THE FLOWER KINGS

Symphonic Prog • Sweden


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It's hard to make a biography about THE FLOWER KINGS, being that there's so much to say about them, so any attempt of telling their history may seem insufficient.

This esential Swedish group was born around 1993 as a power trio formed by Roine Stolt (Ex-KAIPA) in guitar and vocals, Jaime Salazar (Drums) and Hasse Bruniusson (percussion), and ex-SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA, this lineup worked with Stolt in his solo album "The Flower King" with the participation of Hans Fröberg (Lead and Backing vocals) who would stay with them.

Soon they decided to form a band using the name of the solo album so THE FLOWER KINGS was born, the keyboardist Tomas Bodin and Roine's brother Michael in the bass joined and the band was officially born.

For 1995 they have their first release ready "Back in the World of Adventures" which impressed the critics very much for their closeness to the style of early bands such as Moody Blues, genesis, Jethro Tull etc, borrowing ideas but not music, so you can easily find their inspiration but a single chord copied, I personally liked the album but found it closer to Neo Prog than to Symphonic but this is only a stylistic precision that has no relation with the quality of the album.

The next few years are prolific with few changes and they release "Retropolis" in 1996. Stardust we Are" in 1997 and "Flower Power" in 1998 with no great changes.

In 1999 Michael Stolt leaves the band and is replaced by Jonas Reingold so the new formation for "Space Revolver" in the year 2000 also includes Ulf Wallander playing the Sax as a guest that remains for a long period with them.

After "The Rainmaker" in 2001 Jaime Salazar leaves the band and the drums are taken by Zoltan Csörsz who stays in the band until the release of "Paradox Hotel" (2005) when is replaced by Marcus Liliequist.

As most Swedish bands the quality of their music and the musicianship of their members is
impeccable but don't expect the complexity of their most illustrious compatriots like Anglagard or the dark and almost religious atmosphere of Par Lindh Project (With whom Roine worked in Gothic Impressions), being that the music of THE FLOWER KINGS is a bit lighter but not inferior by any means.

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3.98 | 85 ratings
Back In The World Of Adventures
1995

3.71 | 85 ratings
Retropolis
1996

3.92 | 87 ratings
Stardust We Are
1997

3.78 | 78 ratings
Flower Power
1998

3.88 | 100 ratings
Space Revolver
2000

3.45 | 71 ratings
The Rainmaker
2001

2.76 | 7 ratings
The Rainmaker (Limited Edition)
2001

3.93 | 105 ratings
Unfold The Future
2002

3.46 | 107 ratings
Adam & Eve
2004

3.69 | 116 ratings
Paradox Hotel
2006

3.87 | 102 ratings
The Sum Of No Evil
2007

THE FLOWER KINGS Live Albums (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette)


3.71 | 19 ratings
Alive On Planet Earth
2000

3.82 | 7 ratings
Live In New York - Official Bootleg
2003

3.95 | 15 ratings
Meet The Flower Kings @ Live Recording 2003
2003

2.02 | 9 ratings
BetchaWannaDanceStoopid!!!
2004

3.76 | 6 ratings
BrimStoned In Europe
2005

3.00 | 1 ratings
Carpe Diem
2008

THE FLOWER KINGS Videos (DVD, Blu-ray and VHS)


4.06 | 26 ratings
Meet The Flower Kings @ Live Recording 2003
2003

3.60 | 17 ratings
Instant Delivery
2006

THE FLOWER KINGS Boxset & Compilations (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette)


3.69 | 8 ratings
Scanning The Greenhouse
1998

2.51 | 11 ratings
Edition Limitée Québec 1998
1998

3.07 | 12 ratings
The Road Back Home
2007

THE FLOWER KINGS Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, Vinyl/LP, Cassette, MP3, Digital Media Download)


2.29 | 3 ratings
Fanclub CD 2000
2000

4.21 | 7 ratings
The Fanclub CD 2002 - A Collection Of Flower Kings Related Music
2002

2.50 | 5 ratings
Harvest Fanclub CD 2005
2005

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 Adam & Eve by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2004
3.46 | 107 ratings

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Adam & Eve
The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Rune2000

3 stars I remember borrowing this album from a friend just a month after its release for no other reason than to see if the band have progressed from what I've heard on Space Revolver.

Unfortunately (for me) this album is being true to The Flower Kings tradition and therefore features a rehash of an uneven set of tracks were some are good while others are forgettable but non is really that progressive. I think that recruiting Daniel Gildenlöw was a failed idea since his vocals don't fit the bands overall sound and makes Adam & Eve more dark and pretentious, that is if the title isn't pretentious enough.

