Glam rockers KISS have shot down rumours the band is retiring, by confirming they will be recording a new album.

Earlier this year it was reported the group was planning a reality TV show to audition replacement bandmembers, because founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons were getting too old to rock.

Frontman Stanley has now admitted that rumours about a new album are true, and they are currently back in the studio working on new tunes – and he’s promising a treat for fans of the band’s original 1970s sound.

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…if you’re downloading his music for free.

In this interview with Billboard, Gene describes how the entire record industry is in a complete mess and how the downloading of music is killing the industry.

Now, Gene’s a guy who protects his copyrights somewhat over enthusiastically. If you’ve read his book, Sex Money Kiss, you’ll know stories of how he’s hunted down owners of KISS fanzines in order to get his dues from them for capitalizing on the KISS brand. So it isn’t any surprise when Gene tells us his feelings on the matter:

The record industry doesn’t have a f*cking clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work.

Gene seems to have as much respect for the music industry as he does for those college kids he’d love to sue, doesn’t he?

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