Product Description
Rock legends KISS return with Monster, the 20th studio album in their historic career. The 12-track, straight-ahead rock 'n' roll album features collaborations among all four members including co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and longtime members guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer in an album that shows the band at the top of its game. And that's saying something, considering their illustrious, 40-plus year history 28 U.S. gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, 40 million sales in the U.S., and a total exceeding 100 million worldwide.

Monster is the group's first studio album since the band's 2009 smash success, Sonic Boom, and was also produced by Paul Stanley with Greg Collins at Conway Studios in Hollywood, CA, and The Nook in Studio City, CA.

Monster represents KISS' nod to the music that first inspired them to pick up their guitars and flame-throwers and don makeup to entertain millions. "There are no symphony orchestras, boy choirs, keyboards, outside producers or songwriters on this album," promises Gene Simmons. "The best thing we did was to turn inwards to ourselves. Tommy and Eric have revitalized this band, with a work ethic and the talent to back it up. This is a real band effort. KISS has become a behemoth. We're going where no bands have gone before."

1. Hell Or Hallelujah
2. Wall Of Sound
3. Freak
4. Back To The Stone Age
5. Shout Mercy
6. Long Way Down
7. Eat Your Heart Out
8. The Devil Is Me
9. Outta This World
10. All For The Love Of Rock & Roll
11. Take Me Down Below
12. Last Chance

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008G8SFGO/?tag=imwan-20

I'll buy it...I liked Sonic Boom.

KISS Album.

Kiss planning to 'kick some butt' in 2011 with their 20th album
Band will enter the studio in March

January 27, 2011
http://www.nme.com/news/kiss/54722



Kiss are set to enter the studio in March and hope to have a new album, their 20th, out by the end of the year.

The band's 2009 album 'Sonic Boom' was their 19th full studio release, and marked the first time they'd put out an album for over ten years.

Speaking to Backstageaxxess.com, guitarist Tommy Thayer said: "We'll probably be in the studio by March, so sometime this year I'm sure you'll see a spanking new Kiss album that's going to kick some butt!"

Despite the 11-year gap between 1998's 'Psycho Circus' and 'Sonic Boom', their 19th album turned out to be the band's highest-ever charting album.

"We are starting to work on writing some songs, and we'll approach it just like we did with 'Sonic Boom'," Thayer said of the new album. "Keep it all in the band in terms of the writing, with no agenda besides writing great rock'n'roll songs that we love."

Thayer also said that the new album would once again be produced by the band's frontman Paul Stanley. "Paul knows more what a Kiss record should sound like than anybody," he said, "so he is going to lead the charge and produce it again."

The last album was pretty good. Hopefully this one will be as good, if not better.

Just please don't release it only thru Walmart...

Careful what you wish for! This might be released only through Walgreens ....

Actually, I hear that Sal's Pizza will be the exclusive retailer. Free KISS CD with an order of two large pizzas!

Too early to say - rumors are that Little Caesar's offered Gene three large pizzas to be the exclusive retailer.

There is some talk that Dairy Queen may offer one medium Blizzard for every 5,000 units sold, if Gene wants to be daring.

Alan

And Blizzard would be a great name for the album!

or how about Blizzard of Witz

Another in the studio video. As of this posting, the video is viewable and hasn't been withdrawn, so watch it while you can.

Gene has a shirt with a weird button.

Kiss mainman Paul Stanley says the band have nearly finished work on the follow-up album to 2009′s acclaimed Sonic Boom. “But this album leaves Sonic Boom in the dust,” he says. “It’s awesome and you’ll be hearing it soon.”

Like he would say..."this album is not as good as Sonic Boom, but it is better than Dynasty, but maybe less than Unmasked so we do hope you buy it anyway."

Well, considering that recording began five days ago, that would be quite a feat!

Obviously, we don't know when they actually started recording. I'd assume a fall release and Wal Mart exclusive are in the works as well as the highly anticipated KISS Jell-O.

Gene Simmons has revealed the band already have five brand new songs in the can for their brand new album which he says will be a musical hybrid of two of their most popular albums.

The Kiss main man says long-term fans of the band can expect their much anticipated follow up to 2009’s ‘Sonic Boom’ to sound like a cross between ‘Destroyer’ and ‘Revenge’ and he adds every single song was written entirely by the band themselves.

In an interview with Elliot In The Morning Simmons said: “Yes (we’ve been in the studio), we’re halfway through it. We got five tracks done in two days so it may be the fastest record we’ve ever done and it really sounds terrific and Paul’s really doing a great job.

“All the songs are band written, co-written together with no outside writers. I could describe it for those out there who are Kiss fans as a cross between ‘Destroyer’ and ‘Revenge’ – very similar.

“So there’s no rapping, no mixing, none of that stuff. Straight ahead meat and potatoes, guitars drums and some throat-wrenching vocals.

“We don’t know yet (if it will be out before the end of the year) but what we do know is, in the middle of the recording process in June, we’re going to be going out and doing 15-shows in cities we promised we’d get to that most people don’t get to like Fort McMurray in Canada – really small out of the way places.

“We had a contest about two-years back for people to vote in cities for us to play and we just never got a chance to play them but we keep our promises and we’ll be doing 15 of those shows.”

All I know is Paul likes to yell out "People!".

Dating back to the eighties, everytime a new album is in the works, Gene always says "This album is a cross between Destroyer and (insert second KISS album title here)."

Well, don't bother inserting my favorite Music From the Elder.