The much anticipated Kiss Monster CD is now due out in October, five months after the initially announced release date, and guitarist Paul Stanley says the delay was caused by negotiating a new contract with Universal Music.
“We wanted to have a different type of set up in terms of a distribution,” Stanley tells Metal-Rules.com. “We wanted to go with a label this time.” The band’s previous album, 2009’sSonic Boom, was sold exclusively through Walmart stores. “You know, doing the Walmart deal was great in one way, but in another way, if you didn’t have a Walmart near you, or if you didn’t have iTunes, if you couldn’t get it from iTunes, so it was very limited how you could get the album,” Stanley explains.
The label Kiss wound up with was former label Universal. “[T]hey were very ‘come home,’ very committed to the album,” Stanley says. “So had we wanted to do it a different way, we would have had it out in May. But this made more sense and will make more sense.”
Stanley also says the band was committed to writing all the songs. “One of my rules, when I said I would produce the album, and everybody went along with the idea, [was] no outside writers,” Stanley comments. “It’s very easy to in some cases to have somebody to write a song for you and you put your name on it and you have very little to do with it or maybe you’re doing something else instead of writing songs. And, you know, you come up with the songs that really are not yours. I wanted to make sure that every song was worked on by the band.”
Monster, Kiss’s 20th studio album, includes thirteen new cuts and will be in stores October 15.
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