Want to attend one of “The Ten Hottest Summer Package Tours of 2012,” as proclaimed by Rolling Stone magazine? Then you need to remember what it’s like to curl your tongue, paint your face white, and get ready for some real head-banging! KISS and Motley Crue have just wrapped up their own individual headlining tours to join together onstage and give metal fans what they love. And it all starts this weekend!

The tour, which is being called exactly that — “The Tour” — will kick off this Friday, July 20 in Bristow, Virginia; and from there the two bands will travel around to 43 different states in just over two months, wrapping up the tour in Hartford, Connecticut on September 23, 2012.

KISS has been promoting the tour with three pre-tour dates that have taken place the last few months, while Motley Crue has put on their own pre-tour performances in June and July. Come Friday though, the two will join together to put on a show that’s going to be “like Elvis on steroids,” according to Paul Stanley, the KISS guitarist.

While Motley Crue hasn’t put out a new album since Saints of Los Angeles in 2008, KISS will be releasing their latest studio effort, Monster, in October. All original members of Motley Crue will be there; as well as Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer, and Tommy Thayer for KISS.

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