Here’s When KISS’ First Digital Avatar Show Will Take Place
"50 years is a long time, and what the future holds is in the making," the legendary rockers wrote.
By Mitchell Peters / Billboard
KISS fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band’s first avatar performance.
On Friday (Dec. 22), the legendary rockers — who played their final concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden earlier in the month — shared a teaser clip through social media revealing the date of their digitized characters.
“50 years is a long time, and what the future holds is in the making,” KISS captioned the clip on X (formerly Twitter).
The 25-second teaser includes previously seen footage of KISS’ digital avatars and concludes with the message, “2027 A Show Is Coming.”
During their the last concert of their End of the Road farewell tour on Dec. 2, KISS made a surprise announcement that they will continue on as digitized versions of themselves going forward.
After the concert, the quartet — comprising co-founders founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — shared a two-minute video on YouTube teasing their next chapter.
“The future is so exciting,” Simmons says amid behind-the-scenes snippets of the band wearing motion capture suits to develop their high-tech avatars. Stanley adds, “We can live on eternally.”
KISS’ avatars were created by George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, in partnership with Sweden’s Pophouse Entertainment Group, according to the Associated Press. The companies recently collaborated on the ABBA Voyage show in London, a virtual concert performed by the Swedish pop group.
