@@michaelmacleod6517 Paul was lip syncing the last 10 years of his career. I don't want to hear about Ace and Peter's playing ever again. It's so overrated that they had people pretend to be Ace and Peter for 20 years while they were filling up arenas. Their career was over until they put the makeup back on. Accept it.
It's sad how Kiss ignore this album. Not to hear one single song, live. I love every song of it. It's dark, it's heavy, it has personality. Too bad most of the fans prefer them to play only the classics...
yeah, I don't understand why , like you said: the fans prefer the classics. KISS played live the same songs because the audience (most of them) don't know the obscure songs, but also they don't have to put any effort on playing others because people keep going to their concerts. I love this album. Carnival of souls and creatures of the night are both my #1 albums of all time. This album is a fucking masterpiece.
Absolutelly accord! As with THE ELDER, the seem to forget when musically go to other zones. And certainly most of the fans prefer the more commercial and light version of KISS...just some as us prefer its darker and deeper version of KISS...
I could watch at least an hour documentary on the recording of this release. It's one of my very favorite KISS releases of ALL time and I've been a hard core fan since the early days as a child growing up when they first came out when I was only 8 yrs old in 1974. I think they really reached a mature peek in their career when they did this one...I also felt that with the Elder (keep in mind it was a soundtrack for a potential movie) The diversity of their playing and sound is so wide yet they keep the same flavor and signature feel with their lyrics and style. I cherish this era a lot for many reasons. Incredible production all the way around on everyone's part~!!!
That last chord and the group picture makes me sad every time I watch this about that this era ended. And it ended much too quickly. The best they have ever been regarding musicality, energy and focus. Great times, Bruce was one heck of a guitar player.
Yea. I really was excited about the reunion tour, been a fan since ‘75, but never wanted the reunion to be permanent. At their peak musically 1990-1995.
It's hated because it sucks. Nearly every song is dreary and a lie. These guys are fing millionaires and they're singing about how the world sucks for them. They said they'd never do an album like this and they sold out and did it and it's a lie.
It is ignored because it isn't Kiss. Sure, it is the band, Kiss..but they are doing what is essentially musical karaoke. It is contrived, forced and uninspired. Sure, bands should evolve and try to bring new ideas to every release. But they reached WAY too far with this album.
I was 25 when it was released and I was all into alternative rock and industry metal at the time, so when KISS released this it felt like they were just trying too hard to be relevant. But I listened to it again not long ago and I really loved it. It`s a great album.
The rare days of a nice, non-douchey Gene (which was probably between 1991 and 1996), he was so happy, fit and had some sense for self-reflexion and Dignity...plus he made his best songs ever during this period...I wonder what caused it...
Reunion was an incredible and great thing for many fans. That said, i'm totally agree that it is the Bruce Kulick "and" Kiss album. Bruce, a talented and humble (too much?) musician, great guitarist, a part savior of Kiss (with the Eric's) deserved to print of his hand a Kiss album and it is this one. The underrated but excellent and one of heaviest Kiss albums, the well named Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions. Reunion was already on that Bruce was still working on this album, making bass, guitars and many productions works. So yes, it would have deserved a tour before making Reunion but as said, business is not waiting... Thank you Bruce Kulick for this album, this is yours and after that, you walk alone...
Paul and Gene to Bruce: "Happy birthday Bruce, this is going to be your last album with KISS after 12 years of loyal service, we appreciate that but money is more important, thank you for nothing"
+evenisher What a fucking whiny bitch. You were the same exact fucking guy who spent the 80s bitching about there not being a makeup reunion. I've never met anyone who wasn't happy that the reunion happened. You're that fucking guy, aren't you? The life of the party. Bet you could clear a room quicker than Hillary Clinton.
When I bought the MTV Unplugged album, I looked at the photo of Bruce, Eric, and the four original members, turned to my then-wife, and joked, "Those two guys are like, 'We are SO fired now.'" Sad to have been so right. I mean, yeah - I saw the reunion tour too, and Singer's been back with the band since Peter glitched his ride AGAIN. Carnival of Souls, though, is the sound of a band that's not trying to sound like KISS, and it's a shame that band got strangled right as it hit its stride.
