{"id":244658,"date":"2025-10-28T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:08","slug":"peter-criss-teases-halloween-reveal-for-first-solo-album-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244658\/","title":{"rendered":"PETER CRISS Teases Halloween Reveal For First Solo Album Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Criss, the original drummer of Kiss, has sparked excitement with a cryptic Halloween teaser pointing toward his long-awaited solo return. In a short video shared across his social platforms, the date \u201cOctober 31, 2025\u201d flashes ominously before transitioning to the logos of Flatiron and Silver Cat \u2014 the first official sign that a new record is about to rise.<\/p>\n

This comes after Criss, now 79, confirmed earlier this year that he had been deep into work on a rock-focused solo album. Speaking in April with The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn<\/a>, he revealed that the project is co-produced by himself and Barry Pointer \u2014 a name linked with heavyweight credits including Ozzy Osbourne, John 5, M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce, Steve Stevens, Pearl Aday, and Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n

The lineup behind the album reads like a rock fan\u2019s fantasy draft. Bass duties are split between Billy Sheehan and Matthew Montgomery (better known as Piggy D. from Rob Zombie), while guitars are handled by John 5 and Mike McLaughlin. Paul Shaffer contributes piano, and the vocal layers are rounded out by Dennis and Sharon Collins, alongside Cat Manning of Cat 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019m excited,\u201d Peter admitted. \u201cI got great players on it. I got Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer, Johnny 5, Michael, my guitarist, and I got Piggy from Rob Zombie. So it\u2019s like a dream team band. And it\u2019s a real Peter Criss album. It\u2019s an album I always wanted to do. And hopefully the fans will like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This marks his first solo release since One For All in 2007, which itself arrived 13 years after the previous record. The upcoming LP seems to carry a different energy \u2014 one built on time, care, and collaboration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had an absolute blast doing this album, and everyone was so much fun to work with \u2014 they were just amazing,\u201d Criss shared with Rolling Stone. \u201cI will be doing a more in-depth interview closer to the release date in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rumblings of new music from Criss first surfaced months earlier when longtime KISStorian Julian Gill, curator of the long-running KissFAQ<\/a> site, dropped preliminary details in April.<\/p>\n

But hints of this record stretch back even further. During a Q&A at the All Things That Rock festival in Oaks, Pennsylvania, in 2014, Criss spoke candidly about his evolution and direction, suggesting it would carry more sonic weight than his earlier output.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sitting on a record \u2026 I\u2019d done this thing, like, five years ago, and I\u2019m still messing with it,\u201d he told fans. \u201cI\u2019m not done, because I don\u2019t wanna rush it.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Criss, the original drummer of Kiss, has sparked excitement with a cryptic Halloween teaser pointing toward his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-244658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}