English translation from the Swedish Magazine OKEJ. OKEJ was more or less the only music magazine in Sweden during the 1980’s and almost 90% of Swedish youth read it and then talked about in school. Are you interested in the OKEJ magazine phenomena, read more here!
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THE START OF THE LATEST TOUR
KISS NEW ALBUM "ASYLUM"
A PERFECT COMBINATION
We won't be able to see KISS in Swedish concert halls until next summer at the earliest. By then, the new album "Asylum" should be a Kiss classic.
Or what do you think? Don't tell me that you haven't bought "Asylum". If, against all odds, you haven't had time yet, just step on the gas and head to the record store.
Because you should know one thing: Kiss has hit the jackpot with a great album. None of the talk in the pre-release interviews was inflated.
Let's face it: Kiss is a big, hungry, angry, interesting and very good rock band that, well into the 80s, is able to spit out such fine records.
I personally equate "Asylum" with the word "rock'n'roll"; it swings, rocks, there are crazy guitars but above all, powerful melodies.
When I met Paul Stanley and the rest of the band in New York a couple of months before the release of "Asylum", and the band was busy mixing, Paul spoke a lot about what Kiss now seemed to have managed to create. It was no idle talk. "Asylum" is a cross between the old and the new; a kind of "Strutter", combined with "Heaven's On Fire".
Somewhere in there it lies. A simile that, as far as possible, has relevance. And who believed this?
Kiss is the band that, despite great commercial success, has always had to fight against the odds. Success with the audience was a given from the start. Kiss quickly acquired a loyal following of fans all over the world - fans that they have never lost. But the critics did not want to accept Kiss, instead speaking in their "adult" way about "the dangerous band and the "band that ruined youth".
Kiss never really cared about the criticism; they always knew what they were doing and that they always had the support of their fans. But Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley can certainly afford a well-deserved laugh these days.
They said we would disappear after the first LP. Here is Gene Simmons in the studio in New York.
Kiss is the band that has managed to gain a new audience all the time. It really started with "Lick It Up" when suddenly a new group of fans appeared.
With "Animalize" the crowd expanded and today we can talk about a new generation of Kiss fans.
They are the ones who love "Asylum". But just as "Asylum" appeals to the "new" fans, it can also appeal to those who loved Kiss in 1974 (myself included).
"Asylum" is a perfect synthesis of what Kiss has always stood for: hard, sharp, messy but at the same time melodic and pop rock'n'roll. Kiss is also the band that tours a lot.
They work hard and spare no effort on that front. They like to go on longer tours and have, for example, been to Sweden several times.
- Meeting the fans is the most important thing, says Paul Stanley, who doesn't mind surrounding himself with bodyguards. And the Swedish fans are special. They have stood by us in every situation. That's why we will always come back to Sweden.
During the "Animalize" tour, Kiss played three shows in Sweden, in Gothenburg, Stockholm and Lund. However, they did not have the big show with them due to the excessive costs.
For the "Asylum" tour, which starts in the US any week, they have promised to bring "the big show".
- We owe it to our Swedish fans, says Paul Stanley
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- In any case, it will contain many surprises.
If you think about it carefully, it's
It's quite strange that Kiss, with four members who have passed or will soon pass the thirty-year mark, can be so fresh in their music.
Kiss combines the power of rock'n'roll and the heavy metal of hard rock with a very special sense of melody and entertainment. mining. Kiss is American rock'n'roll all the way out in their fingertips.
Then Mötley Crüe, Ratt and all the others in the new American hard rock league can say what they want: Kiss outclasses them all. Very complimentary words. But on the other hand: what can you say after listening to "Asylum"?
Kiss' new album is out. Kiss' new single "Tears Are Falling" is on the record stores and if you're really lucky you'll get to see the video for that song. What are you hesitating about?
"I wanna rock'n'roll all night. I want it every day... that's right. "Asylum".
BY STEFAN JOHANSSON
PHOTO MARK WEISS
PHOTO MARK WEISS