Because Kulick had his own style that was more versatile and unique. Paul and Gene typically just emulate. Thayer and Singer I feel are more or less at the mercy of Paul and Gene so you wouldn’t get much creativity out of future works. Psycho Circus would have been way better had Peter and Ace had more input.
I still remember the first time I put this album in my radio, I was really not expecting the amount of heaviness that this record had but I loved every single song, I also loved that Bruce finally sang at least one song on this album, this album should've gotten more exposure than it did (or rather didn't I suppose).
They didn't want to promote it. Paul never liked it, deoesn't to this day and by the time they were recording COS Paul and Gene were already putting the reunion tour together and knew they weren't going to tour to support it.
"Make a wish!" "I wish that they'll change their minds about the Reunion." (Later on Bruce turns on the 1996 Grammys) "Oh, great, Tupac. Good time to call Gene and Paul and see what the plan..." (KISS walks on stage) "Fuck!"
I honestly feel if after revenge they followed the grudge wave for a while they would found a new sound. I know kiss is gonna be kiss and put the makeup on but I really liked carnival of souls and it was toward the end of grudge and the start of the nu metal wave. Kiss would kicked ass in the grudge scene. This album proves it. It’s so different from the regular stuff tho they don’t really acknowledge it which is sad
I agree, this was Kiss at their finest.... The Elder was brilliant too. What pisses me off is the overall mentally of the common Kiss fan... They want another Destroyer, or Rock N Roll Over, Or Creatures, but when Kiss ventures off to explore new ground like this, its not well received and rejected and dismissed as a commercial failure... So, we end up with safe bullshit like Monster, and Sonic Boom! Fuck the ball and chains of the make up and spandex and continue to explore as an artist and grow....I love this album....it's honest, and has the finger prints of Bruce all through it....totally different band then the lunch box and pinball machine selling supergroup! A+
Its not the best kiss record niether the worst. When I listened to it for the first time back in the day, i was like... WTF, is this kiss? ....But It has aged well. Still listening to it today...
This era I was getting into Heavily, it resparked my interest in KISS again, then.......it was over, BUT Got to see them on the reunion Tour a few times, but........ theres this litlle nugget of a great album, just left all alone, almost invisible, flew right under the radar.
This is a BEST album of KISS, very underrated...Revenge and Carnival of Souls are the best because this is the best line-up, Paul's great all time, Bruce got the best solos, Eric S. is far better than Peter and Gene's voice has changed in the 90's (to better of course)...KISS Rulezzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was the best Kiss album after Creatures of the Night. Dark and Heavy and with a personality of its own. Great songs. It was kiss rocking again as a band. The reunion was a big mistake. Gene and Paul always thinking with their pockets...
Esse, para mim, é um dos MELHORES discos do KISS. A engenharia de som trabalhor MUUUUITO bem!!! Acho a formação aqui (Gene, Paul, Eric e Bruce) a melhor que já houve!!! Eles são 1000000000000000000!!!!!!
Bruce Kulick (12 de diciembre de 1953, Brooklyn, Nueva York), es un guitarrista de rock conocido por su trabajo en Kiss. Fue hermano del también guitarrista Bob Kulick, que participó igualmente en Kiss como músico de sesión. 70 AÑOS. (71)
Stanley Bert Eisen (Queens, Nueva York, 20 de enero de 1952), más conocido como Paul Stanley, es un músico, cantante y pintor estadounidense, reconocido por ser la voz principal, guitarra rítmica y fundador junto a Gene Simmons de la banda de rock Kiss. Ha participado en la composición de la mayoría de los éxitos de la banda y, junto a Simmons, ha liderado a la agrupación durante sus cincuenta años de trayectoria. Su personaje representado en Kiss es The Starchild o El Chico Estrella. 72 AÑOS.
