“Kids In Satan’s Service”
Is that what the letters actually stand for with this group?
I’ve never to my knowledge ever heard one of their recordings. Never desired to. “What concourse hath Christ with Belial?” I’ve heard that’s what those letters represent for 30 years or more, and I’d really like to know.
wikipedia:
“Stanley came up with the name as he, Simmons, and Criss were driving around New York City. Criss mentioned that he was in a band called Lips, so Stanley said something to the effect of ‘What about Kiss?’”
As for their satanism, they worship the Dark Lord through such lyrics as “I want to rock and roll all night and party every day” and singing about “Detroit Rock City”. Right up there with backwards Lord’s Prayers and alchemical incantations, if you ask me.
It’s just the name of a rock band. Jeez.
KISS. Depending on the accuser, “Kids In Satan’s Service,” “Knights In Satan’s Service,” “Knights In Satan’s Servitude,” “Knights In Satan’s Satchel,” “Kids In Satan’s Slipknot,” or during the holiday season, “Kids Ingesting Santa’s Spleen.”
According to Paul Stanley, is that they chose the name KISS because it “just sounded dangerous and sexy at the same time.”
FYI Gene Simmons is one hell of a business man With a career spanning more than 40 years and multiple hit records to his credit, his secret for success is simple. “Don’t allow that guy - the drug user and the alcoholic - to be in your band,” he said. “Get rid of that cancer early on because they will be like vampires.”
Simmons recently revealed in an interview that despite his larger-than-life stage persona, he’s never been drunk or high in his life.
“It’s what I sold. Big, bad,” Simmons said. “Going up on stage and turning it on …and then when the show’s over and we finish blowing up Earth, you’ve got to get off the stage and become a father, a man, ethical and responsible.”
His aversion to drugs and alcohol was a personal decision he made out of respect for his mother, who survived a concentration camp during World War II. “Our entire family was killed off in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother’s heart.”
It’s an absurdity dreamed up by nutjobs. There’s plenty not to like about Kiss - their music isn’t generally very good (with some exceptions), their attitude toward women is abominable, Gene Simmons is often an insufferable blowhard - but any idea that they’re “satanic” is just crazy. Simmons and Paul Stanley are just two workaholic Jews who made it real, real big. Nothing more, nothing less.
“Kids In Satan’s Service”
Is that what the letters actually stand for with this group?
No, that is just silly rumors.
In fact, Simmons is Jewish and Jewish people do not believe in the concept of “fallen angels” like dualist religions O(Islam and Christianity), so such a title would not make sense in the first place.
KISS was not satanic, just good, basic high energy Rock & Roll.
I have no idea what Kiss stands for if anything. I could never get past the outfits they wore and the tongue Simmons would display that belonged on a reptile of some sort. He talks sense about America in a lot of ways and I did watch his series. Their music I listened to to very little and did not care for it.
I did think the outfits were demonic but I also saw that Kiss tapped into a niche in the music market no one had thought of. The young at that time were stupid and have not changed. I blame the parents for not introducing them to Christ. My generation has a lot of explaining to do when the time comes.
Absolute nonsense.
I figured it meant,,,,,,,keep it simple stupid.