Kingdom Come had a hit way back when on their debut in the 80s with the enjoyable but rather unforgettable single/video ‘Get It On’ that did fairly well in the US market. Along with the sappy power ballad ‘What Love Can Be’, it was really just a very bland affair, and these guys worshipped Led Zeppelin to the point of embarrassment. I remember reading an article once about Jimmy Page even saying their admiration was just annoying and not at all flattering. And I have to agree totally with him on that opinion. These guys just never got out of that mold and still to this day continue their Zeppelinisms adding little to no change in their sound.

Here in 2010 we have founding member Lenny Wolf bringing back the Kingdom Come band again for a mish-mash album that is a combination of redone songs and a few new ones. This is a similar strategy to what Gamma Ray and Saxon did in the past, and it definitely worked for those guys with touched up crunchier sound that maintained a certain quality throughout. This…however is not that album. What you get here is a snooze fest of melodic hard rock done in a drone like way. The songs are definitely touched up, I will say that. The re-recording of the older stuff are about the best thing. But does that really matter if the music itself was never that great to begin with? I think that’s where this album just loses me. I love bands from this era and genre of hard rock/metal a lot, Cinderella, Tesla, Dokken, Ratt, etc. They brought something new and majestic to the world of hard rock/metal. Kingdom Come just doesn't, and never did. Lenny Wolf's vocals sound like a poor man's Klaus Meine. I mean the vocals really start to grain on you after the third song and the guitar work is just flat boring riffs and solos that go nowhere, nothing memorable.

"Rendered Waters" is a paint by numbers effort. Louder on your ears, crisper production, but that doesn't matter when it comes down to it if the songs were never there. All the remastering and re-recording will do nothing which is the case here. This is essentially a compilation album making it that much harder to really sense what they wanted to accomplish. Definitely pass this one up unless you long for Zeppelin tribute done in a modern studio.