Boasting a 580,000 square-foot spherical enclosure filled with 1.2 million programmable LED puck lights, the Las Vegas Sphere, it may very well be argued, at the moment sits as the head of venue design.

Able to internet hosting as much as 20,000 concertgoers, the venue, since opening in 2023, has hosted acts from throughout the music spectrum, from Eagles, U2 and Lifeless & Firm within the rock world to bounce artists like Anyma and Zedd.

Certainly, increasingly artists appear eager to leap on the bandwagon and see how their distinctive creative types fare on the Sphere’s ma-hoosive spherical display, together with Metallica, who just lately made waves by saying their 2026 residency on the venue.

However not everybody is sort of so satisfied, it will appear. Talking to American Songwriter, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley explains why the glam rockers had been by no means tempted on the considered performing on the venue.

“In the direction of the tip of the [End of the Road farewell] tour, folks had been saying, ‘Why don’t you play the Sphere?’” Stanley recollects. “The reality of it’s, the Sphere minimises a band. It makes a band miniature. You’re not going there to see a band – you’re going to see screens.”

Whereas Kiss formally hung up their black-and-white outfits and make-up luggage in 2023 with a large swansong set at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, the band are set to proceed with a string of broadly anticipated avatar reveals, through which hologram expertise might be used to venture their likenesses onto the stage, very like ABBA’s Voyage reveals.

So it will appear Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer aren’t completely averse to new and rising applied sciences, simply not the Sphere itself as an idea. He continues:

“We wished to include the very best of expertise, however we wish to be the centre of it. It’s a really, very completely different expertise than going to see a postage stamp with a band on it. That is the antithesis of that – it’s 180 levels from that. The present goes to be spectacular, however it’s solely nearly as good as what you set into it.”

Stanley concludes: “When you’ve seen the ABBA [Voyage] present, all people who’s there may be having a tremendous time. You develop into immersed in these 4 folks on stage. This takes it even additional.”

Paul Stanley isn’t the one rock veteran in opposition to the concept of taking part in on the Sphere. In August 2025, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson revealed he hated the concept of the band taking part in on the venue, saying: “What’s the purpose of even being there, should you’re a band?”

Kiss’s avatar reveals are tentatively scheduled for 2028. Take a look at an inventory of upcoming occasions on the Las Vegas Sphere.