Kiss replaced him with Eric Singer and recorded Revenge , their first album since ; it was a Top Ten hit and went gold. Kiss followed it with the release of Alive III the following year; it performed respectably but wasn't up to the standards of their two previous live records.
In , the original lineup of Kiss -- featuring Simmons , Stanley , Frehley , and Criss -- reunited to perform an international tour, complete with their notorious makeup and special effects. The tour was one of the most successful of , and in the reunited group issued Psycho Circus. While the ensuing tour in support of Psycho Circus was a success, sales of Kiss ' reunion album weren't as stellar as anticipated. Reminiscent of the band's unfocused late-'70s period, few tracks on Psycho Circus featured all four members playing together most tracks were supplemented with session musicians , as the band seemed more interested in flooding the marketplace with merchandise yet again instead of making the music their top priority.
With rumors running rampant that the Psycho Circus Tour would be their last, the quartet announced in the spring of that they would be launching a U. But on the eve of a Japanese and Australian tour in early , Peter Criss suddenly left the band once again, supposedly discontent with his salary.
Taking his place was previous Kiss drummer Eric Singer , who in a controversial move for some longtime fans, donned Criss ' cat-man makeup since Simmons and Stanley own both Frehley and Criss ' makeup designs, there was no threat of a lawsuit as the farewell tour continued.
The group was relatively quiet throughout the rest of the year, but started with a bang as Gene Simmons turned in an entertaining and controversial interview on NPR where he criticized the organization and berated host Terry Gross with sexual comments and condescending answers. He was promoting his autobiography at the time, which also caused dissent in the Kiss camp because of inflammatory remarks made about Ace Frehley.
Frehley subsequently declined to appear at an American Bandstand anniversary show; his place was taken by a wig-wearing Tommy Thayer , and Simmons was quick to dismiss the performance as another in a long series of money-oriented decisions. The band kept touring the globe with no new album in stores, but in they returned to the studio, re-recorded their hits, and released Jigoku-Retsuden aka KISSology or Kiss Klassics the release was initially exclusive to Japan.
In spring of , the band began recording their first studio album in 11 years and released Sonic Boom in October. In , the band's 20th studio album, Monster , surfaced, rewriting the cowbell-heavy party rock of their '70s heyday and adding some nods to the sinister metal of 's Revenge.
The following year they released a collaborative single with the Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z. On April 9, , the Associated Press announced the event by saying "the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame looks to be getting some competition. Stanley released his second solo album, Live to Win , on October 24 , and undertook a brief solo tour in support. On October 31 the same year, the group released Kissology The Ultimate Collection Volume 1 — , the first of ten possible DVD sets featuring complete concert footage, interviews, and never-before-seen clips.
It was certified 6X Platinum by the R. What seemed to be the final entry, Kissology The Ultimate Volume — , was released on December 18, Stanley insisted that there are more volumes forthcoming in an interview with Norwegian broadcasting in the summer of , but no details have been given.
In April , tragedy struck Kiss again. Their former guitarist, Mark St. John , died from an apparent cerebral hemorrhage at age John formed the short-lived glam metal group White Tiger. In he briefly collaborated with Peter Criss in a band called The Keep, which only performed once and released no recordings. John largely dropped out of public view in later years, but did make occasional appearances at Kiss fan conventions.
While this snub displeases some fans, Stanley and Simmons maintain that it is meaningless to them. Nevertheless, a group of about Kiss fans held a protest rally in front of the Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio on August 5, It was the first known organized demonstration seeking the induction of a band into the Hall.
In , a new comic book series featuring the band was released by the Kiss Comics Group in association with Platinum Studios. The third installment of the series is due to come out the first week of August. Also, Kiss was scheduled to play in Whistler in mid September. The concert plans were cancelled late August due to a passport problem. Kiss have been confirmed to headline the opening night of 's Download Festival at Donington, England.
Throughout the summer of , Kiss headlined festivals as well as their own shows and played to a record audience of about people. It was the last show in the European leg of the 'Alive 35' tour. Monday, Aug. Late saw the band take another unexpected turn. Over ten years after their last studio album, and following years of denials about ever wanting to do a new album, Stanley and Simmons seemed to have changed their minds. In November , Paul Stanley stated to rock photographer Ross Halfin that a new Kiss album is in the works, which Stanley would produce.
Stanley also stated that the album would have a "real 70's Kiss sound" to it. On November 26 , Gene Simmons confirmed the information about a new Kiss album and said he expected it to be released in Summer Tragedy struck Kiss for a third time, when their former manager Bill Aucoin died of cancer on June 28, at the age of Stanley and Simmons said he was like the fifth member of Kiss. The tour included their first UK arena shows in 11 years and their first visit to Slovakia.
They also made a brief appearance at S. The tour saw the band play numerous shows throughout the US, Canada and Mexico.
On April 13, , Kiss began recording a new album due for release later in the year. Gene Simmons stated, the album "is gonna be the next step to Sonic Boom. Very similar — straight rock songs, no ballads, no keyboards, no nothing, just rock. Gene Simmons said about it: "Technology is a seductive bitch, she will seduce you.
