GENE SIMMONS Talks KISS' Upcoming Monster Album - "Either The Best Or One Of The Top Three Records We've Ever Done"
May 3, 2012, 12 years ago
In an interview with Billboard.com's Gary Graff, KISS bassist/singer GENE SIMMONS talks about, among other things, Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp and the band's forthcoming new studio album, Monster. An excerpt from the story follows:
Monster, the follow-up to 2009's Sonic Boom is again produced by the band's PAUL STANLEY and is, in Simmons' words, "either the best or one of the top three records we've ever done. It's like Revenge meets Destroyer - just guitar and drums, nothing else. No keyboards, no little boys' choir, no strings, no nothing. Band-written; literally we'd get in and strum guitars like the old days." Co-produced, like Sonic Boom, by KISS co-founder Paul Stanley, Monster "was written very fast," according to Simmons and includes at least one track, 'Are You Ready?', that he describes as, "an old song that was torn apart and re-written."
Monster will be accompanied by a "monstrous book" of the same name, an over-sized art book that Simmons says, "should weigh 100 pounds or more", and come with its own stand. "It's something you can't put on your coffee table, 'cause it'll crush it. It IS the coffee table."
Read more at Billboard.com.