To all the people who bag this album they really have to clean your ears out and have a good listen to it it is absolutely brilliant ,,so many songs on it which could have been big big hits but of course the reunion got in the way and no one really cares about this album
To you guys who can't find it on the Kissology Vol 3: Just klick in the "Kissology" logo in the menu. Obelisk2290: No, this wasn't supposed to be the reunion album. After MTV Unplugged, they went back to do a new album with Eric and Bruce. But as you all know, the reunion DID happen, right after when Carnival of Souls was finished. Take a notice on the recording dates, between nov 1995 -jan 1996. But the album itself was released in 1997!
carnival of souls is such an odd anomaly. it's bad by kiss standards, being compared to destroyer or love gun or even creatures that even shares a darker tone- but by its own it's actually pretty enjoyable and has very clean and precise production. it's very obviously a brainchild of gene and bruce and it makes me wonder what it would've been like had gene leaned more into grunge or more experimental music of the time as a side gig. imagine gene collabing with Danzig or rob zombie. he's obviously got a taste for the performance art and horror so I wonder what he thinks of marylin Manson or slipknot. as great and successful as the reunion was, it's a bit predictable in hindsight. the other timeline where gene makes more goth oriented music seems interesting.
I would pay top dollar $$$ to see this band line up! Gene & Paul were to embarrassed & ashamed to take off the make up after the Psycho Circus catastrophe!!! COS is an extension of Revenge! Straight R&R - Heavy Metal. I don't get a Grunge vibe what's over! RIP KISS!!! Welcome to the Gene & Paul show!!!
Lance........Paul and Gene aren't and never were about musical growth.and production, they are about $$ and that's all that matters. They knew the financial ceiling with Eric and Bruce which was nowhere near where a reunion tour wouid put them.
I do agree with Paul in his book that Kiss would not be believable writing dark, brooding songs, and he's right, they're really not. As usual, Paul blames someone else for this "misstep", and once again, it's Gene. This album is the 90's equivalent of "The Elder", both are good albums, had they been made by someone else. They're just not good Kiss albums and what they needed at those phases of their career.. This is another instance where Kiss jumped into then-current musical trends; there was the Disco influence on "Dynasty" in 1979, then there's grunge and down-tuned metal here.
My fave Kiss albums: Creatures, Lick, Sonic Boom, Carnival, Animalize, The Elder. In that order. I only want HEAVY Kiss. And Bruce was great towards the end of his run - he really found his style. Awesome player.
Kiss: "we follow our own rules" 1979 hey lets make a disco song! 80's hey lets make poppy hair music! 95 hey lets make a dark moody album cuz grunge is popular!
I can appreciate the heaviness of the songs and even think there are some cool things going on here. But watching KISS once again bowing to the "Hip" music for the time just seems a little desperate especially for guys in their mid to late 40's. Certainly less embarrassing than "I was made" but a tad cringy. Cheers!
I feel like Gene still wanted this era and kiss sound to continue. Look at songs on psycho circus. Within, journey of 1,000 years. I can easily see those songs on here or with eric and bruce playing on them
Carnival of Souls was a brilliant album. I was never more proud to be a Kiss fan than during the period of 1992 through 1995. That's when the band was at its height.
I think he was playing some kind of drum but yes agreed no clips of Eric actually playing his drums. I think we would all like to see Eric play his drums
I just discovered this album thanks to my buddy Leroy. Technically it's the best thing since Destroyer or the Elder. Too bad things didn't take off with this album. Amazing musicianship. Bruce really shines on this. All I can say is WOW! I have Kissology 2 and 3 and can't find this footage either!
too bad Kiss spept this under the rug too play the same shit they've been playing since the 70's."we're playing the whole ALIVE album".i love it,but goddamn!play "hate" ,at least.
ricky odom I agree with you but the time was right to cash in on the reunion, make up and all. Wish that they would have returned to this after the Fair well tour.
I enjoyed this album but this was too much of an obvious attempt for them to adapt to the trend that was dominating the chats back then from other bands, people criticize them for The Elder for venturing outside the box but that is a great album and in my top 5 but COS wasn't a genuine Kiss album imo, but I still like it, "Hate" is a killer song, as well as "I Walk Alone" by Kulick,and "In My Head" is my favorite.....
This version never should have broken up. When Kiss were musicians instead of a nostalgic image.
This version may not have broken up if they didn't do the Unplugged albums...
The real reason is Tommy can't play any of the solos.
They weren't making any money. They were literally trying to capitalize on the grunge craze with this album. 70's KISS will always rule Supreme.
