In a February 2026 YouTube video promoting KISS’s new website, Stanley, 74, said of Unmasked, “The famous infamous album cover. … When I saw the cover, I said, 'Hey I have to go on record and say this cover sucks.”
Unmasked was released in May 1980 as the eighth studio album by KISS. It featured the lead single “Shandi,” which peaked at No. 47 on the Billboard Hot 100.
While he liked the song "Shandi," Stanley shared his feelings on the Unmasked album as a whole in the 2005 book KISS: Behind the Mask. "I think Unmasked is a pretty crappy album. It's wimpy,” he stated in the tell-all.
KISS kept their makeup on for 3 more years after 'Unmasked' was released
The true KISS unmasking came in September 1983 when the bandmates shed their makeup to promote their album Lick It Up. KISS remained unmasked until 1996.
“Taking off the makeup, some people may say it was brilliant, it really came down to… we didn’t have any choice,” he admitted. “The band was waning at best, I mean, our sales were way way down and we put out a great album with the makeup on and it was clear to me that people were listening with their eyes, and also, we had changed two [band] members and came up with new makeup. It became that to me was disingenuous.”
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