Kiss followers must wait somewhat longer to see the band’s first avatar efficiency.
On Friday (Dec. 22), the legendary rockers — who performed their ultimate live performance at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard earlier within the month — shared a teaser clip by social media revealing the date of their digitized characters.
“50 years is a very long time, and what the long run holds is within the making,” Kiss captioned the clip on X (previously Twitter).
The 25-second teaser contains beforehand seen footage of Kiss’ digital avatars and concludes with the message, “2027 A Present Is Coming.”
Throughout their the final live performance of their Finish of the Highway farewell tour on Dec. 2, Kiss made a shock announcement that they’ll proceed on as digitized variations of themselves going ahead.
After the live performance, the quartet — comprising co-founders founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons in addition to guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — shared a two-minute video on YouTube teasing their subsequent chapter.
“The long run is so thrilling,” Simmons says amid behind-the-scenes snippets of the band sporting movement seize fits to develop their high-tech avatars. Stanley provides, “We are able to stay on eternally.”
Kiss’ avatars had been created by George Lucas’ Industrial Gentle & Magic, in partnership with Sweden’s Pophouse Leisure Group, in accordance with the Related Press. The businesses lately collaborated on the ABBA Voyage present in London, a digital live performance carried out by the Swedish pop group.
“Kiss might have a live performance in three cities in the identical evening throughout three completely different continents. That’s what you can do with this,” Pophouse CEO informed the AP.
In a roundtable interview, Stanley famous that Kiss “deserves to stay on as a result of the band is greater than we’re,” including, “It’s thrilling for us to go the following step and see Kiss immortalized.”
Simmons identified that the forthcoming digital band shall be in a position accomplish issues the unique members couldn’t dream of doing.
“We may be without end younger and without end iconic by taking us to locations we’ve by no means dreamed of earlier than,” the bassist mentioned. “The know-how goes to make Paul bounce larger than he’s ever executed earlier than.”
See Kiss’ announcement on X under.