@@mr.brenman2132 Eat it. Ace and Peter are sloppy players with diminishing skills. The makeup era was massively overrated.
@@michaelmacleod6517 Paul was lip syncing the last 10 years of his career. I don't want to hear about Ace and Peter's playing ever again. It's so overrated that they had people pretend to be Ace and Peter for 20 years while they were filling up arenas. Their career was over until they put the makeup back on. Accept it.
It's sad how Kiss ignore this album. Not to hear one single song, live. I love every song of it. It's dark, it's heavy, it has personality. Too bad most of the fans prefer them to play only the classics...
yeah, I don't understand why , like you said: the fans prefer the classics. KISS played live the same songs because the audience (most of them) don't know the obscure songs, but also they don't have to put any effort on playing others because people keep going to their concerts. I love this album. Carnival of souls and creatures of the night are both my #1 albums of all time. This album is a fucking masterpiece.
Absolutelly accord! As with THE ELDER, the seem to forget when musically go to other zones. And certainly most of the fans prefer the more commercial and light version of KISS...just some as us prefer its darker and deeper version of KISS...
Paul stated they didn’t play it because it was more of Gene’s idea than his and he never liked the album
Well it really looks like just a random album that happens to be shit
I personally don't like at all
I could watch at least an hour documentary on the recording of this release. It's one of my very favorite KISS releases of ALL time and I've been a hard core fan since the early days as a child growing up when they first came out when I was only 8 yrs old in 1974. I think they really reached a mature peek in their career when they did this one...I also felt that with the Elder (keep in mind it was a soundtrack for a potential movie) The diversity of their playing and sound is so wide yet they keep the same flavor and signature feel with their lyrics and style. I cherish this era a lot for many reasons. Incredible production all the way around on everyone's part~!!!
That last chord and the group picture makes me sad every time I watch this about that this era ended. And it ended much too quickly. The best they have ever been regarding musicality, energy and focus. Great times, Bruce was one heck of a guitar player.
Yea. I really was excited about the reunion tour, been a fan since ‘75, but never wanted the reunion to be permanent. At their peak musically 1990-1995.
I'm glad they did the reunion, but when Ace and Peter left again, they should have immediately lost the makeup and reverted to this lineup.
IS one heck of a guitar player
How is this album so hated? It's a freaking masterpiece...
It's hated because it sucks. Nearly every song is dreary and a lie. These guys are fing millionaires and they're singing about how the world sucks for them. They said they'd never do an album like this and they sold out and did it and it's a lie.
@@berighteous Exactly!
It is ignored because it isn't Kiss. Sure, it is the band, Kiss..but they are doing what is essentially musical karaoke. It is contrived, forced and uninspired. Sure, bands should evolve and try to bring new ideas to every release. But they reached WAY too far with this album.
Agreed
I was 25 when it was released and I was all into alternative rock and industry metal at the time, so when KISS released this it felt like they were just trying too hard to be relevant. But I listened to it again not long ago and I really loved it. It`s a great album.
The last album before they became a nostalgia act... :(
The rare days of a nice, non-douchey Gene (which was probably between 1991 and 1996), he was so happy, fit and had some sense for self-reflexion and Dignity...plus he made his best songs ever during this period...I wonder what caused it...
probably having kids
mattsteeleNJ Yeah, never thought of that, but you may be right :-)
cannot agree with you more. Gene Revenge era was the most down to earth version. Specially in the Xtreme Close up documentary.
maybe Shannon?
You know Gene personally? Tell him I said hi please.
Reunion was an incredible and great thing for many fans.
That said, i'm totally agree that it is the Bruce Kulick "and" Kiss album.
Bruce, a talented and humble (too much?) musician, great guitarist, a part savior of Kiss (with the Eric's) deserved to print of his hand a Kiss album and it is this one.
The underrated but excellent and one of heaviest Kiss albums, the well named Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions.
Reunion was already on that Bruce was still working on this album, making bass, guitars and many productions works. So yes, it would have deserved a tour before making Reunion but as said, business is not waiting...
Thank you Bruce Kulick for this album, this is yours and after that, you walk alone...
