{"id":2373968,"date":"2026-04-15T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2373968"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:47:01","slug":"kiss-announce-las-vegas-avatar-shows-with-new-songs-for-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kiss-announce-las-vegas-avatar-shows-with-new-songs-for-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS Announce Las Vegas Avatar Shows With New Songs For 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-kiss-might-ve-called-time-on-live-touring-but-they-re-clearly-not-done-squeezing-the-brand-for-everything-it-s-worth\">KISS might\u2019ve called time on live touring, but they\u2019re clearly not done squeezing the brand for everything it\u2019s worth.<\/h2>\n<p>Now, KISS\u2019s long teased digital avatar shows are officially locked in, with Las Vegas set to host the spectacle from 2028, and yes, somehow, there\u2019s new music involved (Per <strong><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/2026\/04\/14\/kiss-to-roll-out-those-digital-avatars-no-one-wanted-at-las-vegas-shows-new-songs-included\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.metalsucks.net\/2026\/04\/14\/kiss-to-roll-out-those-digital-avatars-no-one-wanted-at-las-vegas-shows-new-songs-included\/\">Metal Sucks<\/a><\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KISS avatars heading to Las Vegas<\/h3>\n<p>Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley confirmed the plans in a recent <strong><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.pollstar.com\/2026\/04\/13\/kiss-wanna-virtually-rock-and-roll-all-nite-the-gods-of-thunder-avatars-find-eternal-life-with-pophouse\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/news.pollstar.com\/2026\/04\/13\/kiss-wanna-virtually-rock-and-roll-all-nite-the-gods-of-thunder-avatars-find-eternal-life-with-pophouse\/\">Pollstar<\/a><\/em><\/strong> interview, outlining a future where KISS exists without the actual band onstage, instead fans will get towering, hyper real avatars ripping through the catalogue.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be the iconic face personas, The Demon, the Starchild, and so on. Who you want to place into that lineup is up to you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stanley added that the show will lean heavily on nostalgia but hinted at more.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou\u2019re gonna get all that stuff, and also new songs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right, new KISS tracks, arriving via digital avatars in 202, make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bigger-louder-and-completely-untethered-from-reality\">Bigger, louder, and completely untethered from reality<\/h2>\n<p>If you caught the final New York show (below), you already saw the early version of this., the avatars weren\u2019t just stand ins, they were larger than life, literally. Floating, fire breathing, lightning shooting versions of the band, dialled up beyond anything a human could pull off.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazy-embed-placeholder\" data-video-id=\"L9UayOgqygU\" data-autoplay=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to Pophouse CEO Jessica Koravos, that was just a rough draft.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat the crowd got to see at MSG was an early prototype of the KISS avatar concept. A lot has evolved since then \u2014 both in terms of creative concept for the show and avatar technology. We are now deep in development with a top-flight creative team headed by Thierry Coup \u2014 the team was on set last week testing out pyro effects against a new generation of LED screens to make sure we max out the KISS signature flame throwing. The show concept is a crazy 4D roller coaster ride through the hits, the comic book worlds and personas of KISS.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-business-behind-the-spectacle\">The business behind the spectacle<\/h2>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a gimmick, it\u2019s big money. Pophouse Entertainment, the same company behind ABBA\u2019s wildly successful \u2018Voyage\u2019 show, is backing the project after striking a reported $300 million deal for KISS\u2019 catalogue, likeness, and rights.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is, where ABBA aimed for realism, <strong><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bluntmag.com.au\/artist\/kiss\/\" type=\"artist\" id=\"4955\">KISS<\/a><\/em><\/strong> seems ready to go full comic book.<\/p>\n<p>For fans, it raises a fair question. Is this the next evolution of live music, or just another step away from what made it matter in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, KISS aren\u2019t fading quietly, they\u2019ve just swapped the stage for something stranger.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow me for more on the Australian and US Music Scene:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/page.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNed1fromblunt&amp;tabs=timeline&amp;width=340&amp;height=500&amp;small_header=false&amp;adapt_container_width=true&amp;hide_cover=false&amp;show_facepile=true&amp;appId\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source bluntmag.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISS might\u2019ve called time on live touring, but they\u2019re clearly not done squeezing the brand for everything it\u2019s worth. Now, KISS\u2019s long teased digital avatar shows are officially locked in, with Las Vegas set to host the spectacle from 2028, and yes, somehow, there\u2019s new music involved (Per Metal Sucks). 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