Celebrating 40 years of Animalize with an Exclusive KISSONLINE Collection!

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Thanks to Eric Webb for sharing his autographed KISS Solo album picture disc collection with us. AWESOME pieces of KISSTORY!   

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On this day in KISSTORY - August 4, 2008 - We rocked over 50,000 in Sturgis & Gov. Mike Rounds declared it KISS Day in South Dakota! 

On this day in KISSTORY- August 4, 1977 - Paul Stanley graced the cover of Circus magazine!

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KISS pin capsule machine in Tokyo, Japan. Thanks to NaoKISS for sharing the photo with us.

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On this day in KISSTORY - August 2, 2003 - We opened the World Domination Tour with Aerosmith at the CTNOW.com Meadows Music Centre in Hartford, Connecticut. The 60-date co-headlining North American tour drew over 900,000 fans!

August KISS Magazine Covers 

Hard Rock Magazine - Italy - 2020
Rockin' On! Magazine - Japan - 2019
Sticks! Magazine - Germany - 2017
Metal Hammer - Norway - 2012

Help out a great cause & Bid on a Stage-Played Gene Simmons Axe Bass or an Eric Singer custom Snare Drum signed by KISS at MSG! 

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On this day in KISSTORY- July 30, 1994 - We headlined Gibson's 100th Anniversary celebration in Nashville, Tennessee.

On this day in KISSTORY - July 29, 2016 - KISS' Freedom To Rock Tour invaded Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

What A Terrific Surprise! I ran into Brian May at the ABBA Voyage show in London. We had lots to catch up on. Brian is brilliant on so many levels and a true gentleman The ABBA show is fantastic and the people there had the time of their lives!

Celebrating 40 years of Animalize with an Exclusive KISSONLINE Collection!

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Help out a great cause & Bid on a Stage-Played Gene Simmons Axe Bass or an Eric Singer custom Snare Drum signed by KISS at MSG! 

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About Music Support:

If you work in the UK music industry and are suffering from mental ill-health and/or addiction (or you are supporting someone who is), you are not alone. Industry charity, Music Support, is here for you. Their confidential Helpline, run by peers with lived experience, is available Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm on 0800 030 6789 (or email [email protected]). They also offer fully-accredited training in Mental Health First Aid (of which certain freelancers can apply to do for FREE) and an inspirational Addiction and Recovery Awareness workshop (FREE to freelance production crew). For further information visit www.musicsupport.org 

The Gene Simmons Band opens their Europe Tour on July 27th at the Kuopiorock Festival in Finland!

Full dates & ticket links at www.genesimmons.com/gene-simmons-band-tour.

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The Demon rocks the ceiling of Misuta Chow's Japanese restaurant in Buffalo, NY! 

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From: Goldmine Magazine

On this day back in 1950, the Caravellos from New York welcomed a bouncing baby boy to the family. Paul Charles Caravello would go on to become Eric Carr, drummer for Kiss through the 1980s. Sadly, we lost Eric on November 24, 1991, which is the same day Freddie Mercury passed. Longtime Goldmine writer — and author of the recent Kiss at 50 — Martin Popoff, celebrates Eric’s life and times with a look at the top songs of his tenure. —Pat Prince

Thanks Pat, and a pleasure to write this one up, as that ‘80s period from Kiss is rapidly and continually rising in the estimation of the Kiss faithful as the years roll on. Let’s see if we can figure out why. —Martin Popoff

20. “Little Caesar”

This Hot in the Shade track wouldn’t have made this list on merit alone, because I don’t like these funky, butt-shaking Gene Simmons stripper-rock songs as a rule. But we celebrate it because Eric Carr co-writes (with Simmons and Adam Mitchell) and then turns in a rock-solid, confident lead vocal, his only one besides the band’s “Beth” remake. As it turns out, Eric had a great voice, too, putting him right between Peter Criss and Eric Singer as capable singing drummers in Kiss. And the weird thing is, despite having a somewhat unusual voice, he sounds like Eric Singer, and even, to some extent, Peter when he’s singing higher and cleaner and not doing his lion’s roar. It’s kinda like Kiss’ version of the Genesis story.

19. “Crazy Crazy Nights”

This is just pure stupidity like “Lick It Up,” but it gets sold, partly because it’s the lead track on the mostly anemic Crazy Nights album. There’s a bit of a Charlie Watts approach to the high-hat track that helps the song, which otherwise survives on Paul Stanley’s spirit of hope in it, and then a modulation. OK, maybe it isn’t Shakespeare or Queen, but whatever it is, it’s a hair metal confection that’s hard to get out of your head once you hear it. And the British sure liked it, sending it to No. 1 on the charts, making it the band’s highest-charting U.K. single ever.

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Thank you KISS ARMY! You streamed "I Was Made For Lovin' You" over 1 billion times on Spotify!

July KISS Magazine Covers 

Hit Parader Magazine USA 1976
BURRN! Magazine Japan 2006
Bass Magazine UK 2015
Sweden Rock Magazine 2019

We are saddened to learn of the passing of our friend Ray Ricafort.

Ray was a huge fan who loved to travel with friends to all kinds of KISS related events. We always enjoyed seeing him!

Our thoughts and prayers are with Ray's family & friends in this difficult time.