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KISS' PAUL STANLEY To Appear On Extra Tonight






KISS frontman/founder PAUL STANLEY gives Extra exclusive All Access
inside the Stanley residence and talks The Tour with MÖTLEY CRÜE and
KISS' upcoming studio album, Monster, tonight (Friday, June 29th)


Check your local listings for details.


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 '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’s 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.


Monster is the group’s first studio album since the band’s 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.





The 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’s lead track, "a battle cry that encapsulates the entire
record...one way or another, we’re going to do it our way."


Monster represents KISS’ 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
“Freak,” while Gene lives up to the title track’s declaration on the
raucous rock of “Back to the Stone Age” and the bludgeoning “The Devil
is Me.” Even guitarist Thayer takes a turn on his own with 'Outta This
World', a tribute to his KISS “spaceman” character, while drummer Singer
provides the vocals (and the back story) for the arena anthem 'All for
the Love of Rock & Roll'.


“There are no symphony orchestras, boy choirs, keyboards, outside
producers or songwriters on this album,” promises Gene Simmons. “The
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’re going
where no bands have gone before.”


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’s great, legendary rock groups who influenced
and inspired them to pick up their instruments in the first place.


“We’re all Anglophiles in this band,” says Simmons. “America 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.”


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’s 40-year career, including
never-before-seen images from the world’s 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.