You press this button, you don't have to do anything. But analog is the love of your life. You can push real hard and it always gives back. For the new album, the actual recording process was track tape and an old Trident board.
And as many tubes as possible. You need tubes, electricity and thick wood to make that thick sound. Kiss spent the summer of playing venues in the US and Canada, visiting cities to which they have not been in a while. They have dubbed this the "Lost Cities Tour". On August 21, , it was announced on the band's website that the next album would be called Monster. Monster was originally slated for release in fall , but was then delayed until January , and again until June—July , with an official release for October The facility is an hole indoor miniature golf course, featuring arcade games, gift shop, and numerous pieces of band memorabilia on display.
The complete current version of the band attended the grand opening. Kiss appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The Tour started on July 20 and ended on October 1. Monster was released on October 9, in North America to much critical and fan acclaim, debuting in the Top 3 in the US and Top 10 in many countries.
On October 16, , Kiss was again announced as a nominee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was subsequently announced as an inductee on December 17, The LA Kiss offered National Football League free agent quarterback Tim Tebow a contract to join their team and play in the AFL: "Acquiring Tebow would not only be a great investment for the team, but his exciting style of play would definitely send shockwaves through the league," Simmons said in a statement.
On March 17, Kiss announced a co-headlining tour with Def Leppard. After Simmons toured with Joe Elliott in South America, the two talked about their bands working together. From June 23, to August 31, , the bands are scheduled to tour 42 cities, with a dollar per ticket donated to such military charities as Wounded Warrior Project. Kiss made the cover of the April 10, Issue Rolling Stone magazine, which is their first time being so featured in the band's year history.
Though the rockers did not perform, the original four members, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss showed up to accept their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the 29th annual induction ceremony in Brooklyn. It was the first time for Kiss to release a collaboration CD with another artist. An alternate mix of the single's title song was also included as an opening track on the Japanese-only SHM-CD album Best of Kiss 40 , released in Japan on the same day.
Before the collaboration, the members of Kiss had watched the concert videos of Momoiro Clover Z. Later, Paul Stanley gave his impressions in an interview. On September 15, , the RIAA announced that the band had earned more gold records than any other American band in the association's year history, with a total of 30 gold album awards including the band's four solo albums. In , Kiss conducted a summer tour, titled the Freedom to Rock Tour, of less frequented cities and smaller venues.
The tour ran throughout the summer, with opening acts Caleb Johnson and the Dead Daisies. There have been conflicting stories regarding whether Kiss will record another album. Simmons has said "yes" in interviews, saying that he has songs written and lined up for a new album. Stanley and Thayer dispute this however and say that they do not vow to make one and that the band can move forward without new music. On September 19, , following a performance on America's Got Talent , Kiss announced that they will be ending their career with the End of the Road World Tour in The tour kicked off on January 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and currently features additional dates that run through December 3 in Auckland, New Zealand.
This is the first time Frehley and the band have performed since for their first Kiss Farewell Tour and Kulick's first time performing with the band live since his departure in During the first leg of the End of the Road World Tour, Kiss was accused by fans of lip syncing and using backing tracks. Three years prior, Simmons had been critical of bands using backing tracks on live shows. Former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach defended Kiss, saying that the band did not lip sync at the show he attended.
Stanley did not confirm nor deny that he lip syncs on stage, saying he is taking care of his voice. See discography and Videography. Kiss Online. Edit this sidebar! Top Content. John Bruce Kulick. Current events Community portal. Recent blog posts. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. The Starchild - Paul Stanley. The Demon - Gene Simmons. Hotter Than Hell : This is one of the most poorly mixed albums ever released.
Not surprisingly, that type of technical failure — when awarded the luxury of time — ultimately becomes romantic.
The detail about the age difference was actually concocted by Paul. Audiophiles may note that Hotter Than Hell was remastered in , thereby making its appalling production extra loud. Wurster seems skeptical that a stewardess on a commuter airline would decide to have sex with Paul Stanley simply because his body language implied he was annoyed by an impending flight delay.
Side 3 lasts for fucking ever. The cover art makes for an excellent T-shirt and a decent golf visor; the spoken-word intro displays questionable news judgment; if this record were weather, it would be partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of mastodons. Rock and Roll Over : Rock and Roll Over is a collection of 10 songs, eight of which are explicitly about human physicality but only one of which intersects with human emotion.
Many of these tracks exhibit a distance between personal actions and interpersonal feelings, including the ones with functioning narrative threads. Mostly unrelated, but not totally: also marks the period when Gene Simmons was briefly obsessed with behaving like an animatronic robot.
Dynasty : This is the sellout, frozen-face, Studio 54—obsessed plexiglass superdisc, which makes me want to like it. Perversely, I do not. Paul has claimed he was simply trying to prove that absolutely anyone could write a disco song and have it chart in the top It got to no. Space Ace covers the Stones for coincidental symbolism, and Gene rhetorically asks if the illusion of celebrity defines his improbable charisma.
