KISS — Unmasked (review)

KISS — Unmasked album cover Album · 1980 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
With Peter Criss a band member in name only by this point - and Anton Fig, his secret in-studio replacement, on the verge of being replaced by official replacement Eric Carr - Unmasked is an album recorded by a band in turmoil. (No, despite the title this wasn't the point where Kiss got rid of their makeup - that would come three years later with Lick It Up.) Boasting a rawer hard rock sound than the preceding Dynasty as a bid to win back those fans put off by that album's disco flirtations, the album doesn't really present any ideas which weren't executed better on previous Kiss albums - right down to the standard Kiss ballad (this time it's called Shandi, on Destroyer it was called Beth...). Tedious, cliched, and not really worth it when there are plenty of livelier and more energetic hard rock bands from the same era you could be listening to - or, indeed, when there are livelier and more energetic Kiss albums from earlier in their career to enjoy.
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