Classic Rock Presents A Kiss Video Exclusive!
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08/10/2009 12:45pm
Come inside for a brand new, never-before-seen video of Kiss discussing their latest album, Sonic Boom.
Classic Rock recently caught up with Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer for a mouth-watering stackheeled chinwag.
Watch the pair (in full make-up and costume!) discussing Kiss’s appearance at Download 2008; Paul defending Gene Simmons’s comments that there would never, ever be another Kiss studio album; learn the secrets behind getting that classic Kiss sound… and marvel in wide-eyed wonder as Tommy relates what it was like to sing lead on the Sonic Boom track When Lightning Strikes.
To access our exclusive Kiss video interview – courtesy of those fine folks at Roadrunner Records – simply click here.
Sonic Boom is bloody brilliant. Kudos to all the band for proving the doubters wrong and producing such a stonkingly great album.
Also Kudos to Ace for Anomaly which is alos bloody brilliant.
Tommy Thayer must wake up laughing his bag off,he’s the worlds luckiest man! The new cd speaks for itself,it really is something special
I haven’t heard sonic boom but i have heard Anomaly and its fookin grate. (except for pain in the neck)
Release date: October 6, 2009
Record label: KISS/Universal
Official Web site: http://www.kissonline.com/
The buzz: After years of reality shows, iffy business propositions (KISS Kaskets? A KISS Coffeehouse?), horrid solo albums (see: Gene Simmons’ 2003 abomination “A–hole”…or better yet, don’t), line-up changes (bye Ace and Peter!) and endless greatest hits tours, the aging masked rockers return with a brand new album…available only at Wal-Mart. This can’t be good, right?
The verdict: Liking a KISS album in 2009 involves a certain suspension of disbelief—for instance, you have to believe Gene Simmons still sounds dangerous, not old man pervy (sample Gene lyric: “No-no-nobody’s perfect/M-m-maybe I come awfully close/Baby, it’s time you take off your clothes!”). But give the band credit—the 11 songs on “Sonic Boom” hold up nicely against the band’s late-’70s work, with just the right hints of the group’s poppier ’80s material. The riffs are top-notch, the songs are stupid smart (“Danger you/Danger me/Danger us!”), and “Say Yeah” and the Bad Company-ish “Never Enough” could possibly be…hits? Plus, the band throws in an extra album of re-recorded greatest hits and a live DVD, all for $12. They’re practically paying you to enjoy it!
Did you know? If there are still any indie record stores in your town, you simply must hunt down the bootleg album “People, Let Me Get This off My Chest: The Very Best of Paul Stanley’s On-stage Banter,” a compilation of the Kiss singer’s best/worst on-stage diatribes. At the very least, you can use it to make great ringtones (our friend employs Paul’s shout-out, “Who likes to get licked?!?”).
http://tinyurl.com/KissAlive35
Their new album RAWWKKSSSS!!
I found that the guitar rift behind Tommy’s solo is a copy of AC/DC – TNT song… but since the rest of the song is totaly different that’s ok