Kiss-Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions
Okay, I'll be honest with you. The idea of Kiss singing grunge songs is highly amusing and against everything that grunge stands for. Even Paul Stanley knew this. In his autobiography he says "What are we going to be sad about? That our limo wasn't on time? Our maid missed a room? It ain't that dark in Beverly Hills." He was right. Being a super rich rock band you can't really talk about how bad your life is.
Putting that aside from a minute-this album sounds good. It sounds dark and much harder than a Kiss album should. Some of the songs are, of course, over the top and a bit silly in their lyrical content. Though musically it sounds very grunge like. Kiss took a risk with this album and I do respect them for doing that. It's not a home run but it's still a solid record if you can put aside the fact that Paul Stanley was right-when you are super rich you have no right to complain about how bad life is.
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