KISS - "Hotter Than Hell" (Sonic Reconstruction 2026)

 

©1974 KISS Catalog, Ltd./UMG 
℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records 

Newly XDR* remastered album. 
*Xtended Dynamic Range 

01 - Got To Choose [00:00:00] 02 - Parasite [00:03:53] 03 - Goin' Blind [00:06:56] 04 - Hotter Than Hell [00:10:33] 05 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll [00:14:03] 06 - All The Way [00:16:20] 07 - Watchin' You [00:19:37] 08 - Mainline [00:23:23] 09 - Comin' Home [00:27:13] 10 - Strange Ways [00:29:51] 

 

So, I've always loved "Hotter Than Hell". In fact it's in my top 5 KISS albums and it's not No. 5!

But, as I heard many, many of us complain, I too did have a slight problem with the way it has always sounded, in various degrees, and this is that it's horribly distorted. I've always connected the sound of the album with an image of over-heating amps and the rattling of metal, everything that was in the studio while it was recorded and everything of metal did ring and buzz, and was recorded with the instruments. Not good.

So, in an attempt to get rid of all that I deconstructed the best high resolution sound image I had and make it as wide and dynamic as possible with a reversed compression technique (sonic decompression). Then I filtered as delicately as possible quite some excessive noise and EQ'd it so that the good distortion is there, as raw as it should be, and most of the nasty distortion on guitars and snare mostly would be gone. And I added some low end, because it is a kind of thin, squashed production to begin with. And, as the final touch I mastered it to my optimum headroom benchmark, DR12.

I'm totally happy with the results, and wanted to share it with you, the KISS fan that is here for a reason, otherwise you would not have read this all, right?!

Enjoy!

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To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this album is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org) 

 

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1980s Albums Where The Remaster Was Ruined — And The One Number That Proves It. [doc]

 

The very reason for the existence of this blog.

From Chile: DECESSUS

 

©2020/2026 Decessus 

℗2026 Hipper Than Hell Records 

decessus.bandcamp.com 

 

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To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances these music videos are intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)  

 

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KISS - Creatures Of The Night Media Collection (Restored & Remastered 2026)

 

01 - PM Magazine: KISS Returns to America 
02 - Eyewitness News: Mardi Gras 1983 
03 - Entertainment Tonight: Controversy with KISS 
04 - Nightside Specialist: Protesting KISS 
05 - CBS Nightwatch: The KISS... of Death? 
06 - Radio Video Interview 
07 - Radio Video Performance 
08 - Brazilian TV: Live In Rio 
09 - News Clip: God Of Thunder 
10 - TV News Clip from Brazil: Interview 
11 - Freeze Frame: Interview 
12 - USA' Night Flight: Interview (Part One) 





01 - MTV News: Interview 
02 - Spanish TV: Lipsync Performance 
03 - Italian TV Special "Discoring": Lipsync Performance 
04 - German 3Sat TV Special: Lipsync Performance 
05 - Top Pop - Holland: Lipsync Performance 
06 - Top Pop - Holland: Behind The Scenes 
07 - USA' Night Flight: Interview (Part Two) 

KISS - "Destroyer Over Anaheim" (Anaheim Stadium 1976) (Restored & Remastered 2026)[V2]

 

Recorded Friday, August 20, 1976
Venue: Anaheim Stadium
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Openers: Flo & Eddy, Montrose, Bob Seger and Ted Nugent

More info: www.kissconcerthistory.com

01 - Detroit Rock City
02 - King of the Night Time World
03 - Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll
04 - Strutter
05 - Hotter Than Hell
06 - Nothin' to Lose
07 - Cold Gin
08 - Guitar Solo
09 - Shout It Out Loud
10 - Do You Love Me
11 - Bass Solo
12 - God of Thunder
13 - Drum Solo
14 - Rock and Roll All Nite
15 - Deuce
16 - Firehouse
17 - Black Diamond

 

Turn Me Up!™

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this music video is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)

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KISS - 2006 - ALIVE! The Millenium Concert (Sonic Restoration 2025) [ complete album stream ]

 

Alive! The Millennium Concert is a live album by the American hard rock band Kiss. It was released on November 21, 2006, as part of the Kiss Alive! 1975–2000 box set.

