Sonic Boom (Kiss album)
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| Studio album by Kiss | ||||
| Released | October 6, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | May–August 2009 Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 43:07 | |||
| Label | Kiss Roadrunner |
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Paul Stanley Greg Collins |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 57 |
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| Allmusic |    |
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| The Boston Globe | (favorable) |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
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Sonic Boom is the 19th studio album and the first in 11 years from the rock band Kiss, released on October 6, 2009. The album was recorded at Conway Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA and produced by Paul Stanley and co-produced by Greg Collins. The album was the first studio album to be released under the current line-up consisting of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. Stanley stated, "the purpose of this album isn't to let people know that we're still around – it's to let people know we can still knock out anybody who's out there!".
A fan-routed North American tour promoted the album along with international shows throughout 2010, which included the band headlining the Rock am Ring festival in Germany. The cover artwork was created by artist Michael Doret who had worked with Kiss previously to create the cover of their 1976 album Rock and Roll Over.Wal-Mart is the exclusive distributor of the album in the US and Canada, selling it as a three disc package including the album, Kiss Klassics (a completely re-recorded greatest hits album that until now had been exclusively released in Japan as Jigoku-Retsuden), and a six song live DVD recorded April 5, 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of the South American leg of the Kiss Alive/35 World Tour.
The album was sold as a digipak including a 20-page booklet. The album's first single was announced on the band's official website to be "Modern Day Delilah". The album was also released on limited edition 180 gram vinyl and was pressed into five colors (red, green, black, blue and purple) with 1000 copies pressed of each. "Modern Day Delilah" was announced and released as the lead single from Sonic Boom on August 19, 2009 to radio. It was Kiss' first single release in 11 years, the last being "You Wanted the Best" released in 1998.
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