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Kiss - Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions Audio CD

A fair review of the Kiss "Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kiss reviews here, or go back to the Kiss tabs.

Kiss Band: Kiss
Title: Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions
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Release Date: 1997-10-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hate 2: Rain 3: Master & Slave 4: Childhood's End 5: I Will Be There 6: Jungle 7: In My Head 8: It Never Goes Away 9: Seduction of the Innocent 10: I Confess 11: In the Mirror 12: I Walk Alone

KISS gets deep...Real Deep (No pun intended).
That being said, should you buy COS? That depends. If you are considering getting Carnival of Souls, you probably have a lot of KISS's other works and are looking to complete your collection. If you are looking for more party music to cheer you up, well, this isn't the album for you. A lot of people criticize KISS for doing songs that mostly focus on sex and partying, and frankly, that's what they excel at, in a loud, fun and hard rockin' way. I really don't have a problem with that because they are very talented at it, and quite frankly, there are a lot worse topics that a person could sing about. Most times that I listen to music, I'm looking for an escape from the mundane problems and dramas of reality. So, KISS fills that void for me perfectly. But when I finally got around to buying COS and listened to it, I was floored by how really good it is. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, and Bruce Kulick really made a touching and beautiful album when they recorded these songs. The playing by all is amazingly good, and the range of singing by Gene, and especially Paul are outstanding. So if you are ready to listen to something more mature and moody from KISS, look no further, this is the album for you.


Now we'll never know what could've been
Supposedly it was to be released in 1994 to coincide with the release of "Kiss My A**", but somehow someone offered them alot of money to regroup, and put on the make-up, and do a reunion tour. This album was shrouded in one of those never meant to be albums. While "Revenge" was a good album let's face it the big hair metal bands were becoming a thing of the past. Warrant was trying to do thrash metal, Ratt broke up, Motley Crue's 1994 release was less glam, and more hard rock from the 70's. Kiss saw the writing on the wall, and wanted to try their hand at the latest craze which was grunge. They apparently did their homework as it comes close to sounding like Seattle, but still comes off sounding like NYC. Some of the highlights are: "Hate", "Jungle", "Seduction Of The Innocent", and "I Walk Alone". Mind you Kiss may have waited too long to go grunge as grunge by April 8, 1994 was starting to die off after Kurt Cobain's death. However, all is not lost here, in fact it sounds like what "Rock and Roll Over" should've sounded like in 1976. Now we'll never know what Kiss was capable of doing with grunge let along alternative music in general. Once the reunion tour was off and running they never looked back. I will have to play "Psycho Circus" to see if they went alternative, or no. Otherwise this is what could've been the "NEW" Kiss. I have no idea what Eric Singer is up to these days, but I know Bruce Kulick went on to play with Grand Funk Railroad. I haven't decided yet if I will buy this, or not. It does sound appealling. .


Phenomenal!
This disc is so good that I'm still made about the reunion tour 13 years ago that broke up this lineup. I bought this cd when it came out and I think it's still in my cd changer. As much as I love Gene and Paul, I wish they would just think about the music instead of the money for a change.


carnival
"jungle" has to be one of the best paul stanley songs ever and should be played live. the carnival was better than the circus imo.


Carnival of Souls Not that Bad...
Heavy wise I put it up there with Creatures of the Night. This is alot better then the stuff they did in the 80's. I think it has a little Sabbath sound to it. I think the last best album they ever did was Rock and Roll Over. Carnival of Souls I like it.


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