KISS to Continue Performing as Avatars Following Final Show

KISS’ ultimate present ever happened at Madison Sq. Backyard on Saturday night time (December 1st). On the finish of the live performance, after the precise band performed its final music, followers witnessed a one-song efficiency of “God Gave Rock and Roll to You” by digital KISS avatars.

A press launch shortly adopted, explaining {that a} “new period of KISS” is upon us, and that the band is “marking the tip of its bodily existence by crossing into the digital world.” The plan is for avatars of KISS to “carry out to followers for many years to return.”

The KISS avatars have been created by George Lucas’ visible results firm Industrial Gentle & Magic utilizing motion-capture know-how involving the band members themselves. The forthcoming KISS avatar exhibits can be in partnership with Pophouse Leisure Group, the Swedish firm behind the latest digital ABBA Voyage manufacturing in London.

“We may be endlessly younger and endlessly iconic by taking us to locations we’ve by no means dreamed of earlier than,” defined KISS’ Gene Simmons. “The know-how goes to make Paul [Stanley] soar larger than he’s ever carried out earlier than.”

Stanley added, “What we’ve completed has been wonderful, nevertheless it’s not sufficient. The band deserves to reside on as a result of the band is greater than we’re … It’s thrilling for us to go the subsequent step and see KISS immortalized. I imply, we’ve spent 50 years constructing it so far. And by working with ILM and dealing with Pophouse, we’re all sharing this imaginative and prescient of taking KISS to a totally completely different degree past being only a music band. And we’ve at all times considered ourselves as greater than only a music band.”

As of now, no KISS avatar exhibits have been introduced. Video footage of the sneak peek on the finish of KISS’ Madison Sq. Backyard live performance may be seen beneath, together with a promo video and a picture of Simmons creating his avatar in a movement seize swimsuit.

Keep tuned for Heavy Consequence‘s full recap and pictures of KISS’ ultimate present ever at Madison Sq. Backyard.