Kiss: Monster – review

(UMC)Like ZZ Top and Rush before them, Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place. And that was their ability to combine sleazy bar-room riffs with fist-pumping, stadium-sized choruses, all with an arrogance that brooked no doubt as to the heights of their self-declared brilliance. And so it goes here with the likes of Hell and Hallelujah, Shout Mercy and Back to the Stone Age, which recalls proto-punkers...

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