Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley last released an album in 2018 with his “Spaceman” effort. The album featured two songs co-written by KISS bassist Gene Simmons, who also played on a track.
The iconic guitarist has now revealed that the follow-up is just about done and set to be released next year. “My New Studio Record is nearing its completion!” Frehley wrote on social media. “Hopefully it will be out Spring-Summer 2023!!!”
Back in 2020, Frehley told Talking Metal Live he had been busy writing new material. “Plus, I have tracks that I’ve already recorded that I have to revisit and decide whether they have a chance to make it on my new studio record — [if they] have to be rewritten or [they’re] just good the way they are,” he explained. “And I’ve got people sending me song ideas constantly… So, little by little, it’s an ongoing process, and it evolves as it goes.”
Last November, Frehley said he had been collaborating with his longtime friend and guitar teacher Peppy Castro on “some heavy songs.” Castro has previously collaborated with Frehley as well as Simmons and KISS guitarist/singer Paul Stanley.
Frehley appears to be one of the only members of KISS past or present interested in new material. Stanley was asked by Howie Mandel on his podcast if KISS was working on new music.
“No,” he replied. “Because at this point, I came to the conclusion that it can never compete with the past. Not because it’s not as good, but it hasn’t the connection to important times in your life. It doesn’t have that patina to it of, ‘Gee, I remember I heard this song when I was 18,’ or, ‘I heard this song when I was on my first date or whatever.’ You can’t compete with that. It’s more than a song; it’s a snapshot of your life at a certain point.”
Stanley praised the group’s previous two full-length efforts, 2009’s “Sonic Boom” and 2012’s “Monster” saying: “We did two albums in the last, I think probably 10 years, and there are songs on those that are every bit as good as anything I’ve ever written, but they’re new. Somebody says, ‘Why don’t you do a new album?’ You do a new album and do a song — we have one song, ‘Modern Day Delilah’, which is as good as ‘Love Gun’ or any of these songs, but it hasn’t aged; it’s not like wine that has a chance to have grown in importance,” Paul explained. “Not just because of what it is, but because what it’s surrounded by.”
Stanley added that the attention to new KISS music wouldn’t be on par with many of the band’s previous efforts, so he’s not interested. “I think it’s setting myself up for disappointment. Not crushing disappointment, but when you put your heart and soul into doing something and it kind of gets a polite nod, there’s other things I’d rather do.”
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