One of life's most puzzling questions remains "Why is Kiss not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?" While fans try to figure that one out, they can find some solace in the fact that the masked metallists (whose current line-up is comprised of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer) have begun preparing their 20th studio album overall.
Singer recently posted a photo on his website, of his drum set assembled in a studio, under the caption "Rehearsals have begun for the new KISS record!"
Additionally, DJ JC Green of Alfa Rock 105.7 FM and Metal Messiah Radio's "Heavy Metal Thunder" program recently interviewed Simmons. In the interview, the king of reality TV programming said, "The new record, which we already started working on, is gonna be the next step to Sonic Boom [the group's last studio effort]. Very similar - straight rock songs, no ballads, no keyboards, no nothing, just rock. A lot of the songs [have been] written by the whole band together, so no outside writers, just the band doing what it did on the first three records - writing the songs ourselves."
In the same interview, Simmons also stated "We have almost all the songs written. In fact, we have too many songs; we have about 20 to 25 things that look and sound good."
