Kiss: Sonic Boom album interview [Video]

Kiss’s 2009 album Sonic Boom was their first in 11 years – the result of a changing music industry and the rise of illegal downloading. But when Classic Rock sat down with Paul Stanley in Las Vegas, the Starchild was as defiant as ever about his band’s place in the grand scheme of things.

“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground”

Thus spoke Gene Simmons at Kiss’s Download 2008 press conference. The assembled hacks wept into their Kiss Kleenex, gnawed their Kiss Biros and squirmed in their Kiss deckchairs as the bassist/vocalist continued his rant. Clearly agitated, Simmons explained that his band were refusing to record new material until illegal downloading ceases, calling the act “uncivilised”.

Well, it’s now a little over a year later… and guess what’s due to hit the stores in a few weeks? A brand spanking new Kiss studio album, that’s what. Eleven freshly recorded songs for you – and Gene, no doubt – to …