“Hotter than Hell” by Kiss

"Hotter than Hell" is the title track of Kiss's second album, a Casablanca release from 1974, and Paul Stanley wrote it and sings it. He never hid where it came from: Stanley, a big Free fan, called it more or less a rewrite of "All Right Now", and that strut is all over it, Ace Frehley's and Stanley's guitars chugging while Gene Simmons and Peter Criss keep the bottom low and heavy. The song grew out of a barroom encounter, and when Stanley couldn't figure out how to end it, he bolted on a riff with a Black Sabbath lurch. Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise produced, with Warren Dewey engineering.

It also served as the B-side of "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll", the album's only single. On stage it dropped out of the set on the Destroyer tour and stayed gone until the Revenge Tour in 1992.

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