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\nKISS reveals “MONSTER” album cover artwork and track listing! Rock legends KISS return with Monster, the 20th studio album in their historic career, set for release in October through Universal Music Enterprises. The 12-track, straight-ahead rock \u2018n\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
The band\u2019s first single, the full-throttle, autobiographical rocker \u2018Hell or Hallelujah\u2019, was made available digitally on Monday, July 2, internationally, and on Tuesday, July 3, in North America. Stanley calls the album\u2019s lead track, \u201ca battle cry that encapsulates the entire record\u2026one way or another, we\u2019re going to do it our way.\u201d
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\nMonster tracklisting:
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\n‘Hell Or Hallelujah’
\n‘Wall Of Sound’
\n‘Freak’
\n‘Back To The Stone Age’
\n‘Shout Mercy’
\n‘Long Way Down’
\n‘Eat Your Heart Out’
\n‘The Devil Is Me’
\n‘Outta This World’
\n‘All For The Love Of Rock & Roll’
\n‘Take Me Down Below’
\n‘Last Chance’
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\nMonster 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 \u2018Outta This World\u2019, a tribute to his KISS \u201cspaceman\u201d character, while drummer Singer provides the vocals (and the back story) for the arena anthem \u2018All for the Love of Rock & Roll\u2019.<\/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
Pre-order “MONSTER” now at iTunes – http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/preorder\/monster\/id547650804<\/a> KISS reveals “MONSTER” album cover artwork and track listing! Rock legends KISS return with Monster,…<\/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-29304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304","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=29304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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