Kiss releases Alive! box set

Kiss follows up the success of their Kissology DVD set with a new live album box set that comes out on Tuesday, November 21st. The box set Kiss Alive! 1975-2000 comes with the first three Alive albums from 1975, 1977, and 1993, as well as the December 31st, 1999 Millennium show from Vancouver, British Columbia, which was supposed to be Alive IV but was never released.

The first Alive! album was a landmark for the band, becoming their first gold record, but singer-bassist Gene Simmons told us that their label wasn't in favor of the idea: "We were on our last legs, Casablanca was gonna go belly-up. We didn't get paid for the album -- in fact, when we told the record company we were gonna do a live record, they didn't want to do that, because live records didn't work. In those days, a live album was a liability. You did that after your career was over."

Kissology, which is the first in a planned multi-volume series, features rare live footage of the band from their early days through the Alive II period. It was released on Halloween (October 31st) and debuted a week later at Number One on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos chart.
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