KISS Plot Live Return With Unmasked Las Vegas Concert

Simply 15 months on from their closing efficiency, veteran rockers KISS have introduced their return to the dwell stage with a one-off ‘unmasked’ live performance.

The present was introduced by way of an e mail despatched to followers, confirming that the group can be performing as a part of the three-day KISS Military Storms Vegas occasion, which runs from Nov. 14 – 16 at Virgin Lodges Las Vegas.

Although a full rundown of actions are stated to reach shortly, the headline of the message is KISS’ intention to carry out a makeup-free present as a part of the occasion. The efficiency would be the band’s first since December 2023, the place they wrapped up their Finish of The Street Tour with a two-night stand at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard.

Regardless of their large-scale farewell tour (their second, after 2001’s fittingly-titled KISS Farewell Tour), followers had speculated that the band might certainly take to the stage once more in some unspecified time in the future. Bassist Gene Simmons was fast to nix that declare, clarifying the band’s plans in an interview with Rolling Stone in November 2023: “I’ll say proper right here, proper now, my hand on the Bible, it is going to be the ultimate KISS-in-makeup look.”

KISS had beforehand appeared with out their make-up in 1983, starting their ‘unmasked’ period alongside the discharge of their Lick It Up album. This period would proceed till 1996, when the group readopted their iconic look forward of their highly-anticipated Alive/Worldwide Tour.

Because the band’s closing 2023 efficiency, information had emerged the group have been to deliver their dwell set to the digital house, with these appearances set to kick off in Las Vegas in 2027. “It’s a must-see, go-to expertise,” Stanley advised Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast in 2024. “It’s past something that anybody else has contemplated.”

“We’re creating one thing that’s not a live performance,” he added. “The thought of a hologram — and it’s not a hologram, however that time period appears to get thrown round lots — however the concept [of] a simulated live performance will not be what we wish to do. Frankly, I’d discover that boring.”

Notably, the e-mail despatched to followers saying the forthcoming November present additionally famous that “followers can count on a particular dwell efficiency from former KISS member Bruce Kulick.” Whereas it’s unclear if Kulick plans to carry out with the band or individually as a part of the occasion, the guitarist had beforehand been an official member from 1984 till 1996. Certainly one of solely two musicians to haven’t worn make-up whereas a member of the band (the opposite being Mark St. John), Kulick had carried out with the band once more at their KISS Kruise occasions in 2018 and 2021.

Information of the forthcoming present additionally coincides with the truth that Simmons had postponed 17 dates on his forthcoming tour to 2026. An announcement confirmed that the dates weren’t associated to Simmons’ well being, however provided no additional particulars. This similar tour additionally generated discover after Simmons revealed he would offer followers the prospect to function his “private assistant & band roadie for the day.”