On November 6, KISS released the 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Rock and Roll Over, their fifth studio album, first issued in 1976. In Japan, Universal Music Japan put out the Japanese edition the same day (UICY-80778, 53,900 yen including tax), a five-disc box limited to 1,600 sets, with the four CDs on SHM-CD, a format only the Japanese edition has, and a Blu-ray Audio disc. The box holds the original 1976 mix remastered, a new stereo mix by Eddie Kramer, the album's producer, 22 demos and outtakes, and 18 tracks from the band's four shows at the Nippon Budokan in April 1977, which Kramer recorded at the time. Of its 130 tracks, 100 are tracks and mixes that had not been released before.

The Japanese edition: five discs, 1,600 sets, and the four CDs on SHM-CD

The Japanese edition (UICY-80778, 53,900 yen including tax) is a box of four SHM-CDs and a Blu-ray Audio disc, an imported box with Japanese specifications. Only the Japanese edition has the CDs on SHM-CD, and it adds a Japanese translation of Ken Sharp's liner notes, with lyrics and their translations. It is limited to 1,600 sets.

The same day brought Kramer's 2026 mix on its own, the Eddie Kramer 2026 Mix CD (UICY-16543, 3,300 yen): the ten songs of the box's second disc on a single SHM-CD, a format again only the Japanese edition has, with a Japanese translation of Ken Sharp's album notes, lyrics and translations.

Both come with first-come bonuses: an original B2 poster at CD shops and online stores across Japan, an original A4 clear file at Tower Records (online included, some shops excepted) and a mega-jacket at Amazon.co.jp.

Discs one and two: the album in two mixes; disc three: 22 unreleased demos and outtakes

Disc one is the 1976 mix of the album's ten songs, newly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original stereo analog tapes, and Grundman mastered all of the box's audio. Disc two is the same ten songs in the 2026 mix Kramer made afresh from the original multitrack tapes.

None of the 22 recordings on disc three had been released: nine Gene Simmons demos (five from acetates, three from cassette, and the instrumental demo "Wicked June"), Paul Stanley's demo of "I Want Love", three demos cut at Davlen Sound Studios, outtakes, alternate mixes and extended versions of the album's songs, and the instrumental demo "Queen For A Day".

The Blu-ray Audio disc carries both mixes in Dolby Atmos and 5.1: the 1976 mix in new ones by David Frangioni, with 192kHz/24-bit and 96kHz/24-bit PCM stereo of the remaster, and the 2026 mix in Kramer's own, with 96kHz/24-bit PCM stereo. It runs about 234 minutes.

Disc four: 18 tracks from the four Budokan shows that closed the first Japan tour in April 1977

KISS's first tour of Japan ended with four packed shows at the Nippon Budokan in April 1977. Kramer recorded them at the time, and disc four holds 18 tracks from them in his new mixes from the original analog multitrack tapes: five from April 1, opening with "Detroit Rock City"; nine from the afternoon and evening shows of April 2, among them the solos of Ace Frehley on guitar, Gene Simmons on bass and Peter Criss on drums; and four from the added show of April 4, "Rock And Roll All Nite", "Shout It Out Loud", "Beth" and "Black Diamond".

All 18 were unreleased recordings before this box, and "Makin' Love" from the afternoon show of April 2 came out ahead of it, as a video at the end of October: the footage remastered in HD by Andrew Sgambati, the sound mixed by Kramer from that show's multitrack tapes. In Ken Sharp's story on the band's website, Gene Simmons sums up that first visit: "We were immediately massive."

According to Universal Music Japan, a live album from the tour was announced in Japan as 「ロックン・ロール・パーティ・イン・トウキョウ」 and never issued; Alive II, released in October 1977, used some of the Japanese recordings instead. The Japanese edition's track list names disc four after it: 「ロックン・ロール・パーティ・イン・トウキョウ(ライヴ・イン・ジャパン1977)」.

A 104-page book, the 1976 press kit, and four videos

According to the KISS Official Store, the 4CD and 6LP boxes, each with the Blu-ray Audio disc, hold a 104-page hardcover book with unreleased photos and Ken Sharp's liner notes, drawn from new interviews with Peter Criss, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Eddie Kramer and others. Alongside it come the 1976 press kit, ticket stubs from Madison Square Garden and the Budokan, a Madison Square Garden concert poster, a Halloween paper mask, a lenticular of the cover and more. Outside Japan, the 6LP box puts the same programme on six 180-gram black LPs with the same Blu-ray Audio disc, and it came out on November 6 like the 4CD box.

Between late September and the end of October, the KissVEVO channel on YouTube published the 1976 videos of "I Want You", "Hard Luck Woman" and "Love 'Em And Leave 'Em", and "Makin' Love" from the Budokan. "Hard Luck Woman" was filmed in November 1976 at Camp Curtis Guild Armory in Reading, Massachusetts, during rehearsals for the Rock and Roll Over tour, and Andrew Sgambati has remastered it in HD. The videos of "I Want You" and "Hard Luck Woman" can also be watched on the album's page here.

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