On Friday at the KISS Kruise: Landlocked in Vegas event, Paul Stanley mentioned that he's working on new music. Well, it turns out that it's new music for KISS.
On Sunday, during the band's Q&A session, he said, "We like to tell you what we're doing, the things that are planned. The problem is that so much of what we may bring up never comes to fruition, [but] music, yeah, that looks more than possible. Probable. I'm not going to give you any hints, but I only write when there's a project -- and I've been writing."
It will likely be more mature lyrically than what they're known for. Case in point, during their performance on Saturday, they did "Take Me" off their 1976 album, Rock and Roll Over for the first time since 2022, with Stanley saying, "It's really funny because some of those songs are not really age-appropriate anymore. I couldn't imagine writing a song today [saying], 'Put your hand into my pocket / grab onto my rocket.' A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there."
Gene Simmons was asked if there was anything he could change, and he said, "If I have any regrets, it's that I sometimes -- and I think we all go through this -- wish we were smarter and better at trying to help Ace [Frehley] and Peter [Criss] have better lives. All of us are guilty of it, and so am I: 'I don't want to start an argument. Let's just continue doing the tour,' because you want to get through it for selfish reasons because it's working and the chicks and the money and [so on], and you don't want to ruin anything. [In the] meantime, somebody who might be your brother is ruining their life by bad decisions. I think this goes to your friends, your lovers, your family members -- I wish I would have practiced more tough love and been more in the face of people that we cared about… Tough love is a good idea in my opinion with your children, with the people you love, with the people you care about, with the people you work with. It's not going to be a popular thing -- you're going to argue about it -- but in the long run, you're going to be helping that person hopefully change their life."
Up next for KISS is receiving the Kennedy Center Honors on December 6th. The ceremony will air on CBS on December 23rd.