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ACE FREHLEY: New Album Artwork, Title To Be Unveiled In Two Weeks

December 20, 2008

Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley revealed last night (December 19) during an appearance on Eddie Trunk's "Friday Night Rocks" radio show on New York's Q104.3 FM as part of this year's edition of "The Original Merry Kissmas Special" that he will unveil the artwork for his long-awated new solo album via his newly launched web site, AceFrehley.com, on January 5. The CD is tentatively due in the spring.

Catch Ace this weekend on VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" hosted by Eddie Trunk. The program will premiere tonight (Saturday night, December 20) at 11 p.m. and will repeat several times in the coming weeks.

In an early 2008 interview with Billboard, Frehley stated about his forthcoming solo album, "Basically, I'm trying to get back into the mindset I was in when I did my first solo record [1978's 'Ace Frehley']. That record seemed to have all the elements everybody liked — a real cool instrumental, a hit single, some real heavy rockers, a nice variety of different genres of music."

Among his favorite new tracks are "A Little Below the Angels", hard-rocking "Pain in the Neck" and an instrumental called "Fractured Quantum", which is a follow-up to his previous instrumentals "Fractured Mirror" and "Fractured Too". Another favorite is "groove song" titled "Genghis Khan", which he likens in tone to LED ZEPPELIN's "Kashmir".

Frehley told MyrtleBeachOnline.com that he's shooting for 12 tracks on his next album, his first in 18 years. Studio work has spanned several months, and some of the songs go back 12 years.

Frehley recently spent time on the road fronting a band that featured second guitarist Derek Hawkins, drummer Scot Coogan (ex-BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION) and bassist Anthony Esposito (ex-LYNCH MOB).

Fan-filmed video footage of Ace Frehley performing in Atlanta, Georgia earlier this year can be viewed below (courtesy of "jahenx94").

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