Man, Paul's voice is powerful!!
I'm perhaps the only man in my town that wears a bra on a regular basis.
Paul sucks
@@acefrehley681 You suck
Don't touch anything
@@acefrehley681 PAUL IS HOT AS HELL
That was one of their best and heaviest albums
Shawn Pierce naw
Shawn Pierce I agree
Gene ripped on early 90s bands, then completely trys his best "Alice in Chains+Soundgarden." Lol. KISS is terrible.
Sorry Nirvana and early-mid 90s ended 100s of crappy bands like KISS
Amazingly underrated album. As a KISS fan this is in my top 5, maybe even 3! Incredible.
This is like Bruce's little baby and they just putted in the trash, is sad
Paul and Gene to Bruce: "Happy birthday Bruce, this is going to be your last album with KISS after 12 years of loyal service, we appreciate that but money is more important, thank you for nothing"
+evenisher What a fucking whiny bitch. You were the same exact fucking guy who spent the 80s bitching about there not being a makeup reunion. I've never met anyone who wasn't happy that the reunion happened. You're that fucking guy, aren't you? The life of the party. Bet you could clear a room quicker than Hillary Clinton.
yeh .. that sucked..after reunion bruce should have been straight back... and the make up should have fucking gone..
Agreed.
@@dannymiller7880 true
When I bought the MTV Unplugged album, I looked at the photo of Bruce, Eric, and the four original members, turned to my then-wife, and joked, "Those two guys are like, 'We are SO fired now.'"
Sad to have been so right. I mean, yeah - I saw the reunion tour too, and Singer's been back with the band since Peter glitched his ride AGAIN. Carnival of Souls, though, is the sound of a band that's not trying to sound like KISS, and it's a shame that band got strangled right as it hit its stride.
yeah this is my favorite kiss album of all time! hands down
Easily their most polished album.
mine too
Such an underrated but incredible album
Absolutely brilliant record.
How did Kiss go from COS to Sonic Doom & Monster ??? Kiss went backwards musically in my opinion.
There are great cuts on both albums. But, I think Monster is a great album. I love the production.
mark lee Monster is similar to this album
Because Kulick had his own style that was more versatile and unique. Paul and Gene typically just emulate. Thayer and Singer I feel are more or less at the mercy of Paul and Gene so you wouldn’t get much creativity out of future works. Psycho Circus would have been way better had Peter and Ace had more input.
@@ShockMe1994 No it isn't.
AWESOME video, Bruce is a pure magician with the guitar! :-)
I still remember the first time I put this album in my radio, I was really not expecting the amount of heaviness that this record had but I loved every single song, I also loved that Bruce finally sang at least one song on this album, this album should've gotten more exposure than it did (or rather didn't I suppose).
They didn't want to promote it. Paul never liked it, deoesn't to this day and by the time they were recording COS Paul and Gene were already putting the reunion tour together and knew they weren't going to tour to support it.
@@strtngfrsh Did Paul agree to the Reunion Tour and to reunite with Peter and Ace just so he wouldnt have to promote this album?
"Make a wish!"
"I wish that they'll change their minds about the Reunion."
(Later on Bruce turns on the 1996 Grammys)
"Oh, great, Tupac. Good time to call Gene and Paul and see what the plan..."
(KISS walks on stage)
"Fuck!"
Lmfao
Jesus! For quite a dark album they were really happy during recording! :3
Kokopelli u right!!!
I love how Eric Singer was playing with that little kid.He's so sweet.He seems like such a nice person.Who else agrees??
That’s Evan Stanley and I agree.
@@palandersdramstad294 Paul wrote „I will be there“ for Evan.
I think that's Nick Simmons. Evan Stanley would have been about two years old at the time.
@@robertclark6349Nick is the boy with the gun, Evan is the one with Eric
One of the best KISS albums by far
Paul Stanley singing his ass off here.. 1:13
Yes, now he can't sing anything in high notes
whats song das singing
whats song was singing ?
