1974 Casablanca Records original  KISS Hotter Than Hell 33RPM vinyl album

Hotter than Hell is the second studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released on October 22, 1974, by Casablanca Records.

It was certified gold on June 23, 1977, having shipped 500,000 copies.

Many of the album's songs are live staples for the band, including "Parasite", "Hotter Than Hell", "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll" and "Watchin' You".

Studio album by Kiss

Released  October 22, 1974

Recorded  August 1974

Studio  The Village, Los Angeles

Hard rock heavy metal proto-punk

Length  33:02

Label Casablanca

Producer Kenny Kerner, Richie Wise

The album is well known for its striking cover designed by John Van Hamersveld. The front featured Japanese manga-influenced artwork, and the back cover showed individual band shots taken by Norman Seeff at a wild party and a composite of all four band members' makeup designs.

The Japanese character on the bottom of the album cover (力) is chikara,  means "power". It would later be used on various forms of Kiss material during the 1970s and 1980s, most prominently on Eric Carr's drum kit. The Japanese characters on the top-right corner of the album cover (地獄 の さけび) are Jigoku no Sakebi, which means "hell's shout" or "the shout of hell". The Japanese characters used for Frehley's name are transliterated incorrectly. The characters are エイス フューリ (eisu fyūri), a transliteration for "Ace Fury". The characters should have been エースフレーリー (ēsu furērī).

Side A

1."Got to Choose"Paul Stanley3:54

2."Parasite" Frehley,  Simmons3:01

3."Goin' Blind"Simmons, Stephen Coronel3:36

4."Hotter Than Hell"Stanley3:31

5."Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"Simmons, Stanley2:14

Side B

6."All the Way" Simmons3:18

7."Watchin' You"Simmons3:43

8."Mainline"StanleyPeter Criss3:50

9. "Comin' Home"Frehley, Stanley 2:37

10."Strange Ways" Frehley Criss 3:18

used

Some meathead at a flea market left the records out in a down pour

grrrrrrrrrr  I wanted to punch the guy!!!🙄

but

the album works very good

the protective paper sleeve is original and in good shape, but stained in spots

..the bottom of the album cover front and back  must of been left in rain and when he went to pull them apart ...paper tore off

sadly

SEE PICTURES PLEASE

2nd album

Still it's one of the greatest rarer album of the KISS jondra