KISS will celebrate the release of its new album, "Sonic Bloom", with a special concert on September 25 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

A 30-second commercial for the concert can be viewed below.

"Sonic Boom" will be released in North America at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores on October 6. The three-disc package will include a CD of the band's first new music in 11 years, re-recorded versions of famous KISS hits and a live DVD.

Paul Stanley told the Associated Press the band chose to release the album at Wal-Mart because the store allowed them to make it memorable.

"They offered us an opportunity to do something that's very much in line with what we used to do with our classic albums, and that's to give people more than just an album of music," Stanley said. "We've always believed in trying to make an album a special event."

The frontman called the new album "bar none our best album in 30 years, if not our best album period."

He added, "Everybody worked their tails off to contribute 100 percent of their effort and their ability to make this the great KISS that not only do the fans deserve, but we deserve."

How many times has someone with a tremendous back catalog say their new record is the best in X number of years? Just once, ONCE, I would like someone to tell it how it is.

"Well this next record we worked really hard on it and I think it might be ok, but there are some really bad parts on it. No matter how hard we worked on them, they just sucked. But we don't care because we were banging groupies and really didn't have time to tweak those to perfection. The die hard fans will find something they love and new fans might find something they like. But we don't really care because we are touring and playing only one or two songs from the album."

Some new albums are great (See Iron Maiden's A Matter of Life and Death and Metallica's Death Magnetic) some albums are bad (U2's No Line on the Horizon Judas Priest Nostradamus). But everyone of those bands said the new album was great and the best material they had in years.

Now this is only a minute preview, but the song is just bad. It might be the quality, but it doesn't sound like their best material in 30 years.



Here is the album cover:



"Sonic Boom", produced by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley in Los Angeles, is the centerpiece of a three-disc set that also features a completely re-recorded greatest hits CD (previously available in Japan) as well as a live DVD shot in Argentina during the band's recent, record-breaking KISS Alive 35 South American tour. The CD set will retail for $12, with pre-orders starting in September on Walmart.com.

"Sonic Boom" track listing:

01. Modern Day Delilah
02. Russian Roulette
03. Never Enough
04. Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect)
05. Stand
06. Hot And Cold
07. All For The Glory
08. Danger Us
09. I'm An Animal
10. When Lightning Strikes
11. Say Yeah

Re-recorded KISS classics:

01. Deuce
02. Detroit Rock City
03. Shout It Out Loud
04. Hotter Than Hell
05. Calling Dr. Love
06. Love Gun
07. I Was Made For Lovin' You
08. Heaven's On Fire
09. Lick It Up
10. I Love It Loud
11. Forever
12. Christine Sixteen
13. Do You Love Me?
14. Black Diamond
15. Rock And Roll All Nite

KISS bonus live DVD track listing:

01. Deuce
02. Hotter Than Hell
03. C'mon And Love Me
04. Watchin' You
05. 100,000 Years
06. Rock & Roll All Nite