Biography
Kissin' Dynamite is a German hard rock and heavy metal band from Burladingen and Münsingen.
Kissin' Dynamite began as a school band. Since 2007, the band has worked with the Flensburg-based production team Elephant Music. At the end of 2007, they began sending demos to various record labels, resulting in a record deal with Capitol Records and EMI later that year. Their debut album, "Steel of Swabia", was released in 2008. The band also began performing at music festivals that year, including Bang Your Head.
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Their second album, "Addicted to Metal", was also produced by Elephant Music and contains twelve tracks. The title track features vocals by Udo Dirkschneider of U.D.O., for whom Kissin' Dynamite frequently performed as an opening act. In March 2011, the band announced that they had begun work on their third album, which was to be released by their new label, AFM Records. The album was completed in 2011 and released as "Money, Sex and Power" in March 2012. As part of its promotion, Kissin' Dynamite opened for Steel Panther on their tour.
In 2014, Kissin' Dynamite released the album "Megalomania", followed by "Generation Goodbye" in 2016 and "Ecstasy" in 2018. "Ecstasy" became the band's first album to reach the top ten of the German album charts.
Before forming Kissin' Dynamite, Hannes Braun participated in the 2004 season of the German version of the Sat.1 television show "Star Search", where he finished second after performing heavy metal songs at the age of 12.
Hannes Braun is also a producer for Exit Eden and has been in a relationship with Exit Eden singer Anna Brunner for several years. Both lived in Flensburg from 2015 to 2019 and worked for Elephant Music. Since 2020, Braun and Brunner have lived in Betzingen, where they run their own production company.
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Studio albums
Steel of Swabia (2008)
Addicted to Metal (2010)
Money, Sex and Power (2012)
Megalomania (2014)
Generation Goodbye (2016)
Ecstasy (2018)
Not the End of the Road (2022)
Back with a Bang! (2024)
Kissin Dynamite! (2026)
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