KISS unleashed "Alive!" on September 10, 1975. The album drew on performances from five nights of the Dressed To Kill Tour: Cobo Arena in Detroit, MI, Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland, OH, RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, IA (two shows), and Wildwood Convention Hall in Wildwood, NJ.
Upon release, it added rocket fuel to the band's ascent to the top of rock 'n' roll and culture in the seventies. "Alive!" reached the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 and sent "Rock And Roll All Nite" to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 - the highest charting single for the band at the time - and was their first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
The 2025 edition of "Alive!" will be available in multiple configurations, including Super Deluxe 4CD + Blu-ray Audio, Super Deluxe 8LP + Blu-ray Audio, Deluxe Picture Disc Vinyl, Premium Color Vinyl, Super Deluxe Digital. Alive! has been newly remastered in HRA 192/24, HRA 96/24, or 44.1/16, and Atmos.
Bernie Grundman’s new remaster of "Alive!" is included in all of the aforementioned 50th Anniversary versions as well, while also marking the first time that "Alive!" has been released on one-CD.
The Super Deluxe box sets (4CD + Blu-ray and 8LP + Blu-ray) impressively include 120 tracks highlighted by 88 unreleased tracks. As part of the collection, fans can relive two entire concerts from the 1975 Dressed To Kill Tour: RKO Orpheum Theatre in Davenport, Iowa on July 20 (Second Show) and Wildwood Convention Hall in Wildwood, New Jersey on July 23.
For the Super Deluxe box sets, Eddie Kramer has completed new mixes of these particular gigs, revisiting the original multi-track analog tapes and preserving the raw integrity of the performances with no overdubs.
Among other highlights, you’ll find five rehearsal tracks from Davenport as well as six songs from Cleveland Music Hall in Cleveland, OH on June 21, 1975—also just mixed by Kramer this year.
Then, there’s the Blu-ray Audio disc comprising Kramer’s newly mixed "Alive!" in Dolby Atmos and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround along with the newly remastered stereo in 192kHz 24-bit and 96kHz 24-bit PCM stereo
KISS are streaming the previously unreleased "C'mon And Love Me (Live In Davenport, Iowa)" as a preview to the project.
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