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In the Kingdom is the fourth album by the American hard rock/metal band Whitecross, released on StarSong Records in 1991. The album was produced and recorded by Simon Hanhart at Jor-Dan Studios in Wheaton, Illinois. Mixed by Hanhart at 16th Avenue Sound in Nashville, Tennessee.
One to shake the metal purist. The two year wait may have forewarned the hardcore head-bangers that musical changes were afoot but few could have been ready for one of the hardest and heaviest teams in Christendom’s move into AOR territory on some of the tracks here. «Love Is Our Weapon» could have come straight off a Petra album while one or two of the ballads seem positively wimpish to these ears. But on more than half the album White-cross lay in down as of old «Good Enough» and «We Know What’s Right» feature Van Halenish rhythms, funky guitar runs and Rush like sudden rests while the opener «No Second Chances» sounds like the band we know and love, with huge drums, good vocal hooks and guitar runs from old warhouse Rex Carroll that spit fire. The obligator guitar instrumental track «The Eternal Fire» isn’t quite as dazzling as those on the first three albums and the move into Petrafied Elefante territory will worry hardcore moshers. But this is still an exciting rock gospel album. And I loved that metal rap up (with DOC) on «Holy War». [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, October 1991]
[Doug Van Pelt, CCM, August 1991]
CD tracklist:
01. No Second Chances
02. We Know What’s Right
03. In The Kingdom
04. In His Hands
05. Good Enough
06. Love Is Our Weapon
07. The Eternal Fire (Guitar Solo)
08. You Will Find It There
09. If He Goes Before Me
10. Tell Me The Time
11. Holy War (feat. rap by Alton Hood of D.O.C.)
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by StarSong Records.
The August 1991 issue of CCM Magazine featured a cover story on Whitecross.
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