In a brand new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, Ace Frehley has confirmed that he has commenced work on “Origins Vol. 3”, the sequel to Ace‘s 2016 and 2020 collections of canopy songs that impressed the previous KISS guitarist. “I am engaged on ‘Origins Vol. 3’, ‘trigger that is the following report I am placing out subsequent 12 months in 2025,” he mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “So, we’re beginning to gear up for that and determining which songs [to include on the LP]. I’ve a protracted in depth listing and we’re slowly whittling it all the way down to which of them we’re gonna monitor.”
Frehley went on to say that he’s as soon as once more working with TRIXTER‘s Steve Brown, who produced and co-wrote all the fabric on Ace‘s newest solo album, “10,000 Volts”, which was launched in February through MNRK Music Group (previously eOne Music).
“‘Origins Vol. 3’ will most likely be out earlier than the tip of 2025,” Ace revealed. “I often put out a report yearly, 12 months and a half, two years now. I’ve two extra albums on my report cope with MNRK Music. And the whole lot’s nice.”
Launched in September 2020, “Origins Vol. 2” featured cowl variations of THE BEATLES‘ “I am Down”, DEEP PURPLE‘s “House Truckin'”, LED ZEPPELIN‘s “Good Instances Dangerous Instances”, THE ROLLING STONES‘ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, THE KINKS‘ “Lola” and THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE‘s “Manic Melancholy”, amongst others. A canopy of the 1975 KISS tune “She” additionally appeared as a bonus monitor. Visitors on the set included CHEAP TRICK‘s Robin Zander, Lita Ford and former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
Launched in April 2016, “Origins Vol. 1” debuted at No. 23 on The Billboard 200 with first-week gross sales of 16,000 equal album items. The CD featured KISS frontman Paul Stanley becoming a member of Ace on FREE‘s hit “Hearth And Water”, Slash buying and selling leads on THIN LIZZY‘s traditional “Emerald”, Ford singing and enjoying lead on THE TROGGS staple “Wild Factor”, then-ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 enjoying guitar alongside Ace on the traditional KISS composition “Parasite”, and PEARL JAM‘s Mike McCready enjoying guitar with Ace on KISS‘s “Chilly Gin”.
In a 2016 interview with The Aquarian Weekly, Frehley admitted that doing the primary covers album was “the report firm’s concept. To be sincere with you, initially, I wasn’t that excited in regards to the undertaking, as a result of I had simply come off the excessive of the success of ‘House Invader’, which is all originals aside from a canopy of ‘The Joker’,” he mentioned. “It was nearly, like, ‘Okay, I will undergo the motions and get this out of the best way after which leap into the studio for my subsequent actual studio album.’ However I’ve gotta inform ya, man, as soon as I began the method and began remembering the teams that influenced me, narrowing down which songs I believed had been going to be greatest for the report, after which began the recording course of; I actually began getting extra enthusiastic about it.”
The official music video for the “10,000 Volts” monitor — directed by Alex Kouvatsos from Black Wolf Imaging — was launched in late November 2023. A clip for “Cherry Drugs”, which was directed by Justin H. Reich of Three Thirty-Three Artistic and produced by Reich and Steve Seabury, adopted in February.
Ace‘s subsequent all-original album would be the follow-up to “Spaceman”, which was launched in October 2018 through eOne.
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons co-wrote two tracks on “Spaceman”, “With out You I am Nothing” and “Your Want Is My Command”, the latter of which additionally options Gene‘s bass enjoying.
Photograph credit score: Jayme Thornton
