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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Michael Sun

Kiss unveil digital avatars at final ever show: ‘We can be forever young and forever iconic’

Kiss are ‘crossing over from the physical world to the digital’. The band announced they would continue to perform forever using digital avatars.
Kiss are ‘crossing over from the physical world to the digital’. The four band members announced they would continue to perform forever using digital avatars. Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock

When Kiss finally completed the final concert of their final tour on Saturday night – four years after it began, and more than two decades since their first “farewell” tour – they used their encore to debut their afterlife, courtesy of digital avatars.

As Kiss walked off the stage at Madison Square Garden, each of the four band members were replaced by a suite of flying, fire-breathing avatars of their younger personas, towering on screens above the crowd to perform a rendition of God Gave Rock’n’Roll to You II.

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