 record Thousand Man Strong. His delivery gives the album a theatrical weight that holds the concept together across its runtime.
Bassist Daniel Wengle completes the refreshed lineup, adding a low-end presence that grounds the album’s more expansive moments. Together, the reformed band sounds like a unit with something to prove — and they make that case convincingly across ten tracks.
Themes and Concept
My Kingdom Come is a concept album in the truest sense — not just a collection of thematically related songs, but a structured narrative that unfolds across its tracklist. The subject matter is broad and deliberately challenging: power, freedom, rebellion, guilt, war, love, and the cycle of life and death. Theological and mythological frameworks are layered alongside more human, personal perspectives.
The album questions moral certainties, religious structures, and social hierarchies — not through polemic, but through atmosphere and narrative. It’s dense material, and the band commits to it fully.
The Sound in Detail
Timeless Rage have always mixed the melodic accessibility of classic power metal with darker, more textured symphonic elements. My Kingdom Come pushes that synthesis further than before:
- We All Shall Fall — Symphonic power meets thrash aggression. (Powerwolf meets Testament)
- The Seed of Fear — Slow-building tension with oriental textures and thundering percussion. (Epica meets Myrath)
- A Vampire’s Legacy — Gothic atmosphere and a ballad-like structure — the emotional centrepiece. (Stratovarius meets Paradise Lost)
- Moonbite Serenade — Pure symphonic power metal with melodic clarity and sweep. (Helloween meets Dimmu Borgir)
- The Devil’s Masquerade — Neoclassical precision and compositional elegance — the lead single. (Stratovarius meets Kamelot)
Tracklist
- My Kingdom Come
- The Seed of Fear
- The Devil’s Masquerade
- Conquistadores
- Moonbite Serenade
- A Vampire’s Legacy
- Regrets
- The Enemy Is You
- We All Shall Fall
- The Pale Death
Verdict
My Kingdom Come is the record of a band operating at full capacity. It’s not without its demanding moments — the concept is dense and the album rewards close listening more than casual play. But for anyone who values metal that reaches for something beyond the riff, Timeless Rage deliver exactly that. A serious, well-constructed work that earns its place among the most ambitious German metal releases of 2026.
Genre: Symphonic Power Metal · Label: Metalapolis Records · Release: March 27, 2026 · Origin: Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany