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\nRock legends KISS return with Monster<\/em>, the 20th studio album in their historic career, set for release in October through Universal Music Enterprises. 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\u2019s saying something, considering their illustrious, 40-plus year history-28 US gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, 40 million sales in the US, and a total exceeding 100 million worldwide.<\/p>\n
Monster is the group\u2019s first studio album since the band\u2019s 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.
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\nThe band’s first single, the full-throttle, autobiographical rocker ‘Hell or Hallelujah’, will be available digitally on Monday, July 2, internationally, and on Tuesday, July 3, in North America. Stanley calls the album\u2019s lead track, “a battle cry that encapsulates the entire record…one way or another, we\u2019re going to do it our way.”<\/p>\n
Monster represents KISS\u2019 nod to the music that first inspired them to pick up their guitars and flame-throwers and don makeup to entertain millions. The group goes back to their own beginnings with the WHO-like \u201cFreak,\u201d while Gene lives up to the title track\u2019s declaration on the raucous rock of \u201cBack to the Stone Age\u201d and the bludgeoning \u201cThe Devil is Me.\u201d Even guitarist Thayer takes a turn on his own with ‘Outta This World’, a tribute to his KISS \u201cspaceman\u201d character, while drummer Singer provides the vocals (and the back story) for the arena anthem ‘All for the Love of Rock & Roll’.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no symphony orchestras, boy choirs, keyboards, outside producers or songwriters on this album,\u201d promises Gene Simmons. \u201cThe 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\u2019re going where no bands have gone before.\u201d<\/p>\n
On July 4, the day after ‘Hell or Hallelujah’ hits digital retail in North America, KISS crosses the ocean for its very own Tea Party, performing an Independence Day show at The Forum in London, a holiday most certainly not celebrated in the UK, though this show might just offer some reparation for that bitter defeat in 1776. The concert will serve as a benefit for the British Help For Heroes organization, which raises money for its wounded, sick and injured troops. The band owes its own debt of gratitude to the English, admitting that Monster is influenced by the country\u2019s great, legendary rock groups who influenced and inspired them to pick up their instruments in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all Anglophiles in this band,\u201d says Simmons. \u201cAmerica may have invented rock and roll, but England knew what to do with it. They gave us THE BEATLES, THE STONES, LED ZEPPELIN and the Who.\u201d<\/p>\n
Timed to coincide with the release of the Monster album is the deluxe coffee table, limited edition KISS MONSTER, a collection of artworks, 126 photos from the band\u2019s 40-year career, including never-before-seen images from the world\u2019s greatest rock photographers. The three-foot high, two and a half feet wide and two-inch thick Monster will be available in copies signed by all four band members and limited to only 1,000 copies worldwide. More info at Kissmonsterbook.com<\/a>. Rock legends KISS return with Monster, the 20th studio album in their historic career, set…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSource: Blabbermouth.net
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