(Music From) The Elder

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Hard Rock

• heavy
• triumphant
• theatrical

About

After Kiss’ decision to venture into pop music backfired with their hard rock audience and 1980’s <i>Unmasked</i> didn't ignite the faithful, the group made their next serious miscalculation by reuniting with producer Bob Ezrin, who’d done so well with them for 1976’s <i>Destroyer</i> and who was currently riding high due to his production of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album <i>The Wall</i>. Yet the group's decision to record a “concept” album, complete with members of the American Symphony Orchestra and The Roberts Choir, led to Kiss’ poorest sales to date. (Actually just Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons had wanted this; Ace Frehley voted no.) Even the presence of new drummer Eric Carr didn’t fire Kiss up to rock. Still, songs like “A World Without Heroes,” “I,” and the Simmons-Carr “Under the Rose” are much underrated, mostly for being less Kiss-like. The lessons would be quickly learned, and the subsequent <i>Creatures of the Night</i> would return the group to hard rock.

via Apple Music

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