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Title - Dressed To Kill [Super Deluxe 5CD + Blu-ray]
Artist - KISS

For those unaware, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® Inductees and Kennedy Center honorees, KISS, celebrate five decades of their seminal third full-length album, Dressed To Kill, with a robust 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition available now via UMe.

It arrives in multiple configurations: Super Deluxe 5CD + Blu-ray Audio, Super Deluxe 8LP + Blu-ray Audio, Premium Color Vinyl, Super Deluxe Digital, and a Deluxe Picture Disc Vinyl (available November 21st, 2025). Dressed To Kill has been newly remastered in HRA 192/24, HRA 96/24, or 44.1/16, and Atmos.

Dressed To Kill celebrates 50 years with a specially tailored Super Deluxe 5-CD + Blu-ray Audio box rocking 107 total tracks with 78 unreleased tracks. The original album is newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the 1975 stereo analog master tapes on CD 1. CD 2 showcases 23 demos, alternate mixes and instrumental outtakes from the Larrabee Sound and Electric Lady Studios sessions including the unreleased tracks “Mistake” and “Burning Up With Fever.”

The Blu-ray Audio disc features Dressed To Kill newly mixed by David Frangioni from the original multi-track analog tapes in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 Surround along with the newly remastered 1975 stereo mix in 192kHz 24-bit and 96kHz 24-bit PCM stereo, plus two 1975 promo videos for “C’mon And Love Me” and “Rock And Roll All Nite” newly transferred from the 16mm film reel in HD.

Dressed To Kill Since 1975 T-Shirt features iconic album cover and KISS logo screen printed on front with track list on back.

CD ONE: DRESSED TO KILL (REMASTERED)
1. Room Service 2. Two Timer 3. Ladies In Waiting 4. Getaway 5. Rock Bottom 6. C’mon And Love Me 7. Anything For My Baby 8. She 9. Love Her All I Can 10. Rock And Roll All Nite

One of My favorite KISS albums, due to its straightforward rock n’ roll - vibe. The sound is a little thin, to my ears, but the consistent song quality makes it a winner, nonetheless.

At the time it was made, Kiss and Casablanca were in such dire financial straits that they couldn’t afford to hire a producer, so Bogart hired himself to produce the record. However, by all accounts I’ve read, he really didn’t have much to do with the actual production, other than periodically sticking his head into the control room, giving a thumbs up and a sounds good between bong rips. The band very much produced DTK themselves, which may make it the purest Kiss album out of them all.

Room Service is easily one of the best tracks here. Uplifting tempo, catchy chorus, great riffing, nice bassline and Two Timer is yet another good track, but it doesn’t stand out on this album as much as some of the others do. Nice bassline though. Ladies In Waiting is a mediocre song, where the solo is the highlight, Getaway is another straight rocker, and it’s a good one at that and also comes complete with a solid singing performance by Peter, on this Ace-penned track.

Rock Bottom is where Ace truly shines on the intro and overall the work is a very beautiful piece of music. The song in and unto itself is almost shorter than a Napalm Death track, but it works fine with the intro. C’Mon and Love Me is one of my favorite tracks on the album, and one of my all-time favorites by the band, in general. The riff, the vocal melodies, backup harmonies, the small solo snippets between chorus and verse, the main solo, the cleverly placed hi-hat snap. Pure perfection.

Anything For My Baby is a track where I always sit back and admire the drumming during the chorus, as well as the riff and the verses, but there’s something about this song that makes me not appreciate it as much as I used to. Age, I guess. Now, She has a superb slow and groovy riff and has begged for a metal band to cover it for years now! I mean, sure, Anthrax did it some justice on the Kiss My Ass-compilation but I’m talking an 80’s hair metal band. Wow, now that would have rawked! A great bassline during the chorus means that the tracks wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the debut. I find myself missing the solo break from the live version instead of the final chorus though but hey, again, that’s just me.

Love Her All I Can is another track covered by Anthrax (which they did masterfully), and it’s one of my other favorites too. I mean, it has friggin’ cowbell, so what more could you want from a song? I like the double vocals in the verses also, the riffing is good, and there is a rather mighty excellent solo. Peter’s drumming is great here too and then we get the overplayed, yet ultimate KISS classic Rock and Roll All Nite.

Beyond the songs I will say that the album cover is one of the most iconic KISS photos of all time. A major step in the right direction for the band after the poor outcome of the album covers on their first two attempts.

