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Kiss: Hotter Than Hell

Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, February 1975

OUT OF THE ASHES of the New York rock scene came Kiss. They have clearly been elevated (symbolically echoing the ascent their drummer makes during their stage act) from a bunch of NY street kids into the leaders of a new wedge in rock and roll.

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