It was recorded on December 31, 1999, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia and included songs that had never before been performed by the original lineup ("Heaven's on Fire", "I Love It Loud" and "Lick It Up").

Based on the excellent reimagined and expanded album image by Mick E. Gee. in 2010 now for the first time ever with extended dynamics and recreated transients which makes it for a more 3D natural sounding listening experience, which also causes less listening fatique, so you can turn it up louder if you want.

Mick's original liner notes: "This is the official release. HOWEVER, I changed the tempo of each track to varying degrees without changing the pitch. In most cases this can leave some noise artifacts. In this case they are non-existant, or at the very least almost completely unnoticable. As you all know the Millenium disc is a very slow and sluggish performance. I think I've adjusted each track to a tempo which makes this disc a ton more enjoyable. 2,000 mann and god of thunder are included and mixed in with the other tracks. I switched the left and right channels on shout it out loud because it had ace's guitar in the left side whereas he is on the right side on every other track. It is now more uniform."

 

Newly XDR* remastered album.

*Xtended Dynamic Range

 

01 - Psycho Circus

02 - Shout It Out Loud

03 - Deuce

04 - Heaven's On Fire

05 - Into The Void

06 - Firehouse

07 - Do You Love Me

08 - Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll

09 - I Love It Loud

10 - Lick It Up

11 - 2,000 Man

12 - God Of Thunder

13 - 100,000 Years 

14 - Love Gun

15 - Black Diamond

16 - Detroit Rock City

17 - Beth

18 - Rock And Roll All Nite

 

Turn Me Up!™

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this music video is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)

 

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KISS - Detroit, Cobo Hall, January 29th 1977 (Restored & Remastered 2026)

 

Recorded at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, January 29th, 1977

Details:
Promoter: Belkin Productions
Other act(s): Uriah Heep
Attendance: (11,597 capacity)

01 - Detroit Rock City
02 - Take Me
03 - Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll
04 - Ladies Room
05 - Firehouse
06 - Makin' Love
07 - I Want You
08 - Cold Gin
09 - Ace Frehley Solo
10 - Do You Love Me
11 - Nothin' To Lose
12 - Gene Simmons Solo
13 - God Of Thunder
14 - Peter Criss Solo
15 - God Of Thunder (continued)
15 - Rock And Roll All Nite

Notes (from https://www.kissconcerthistory.com/1977/1977-0129):

• Jeanette Frehley flew in and joined Ace for this show.

• Professionally filmed to a standard that in the opinion of the author exceeds the previous year's shows, Cobo '77 is sourced from a 3/4" master tape that surfaced on E-bay in June 2006. That tape was snapped up by a European collector for a bargain $5,000, though the seller, lacking any integrity, immediately started selling DVD copies to others. Once that occurred a free-for-all took place with traders making the video available in as many places as possible for free and reporting the auctions to the E-bay police to get them shutdown.

• Most stunning of the "Rock And Roll Over" tour archive is this incomplete video from the band's final and hastily added third show (Paul references it as the last of the shows during the introduction to "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll"). - It is fitting, perhaps, that this Detroit show is available to collectors, though somewhat sad that the lesser MSG show was featured as a bonus for the KISSology Volume 1 DVD in terms of wider distribution. While incomplete, it is a stunning pro-shot video. Starting with backstage footage of the band heading to the stage (presumably shown on the venue screens), "Detroit Rock City" is joined in progress. The encores are also missing. What is known is that the video for "Beth," from one of the three Cobo shows, was used during the February 10, 1977 broadcast of "The People's Choice" awards show.

Turn Me Up!™

To preserve the excitement, emotion and dynamics of the original performances this music video is intentionally quieter than some. For full enjoyment simply Turn Me Up! (www.TurnMeUp.org)

 

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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. All rights to clips and music belong to their respective owners.