Studio Album · No. 15
Sonic Boom Songwriting Credits by Kiss
Produced by Paul Stanley, Greg Collins · Engineered by Greg Collins
Holds writing credit on 11 of 11 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 11 / 11 documented
Scored across the 11 tracks with documented writers, by whether Kiss carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 11 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Sonic Boom keeps the writing almost entirely inside the band, a contrast to the co-writer-heavy 1980s and 1990s albums. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons write most of it together or alone, Tommy Thayer earns credits on three songs including one he sings, and Eric Singer takes a lead vocal. With no outside writers and no covers, it is one of the most self-contained records in the catalog.
Sonic Boom is the nineteenth studio album by Kiss, released in October 2009, the band's first studio album in eleven years and the first with the lineup of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer. Produced by Paul Stanley, it was a conscious throwback to the band's 1970s sound, recorded with a deliberately raw, retro approach. Stanley and Simmons wrote most of the album, with Thayer and Singer contributing, and for the first time in decades every member sang lead at least once. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, the band's highest chart position in the United States to that point.