I'm definitely a much bigger fan of Pain Of Salvation's music and in a way this album can be considered a lite version of a Pain Of Salvation-album which lacks both instrumentally and composition-wise in comparison to their regular output.

This is once again an album that I can't really hate and although I totally agree with Sean Trane and his reviews of The Flower Kings catalog I'll still give it a good but non-essential rating. Having said that I doubt that there is any reason for me to hear any other titles from this bands rapidly expanding discography.

**** star songs: Love Supreme (19:50) Cosmic Circus (3:00) Babylon (2:41) Days Gone By (1:10) Adam & Eve (7:50) Drivers Seat (18:22) The Blade Of Cain (5:00)

*** star songs: A Vampires View (8:50) Starlight Man (3:30) Timelines (7:40)

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 Space Revolver by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2000
3.88 | 100 ratings

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The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Rune2000

3 stars After listening to Retropolis I felt a little bit underwhelmed by what I've heard but since The Flower Kings have had such a tremendous success I thought that maybe I've started on the wrong foot with this band so I gave them another go.

My choice fell between Unfold The Future and Space Revolver and I went for the latter due to a recommendation from a friend who shares many of my musical tastes. But once again I felt underwhelmed by what I've heard.

I remember that during that same period of me trying to get into this album I also heard the second Transatlantic album which I really enjoyed so this made my Space Revolver-experience even more frustrating since I just couldn't make the connection between those two Roine Stolt albums.

Space Revolver follows the same pattern as Retropolis although this one has the I Am The Sun-suite that kicks off and eventually ends the album which is a definite nod at Pink Floyd's Shine On You Crazy Diamond. I think that most Flower Kings-fans are pleased with this release because it isn't really pushing any new boundaries and is a safe bet which can be considered to be a good thing. Personally I get frustrated when I listen to a progressive band that has no intention of being progressive in the songwriting department. Yes, I agree that the early symphonic prog bands had it much easier doing something new with every new release but I really get the feeling that The Flower Kings enjoys the place they occupy in the progressive rock community and have no intention of going anywhere else.

Musically this album works but due to the issues that I've mentioned I just can't see how it can be considered an excellent addition to a progressive rock music collection.

**** star songs: I Am The Sun - Part One (15:03) Dream On Dreamer (2:43) Rumble Fish Twist (8:06) Monster Within (12:55) You Don't Know What You've Got (2:39) A Kings Prayer (6:02) I Am The Sun - Part Two (10:48)

*** star songs: Chicken Farmer Song (5:09) Underdog (5:29) Slave To Money (7:30)

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 Retropolis by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 1996
3.71 | 85 ratings

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The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Rune2000

3 stars After hearing about The Flower Kings and reading quite a few positive reviews I was interested to know what the fuss was all about. My first introduction to the band was actually while listening to a rock show on the local radio here in Stockholm, Sweden. The radio-DJ liked to challenge his audience by playing long progressive material on his show. On one such occasion, back in 2002, the DJ played the whole Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence-suite without interruption on commercial radio! On that same show he took an even more daring step by following it up with the 60-minute long The Garden Of Dreams, which incidentally was my introduction to The Flower Kings.

At the time I still haven't heard of Mike Oldfield's Amarok so a 60-minute composition seemed like a very ambitious idea. Although I didn't really like The Garden Of Dreams as much as I wanted to it gave me a taste for the band that I just had to follow up. Retropolis was the first album I managed to pick up at one of the bigger music stores in central Stockholm and it became my album introduction to The Flower Kings!

What I like the most about Retropolis is its consistency and that there aren't any very long tracks that overshadow the rest of the album which becomes somewhat of a problem for me on some of their other releases. I've never been too enthusiastic about Roine Stolt's vocal style which makes me think more about blues than progressive rock but it doesn't ruin the music for me. What does on the other hand get tiring and becomes even more apparent on the band's other releases is the lack of creativity. It's almost as if Roine Stolt decided to write the same kind of tunes for the rest of his life and although it does work here the album can hardly be called ambitions in its songwriting.

After listening to two more releases I guess it's safe to say that Retropolis is my personal favorite but they aren't that far apart. Still I consider this band somewhat overrated in comparison to many other fine acts so this particular album is good, but non-essential.

