Psycho Circus (enhanced)

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Talk about the roar of the greasepaint: On this first studio effort together since Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley welcomed back once-exiled mates Peter Criss and Ace Frehley with open talons (was it really almost 20 years? How the pterodactyl flies), the unkillable beast called Kiss reels off a few potent additions to its undeniably, er, prodigious body of work. Still stubbornly plodding through the musical tar pits of their classic-rock youth--a little Beatles harmony here, a little Alice Cooper guitar noise there--the dressed-to-ill foursome makes the clock roll back (if not completely unwind) with the fist-waving "I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll" and the if-Green-Day-can-do-it-why-not-us acoustic surprise, "We Are One." Better even than the album is the in-booklet merchandise ad, which hawks Kisstory II in all its "440-page, 9-pound" glory, for a mere $158.95. Like they say: size does matter. --Billy Altman

Product Description

For the 1st time in 20 years, a new studio album reunites the band's 4 original members: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. Psycho Circus offers 10 new songs, written by the band's original members and produced by Bruce Fairbairn (Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, AC/DC). The album's title track serviced to rock radio. Kiss has created their own Internet Service Provider; software provided on all CDs. Psycho Circus tour kicks off in L.A. on Halloween '98.

Review

...[L]overs of any hip new brand of music, beware. Psycho Circus is classic, don't-take-no-for-an- answer Kiss, complete with raging guitar solos and hopelessly adolescent anthems.... -- People

This is rock with a capital R, captured in all its cheesy glory. -- Entertainment Weekly, ISBN13: B00000AFDW ISBN10: B00000AFDW Material Type: audioCD