Kiss
Creatures Of The Night

THE REVIEW

The Kiss. This band is very loved, but there are people who hate it. Keep your ideas, but I really like them (otherwise, why would I be reviewing this album?), so I decided to take on the not-so-easy task of reviewing "Creatures Of The Night." With this album, the Fab Four of the "Kiss" aimed to achieve harder tones after the release of "Dynasty," which contained the well-known "I Was Made For Lovin' You" and then "Unmasked," making this probably the hardest album by Kiss. After the poor success of "Unmasked," Kiss fired Peter Criss and brought in Eric Carr, with whom they recorded "Music From The Elder" and then this beautiful album.

We start with the title track, and from this piece, you can already tell the sound has become harder. The track is great with a very catchy chorus, and at the end, there's a nice little solo. We move on to the second track: the beautiful "Saint And Sinner." This piece is hard, especially in the chorus where Gene Simmons repeats: "You're a Saint, I'm a Sinner," and at the end of the song, Ace Frehley performs a solo that seems to slowly fade into the air. The third track, "Keep Me Comin'," is less hard and more melodic than the preceding tracks, and it's a spectacle to hear the little chorus accompanying Paul Stanley in the refrain. "Rock And Roll Hell" was written together with Bryan Adams, but for this, you should absolutely not think that Kiss are settling into Adams' style; quite the opposite: This is one of the hardest tracks on the album, and Simmons' bass, together with Carr's bass drum, creates a very hard intro. Then immediately follows "Danger," and Stanley returns to sing, delivering another hard piece, and in the chorus, it slightly recalls "I Surrender" by the legendary Rainbow. "I Love It Loud" needs no introduction: it starts with the drums and then the iconic stadium chants kick in for one of the best and hardest tracks by Kiss, to which Simmons contributes with a heavy and fierce voice. Now you hear a guitar arpeggio, a great intro for "I Still Love You," a tragic account of a love ended. It continues with "Killers," a very hard song about a woman-assassin and one of the best episodes of this album. We thus arrive at the last song, honestly my favorite along with "I Love It Loud," "War Machine." This is the hardest track on the album and was also written with Bryan Adams. A distorted guitar riff leads us into this track, where Carr's bass drum, reminiscent of a cannon, must be mentioned.

In short, this album is a MUST-HAVE!!!