**** star songs: Rhythm Of Life (0:32) Retropolis (11:10) There Is More To This World (10:15) Romancing The City (0:57) The Melting Pot (5:45) The Judas Kiss (7:43) Retropolis By Night (3:18) Flora Majora (6:50) The Road Back Home (8:55)

*** star songs: Rhythm Of The Sea (6:12) Silent Sorrow (7:42)

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 Stardust We Are by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 1997
3.92 | 87 ratings

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The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by dmwilkie

4 stars I would say that this is the album where the Flower Kings came of age. It is a superb burst of creative energy. CD1 is consistently superb, and while momentum is slightly lost at times in CD2, it ends with the magnificent epic 'Stardust We Are', which must be one of their greatest works. I am reluctant to give it five stars, but I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is the sprawling nature of the double CD, and a lack of tight structure to some of the pieces, even though it contains some wonderful sounds, sometimes exhilirating, sometimes soothing. It is not itself a masterpiece, but contains several five star pieces.

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 Back In The World Of Adventures by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 1995
3.98 | 85 ratings

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Back In The World Of Adventures
The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by dmwilkie

4 stars I didn't come to this album until after I had absorbed several other Flower kings albums. Listening to it again, it sounds fresh and exciting, with a real progression from Roine Stolt's solo album, 'The Flower King', and a smoother, more polished performance. It is a great tatster for what is to come in later albums, and starts off with the superb 'World of Adventure' which is a typical TFK epic, and is up there with their best efforts. Indeed the whole album is one of their very best, having a consistency of quality which is missing occasionally in the later albums. It's a great place to start listening to TFK, but don't stop there!

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 Back In The World Of Adventures by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 1995
3.98 | 85 ratings

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The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by EVE123

5 stars i fell in love with this record almost instantly....this is the album i was introduced to the flower kings by....and is probably the best place to start....im stunned that as im reviewing this that it has an overallreating of only 3.96...this album is so great!!!....the first track is a perfect blend of memorable guitar work and memorable vocals...songs like go west judas are tight and technical and quite heavy indeed....it has a draker tone to it, while the introductory track was more happy and vibrant, provides a nice contrast...another highlight is theme for a hero.....what a piece we have here!!!!..its so uplifting and heartfelt it could almost bring one to tears.....so touching and some parts are more technical and upbeat stuff as well.....this album is great cuz it really shows what the kings can do instrumentally...cuz every other song here is an instrumental!!!!......and not one of them are purposeless....exceptmaybe wonder wheel, but that serves a purpose for drama and emotion really...anyways i would go deeper into the track stuff but i would just ramble on forever :p

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 Adam & Eve by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2004
3.46 | 107 ratings

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Adam & Eve
The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Marty McFly
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4 stars I've just lost lenghty review here due to log problems I've surprisingly had these minutes. So shortly: This is typical TFK album, so it means that they're maintaining their quality which means that they will be for most of people right under 4 stars (as most of their albums). Long album that fits right into

4(-) category, as good one, but not full of exceptional pieces (most of their albums aren't that way), but offers good deal of interesting songs, two of epic proportions, jazz fillings into empty spaces and overall quite good mood that shines from this album. Nice cover art and I was fortunate enough to get bonus disc that offers another experience in similar tone/ style, again, nothing that steps out of row. However, TFK are able to do this on every album they release, so it's more like surprise that they're so good-above god for so long.

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 Adam & Eve by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2004
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The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Drew

5 stars 4.7/5

When I review albums, I usually compare a band's work with their other stuff, as I'm sure others do. I don't quite understand how this album is rated as one of their lowest. I see this album as their last excellent piece of work. (Superior to Paradox Hotel and The Sum of No Evil)

Adam and Eve has everything I love about this band- great melodies, vocals, and musicianship. There are no slow, tedious moments on this album, and its diversity and range works perfectly. Every band has its weaknesses, and I would say that TFK's tend to drag a bit here and there, trying to fill the max capacity of a single disc (and sometimes 2) But Adam and Eve does not do this at all- it's length is satisfying and tasteful. If you are new to this band, I recommend you start with Space Revolver, and then move onto Adam and Eve or Unfold the Future.