David Atzayacatl Rain
In my opinion,some of Paul's best songs are on this album
I honestly feel if after revenge they followed the grudge wave for a while they would found a new sound. I know kiss is gonna be kiss and put the makeup on but I really liked carnival of souls and it was toward the end of grudge and the start of the nu metal wave. Kiss would kicked ass in the grudge scene. This album proves it. It’s so different from the regular stuff tho they don’t really acknowledge it which is sad
This was the last "real" Kiss album
it was indeed ..psyco circus was ok..to poppy... but carnival of souls was fantastic..
Ik totally agree
Yep. They became a nostalgia act after this.
SONIC BOOM!!! if you don't like SB...don't call yourself a KISS fan and don't frigging talk to me.
Nope. Love gun was the last real kiss album
I agree, this was Kiss at their finest....
The Elder was brilliant too. What pisses me off is the overall mentally of the common Kiss fan...
They want another Destroyer, or Rock N Roll Over, Or Creatures, but when Kiss ventures off to explore new ground like this, its not well received and rejected and dismissed as a commercial failure... So, we end up with safe bullshit like Monster, and Sonic Boom! Fuck the ball and chains of the make up and spandex and continue to explore as an artist and grow....I love this album....it's honest, and has the finger prints of Bruce all through it....totally different band then the lunch box and pinball machine selling supergroup!
A+
They blew this tour away with the reunion.
Great album. Imagine if the reunion didn't happen KISS would still be releasing good quality songs.
True. They should have ended the Reunion in 2000 and went back to this.
@ Agreed, When they started making albums with the original lineup it was like bubble gum rock.
I walk alone trumps all here! I love "fan" hated albums!!! Talent rules.
Real fucking singers!! In studio with put the headphones on without music it still sounds excellent !
This is just classic!!! One of top 5 kiss records ever.... Bruce really shines on this one... 10 Stars...
one of their heaviest album and so full of raw energy in it i love it.
1:14 can we just stop for a second and appreciate this? This is amazing!
Sadly its gone
One of the best KISS albums ever !
What a shame it didn't get the release it deserved...
Its not the best kiss record niether the worst. When I listened to it for the first time back in the day, i was like... WTF, is this kiss? ....But It has aged well. Still listening to it today...
One of my favourite KISS Albums ever
This era I was getting into Heavily, it resparked my interest in KISS again, then.......it was over, BUT Got to see them on the reunion Tour a few times, but........ theres this litlle nugget of a great album, just left all alone, almost invisible, flew right under the radar.
Bruce is a true genious
This album is fucking great. It's sad that it never got the love it deserves from the band.
This is a BEST album of KISS, very underrated...Revenge and Carnival of Souls are the best because this is the best line-up, Paul's great all time, Bruce got the best solos, Eric S. is far better than Peter and Gene's voice has changed in the 90's (to better of course)...KISS Rulezzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the best records they've done!
This was the best Kiss album after Creatures of the Night. Dark and Heavy and with a personality of its own. Great songs. It was kiss rocking again as a band. The reunion was a big mistake. Gene and Paul always thinking with their pockets...
DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!! LOL
Glad they decided against the backing vocals in Rain. Totally would've pissed on the song
Last time they were a real band.
Esse, para mim, é um dos MELHORES discos do KISS. A engenharia de som trabalhor MUUUUITO bem!!! Acho a formação aqui (Gene, Paul, Eric e Bruce) a melhor que já houve!!! Eles são 1000000000000000000!!!!!!
I have been a Kiss Army brother since 1979 and i couldn't agree more!
The two albums with the most complexity & depth.
The two best albums for sure.
The last great album they made. Damn I still miss Bruce
I know that the band was not thrilled with the album, but I thought it was a good, different album. I liked it a lot.
Super album. Monster riffs galore!
Bruce Kulick (12 de diciembre de 1953, Brooklyn, Nueva York), es un guitarrista de rock conocido por su trabajo en Kiss. Fue hermano del también guitarrista Bob Kulick, que participó igualmente en Kiss como músico de sesión.
70 AÑOS. (71)
Stanley Bert Eisen (Queens, Nueva York, 20 de enero de 1952), más conocido como Paul Stanley, es un músico, cantante y pintor estadounidense, reconocido por ser la voz principal, guitarra rítmica y fundador junto a Gene Simmons de la banda de rock Kiss. Ha participado en la composición de la mayoría de los éxitos de la banda y, junto a Simmons, ha liderado a la agrupación durante sus cincuenta años de trayectoria. Su personaje representado en Kiss es The Starchild o El Chico Estrella.
