Gene Simmons Vows Kiss Will Make Another Album

[That 70s Guy]

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Gene Simmons believes Kiss could head into the studio to record their next album as soon as 2016.

“It will happen when we have time,” he cautioned when the subject of a new LP was raised during a recent interview. “I have music in me that needs to come out. I recently wrote a song called ‘Your Wish Is My Command.’ It feels like a Kiss song and it just needs to be released on a Kiss album.”

And although it wasn’t that long ago that his longtime partner Paul Stanley suggested the band could “move forward without new music,” Simmons insists Stanley — and the rest of the band — is on board. In fact, he predicts Stanley will continue to serve in a production capacity.

“I’m glad about that,” Simmons added, pointing out that he doesn’t “have the energy” to show up to the studio every day and give new music the hands-on effort it requires. “Paul doesn’t have so many other things in his life that demand attention, so he can concentrate fully on the project.”

Before they can start thinking about another album, though, Kiss have to clear their tour schedule, which Simmons says will take them until the end of the year — and closer to the inevitable day that they really will have to mount a farewell tour.

“While Mick Jagger is performing at 71, I probably won’t succeed,” he predicted. Don’t expect retirement to come anytime soon, however — as Simmons puts it, “As long as all the band members can prove we’re the best band in the world, Kiss persists.”


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[That 70s Guy]

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Paul Stanley Believes KISS Can Continue Without Making New Music

More than four decades into his music career, Paul Stanley has stood at the helm of twenty studio albums and countless live efforts as a member of KISS – and that’s without including his ventures as a solo artist.

While the Hottest Band in the World continues to pave their way across Europe as part of their current tour, Stanley is determined that KISS can continue performing live without introducing new material into their set list.

There has to be a purpose to us doing an album,” he recently told Classic Rock magazine. “There has to be a purpose to us doing an album. There was a time when we did albums because the contracts said so. But I only want to work now when it’s justified.

Their achievements on 2009’s ‘Sonic Boom’ and 2012’s ‘Monster’ were strong representations of where KISS is currently at stylistically, adds Stanley, however those efforts were done for the right reasons.

“’Sonic Boom’ was an album that very much needed to be done, and ‘Monster’ just felt like, ‘Well, we did ‘Sonic Boom’ – let’s see where we go from here.’”

He continues: “Having accomplished that, I feel we can move forward without new music. There are enough things going on in Kiss that right now it doesn’t feel utterly necessary to make a new album.”

This decision certainly doesn’t come as the result of these two albums’ performance in the charts; upon their release, ‘Sonic Boom’ landed at number 2 on the Billboard Top 200 with 108,000 units sold and ‘Monster’ entered one spot below at number 3 with 56,000 units moved in the United States alone.

New KISS music isn’t entirely off the table, and Stanley notes that his position on new material is subject to change in the future. “Anything is possible,” he says. “But at the moment I don’t see it on the horizon. I’m not one to ever say ‘never.'”

 

[AboutAGirl]

Talk is cheap, just do it.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

If talk is cheap, Gene would still be a millionaire.

I wouldn't mind a new album. Monster was OK, but Sonic Boom was great. Another effort like Sonic Boom would be welcome.

 

[Sharp Dressed Man]

Yeah, "Monster" wasn't quite up there with "Sonic Boom", but it was an enjoyable album and I'd certainly welcome a new album!