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The Creatures Of The Night 40th anniversary Super Deluxe boasts 103 total tracks with 75 tracks being unreleased. Newly remastered, the original album has never sounded better. CDs 2 and 3 features 34 demos, rarities and outtakes including unreleased gems like “Deadly Weapon (Penny Lane Demo),” “Not For The Innocent (Demo)” and “Betrayed (Outtake).” CDs 4 and 5 highlight 26 incredible, soundboard live recordings from the Creatures ‘82/’83 Tour and 7 super rare tour sound effects, all recorded and archived by the Creatures Tour sound engineer Harry Witz. The Blu-ray Audio disc showcases a first-ever Atmos and 5.1 surround mix plus the high-resolution newly remastered 1982 stereo mix of the original album. The Super Deluxe explodes further with an extensive array of additional collectibles including: 80-page Hardcover Book with Extensive Liner Notes by Ken Sharp, a Monsterous Amount of Unreleased Photos and Imagery, Creatures Of The Night 1982 Press Kit featuring; Creatures Band Press Bio Sheet, Creatures Tour Band New Poster, 2 Stage Drawings, The Loudest Band In The World Poster, Japanese Promo Poster, Band Black and White Promo Photo, Gene, Paul, Eric and Vinnie Color Photos, Creatures 40th T-shirt Iron-on Transfer Sheet, I Love It Loud Bumper Sticker, Australian Creatures Sticker, Marcana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro 6/18/83 Replica Ticket, Creatures Tour “Detroit” VIP Cloth Sticky Backstage Pass, 4 Killers-era Trading Cards, Creatures 1982 Replica Tour Program, Gene, Paul, Eric and Vinnie – Chris Hoffman Illustrations, Gotham Rock City News Volume 2 Newspaper – Track-By-Track Interviews with Gene, Paul, Eric, Vinnie, Michael James Jackson, Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, Adam Mitchell and Mikel Japp, 4 Glow-In-The-Dark Guitar Picks, Iron-on Patch and 4 Buttons

Whiplash, a heavy metal accident. By 1982’s Creatures Of The Night, Kiss had finally ditched their plans of becoming respectable artists (starting with 1979’s Dynasty) and had come to the realization that they were a loud, no-holds-barred heavy metal band. Easily their best since 1977’s Love Gun, Creatures Of The Night contains very little filler and sounds as if Kiss had been reborn (it also includes one of the heaviest drum sounds ever captured in the studio by any rock band). The band is inspired and enthusiastic throughout, especially on such rockers as the opening title track, “Killer,” “War Machine,” “Saint and Sinner,” and one of their great anthems, “I Love It Loud.” Also included is one of Kiss’ better ballads, “I Still Love You” (later featured on 1996’s Unplugged set), as well as “Rock and Roll Hell,” a song written about Ace Frehley, who would soon officially make his resignation from the band public. Guitarist Vinnie Vincent (real name: Vinnie Cusano) handles guitar duties here and was eventually named as Frehley’s replacement, playing on the ensuing tour. Although Creatures of the Night deserved to be the album that put Kiss back on top of the charts, it performed below expectations (topping out at number 45), as did its tour. Hence, the album is one of Kiss’ most underrated. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that the makeup had grown stale and was now getting in the way of their music. The time had finally come for the band to unmask.

Track list:
Disc 1: Original Album Remastered
1. Creatures Of The Night
2. Saint And Sinner
3. Keep Me Coming
4. Rock And Roll Hell
5. Danger
6. I Love It Loud
7. Still Love You
8. Killer
9. War Machine

Disc 2/3: Demos Rarities And Outtakes
1. Im A Legend Tonight
2. Down On Your Knees
3. Nowhere To Run
4. Partners In Crime
5. Deadly Weapon-Penny Lane demo
6. Feel Like Heaven-Penny Lane demo
7. Nowhere To Run-Penny Lane demo
8. Deadly Weapon-original demo
9. Feel Like Heaven-original demo
10. Nowhere To Run-take 11-instrumental
11. Tell It To A Fool-take 4-drums and bass instrumental
12. Chrome Goes Into Motion-take 2-drums and bass instrumental
13. Im A Legend Tonight-mix 4-instrumental and background vocals
14. Dont Leave Me Lonely-take 8 drums and guitar instrumental
15. Something Seems To Happen At Night-Gene Simmons demo
16. Its Gonna Be Alright-Gene Simmons demo
17. Legends Never Die-Gene Simmons demo
18. It’s My Life-Gene Simmons demo
19. Not For The Innocent-demo
20. I Still Love You-take 1
21. I Still Love You-take 2
22. Saint And Sinner-take 1
23. Saint And Sinner-take 2 with false start
24. Saint And Sinner-take 3
25. Betrayed-outtake
26. Creatures Of The Night-alternate mix 19
27. Partners In Crime-alternate mix 16B
28. I Love It Loud-alternate mix 21
29. War Machine-full-length version mix 11
30. Rock And Roll Hell-take 2
31. Rock And Roll Hell-take 1
32. Rock And Roll Hell-take 2
33. I Love It Loud-single edit
34. Creatures Of The Night-1985 remix

Disc 4/5: Creatures Tour Live 1982-83
1. Creatures Of The Night-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
2. Strutter-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
3. Calling Dr. Love-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
4. Firehouse-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
5. I Love It Loud-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
6. Cold Gin-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
7. Keep Me Comin-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
8. War Machine-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
9. I Want You-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
10. Rock And Roll Hell-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
11. I Still Love You-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
12. Shout It Out Loud-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
13. Bass Solo-Gene Simmons-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
14. God Of Thunder-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
15. Drum Solo-Eric Carr-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
16. Love Gun-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
17. Guitar Solo-Paul Stanley-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
18. Black Diamond-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
19. Detroit Rock City-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
20. Rock And Roll All Nite-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
21. Rock And Roll Hell-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
22. I Want You-Rockford, Illinois 31st of December 1982
23. King Of The Night Time World-Pine Bluff, Arkansas 11th of February 1983
24. Cold Gin-Sioux City, Iowa 30th of December 1982
25. I Still Love You-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
26. Strutter-Houston, Texas 10th of March 1983
27. Tank Start Of Show-Harry Witz tour sound effect
28. Turbin-Harry Witz tour sound effect
29. Firehouse Siren-Harry Witz tour sound effect
30. Drum and Ending Tank-Harry Witz tour sound effect
31. Bass Solo Wind and Gargoyles-Harry Witz tour sound effect
32. Bells-Harry Witz tour sound effect
33. Flames-Harry Witz tour sound effect

Blu-Ray: Original Album 48kHz 24-bit Dolby Atmos Audio
1. Creatures Of The Night
2. Saint And Sinner
3. Keep Me Coming
4. Rock And Roll Hell
5. Danger
6. I Love It Loud
7. Still Love You
8. Killer
9. War Machine