Dressed to Kill (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
KISS
5CD/Blu-ray: Official Store
8LP/Blu-ray: Official Store
KISS’ third album was one of their most down ‘n’ dirty, recorded over 10 days at Electric Lady Studios (with Casablanca president Neil Bogart as de facto co-producer alongside the band themselves) and clocking in at a taut 30 minutes (with long, silent grooves between each song on the original vinyl). While audiences had yet to really push the made-up camp-rockers into the mainstream, Dressed to Kill was one of the strongest arguments for their future dominance yet: the LP closed with the raucous anthem “Rock and Roll All Nite,” which would be heard at just about every KISS concert to come (several of which were recorded that year for the breakthrough album Alive!). This deluxe edition of Dressed to Kill is done up to the nines, offering the album newly remastered by Bernie Grundman; 23 demos and outtakes (including unissued songs “Mistake” and “Burning Up with Fever”); two unissued 1975 concerts, newly mixed by Eddie Kramer and featuring no studio overdubs; and a Blu-ray disc featuring the original album Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround and hi-res stereo plus newly restored promo videos of “Rock N’ Roll All Nite” and “C’mon and Love Me.”