They released their debut album Steel of Swabia in 2008, and in that year also started appearing in music festivals, which included Bang Your Head.

In March 2011, Kissin' Dynamite announced that they had started working on their third album, which would be published by their new label, AFM Records.

In 2014 they released the album Megalomania, followed in 2016 by Generation Goodbye, then in 2018 by Ecstacy which broke them into the top ten on the German charts for the first time.

Prior to Kissin' Dynamite, Hannes Braun achieved second place in the 2004 season of the German version of the Sat.1 show Star Search singing heavy metal at the age of 12.

During a band meeting to choose a name, Andi Schnitzer's cellphone rang, and the song was his ringtone, leading to the decision.