Tag: Kiss

Kiss served up another classic hard rock album, even if the album was barely over 25 minutes long, with all…

It’s easy to see Kiss were striving to create a gritty hard rock classic, but maybe they tried too hard….

Simply put this is the best Kiss album since ‘Crazy Nights’, not that there have been many since then.

The 1996 reunion of Kiss’ original lineup has led to overlooking the actual significance this MTV Unplugged live album has…

The Kiss momentum was halted with ‘Hot In The Shade’, their eighth studio album of the 80’s and by far…

Kiss are often dismissed as just another metal/hard rock band, but in truth there’s plenty of AOR and melodic rock…

Kiss were veterans by this point, but still able to hang easily with the likes of Motley Crue, Bon Jovi,…

Kiss was undoubtedly at their peak in 1984, indeed from 1982-87 they were the most consistent hard rock/metal outfit in…

A landmark album of sorts for the masked wonders of rock n roll! It’s the album which saw Kiss unmasked…

This is quite possibly the only perfect Kiss album, with each track as good as the next.

‘Revenge’ is frequently hailed as Kiss’ best unmasked-era album. To me, that award goes to ‘Lick It Up’. Although it…

‘Music From The Elder’ is a truly unique piece within the diverse Kiss studio output.

With ‘Unmasked’ however, which along with ‘Crazy Nights’, it is easily the AOR highpoint of Kiss’s career.

To be honest, ‘Dynasty’ as a whole is uneven stylistically, even with a few classics on board, it just proved…

Up until ‘Love Gun’, Kiss had been consistently improving in the quality of their material, the previous two studio albums…

In many respects ‘Alive II’ marked the end of an era for Kiss, although the band’s popularity at the time…

Having attained massive success earlier in 1976 with ‘Destroyer’, Kiss also managed to alienate a large number of its fan…

Undoubtedly this is a landmark recording for Kiss, but being in the court of favouring their more traditional brand of…

‘Alive!’ paved the way for live releases like ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’, ‘Foghat Live’, ‘Double Live Gonzo!’, ‘Live At Budokan’ and…

Let’s face it from a fan’s perspective, this is the first Kiss, ss such it is far from perfect, nervous,…