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\n\tKiss<\/a> fans will have to wait a little longer to see the band\u2019s first avatar performance.<\/p>\n \n\tOn Friday (Dec. 22), the legendary rockers \u2014 who played their final concert at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden earlier in the month \u2014 shared a teaser clip through social media revealing the date of their digitized characters.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c50 years is a long time, and what the future holds is in the making,\u201d Kiss captioned the clip on X<\/a> (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n \n\tThe 25-second teaser includes previously seen footage of Kiss\u2019 digital avatars and concludes with the message, \u201c2027 A Show Is Coming.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDuring their the last concert of their End of the Road farewell tour on Dec. 2, Kiss made a surprise announcement that they will continue on as digitized versions<\/a> of themselves going forward.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter the concert, the quartet \u2014 comprising co-founders founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer \u2014 shared a two-minute video<\/a> on YouTube teasing their next chapter.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe future is so exciting,\u201d Simmons says amid behind-the-scenes snippets of the band wearing motion capture suits to develop their high-tech avatars. Stanley adds, \u201cWe can live on eternally.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKiss\u2019 avatars were created by George Lucas\u2019 Industrial Light & Magic, in partnership with Sweden\u2019s Pophouse Entertainment Group, according to the Associated Press<\/em>. The companies recently collaborated on the ABBA Voyage show in London, a virtual concert performed by the Swedish pop group.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cKiss could have a concert in three cities in the same night across three different continents. That\u2019s what you could do with this,\u201d Pophouse CEO told the AP.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a roundtable interview, Stanley noted that Kiss \u201cdeserves to live on because the band is bigger than we are,\u201d adding, \u201cIt\u2019s exciting for us to go the next step and see Kiss immortalized.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSimmons pointed out that the forthcoming digital band will be able accomplish things the original members couldn\u2019t dream of doing.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe can be forever young and forever iconic by taking us to places we\u2019ve never dreamed of before,\u201d the bassist said. \u201cThe technology is going to make Paul jump higher than he\u2019s ever done before.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSee Kiss\u2019 announcement on X below.<\/p>\n