Watch ACE FREHLEY Carry out In Portland, Maine

Fan-filmed video of Ace Frehley‘s February 1 live performance at AURA in Portland, Maine might be seen under.

In a latest interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, Frehley confirmed that he had 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 subsequent file I am placing out in 2025,” he mentioned. “So, we’re beginning to gear up for that and determining which songs [to include on the LP]. I’ve a protracted in depth record and we’re slowly whittling it right 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 2024 by way of MNRK Music Group (previously eOne Music).

“‘Origins Vol. 3’ will in all probability be out earlier than the tip of 2025,” Ace revealed. “I often put out a file yearly, 12 months and a half, two years now. I’ve two extra albums on my file take care of MNRK Music. And every little thing’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 Occasions Dangerous Occasions”, 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 models. The CD featured KISS frontman Paul Stanley becoming a member of Ace on FREE‘s hit “Fireplace And Water”, Slash buying and selling leads on THIN LIZZY‘s traditional “Emerald”, Ford singing and taking part in lead on THE TROGGS staple “Wild Factor”, then-ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 taking part in guitar alongside Ace on the traditional KISS composition “Parasite”, and PEARL JAM‘s Mike McCready taking part in 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 file firm’s thought. To be trustworthy with you, initially, I wasn’t that excited in regards to the challenge, as a result of I had simply come off the excessive of the success of ‘House Invader’, which is all originals apart from a canopy of ‘The Joker’,” he mentioned. “It was nearly, like, ‘Okay, I will undergo the motions and get this out of the way in which after which soar 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 have been going to be finest for the file, 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 Inventive and produced by Reich and Steve Seabury, adopted in February 2024.