CD TWO: DEMOS, ALTERNATE MIXES AND INSTRUMENTAL OUTTAKES*
1. Mistake (Studio Demo) 2. Rock And Roll All Nite (Studio Demo) 3. Anything For My Baby (Studio Demo) 4. Burning Up With Fever (Studio Demo) 5. Rock And Roll All Nite (Studio Demo – Party Version) 6. Rock And Roll All Nite (Studio Demo – Alternate Vocal Take) 7. Room Service (Extended Outtake) 8. Two Timer (Alternate Mix) 9. Ladies In Waiting (Alternate Ending) 10. C’mon And Love Me (Alternate Mix) 11. Anything For My Baby (Alternate Mix) 12. Love Her All I Can (Alternate Mix) 13. Two Timer (Extended Alternate Mix) 14. Anything For My Baby (Extended Alternate Mix) 15. Rock And Roll All Nite (Super-Fast Outtake) 16. Room Service (Instrumental Outtake) 17. Two Timer (Instrumental Outtake) 18. Getaway (Instrumental Outtake) 19. Rock Bottom (Instrumental Outtake) 20. Anything For My Baby (Instrumental Extended Outtake) 21. She (Instrumental Extended Outtake) 22. Love Her All I Can (Instrumental Outtake) 23. Rock And Roll All Nite (Instrumental Outtake)

CD THREE: LIVE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN – COBO ARENA – MAY 16, 1975*
1. Rock Bottom 2. Strutter 3. Nothin’ To Lose 4. Two Timer 5. Let Me Know 6. Got To Choose 7. She 8. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo 9. Parasite 10. Cold Gin

CD FOUR: LIVE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN – COBO ARENA – MAY 16, 1975*
1. 100,000 Years 2. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years 3. Let Me Go, Rock N’ Roll 4. C’mon And Love Me 5. Firehouse 6. Deuce 7. Rock And Roll All Nite 8. Black Diamond

CD FIVE: LIVE IN DAVENPORT, IOWA – RKO ORPHEUM THEATRE – JULY 20, 1975 – FIRST SHOW*
1. Deuce 2. Strutter 3. Got To Choose 4. Hotter Than Hell 5. Firehouse 6. She 7. Ace Frehley Guitar Solo 8. Nothin’ To Lose 9. C’mon And Love Me 10. 100,000 years 11. Peter Criss Drum Solo / 100,000 Years 12. Black Diamond 13. Cold Gin 14. Rock And Roll All Nite

DISC SIX: BLU-RAY AUDIO – DRESSED TO KILL
[Dolby Atmos* / Dolby True HD 5.1* / 192kHz 24-bit & 96kHz 24-bit PCM Stereo]
1. Room Service 2. Two Timer 3. Ladies In Waiting 4. Getaway 5. Rock Bottom 6. C’mon And Love Me 7. Anything For My Baby 8. She 9. Love Her All I Can 10. Rock And Roll All Nite

BONUS VIDEOS*
[48kHz 24-bit PCM Stereo Only]
1. Rock And Roll All Nite (1975 Promo Video)
2. C’mon And Love Me (1975 Promo Video)

The Super Deluxe explodes further with an extensive array of bonus kollectibles including:

• 100-page Hardcover Book with extensive liner notes by Ken Sharp featuring new interviews from Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and many notable Dressed To Kill-era KISS team members plus tons of unreleased photos and rare imagery.
• Dressed To Kill 1975 Press Kit featuring
o Band Bio
o Three Black & White Publicity Photos, each 8”x10”
o 5-inch Cover Sticker
o Marketing Slick Sheet
o T-Shirt Iron-On
o New Band Poster 20”x30”
o Dressed To Kill Gold Promo Poster 20”x30”
o Japan Print Ad 7.5”x11”
o Cobo Arena Concert Poster 20”x25”
o Cobo Arena Concert Tier A Ticket Stub
o Spring Tour ’75 Backstage Pass
o Long Beach Arena Concert Backstage Pass
• Four Live Color Glossy Photos, each 9”x12”
• Dressed To Kill Die-Cut Magnet Sheet
• Four Band Member Double-Sided Coasters
• Embossed Metal New York License Plate
• Hotel Key Fob
• Album Cover Lenticular
• Dressed To Kill Bumper Sticker
• Die-Cut Double-Sided Mobile
• 1975 Creem KISS Komix Litho
• Gotham Rock City News Volume 3 Newspaper – Track-by-Track interviews with Gene, Paul, Peter & Ace along with a Cobo Arena interview with Eddie Kramer after newly mixing the concert he recorded in 1975
• Two Iron-On Patches
• Four Prism Foil Buttons
• Four White-Pearled Guitar Picks

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