MONSTER
| Kiss
MONSTER
Monster is the 20th studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal group Kiss, released on October 9, 2012. It was recorded at Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, California and The Nook in Studio City, Los Angeles. Monster was produced by Paul Stanley and co-produced by Greg Collins, as was 2009's Sonic Boom. It is the second studio release by the current band lineup, with Eric Singer on drums and Tommy Thayer on lead guitar, alongside founding members Stanley and Gene Simmons. With the members of Kiss unsure of recording a follow-up album, and the band planning to embark on a farewell tour in 2019, Monster will likely be their final studio album.-Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
'Monster' is more than a worthy addition to Kiss's recorded oeuvre
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Consequence of Sound
KISS may have set out to sound like their old selves on Monster, but they strayed from the pop sensibility that made them great.
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Rock Revolt
They pull no punches and you get exactly what you expect from them, classic guitar driven rock and roll that’s fun.
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The Camel Clutch
2012 - The songs are great, as is the musicianship.
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Goldmine Magazine
there is indeed that slake and draw from original Kiss, that synthesis between U.K. glam and KISS’ own boogie-based contribution to glam
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AV Music
That Simmons and Stanley put this much passion and knuckle-dragging fun into Monster makes the disc’s sporadic warts just part of the appeal.
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Ruthless Reviews
Whatever the motivation or the cause, Monster remains the most forgettable release in the history of the band.
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Guitr Planet
a welcome addition for anyone remotely susceptible to Stanley and Simmons wonted charms
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The Guardian
Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place.
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Rolling Stone
Kiss’ 20th LP draws from their bottomlessly shallow cesspool of comfortably dumb cowbell-glam wham-bam – with stewardess sex, married groupies and “The Devil Is Me,” where Gene Simmons lowtalks like the smoothest used-car salesman in hell.
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a tremendous throwback to the superhuman partying and heavy metal Ragnarök of Kiss albums like Destroyer and Love Gun, with meaty riffs, hamfisted drumming, and a combination of Simmons' patented demonic growls and Stanley's interstellar party-starting, not to mention amounts of cowbell that would have been above average even in 1977
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Kiss Fanzine
All in all Monster is a great record.
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Classic Rock Revisited
Kiss is not only keeping real rock and roll alive with Monster, they are proving to themselves, and the entire music world, that they are more than a bunch of real life comic book characters.
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Los Angeles Times
"Monster," is a fantastic dog: Protective, loyal, fun to be around but ferocious when it needs to be. It's also mostly dumb as a post — but that doesn't mean it isn't awesome.
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Love is Pop
Monster is an album worthy to show as an example to the uninitiated what kind of band KISS is.
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Ramzine
“Monster” is an absolute rock and roll tour de force, which encourages good times and positivity.
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Metal Assault
a decent release
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The Great Southern Brainfart
Sometimes we just need to be reminded that rock n’ roll originally came from the crotch and not the brain so leave it to KISS to remind us all of that valuable lesson.
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Pop Dose
The band finally arrived and they sound like the Kiss you remembered..a little dumb but certainly not lazy.
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Blue Room Productions
It might be KISS’s best record since Destroyer. All in all, it a great time for those you who want to rock and roll all night and party every day.
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Sound Spere
'Monster’ is an awesome return-to-form from the NYC rock legends KISS, and quite possibly your new favourite album to break out on a Saturday night.
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Pure Grain Audio
Much like the band itself, Monster is a guilty pleasure of tried and true lyrical themes, over-the-top guitar solos, tasteful drumming and Paul Stanley’s macho man vocals.
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Herald-Standard
Kiss proves that there is still plenty left in the tank to sustain the band’s success for many years to come.
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The Steel Review
Monster is everything I’d expect from a KISS album
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Kiss Asylum
This solid release by Kiss should delight the Kiss Army!
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Rukus Magazine
Monster does exactly what it promises to do. It provides loud, catchy arena rock for those who love it, flicks a middle finger in the general direction of all those that hate it and makes absolutely no apologies for any of it in the process.
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Fortitude Magazine
The musicianship on this album is pleasing to me
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Poffy's Movie Mania
KISS is a hard rock band surprisingly at the top of their game with this release.
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Wonderwall
'MONSTER' IS SCARY GOOD
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Bo Williams
There’s not a bad song here, and there are no prom night weepers either.
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Metal Talk
A brilliant album from my heroes!
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Radio Tangra
Overall “Monster” is a great album. Not flawless, not the greatest of them all, but surprisingly catchy.
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Glacially Musical
a solid effort and it succeeds where its predecessor failed: Paul's voice, the recording process, Gene can write songs that aren't extraordinarily creepy now, and the album sounds like it could be a companion piece to Hotter Than Hell.
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YQG Rocks
the album is worthy of being considered one of the better ones
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Yell Magazine
KISS’ Monster successfully recaptures the band’s vibe from the late ‘70s, especially that established sound that was offered on Destroyer.
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Rock Industry Magazine
What we can say is this is a good album for Kiss fans and a welcome listen for all rock fans
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Hub Pages
it's an impressive piece of work from the veteran rockers
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