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Gene Simmons has assured fans that there will be a new KISS album, despite the fact that frontman Paul Stanley has said that a new album doesn’t feel “utterly necessary”.

Stanley recently told Classic Rock that there is no purpose in doing another album. “There was a time when we did albums because the contracts said so,” he shared. “But I only want to work now when it’s justified.”

He went on to say that Sonic Boom was an album that “very much needed to be done, and Monster just felt like, ‘Well, we did Sonic Boom – let’s see where we go from here.’”

“Having accomplished that, I feel we can move forward without new music,” Stanley continued. “There are enough things going on in KISS that right now it doesn’t feel utterly necessary to make a new album.” He went on to say that “anything is possible…But at the moment I don’t see it on the horizon. I’m not one to ever say ‘never.’”

However, according to NU.nl, Gene Simmons says that the band will be recording their 21st album next year, stating: “It will happen when we have time. I have music in me that needs to come out. I recently wrote a song called ‘Your Wish Is My Command’. It feels like a KISS song and it just needs to be released on a KISS album.”

He went on to say that all four members of KISS are in agreement, and that Stanley will produce the album. “I’m glad about that – I no longer have the energy to come to the studio every day,” Simmons went on to say. “Paul doesn’t have so many other things in his life that demand attention, so he can concentrate fully on the project.”

When asked when fans can expect the album, Simmons said: “First we have to finish a whole slew of shows. That will take at least until the end of this year.”