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5	[[caption-width-right:350:The original 1982 cover.]]
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9	''Creatures of the Night'' is the tenth studio album by Music/{{KISS}}, released in 1982. It was also the last to feature the band in make-up until the 1998 release of ''Music/PsychoCircus'', although for Eric Carr it would be his last featured make-up appearance. Despite appearing on the cover, Ace Frehley is completely absent on the album, as he was in the process of leaving the band at the time (not unlike Peter Criss and ''Music/{{Unmasked}}''). This marks the first appearance with Frehley's replacement Vinnie Vincent, albeit initially uncredited. It was the last KISS album to be published under the band's old record label Casablanca Records (its founder Neil Bogart died the same year that it was published) before Casablanca went defunct and they switched to Creator/MercuryRecords. Since both labels were owned by [=PolyGram=], some early copies of the album would be misprinted with one side of songs from John Cougar Mellencamp's album ''American Fool''.
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12	!! Tracklist:
13	[[AC:Side One]]
14	# "Creatures of the Night" (4:02)
15	# "Saint and Sinner" (4:50)
16	# "Keep Me Comin'" (3:55)
17	# "Rock and Roll Hell" (4:11)
18	# "Danger" (3:54)
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20	[[AC:Side Two]]
21	# "I Love It Loud" (4:15)
22	# "I Still Love You" (6:06)
23	# "Killer" (3:19)
24	# "War Machine" (4:14)
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26	!!Principal members:
27	* Eric Carr - drums, percussion, vocals, bass
28	* Gene Simmons - lead vocals, bass, guitar
29	* Paul Stanley - lead vocals, guitar
30	* Vinnie Vincent - guitar, vocals
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33	!!"You'd better watch out, 'cause I'm a trope machine":
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35	* AlbumTitleDrop: "Creatures Of The Night".
36	* AlliterativeTitle: "I '''L'''ove It '''L'''oud" and "'''S'''aint and '''S'''inner".
37	* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Ace Frehley is featured on the original 1982 cover and credited despite never actually working on the album itself.
38	** The 1985 re-issue features Bruce Kulick on the cover with the other band members without make-up.
39	* CoverVersion: "Rock and Roll Hell" was actually originally a song by BTO. Jim Vallance, who wrote the original version, co-wrote the revised version with Music/BryanAdams and offered it to Kiss. Simmons then added another verse to make the song more of Kiss' own.
40	** Ace Frehley covered the Kiss version on his cover album ''Origins Vol. 1''.
41	* DarkerAndEdgier: This is considered to be the heaviest album they created at the time of its release.
42	* {{Dedication}}[=/=]InMemoriam: To Neil Bogart, the founder of the band's label Casablanca Records, who died during the recording sessions.
43	* DressRehearsalVideo: "I Love It Loud" has a music video that shows the band doing this.
44	* EpicRocking: The six-minute "I Still Love You".
45	* FaceOnTheCover: All four band members on the original 1982 cover, with Ace as just a cover-only appearance.
46	* FakeOutFadeOut: "I Love It Loud".
47	* FemmeFatale: "Killer".
48	--> ''Her love is a gun, her love is a blade, she's a killer''
49	--> ''Bitch is insane, she deals in pain, she's a killer''
50	--> ''Ooh, she'll cut you clean, then she'll watch you bleed''
51	--> ''So obscene, she's what I need, she loves to hear me scream''
52	* GlowingEyes: All four band members had their eyes glowing on the original 1982 cover.
53	** This continues into the music video for "I Love It Loud", where by the end, a bunch of teenagers with glowing eyes (most likely hypnotized by the video) walk out into the street, where the band members (also sporting glowing eyes) are waiting.
54	* HeavyMeta: "Rock And Roll Hell".
55	* IntercourseWithYou: "Keep Me Comin'".
56	--> ''Hands on my shoulders now, you're getting bolder''
57	--> ''Your fears are slipping away''
58	--> ''Each little bite lets me know that you're ripe''
59	--> ''You're thinkin', maybe you'll stay''
60	--> ''Now that you're burning to know''
61	--> ''How far you're willing to go?''
62	--> ''Now that it's under your skin''
63	--> ''Now that you're lettin' me in''
64	--> ''You gotta keep me comin', keep me comin' ''
65	* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Killer"
66	--> ''Black lace, stiletto heels, she's a killer''
67	--> ''Crack the whip, submission trip, she's a killer''
68	* OneWordTitle: "Danger" and "Killer".
69	* PersonOfMassDestruction: "War Machine".
70	--> ''Armageddon's just a matter of time''
71	* PowerBallad: "I Still Love You."
72	* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision B-Strike]]: "Killer"
73	--> ''Bitch is insane, she deals in pain.''
74	* RecordProducer: Michael James Jackson, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons.
75	* TitleTrack: "Creatures Of The Night"

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