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 The Rainmaker by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2001
3.45 | 71 ratings

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Review by The Block

3 stars This is The Flower Kings sixth studio album, and it might be one of their worst ones. Even though this is one of, what I think, is their worst album it still brings a lot to the table. Its tracks, for the most part are very solid except for the occasional two or three. I bought this album in CD form and I was very happy, but after listening to it for a little while I realized that it was not their best work. I also realized that it was a lot darker than the others I had. Now onto the music :

1/11 Last Minute on Earth: Groaning vocals in the beginning made me wonder about where this song was going. But it saved itself by going into an awesome chorus with drums and guitar. One really cool thing about this song is that it keeps the same kind of riff, but it changes a little bit each tome they play it. That offers this track a very different feel. There were some very good instrumental parts in the middle and end that transfer into piano to round out the song. It is easily the best song on the album, and a very classic TFK song.

2/11 World Without a Heart: An acoustic guitar opens the song but it soon goes to Roine Stolt on the electric. The vocals are pretty good and the harmonies really add to it. The lyrics actually relate to the title, unlike many of the of the songs The Flower Kings put out. Vocals fade out than come back in, but they are distorted a bit and it detracts from the total of the song.

3/11 Road to Sanctuary: Starts with keys and drums that slowly flow into a good instrumental chorus. Synths start in, and the chorus alters slightly giving the track the same kind of feel from "Last Minute on Earth". This song relies more on synths than the other ones but the guitars bring it up. Vocals in the middle aren't the best and their sense is lost on me. Then the piano comes back in along with a varied chorus. Two thirds of the way through the song they totally switch it up to the point that it doesn't even resemble the beginning. Near the end of the song everything drops out except for piano and the riff appears again. Although I really enjoyed it the song seemed to drag on.

4/11 The Rainmaker: The title track to this album disappoints majorly. It is an instrumental, but I am not sure if you can even call it that because it lacks skill and sound quality. The song would be okay if it weren't the title track, but title tracks are supposed to be the center piece.

5/11 City of Angels: Synth guitar starts right out than it lowers and the vocals take part. It has a good riff and instrumental chorus. The voice chorus is very catchy too. Tomas Bodin plays a very important part in this song especially in the instrumental outro. Definitely the second best song on this CD.

6/11 Elaine: Vocals start off the song with guitars in the background. It tells the story of a boy who wants a girl and shows his life. The vocal harmonies are very good and sax is present on almost this entire track.

7/11 Thru the Walls: An organ makes its presence heard in this song, but other than this new instrument this song is a disappointment. The vocals are a bit lame, but they go along with the simple drumming.

8/11 Sword of God: Gospel singing gives this song a change of pace in the beginning. The guitaring from Mr. Stolt sounds a bit slippery sounding but it goes good with the changing vocals. Vocals fade into an instrumental part to end the song.

9/11 Blessing of a Smile: A trumpet blares in the beginning which really jolts you out of yourself. The trumpet soon dies away giving you an eerie feeling, but it is taken away when more classical instruments join in. the end saves the song from being totally lost.

10/11 Red Alert: A very happy song contrasts majorly from "Blessing of a Smile". It sounds like it is an add on from "Road to Sanctuary" with the same type of riffs and instruments.

11/11 Serious Dreamers: This song is very pop sounding which is a major change from the other tracks. The chorus has a syncopated rhythm and sounds really good with Roine singing. The harmonies blend in really well and Mr. Bodin is showcased in the ending.

It's a classic Flower Kings album that is very synth driven and has some very catchy vocals. If you really want to get into this album I would listen to the first and fifth songs first since these are the best. Overall it is good, but some of the songs aren't needed. The Rainmaker earns a 3.5.

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 The Sum Of No Evil by FLOWER KINGS, THE album cover Studio Album, 2007
3.87 | 102 ratings

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The Sum Of No Evil
The Flower Kings Symphonic Prog

Review by Evolver

4 stars I find this album, The Sum Of No Evil to be the most overtly Yes-influenced of all of their albums to date. You are thinking "No sh*t, Evolver, they even named a song Live Is The Only Answer, but they forgot to mention that hate is the root of cancer." And you are right. While the music evokes Yes at many stages, including Close To The Edge, and Relayer, the vocals, especially the harmony arrangements, seem to harken back to the first two Yes albums. Which does not make it a bad listen. On the contrary, this is a great album, full of masterfully written and played epics.

While, Love Is The Only Answer is the longest song here, it is hardly the best. It's a bit too diverse and lacking in focus for my tastes, and despite my usual desire for longer pieces, I find myself tiring of this one at about the fifteen minute mark. The best song here is the title track. Heavy and dark, with the usual Flower Kings moments of lightness, this is one of the band's best.

And while the bonus disk is nice to have for completionists, the songs are not up to par with the main disk, but not bad.

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