KISS’ GENE SIMMONS Reveals New Monster Album Details; 15-Song Album Due In Late Spring, Tour To Take Technology To The Extreme

In the video footage below, Ted Stryker and Estelle interview KISS bassist GENE SIMMONS and wife Shannon Tweed on the red carpet of the American Music Awards 2011. Shannon talks about what married life is like and Gene discusses what to expect on the new KISS album.

According to Simmons, the new album, Monster, will include 15 songs and will be released in late spring 2012. The tour in support of the album promises to “take technology to the extreme”.

KISS spent all day (and late into the night) in the studio on November 17th, working on a new song for the upcoming Monster album. Check out photos from the studio below, from Eric Singer, exclusively for KISSOnline.

KISS have been working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Sonic Boom in Los Angeles for a late spring 2012 release. For the Monster album, KISS is planning a massive 2012-2013 world tour which will take the band around the globe.

During an extensive three-hour chat with BraveWords.com recently, KISS drummer Eric Singer says that Monster “isn’t The Elder where we have a theme for the whole record. It’s a straight-ahead rock KISS record and I think this stuff so far is stronger better material (than Sonic Boom). It’s more riff-y which makes it more interesting. This album will have more production (than Sonic Boom), so in that sense it might be leaning more towards a Destroyer type approach. I’ve asked to have my drums put in a bigger room because I want to get a big sound… a more bombastic drum sound. We’ve taken more time to get better sounds on this recording.”

Read the entire interview here.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of Music From The Elder, the most bizarre and unsuccessful album ever released by KISS, comes the first chapter of an upcoming book exploring this strange, misguided and yet oddly lovable record.

Music From The Elder: The Unauthorized Story Of the Most Spectacular Failure In The History Of KISS will be released in the spring of 2012. The book will explore the odd circumstances that led the traditionally hard-rocking band to attempt a classical and Broadway-influenced concept record about a young boy’s medieval quest to become a warrior (or something), and the effect its commercial failure had on the band.