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“Heaven's on Fire” by Kiss
From the album Animalize (1984)
“Heaven's on Fire” by Kiss appears on 11 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 1990 and 2024. It was first released in 1984 on the album Animalize. Its best result is #193 on the KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,442 classic rock song of all time.
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"Heaven's on Fire" led the charge for Animalize, the 12th Kiss studio album, in 1984, and frontman Paul Stanley wrote it with songwriter Desmond Child. It's Stanley's show from end to end: he sings lead, plays electric guitar alongside Mark St. John, covers the bass as well and co-produced with Michael James Jackson, while Gene Simmons took an associate producer credit and Eric Carr pounded the drums. That wordless whoop up front? Stanley warming up his pipes; the tape caught it by accident and the band kept it in.
It's glam metal with hard rock muscle, heavy riffs wrapped around a melodic hook, and it reached 11 on Billboard's mainstream rock chart and 49 on the Hot 100. It's also one of the few songs from the bare-faced years that Kiss kept playing once the makeup went back on.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 403 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 498 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2010 | 307 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
| 2019 | 441 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 440 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2020) | 500 |
| 2021 | 344 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ 500 (2021) | 500 |
| 2022 | 319 | 106.7 WLLZ | WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 381 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2023 | 890 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
| 2023 | 193 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2024 | 272 | KSHE 95 | KSHE 95 Rock N' Roll 500 (2024) | 500 |
Also listed as: Heaven's On Fire; Heavens On Fire.
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