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

Russian punk rock band "The King and the Jester" is known even by those who do not like heavy music. This team can not be ignored or ignored, despite the specific nature 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 founding of the musical collective "The King and the Jester" is 1988. However, the group's leader Mikhail Gorshenev (aka Potter) 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 college, Pot is getting acquainted with Andrei Knyazev (Prince), and the real story of the band "The King and the Fool" begins.

The discography of the band does not include the very 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 Melody Studio.

Creative Experiments

After the incredible success of the disc "The Rock on the head", the group is enthusiastically working on a new album. He 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 incredibly 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 disk "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 a 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 Fool", 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 Nightmares".

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

Solo albums of Pot, Prince and TODD

During the existence of the group "The King and the Fool" songs were released not only under the main brand, fans enjoyed and solo works of musicians. By 2004, the Prince and the Pots had accumulated a sufficient amount of copyright material that did not fit into the general concept of the team. It was decided to release on a separate solo disc. In 2004, Gorshok releases a solo album "I'm An Alcoholic Anarchist", and in 2005 the Prince makes fans happy with his author's work "Love of the Scoundrel". After recording the tenth disc "Demon Theater", "The King and the Jester" albums do not record for a while. During the "silence", the Prince left the band and began a solo career, having collected his own collective, and the remaining musicians, led by the Pot, accepted the invitation to participate in the musical TODD.

The theatrical performance took a lot of energy, but it was an incredible success. Against this background, the team released two albums at once, consisting entirely of songs of a musical performance: it's "TODD. Act 1. Blood Festival "and" TODD. Act 2. At the edge. "

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