"It was during this period of Kisstory that Simmons had almost checked out from the band. He was pursuing an acting career, with small roles funnelling into a lead villain role in the Tom Selleck film “Runaway”. His relationships with band and members were said to be at an all-time low, and Stanley was more or less left to run the ship himself. In his book “Face the Music”, Stanley wrote "Gene had basically disappeared by that point. I felt abandoned when it came time to make Animalize. After informing me without any warning or discussion that he wouldn't be around for the album, Gene went into a studio and crapped out some demos as fast as he could. Then he was off to do a movie. He left me with a pile of mostly unusable junk."

With Stanley now left with the responsibility of songwriting, production and direction of the new album, as well as coming up with the TITLE of the album, the band, or at least pieces of them, moved to the studio to create what would become their 12th studio album titled “Animalize”".

On this episode we are going to talk about “Animalize” by Kiss, the band’s 12th studio album released 40 years ago this week, on today’s episode where ‘you feel my heat takin' you higher, burn with me, heaven's on fire’ on Music from a Lifetime.