72 AÑOS.
what a great album
loved it too...expecially .. childhoods end.. i.ll be there..pity not many others did..
Tape Trading gold for many. Then was officially released. If you know, you know. Still a killer album 🤘🔥🤘
1:16 it’s sad to see Paul can’t sing this anymore
To all the people who bag this album they really have to clean your ears out and have a good listen to it it is absolutely brilliant ,,so many songs on it which could have been big big hits but of course the reunion got in the way and no one really cares about this album
Order of tunes:
- I Will Be There
- Childhood’s End
- Rain
- Hate
- It Never Goes Away
- Childhood’s End (again)
- I Will Be There (again)
@ 2:14: Watching Bruce in action is priceless. 👍👍
Awesome album..Paul in top form
Those harmonies are on fire! 3:15
Gotta love "Childhood's End"
personally i think they should have got bruce back in and not tommy
Bruce didn't want to wear makeup.
@@strtngfrsh I believe Bruce didn't want to wear ACE's makeup
Whatever the case may be...imitating others, not original Kiss etc. This Album Kicks Ass!!!
To you guys who can't find it on the Kissology Vol 3: Just klick in the "Kissology" logo in the menu.
Obelisk2290: No, this wasn't supposed to be the reunion album. After MTV Unplugged, they went back to do a new album with Eric and Bruce. But as you all know, the reunion DID happen, right after when Carnival of Souls was finished.
Take a notice on the recording dates, between nov 1995 -jan 1996. But the album itself was released in 1997!
Where can I get more of this recording session stuff? Does any more exist?
carnival of souls is such an odd anomaly. it's bad by kiss standards, being compared to destroyer or love gun or even creatures that even shares a darker tone- but by its own it's actually pretty enjoyable and has very clean and precise production.
it's very obviously a brainchild of gene and bruce and it makes me wonder what it would've been like had gene leaned more into grunge or more experimental music of the time as a side gig. imagine gene collabing with Danzig or rob zombie. he's obviously got a taste for the performance art and horror so I wonder what he thinks of marylin Manson or slipknot.
as great and successful as the reunion was, it's a bit predictable in hindsight. the other timeline where gene makes more goth oriented music seems interesting.
Paul in his overalls. Who looks like they just stepped out of Hee Haw now, Stan? :D
Paul did dudes on the farm
2:18 Why they didn't keep that solo? Its badass.
I Love Carnival of Souls 😎
I would pay top dollar $$$ to see this band line up! Gene & Paul were to embarrassed & ashamed to take off the make up after the Psycho Circus catastrophe!!! COS is an extension of Revenge! Straight R&R - Heavy Metal. I don't get a Grunge vibe what's over! RIP KISS!!! Welcome to the Gene & Paul show!!!
Dude.. the look, the attempted sound? It's a complete attempt at ripping off grunge. Soundgarden/Alice in Chains mostly
The last album Kiss did before they reunited with Ace and Peter and returned to being the band I grew up with in makeup.
Great album, Paul couldn't deal with it. How can you listen to the 80's load of crap and call this bad?
Such a shame this line up didn't last past Revenge. The Reunion tour was so stupid in hindsight.
No not really, it made them tons of cash, this lineup didn't make nearly as much money.
ShockMe1994 True, but from a creative view, it stalled the band's musical growth and production.
Lance E I agree.
Lance........Paul and Gene aren't and never were about musical growth.and production, they are about $$ and that's all that matters. They knew the financial ceiling with Eric and Bruce which was nowhere near where a reunion tour wouid put them.
I do agree with Paul in his book that Kiss would not be believable writing dark, brooding songs, and he's right, they're really not. As usual, Paul blames someone else for this "misstep", and once again, it's Gene. This album is the 90's equivalent of "The Elder", both are good albums, had they been made by someone else. They're just not good Kiss albums and what they needed at those phases of their career.. This is another instance where Kiss jumped into then-current musical trends; there was the Disco influence on "Dynasty" in 1979, then there's grunge and down-tuned metal here.
