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Kerrang!Nov 7, 2012It's not quite Destroyer good, but then again, it's not quite Animalize bad either. [13 Oct 2012, p.53]
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Oct 25, 2012Although the album barely brings its head above the water-line marked "passable", it's still too slick, too unified and too perfectly structured to convince you that apart from the vocals of Stanley and Simmons, the rest of the album is nothing more than a hodge-podge of contributions from various pony-tailed musos from somewhere sunny.
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Oct 19, 2012Like ZZ Top and Rush before them, Kiss seem to have finally rediscovered (after their stodgy 2010 comeback album, Sonic Boom) what made them so great in the first place.
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Oct 19, 2012Kiss' 20th LP draws from their bottomlessly shallow cesspool of comfortably dumb cowbell-glam wham-bam – with stewardess sex, married groupies and "The Devil Is Me," where Gene Simmons lowtalks like the smoothest used-car salesman in hell.
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Oct 16, 2012Kiss's 20th studio album is a steady if unremarkable outing.
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Oct 16, 2012That Simmons and Stanley put this much passion and knuckle-dragging fun into Monster makes the disc's sporadic warts just part of the appeal.
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Oct 16, 2012With Monster, Kiss hit the mark best when rewriting the sound they developed as youngsters and when they keep it simple, predictable, and fun.
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Oct 16, 2012KISS may have set out to sound like their old selves on Monster, but they strayed from the pop sensibility that made them great.
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Oct 16, 2012KISS' new album, Monster, is a fantastic dog: Protective, loyal, fun to be around but ferocious when it needs to be.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 4 out of 24
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Jan 26, 2013
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Aug 5, 2021A very good album with a fresh sound, great effort for a half century old band, made my playlist for sure
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May 11, 2016