Pretty Maids "Undress Your Madness (Japan Edition, Ward Records, GQCS-90797)"

Undress Your Madness is the sixteenth studio album by Danish hard rock/heavy metal Pretty Maids. The album was released on 8 November 2019 by Frontiers Records.

The album was written and recorded from January to February 2019.

In October 2019, lead singer Ronnie Atkins announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. As a result, the band had to postpone and eventually cancel the concert tour for the album.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer; except "Undress Your Madness" and "Shadowlands" written by Atkins, Hammer and Chris Laney.

1. "Intro" 0:33
2. "Serpentine" 4:16
3. "Firesoul Fly" 4:16
4. "Undress Your Madness" 4:20
5. "Will You Still Kiss Me (If I See You in Heaven)" 3:59
6. "Runaway World" 4:26
7. "If You Want Peace (Prepare for War)" 4:16
8. "Slavedriver" 4:49
9. "Shadowlands" 3:54
10. "Black Thunder" 3:46
11. "Strength of a Rose" 4:40

Japanese version (bonus track)

1. "Serpentine" (orchestral version)  

Pretty Maids "Kingmaker"

Kingmaker is the fifteenth studio album by Danish hard rock/heavy metal Pretty Maids. The album was pre-released in Japan on October 21, 2016. In other areas, it was released on 4 November 2016 by Frontiers Records. It is the first album of all new material since Motherland (2013). Kingmaker is the first album without keyboard player Morten Sandager who left the band in February 2016 after joining Pretty Maids in 2006. Instead Kim Olesen of Anubis Gate plays keyboards on the album.

In an interview with The Classic Metal Show, lead singer Ronnie Atkins said of the album: "Basically we are big pop freaks as well. We like all kinds of music and to us a good song is a good song. Some of the stuff is actually written on an acoustic guitar. There are songs on the album that are basically pop songs. You could take songs like "Heavens Little Devil", basically just a pop song. The challenge is turning a pop song into a rock song."

The album debuted at number 35 on the German Albums Chart, becoming Pretty Maids' highest-charting album since Jump the Gun in 1990 (which also charted at number 35). However, the album failed to chart in their native Denmark.

Danish music magazine Gaffa rated the album four out of five stars and wrote: "Kingmaker is thus the third album in a row, where there is a vast majority of hits compared to misses."

Pretty Maids "Louder Than Ever"

Louder Than Ever is the fourteenth studio album by Danish hard rock/heavy metal Pretty Maids. It was released on March 21, 2014 by Frontiers Records. The album consists of re-recordings of eight previously released songs from the period 1994 to 2006, taken from the studio albums Scream (1994), Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing (1999), Carpe Diem (2000), Planet Panic (2002), and Wake Up to the Real World (2006). It also features the four new songs, "Deranged", "My Soul to Take", "Nuclear Boomerang", and "A Heart Without a Home" which was recorded especially for the album. An official music video for "Nuclear Boomerang" was released on February 10, 2014.

According to lead singer Ronnie Atkins, Louder Than Ever serves as an "in between album" to tie in with the band's upcoming fifteenth studio album. Atkins has said the band "were curious to hear how some of the older songs would sound like with the band lineup we have today and in the hands of our current producer, Jacob Hansen." The band deliberately chose not to re-record songs from albums such as Future World (1987) and Jump the Gun (1990) as they are "sacred, both to ourselves as well as the fans".

Released with DVD which includes a retrospective of the "Motherland" 2013 world tour, archive footage from early stages of the band's career, interviews, backstage and studio footage.

North America release date - March 25, 2014.