I believe Music from the Elder was the closest thing for Kiss to adapt the new wave trend like Dynasty - Disco, Carnival of the soul - grunge.
4:50 to 4:55 the album cover to carnival of souls
Bruce Kulick and eric singer - the best ! miss...
Paul and Gene saw the money in the original line up and makeup and threw this album and the other two guys out the window.
2:16 - AIC/Jerry Cantrell influence, or is it just me?
Kinda like soundgarden too
Not HC fan but I also think this is one the KISS' best albums.
My fave Kiss albums: Creatures, Lick, Sonic Boom, Carnival, Animalize, The Elder. In that order. I only want HEAVY Kiss. And Bruce was great towards the end of his run - he really found his style. Awesome player.
Kiss: "we follow our own rules"
1979 hey lets make a disco song!
80's hey lets make poppy hair music!
95 hey lets make a dark moody album cuz grunge is popular!
Pra mim , é um dos melhores disco do Kiss. Aqui eles haviam atingindo um patamar de maestria musical. É espetacular mas injustiçado.
One of their best albums. No contest.
Bruce was the best pure musician they ever had. I miss his contributions to the band with no disrespect towards anyone else whose been there.
I can appreciate the heaviness of the songs and even think there are some cool things going on here. But watching KISS once again bowing to the "Hip" music for the time just seems a little desperate especially for guys in their mid to late 40's. Certainly less embarrassing than "I was made" but a tad cringy. Cheers!
The problem with Kiss is the ridiculous excess of marketing
I feel like Gene still wanted this era and kiss sound to continue. Look at songs on psycho circus. Within, journey of 1,000 years. I can easily see those songs on here or with eric and bruce playing on them
These songs were left overs from COS.
This album was really incredible. The tunes & playing were solid.
So cute how Eric Singer is playing with little Evan
I love this album too, especially Paul's songs
their best album after Music from "The Elder".
Михаил Алексеев you're an idiot.
Carnival of Souls was a brilliant album. I was never more proud to be a Kiss fan than during the period of 1992 through 1995. That's when the band was at its height.
Really? The voice of Kiss BASHED Grunge and its look for 3 years. Then decides to rip off grunge. A terrible attempt too btw
There's +100 bands fr 93-95 alone that would embarrass KISS if they opened up for them. STP made KISS look ridiculous. When STP opened for KISS
@@jasonpeters9865Stone Temple Pilots SUCKS and so does many bands from 93-95 that you are referring to.
This video is included in kissalology but it is a very short video, there was not a single short of Eric Singer playing the drums
I think he was playing some kind of drum but yes agreed no clips of Eric actually playing his drums. I think we would all like to see Eric play his drums
I like this album and that lineup might have been the best musically no disrespect to Eric Carr
Aww Eric with ... Sophie I'm guessing ? Anyway awwwwww!!!!
My guess is Evan Stanley
I just discovered this album thanks to my buddy Leroy. Technically it's the best thing since Destroyer or the Elder. Too bad things didn't take off with this album. Amazing musicianship. Bruce really shines on this. All I can say is WOW! I have Kissology 2 and 3 and can't find this footage either!
too bad Kiss spept this under the rug too play the same shit they've been playing since the 70's."we're playing the whole ALIVE album".i love it,but goddamn!play "hate" ,at least.
ricky odom I agree with you but the time was right to cash in on the reunion, make up and all. Wish that they would have returned to this after the Fair well tour.
Suenan muy parecido a Alice un chains
I enjoyed this album but this was too much of an obvious attempt for them to adapt to the trend that was dominating the chats back then from other bands, people criticize them for The Elder for venturing outside the box but that is a great album and in my top 5 but COS wasn't a genuine Kiss album imo, but I still like it, "Hate" is a killer song, as well as "I Walk Alone" by Kulick,and "In My Head" is my favorite.....
fucking bad ass album and im not even a kiss fan
I'm agreed with you, totally one of their best albums ... and also the elder is one of my favorites ...
I am an old kiss head I’m weird I know it but my favorite albums are the first three, the elder, Asylum and carnival of Souls