KISS Avatar Show to Launch in Las Vegas in 2028 and Include New Songs

KISS are tentatively set to launch the first of their avatar shows, featuring 3D holograms of the band members, in Las Vegas in 2028.

The band’s founding members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley recently sat down with Pollstar magazine alongside their manager Doc McGhee and Jessica Koravosthe, CEO of Pophouse, the company behind the production, to discuss the upcoming production.

Pophouse is the same company behind ABBA’s hologram show Voyage, which debuted in London 2022. That show has been critically well-received and enormously successful.

Koravos described the KISS show as “a crazy 4D roller coaster ride through the hits, the comic book worlds and personas of KISS.”

As for the KISS members represented by the holograms, Simmons revealed it will be “the iconic face personas, The Demon, the Starchild, and so on. Who you want to place into that lineup is up to you.”

He also promised new songs mixed in with the hits. “You’re gonna get all that stuff, and also new songs,” said Simmons. When asked to clarify, he said, “Exactly what that means, written by us. We have songs done.”

The show is also but one in a series of interrelated projects from Pophouse. Koravos said, “[W]e have various tentpole projects that we mapped out alongside the KISS team at the point of signing – including the avatar show, a biopic, a documentary, and other projects.”

Stanley said of the project, “It’s very different from anything else that’s been out there. It has really no connection to some of the experimental holograms that were tried in the past, which were really very primitive. This will be virtually seeing us. My avatar looks just like me, not a cartoon or an artist rendition.”

Simmons, always fresh with iconic quotes, ended the interview with, “This is the phoenix rising out of the ashes. As a form of life, caterpillars aren’t very impressive, but they survive, and then it looks like they’re dying as they go into a cocoon.”

He added, “But then you get a beautiful butterfly that sprouts wings and goes to places and soars above that the caterpillar never imagined. This is not the end. This is the beginning.”

KISS first teased the avatar show at the final concert of their farewell tour in December 2023. Watch below.