Photograph Credit score: Pophouse Leisure
KISS publicizes via a teaser video that the primary live performance that includes their avatar types since their debut earlier this month at Madison Sq. Backyard gained’t be till 2027 — ‘What the longer term holds is within the making.’
It took KISS 50 years to get up to now of their profession, so what’s one other three years? KISS first introduced plans for the way forward for their concert events — that includes eight-foot tall avatars of the band to hold on after the members’ retirement from touring — on the finish of their remaining live performance at NYC’s Madison Sq. Backyard earlier this month. Now the band has posted a 25-second clip teasing what the longer term holds for KISS, with a brand new present that includes their avatar counterparts coming in 2027.
“50 years is a very long time, and what the longer term holds is within the making,” reads the video’s title, together with snippets of excited KISS followers and an animation showcasing the avatars and a few of their superpowers.
To deliver the avatars to life, KISS has teamed up with Swedish firm Pophouse Leisure, the powerhouse behind the ground-breaking “ABBA Voyage” avatar present in London, and the “Star Wars” particular results firm, Industrial Mild & Magic. The KISS avatars will fly above audiences, breathe hearth, and way more, feats beforehand achieved in the course of the band’s dwell reveals utilizing sensible results.
Gene Simmons informed followers in the course of the week of their final reveals at Madison Sq. Backyard that the avatars will get higher earlier than the primary present, which we now know will debut in 2027. “They’re spending, oh, about $200 million to take it to the subsequent stage.”
“We might be endlessly younger and endlessly iconic by taking us to locations we’ve by no means dreamed of earlier than,” mentioned Simmons in the course of the press launch for the avatars. “The know-how goes to make Paul (Stanley) leap greater than he’s ever completed earlier than.”
Beforehand, KISS had teased that one thing massive was within the works to proceed on the band’s legacy after the members themselves retire from touring. Many followers anticipated this to imply that youthful musicians would possibly take up the mantle to proceed one other iteration of KISS.
However given the exceptional success of the avatar-based ABBA Voyage present, it is smart that extra bands like KISS — identified for placing on an elaborate dwell present — would wish to up the ante utilizing digital variations of themselves.