Comments on: KISS – Sonic Boom (2009)

By: KISS in concert at Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT) – 8/19/10 « Heavy Metal Addiction

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:43:48 +0000

[...] MA two weeks before, and the third in the last year promoting the band’s latest album SONIC BOOM (2009). Overall, this was the 18th time seeing KISS in concert dating back all the way to 1987! This time [...]

By: KISS in concert at Comcast Center (Mansfield, MA) – 8/7/10 « Heavy Metal Addiction

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:03:21 +0000

[...] 11 were in the previous tour’s setlist. There were three new songs from their latest record SONIC BOOM (‘Modern Day Delilah’, ‘Say Yeah’ & ‘I’m An Animal’) [...]

By: john

john — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:17:42 +0000

Great website and great information. You are very knowledgeable about this topic and i can’t wait until we come back and visit your website again!

By: rushia

rushia — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:44:59 +0000

I do think you glossed over the fact that kiss stole a poison song blatantly. It’s not even disguised. It’s embarassing. Is Paul so out of ideas that he has to steal from kiss clone band?
‘Nothin’ but a good time’ was a big hit song on a big selling album. Did he think no one would notice? This alone makes this whole album a piece of shit.
Did you even read your own review? You go on and on about Singer copying Peter, and Thayer copying Ace, and Paul copying Brett Micheals, and kiss copying their past selves, and to top it all off. They bring back an artist from the past who created the greatest album cover of all time, and what does he do. HE COPYS HIMSELF, using what must have been a rejected idea from 1976. Whatever it is, it isn’t cool…it’s a shitty copy of something great. Which summarizes the entire 21st century Kiss experience.
Even Paul Stanley can’t be counted on to keep it real.
I used to tell people that I would be sad when Kiss retired. I have my 2000 Farewell Tour T-shirt to remind me of that sad event. But now I just wished they quit embarassing themselves and their fans.
I’m not someone that has any problems with the merchandise, or member changes, or any of that. But, a band is supposed to be about MUSIC, new music, and new albums.
Psycho Circus was a lie, and weak, when did kiss become a psycho band? and Sonic Boom, the absolute worst title that they could have matched with that stupid cover, is nothing but a testement to total tragedy that kiss has become.
SONIC BOOM is not an album, IT IS A TOMBSTONE for a band long ago dead.
It reads ‘Here lies KISS, The hottest band in the land.’ 1974-1996

By: tokyo5

tokyo5 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:34:16 +0000

I heard that KISS will have a concert in Tokyo for the “Sonic Boom” tour.

(And another KISS-fan in Tokyo…ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman has a new “band”. A sumo champion is on drums! :) )

http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/kiss-and-friedman/

By: maclovio

maclovio — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:10:34 +0000

What is Kiss doing in a Heavy Metal music website? Kiss is bubblegum Pop Rock not Heavy Metal… pleeeease!!

By: The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#1-#10) « Heavy Metal Addiction

The Top 40 Albums of 2009 (#1-#10) « Heavy Metal Addiction — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:36:20 +0000

[...] KISS – Sonic Boom (2009) [...]

By: Fjord Prefect

Fjord Prefect — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:49:50 +0000

Yes, NEVER ENOUGH sounds a bit like Poison. But I always thought Poison sounded like an 80s version of KISS. They were huge fans, as I recall. So what goes around comes around. Also, NOBODY’S PERFECT IS AWESOME AND NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE IT! This one song hooked me to listen to the rest of the album. It’s very much in the same vein of NOTHING TO LOSE and LET ME KNOW – which, unless you’re one of those goofs that thinks REVENGE was an awesome album, is some of the best stuff they ever did! It’s amazing to me that so many fans don’t really like the first three KISS records. It boggles the mind, really. Anyway, SONIC BOOM delivers, even with Paul stuck in the 80s while everyone else managed to get back to the 70s.

By: metalodyssey

metalodyssey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:23:52 +0000

The Psycho Circus insight you give is troubling to me… I just never knew those details. It actually wrecks the credibility of Psycho Circus. I’m shocked to say the least, that such a lame effort was truly put into that album by the original four. (I learn something new constantly). Fast forward to Sonic Boom, I just love this album. A genuine “good time” and Old School, Heavy Metal album at that. Never Enough is my favorite song, then again, I have been a lifetime sucker for Paul Stanley’s vocals.

By: sandman_qc

sandman_qc — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:52:00 +0000

Funny because I think the exact same thing as Tokyo about All For The Glory, Lightning and Stand… My 2 favorites are definitely Danger Us and Yes I Know though… The best KISS album since Creatures… I wasn’t into non-masked KISS… Too fluffy…

Btw, about Psycho Circus, Bruce Kulick plays bass on EVERY song…

By: tokyo5

tokyo5 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:47:04 +0000

>The weakest songs are the two debut lead vocals of Singer & Thayer, ‘All For The Glory’ and ‘When Lightning Strikes’

Really? You think so?
Those are two highlights of the album to me!

>’Stand’…is one of my favorites of the album.

To me, that song’s the album’s only lowpoint!

Anyways, great review (even if I don’t completely agree (but I do agree with most of it!))!

http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/i-got-sonic-boom/

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:53:11 +0000

now there’s a real KISS fan. great job. although it is a tiiiiny bit 2 long… but the biography at the beginning was fab. i didn’t even know the half, so it was very informativ for me. thx