Metal Memes

Back in the early/mid 90s I had just bought Death Spiritual Healing, Malevolent Creation Ten Commandments, and Nocturnus The Key from a video rental place in my home town.

Me and a buddy listened to all of the metal I just got and decided to see what else we could find. Then we saw it, it had to be the holy grail of heavy metal! There was a motorcycle blasting out of hell and this awesome bat in the background. The album was Bat Out of Hell and the band was so metal their name was Meatloaf! This was going to be soul crushingly heavy…

The incredible irony here is that there are so, so many death and black metal musicians that are genuinely better people than Gene Simmons could ever be. I would trust my kids (note: I do not have kids) around Cannibal Corpse and Cattle Decapitation. I would absolutely not trust Simmons around a teen daughter.

When your primary motivations are to get laid, get rich, and become popular, in that order, kiss has it down to an art form.

Late to the party, everything that needed to be said has been said. Still, let me add my voice to the choir: KISS has never been cool. KISS is the opposite of cool.

"Rock and roll all nite" is at least somewhat rock-ish. Try "I was made for loving you" that's almost pure disco.

they've always been musical posers/sellouts. that's sort of their shtick I guess?

to be so gloriously average but pretend to be cool but end up looking fabulously gay.

and their SOUND! sooo ...average.

Kiss sucks

KISS: when you like the look of black metal but can't handle the sound of black metal.

And now we've got Ghost. It's all cycles, man

that pedo band?

Christine Sixteen:

don't usually say things like this to girls your age
But when I saw you coming out of school that day
That day I knew, I knew
I've got to have you, I've got to have you

Not at all sure Kiss is still cool

I felt the same thing when I went to check out my parent's version of a rebellious rock band "the rolling stones"

Knights In Satans Service?

Kiss is not cool

Seen them twice and still love their Unplugged gig.

Best thing about KISS is the game (Psycho Circus). And Im not saying it's a good game, tho it's atmospheric.

(Something mid way between Blood 2 and Painkiller)

"I met a girl and I really think she liked me"

Paul Stanley KISS songs are cool. The rest, meh.

Off the top of my head, see: Detroit Rock City and Strutter.