"The King and the Jester": discography, unreleased and solo albums

Russian punk rock band "The King and the Jester" knoweven those who do not like heavy music. This team can not be ignored or ignored, despite the specifics of the genre. The group existed for more than 25 years, during this time a huge number of compositions were created, which differed significantly from each other in the musical component and texts. How many albums did the band "King and Fool" record?

The discography of the band is currently 12 studio albums, more about the work of the legendary team in our article.

A Brief History of the Group

The official year of the foundation of the musicalthe collective "The King and the Fool" is considered 1988. However, the leader of the group Mikhail Gorshenev (aka Gorshok) began to conduct creative experiments while studying at school. It was in the general education establishment that he met the musicians Balu and Poruchik, who entered the first stellar squad of the team. Later in the school Pot gets acquainted with Andrey Knyazev (Prince), and the real story of the band "The King and the Jester" begins.

Discography of the team does not include the mostthe first album - "Be at Home, Traveler", recorded back in 1994. But it was thanks to him that the band began to gain popularity, got on TV and began to give concerts. The official first album of "The King and the Fool" is considered to be the "Stone on the head", recorded in 1996 at the studio "Melody".

Creative Experiments

After the incredible success of the disc "A Stone byhead "the group is enthusiastically working on a new album. It gets the name "King and Fool" and represents a qualitative reprint of the first unofficial collection. Interesting fact: in 2000 the second album was re-released in the original design, but with the "correct" title - "Be at Home, Traveler".

In 1999, fans of the band were incrediblyare surprised, as the new album turned out to be quite lyrical and calm, and after all it's "The King and the Fool". The discography of the team was enlarged with the publication with the spoken name - "Acoustic album". In the same year 1999 the first concert collection entitled "Fur the meat of the peasants" was published. In 2000, the sale of the disc "Heroes and Villains" with an abundance of hard tracks and scary texts. In 2001, an album was published which many fans of the group consider to be the best - "As in the old fairy tale." His compositions clearly demonstrate what punk rock is, the album turned out to be even heavier, which led to a general audience rejoicing.

The modern story of "The King and the Fool"

In 2002, the album "Sorry, no gun!" Was released.Most fans liked the lyrics and music. "The King and the Fool" as a group reacting vividly to the reaction of the audience, decides to record the concert disk "Dead Anarchist" and release it for sale immediately in the audio and video version. The album "Riot on the ship" was released in 2004. And this is again a shock for the fans of the band "The King and the Jester", the songs on the new disc were even more severe and heavy. However, fans of the work of the group from this less did not become. The eighth album of the collective was released in 2006 and was named "The Seller of Nightmare".

In 2007, under the brand "The King and the Fool" comes outthe collection "Scary Tales" is a collection of "children's" magical stories, retold by Pot and Prince in a completely childless manner. The ninth disc of the band was released in 2008 - "The Shadow of the Clown", and in 2010 the Demon Theater appeared on sale.

Solo albums Pot, Prince and TODD

During the existence of the group "King and the Fool"the songs were released not only under the main brand, the fans enjoyed the solo works of musicians. By 2004, the Prince and the Pot had accumulated a sufficient amount of copyright material that does not fit into the overall concept of the team. It was decided to release on a separate solo disc. In 2004, the Pot released a solo album, “I Am a Alcoholic Anarchist,” and in 2005, the Prince pleases fans with his original work “Love the Rogue.” After recording the tenth disc “The Theater of the Demon” “The King and the Fool” does not record albums for some time. During the “silence”, the Prince left the band and began his solo career, gathering his own team, and the remaining musicians, led by Gorshk, accepted the invitation to participate in the musical TODD.

Theatrical production took a lot of power, but hadincredible success. Against this background, the band released two albums at once consisting entirely of songs from a musical performance: this is “TODD. Act 1. Feast of the Blood ”and“ TODD. Act 2. On the edge. "

In 2014, in connection with the death of leader MichaelGorshenev group ceases to exist. And despite the end of its history, even today the band remains quite popular, old songs are listened to by mature people and modern teenagers, everyone knows what “King and the Fool” is. The discography of the group includes 12 official albums, two concert and two solo CDs of the Prince and the Pot.