These are the high points. The dreadful cartoon cover appears confused by its own irony. Of course, Unmasked is also Ace at his absolute septic-tank worst, which does. Music From "The Elder" : Indisputably the most fascinating Kiss album by a factor of 10, this is the soundtrack to a movie that does not exist, 6 fueled by mountains of cocaine the band members did not ingest.
This is the Rubicon that signaled a permanent change within the band: They actively made a record for the critics, earnestly believed the work was exceptional, and found themselves humiliated in front of an audience who now saw them as desperate and confused. In response, Paul and Gene reversed their original feelings they now claim to hate all the songs , rejected the entire notion of taste, and decided to view any art created for noncommercial purposes as inherently false.
This album will never be appreciated objectively, unless we can find a way to play it for someone who 1 likes theatrical classical rock, but 2 has no idea that Kiss ever existed. Due to its nonexistence there is not even a script , deducing the plot to The Elder solely from its corresponding music is more or less impossible. It appears to be set in a version of the past that is actually the future, focusing on a boy recruited by a medieval organization called the Order of the Rose.
Killers import : Kiss were so embarrassed by The Elder that Paul grew a beard. They also sheepishly sent this greatest-hits collection around the world with the most popular edition landing in Japan. Killers was hard to find, overpriced, and repetitive, so if you own this album, you obviously love the band already regardless of what they were trying to accomplish.
The ingestion was performed primarily by Ezrin, an amazing producer who probably got caught up in his own genius. At times, it traffics in heaviness for the sake of heaviness, which would be OK if Kiss were a legitimately heavy band. This was also the period when Eddie Van Halen allegedly asked Gene Simmons if he could join Kiss, an anecdote Gene has told approximately 4, times and Eddie has told approximately never.
It was at this juncture in the Kiss chronology that they stopped wearing makeup and became a straightforward hair metal band, albeit with more credibility and less youthful indiscretion no drugs, basically. Still, the visual alteration meant the records now had to stand on their own, so many most? Lick It Up : This was a successful comeback project with Vincent updating the guitar sound and writing material competitive with the rest of popular culture, or at least competitive with Dokken.
With the face paint vanquished, Paul holds the singular spotlight Gene becomes just the tall guy on bass. Animalize : Vinnie was fired by Kiss and replaced by Mark St. Paul Stanley handles everything else including the production and the album art , almost like McCartney after the other three Beatles lost interest. Time has proven that Paul is the only member of the band who never stopped caring about what they were doing musically.
Asylum : Writing about how the visceral physicality of unencumbered intercourse offers fleeting escape from the constructed tedium of day-to-day existence is not a bad premise for a song. Crazy Nights : The album title is Crazy Nights. Were Kiss actually raccoons? As usual, the mainstream media refused to investigate. Hot in the Shade : Considering the year this was released and the year I was born, I probably listened to this album times, roughly more than necessary.
Ezrin was back as producer, as was Vinnie Vincent as a cowriter. Gene grew a goatee and Paul bought a leather duster, so you know a lot of deep consideration went into this. This record might seem OK if it weren't alleged to be outstanding; not unlike Zima and Las Vegas, every single exposure is slightly worse than the one before. I would not travel through time to hear this again. There were only three members in the audience.
In October , TV producer Bill Aucoin, who had seen the group perform, offered to become the band's manager. Simmons and his bandmates agreed, under the stipulation that Aucoin would get the group a recording contract within two weeks. Throughout the s, the band toured virtually nonstop and became hugely popular for their over-the-top stage antics.
But although KISS hit the road consistently, they wouldn't gain popular appeal until their live album Alive! The album spawned the group's first hit single, "Rock and Roll All Nite," which jumped onto the Billboard Top 40 charts. Their next album, an ambitious recording called Destroyer , became the second album to hit gold. With the release of the single "Beth," which hit No. All three albums hit platinum, and by the end of that year, KISS had been named the most popular band in America.
KISS was also making a splash internationally. They topped the charts in Japan, Canada, Sweden and Germany, and performed five sold-out shows at Budokan Hall in Japan, breaking The Beatles' previously held record of four. But as the band rolled successfully into the s, tensions began to mount among the group's members. Criss had grown increasingly obstinate, refusing to practice and even stopping in the middle of songs during concerts.
In December , Criss officially left the group. After numerous auditions, he was replaced by musician Paul Caravello — later known by the stage name, Eric Carr. Frehley's replacement, guitarist Vinne Vincent, didn't mesh well with the group and went through a series of firings and re-hirings before leaving for good in He was succeeded by guitarists Mark St.
John and, eventually, Bruce Kulick. The group had also started appearing without make-up in , relying less on flashy showmanship, and more on substance. Simmons struggled to maintain enthusiasm for the new incarnation of his band, however, instead of focusing on a film career. His films, however, including B-movies such as Runaway and Trick or Treat , never quite took off at the box office.
Simmons and his bandmates suffered another setback when Carr discovered he had developed cancer.
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